anaturalwoman
07-02-2018, 01:05 PM
Important news from "SemDem" via Daily Kos news feed:
"The Washington Post has the old and new standards side-by-side (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/06/25/conservatives-win-controversial-changes-in-michigans-proposed-new-social-studies-standards/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.809b7c03b7b4) so you can see all the redlining that was done. The Montgomery bus boycott, the March on Washington, and the Voting Rights Act were deleted. The historic role the NAACP played in the Civil Rights movement was downplayed, as well as all references to Roe v. Wade. Orwell at its best: you never fight for rights if you never learn you have them. Speaking of which:
Lest you think that only the term “core democratic principles” were redlined—no dice. Not only do the new standards wipe out the term “democratic”, they delete the term “democracy” as well.
...The justification, according to (Senator Patrick) Colbeck (R-Michigan} is that the United States is not a democracy, but a republic—a line that is often repeated by conservatives. It is false: America is, and always has been, a representative democracy (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/13/is-the-united-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/?utm_term=.d3fd43b1258c). At least, that’s what it is supposed to be, and will hopefully remain that after the Trump years.
...As conservative author David Frum admits, the new GOP hates democracy, because, in his own words (https://www.vox.com/2018/1/18/16880524/donald-trump-democracy-republicans-trumpocracy): "The Republican party has a platform that can’t prevail in democratic competition. WHEN HIGHLY COMMITTED PARTIES BELIEVE STRONGLY [IN] THINGS THAT THEY CANNOT ACHIEVE DEMOCRATICALLY, THEY DON’T GIVE UP THEIR BELIEFS — THEY GIVE UP ON DEMOCRACY."
Democracy isn’t to be protected, it’s to be thwarted. .. The GOP is working towards doing that in a number of ways. This story is one small, petty, and yet simultaneously significant blow: an attempt to remove democracy’s reverence from our textbooks.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/1/1777042/-New-Authoritarian-GOP-Removed-Democracy-from-Textbooks-As-Too-Partisan?detail=emaildkre
"The Washington Post has the old and new standards side-by-side (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2018/06/25/conservatives-win-controversial-changes-in-michigans-proposed-new-social-studies-standards/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.809b7c03b7b4) so you can see all the redlining that was done. The Montgomery bus boycott, the March on Washington, and the Voting Rights Act were deleted. The historic role the NAACP played in the Civil Rights movement was downplayed, as well as all references to Roe v. Wade. Orwell at its best: you never fight for rights if you never learn you have them. Speaking of which:
Lest you think that only the term “core democratic principles” were redlined—no dice. Not only do the new standards wipe out the term “democratic”, they delete the term “democracy” as well.
...The justification, according to (Senator Patrick) Colbeck (R-Michigan} is that the United States is not a democracy, but a republic—a line that is often repeated by conservatives. It is false: America is, and always has been, a representative democracy (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/13/is-the-united-states-of-america-a-republic-or-a-democracy/?utm_term=.d3fd43b1258c). At least, that’s what it is supposed to be, and will hopefully remain that after the Trump years.
...As conservative author David Frum admits, the new GOP hates democracy, because, in his own words (https://www.vox.com/2018/1/18/16880524/donald-trump-democracy-republicans-trumpocracy): "The Republican party has a platform that can’t prevail in democratic competition. WHEN HIGHLY COMMITTED PARTIES BELIEVE STRONGLY [IN] THINGS THAT THEY CANNOT ACHIEVE DEMOCRATICALLY, THEY DON’T GIVE UP THEIR BELIEFS — THEY GIVE UP ON DEMOCRACY."
Democracy isn’t to be protected, it’s to be thwarted. .. The GOP is working towards doing that in a number of ways. This story is one small, petty, and yet simultaneously significant blow: an attempt to remove democracy’s reverence from our textbooks.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/1/1777042/-New-Authoritarian-GOP-Removed-Democracy-from-Textbooks-As-Too-Partisan?detail=emaildkre