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try as you might to obfuscate what's happened---and at this point that's all i think you're trying to do here---it's a kind of pathetic display on the part of the texas board of education to make reality more conservative friendly by imposing arbitrary edits on textbooks that are foisted upon kids.
in the end, i think it's probably an entirely self-defeating move though.
either these kids will be informed by their parents that the textbooks are full of far-right horsepuckey fobbed off as history or "sociology" or whatever; those whose parents won't tell them will probably find out from their peers; those who slip through will run into the extent to which they've been duped when they get to university. and this will have an effect similar to those adverts against drug use that featured eggs frying in a pan: they'll reduce Authority to even more a joke than it already is. and there's something almost satisfying about that as an outcome of actions undertaken by these ultra-right defenders of traditional authority.
they're kind of its worst enemy.
don't you find that funny?
i suppose a small percentage will go to some ultra-right bible college and neutralize themselves outside the communities that confuse this conservative horseshit for reality. what this will do it isolate conservative further. one thing the past decade has shown is that nothing more badly serves the right than the exercise of power. look at what the bush administration did to the conservative movement---look at what they're reduced to now. dissociative stuff.
frankly i think this a surreal little moment.
i particularly enjoy the new conservative contempt for notions of justice and democracy. makes you wonder what they're thinking, doesn't it?
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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