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Originally Posted by Hektore
Anybody ever read the book "Lies my teacher told me"? It's well worth the read and shows that manipulating history textbooks is nothing new to the USA.
Go pick up a high school history text book it's nothing but the USA is the greatest country in the world, significant historical figures are demi-god heroes who accomplished unthinkable feats and never made mistakes and the government doesn't make mistakes. Ever.
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That's an excellent book, and was recommended to me in high school by my Junior year history teacher. Great man, dedicated to engaging the students and making them want to learn. I'm sure that most kids in the US learn that the course of WWII was Germany did some stuff, then Pearl Harbor happened, then the Holocaust got bad, then we saved Europe's asses. It's right in there with Reagan worship and apologism that conveniently neglects his support of right-wing dictators and apartheid, plus the myth that he was primarily responsible for the fall of the Soviet Union
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Originally Posted by Canine
There was a quote I read somewhere once: if we teach creationism as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach Storkism as an alternative to reproductive science.
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The creationism debate is as rational as challenging the chemistry curriculum on the basis that the only true elements are earth, air, fire, and water. It's an outright denial of facts and is unacceptable in a modern education system.