"Guys, you're rewriting history now!"

[vanitashaze]

Courtesy of sheafrotherdon:

OH MY GOD EW CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS. This is not the first time that secularism has been sacrificed in the Texas Textbook Debates, but this is definitely one of the scariest examples I've seen yet. There are so many things I could say about the new curriculum - how it's likely going to be sexist, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, religiously discriminatory, just discriminatory in general, and oh yeah, PARTISAN BRAINWASHING - but I think this shit is self-explanatory, and there's just way too much fail to properly document. Really, I think one of their fellow Republicans said it best: "Guys, you're rewriting history now!" Though this bit deserves a special notice for sheer RAGE INDUCING FAIL:

McLeroy moved that Margaret Sanger, the birth-control pioneer, be included because she “and her followers promoted eugenics."

In conclusion: Yuck.

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Comments

Re: In which I sound like an idiot.

[mithrel.livejournal.com]

Ed=Education. And cases...well it's kinda hard to explain, since English has lost most of them. English uses word order more than inflection, but cases are a way of telling what the noun, pronoun or in some cases adjective is doing in the sentence.

Like with the subject: "I went to the store," I is nominative. But if it's the object of the sentence the pronoun you use changes. In "He likes me," me is accusative, since it's the direct object of the sentence. Same with he/him and she/her. Most languages have more than those two cases, and English did too up to about 500 years ago, but since the order of the sentence tells you what the word is doing we didn't need them and they dropped out.

Re: In which I sound like an idiot.

[vanitashaze]

Okay. I... am attempting to understand this, and I think I'm doing pretty well. (Thank you!) But hey, linguistics and grammar in high school? Pfft. That's what college is for.

Re: In which I sound like an idiot.

[mithrel.livejournal.com]

Heck I got my BA in Linguistics I'm trying to use layman's terms. And it's not so much grammar as "This is the way the language works and the terms you need to know to learn it."

Re: In which I sound like an idiot.

[vanitashaze]

...Okay then?

Re: In which I sound like an idiot.

[mithrel.livejournal.com]

LOL, it's just easier to understand if you're actually working with the language rather than talking in abstracts.

Re: In which I sound like an idiot.

[vanitashaze]

Ha. It's like TOK all over again.