Last night, and again throughout the Labor Day Weekend, FOX ran Tucker Carlson's special on America’s textbook industry, — illustrating how propaganda driven it is, and how poorly it presents actual history.
In essence, the special talked about how the “PC (Politically Correct) vocabulary police” took over the industry in the 80s and 90s, creating a whole list of words and images that are forbidden from use in textbooks (such as gender-specific words like waiter or waitress (they prefer the use of “waitron” instead) and gender-specific images like women cooking or men fixing cars (while reverse-gender images are encouraged, such as men cooking and women fixing cars). Thirty years later, few textbooks bother with the disguise. Entire chunks of the English language have been banned from the classroom, liquidated in a P.C. purge. First to go were words containing the dreaded term "man," the three letters most offensive to professional feminists. Mailman, chairman, snowman, fisherman, manhole cover--every one now extinct, disdained relics of a bygone age. I think I was in fifth grade when I began to suspect that textbooks weren't entirely on the level. The first tip-off came from the word problems in math class. They typically began with scenarios that, even to a 10-year-old, seemed a little unlikely: "Julio's mom is a welder. His father is a pediatric nurse. If his mom welds for 9 hours a day, then..." Or: "If Maria wins her first three prizefights by knockout, and her next three by TKO, how long before she can leave her job as a lumberjack and fight full time?" The characters in my textbooks didn't sound like anyone I had ever met. Years later I realized, that was exactly the point. The educators who wrote them weren't interested in describing the world as it was, or had been, but rather as they wanted it to be. They were ideologues, and my math and history books were their pamphlets, disguised as academic texts.
Thirty years later, few textbooks bother with the disguise. Entire chunks of the English language have been banned from the classroom, liquidated in a P.C. purge. First to go were words containing the dreaded term "man," the three letters most offensive to professional feminists. Mailman, chairman, snowman, fisherman, manhole cover--every one now extinct, disdained relics of a bygone age. But the purges didn't stop there. Pollyanna, polo, primitive and hut were eliminated too, to name just a few of literally thousands of examples. Their crime? These words supposedly contained "bias" and might therefore make some groups feel uncomfortable. Other words, meanwhile, were said to imply "regional bias," whatever that is. These include snow cone and snowball, now both verboten. So did it work? Did shielding children from scary words like "mailman" turn them into better students? Compare the test scores in your kids' school district to those from 1960, and judge for yourself. Or consider this: When asked about the Vietnam War recently, almost a quarter of students described it as a conflict between North and South Korea.
Islam is specifically PROMOTED, with much effort to downplay terrorist acts committed by Muslims and heavy propaganda used to convince children that Muslims worldwide are just misunderstood Care Bears, looking for nothing more than hugs, all that suicide bomber, plane hijacking, “Death to America!” stuff just a figment of our collective imagination. Even September 11, an event hardly shrouded by the haze of time, gets a rewrite. In Prentice Hall's textbook on contemporary American history, for instance, the 19 hijackers are not identified as Islamic extremists. Students are left to guess why they did it. Yet Christianity and Judaism is referenced and taught as theory.
The textbooks operate under the assumption that “diversity” means talking about white people as little as possible, while icon-toppling historical figures such as Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and other “dead white males” so that the likes of Spike Lee, Jesse Jackson, and, now, Dr. Utopia can have large sections of textbooks devoted to them.
This is the exact same lunacy that’s afflicted Europe the last 20 years — where countries like France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands have glorified Islam to the point of dhimmihood, so that large parts of London, in particular, are now governed by Sharia law. Dutch and French citizens now live in terror of doing something, anything, that will offend recent Muslim immigrants…lest any of them end up like those who’ve been beheaded in recent years, in WESTERN EUROPE, by Islamists who find affronts to Muhammad in just about everything.
Europe is a weak, crippled, pathetic continent where once mighty societies once stood. It sure doesn’t seem like a coincidence the devolution of Europe coincides perfectly with its catering to all of this PC, pretend everything’s rosey, insist Muslims are Care Bears crap.
Textbook authors literally re-write history to paint Muslims, in particular, in PC-better light…where is the push for this really coming from, and how many people bet it’s the Al-Sayud family in Riyadh…which has spent billions over the last 20-30 years to spread wahabbism throughout the world by any means necessary.
Taking this textbook special in light of Gordon Brown’s push to release the Lockerbie bomber in exchange for Libyan oil sure makes us believe the Muslim members of OPEC have extorted the West to subversively engineer this pro-Muslim PR campaign in exchange for feeding our collective addiction to MidEast crude.
“No oil for you unless you say nicer things about us to your children!”
“No gas for your many cars unless you elect president who will bow to our king and prostrate himself to kiss his bejeweled hand!”
“No peace unless you put us upon pedestal to show what dummies you all now are!”
The PC-police have ruled with iron hands long enough. Dr. Utopia’s push to indoctrinate school children into “his Light” on September 8th should be a wakeup call to parents to pay more attention to what their children are being taught in school 8 hours a day, every day, by the government. All those school boards are elected, people. Currently, mostly liberals attend school board meetings…so those school boards tend to be loony liberals of the leftist William Ayers mold.
If moderates and conservatives mounted a years-long effort to take back our schools and install boards who’d fight the Islamization of our curriculums and the re-writing of history in PC-terms, then maybe we can push back against these Alinsky/ACORN radicals before they take permanent hold of young minds and send America down the tubes alongside Europe.
This added to the Obama’s belief’s and the radicals he has surrounded himself with is why parents are worried about President Obama speaking to America’s schoolchildren with pre and post assignments that ask how they can help this President (and his agenda). It is a way of getting himself in the door for bigger programs, bigger involvement and indoctrination.
Hard-edged propaganda now suffuses America's history textbooks. A thorough cover-to-cover reading of almost any high school history text leaves you with the impression that the United States is at best embarrassing, and at worst a menace to world peace. (I experienced this when our daughter returned from her Semester at Sea program in college several years. She was suddenly filled with negativity about the United States and now it is even clear, why!).
Don't take my word for it. Make a pledge to yourself to look through your children's or grandchildren’s textbooks this year. Take a look at what's there, but also at what's missing. If you find bias or distortions, don't be silent. Raise holy hell. Someday your kids will thank you for it.
Source: HillBuzz.org
And if you didn’t see the special and get a chance to see it another time, it is well worth the time (1 hour)!! - Tucker Carlson hosts "FOX News Reporting: Do You Know What Textbooks Your Children Are Really Reading?
(Updated) Full Special Broken Down into 5 videos:
1 Do You Know What Textbooks Your Children Are Really Reading- #.1
3 Do You Know What Textbooks Your Children Are Really Reading- #.3
Texas Evolution Segment of FoxNews Special on Textbooks Sep 2009
Posted: Daily Thought Pad – Cross-Posted: Knowledge Creates Power
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