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[krickets]

What is this, 1984?

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?

Comments

[harlot2.livejournal.com]

Dude. What scares me the most is that some of them actually wanted to sugar-coat the slave trade by renaming it? Are you fucking serious?

Is there a way to kick a state out of the union? Or, force them to resign?

That's a lot of questions in one comment. Must find the answer to the last two...

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Right? Well I think that the atlantic triangular might be a name from history -- it sounded familiar anyway. Though I'm sure the name SLAVE was in there somewhere. Fuckers. Have we seriously not moved on as a nation? WAKE UP PEOPLE. IT'S TWENTY-TEN IF YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED! *headdesk*

[harlot2.livejournal.com]

Hm. I suppose it's possible that that's what they were calling the route when they were using it to actually transport the slaves. What I object to is their using this official-sounding name that makes it sound like something we shouldn't be ashamed of.

Right now I'm really kind of on the thought that I don't think I want to be taking my Gay Liberal Witch ass anywhere near Texas anytime soon.

[harlot2.livejournal.com]

Ok you got me curious so I googled "Atlantic triangle trade". Turns out that triangular trade is just a general term for a common trading practice and not in and of itself relating to slavery. Kind of like a traded goods round robin. So now the message, apparently, is, "It's just good business."

I propose we vote. Shall we just rename Texas "Beckett", or shall we go all out and call it "The East India Trading Company"?