![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kricketsWhat is this, 1984?
A summary, as written by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theladyscribe:
"Texas just passed its new education syllabus. It not only teaches children that the UN is a threat to America, it removes Thomas Jefferson from the list of important Enlightenment thinkers. Because he was a major supporter of the separation of church and state.."
I don't understand how the hell they're able to do that. Is this the beginning? And how can it be stopped?
A summary, as written by
theladyscribe:"Texas just passed its new education syllabus. It not only teaches children that the UN is a threat to America, it removes Thomas Jefferson from the list of important Enlightenment thinkers. Because he was a major supporter of the separation of church and state.."
I don't understand how the hell they're able to do that. Is this the beginning? And how can it be stopped?
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2010-05-22 10:30 pm (UTC)I heard it on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart like forever ago. Apparently Texas has the biggest say in what goes into the textbooks because they're the biggest buyer of them or something frakked up like that.
It's just...scary. Very scary
no subject
Date: 2010-05-23 03:33 am (UTC)I can't even begin to describe the kind of fear that causes in me.