Suffice it to say that school history textbooks aren't necessarily good

So what are we fighting about? -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 08:49AM

Dwayne Yancey penned an excellent editorial for Cardinal News last week. -- Newt 03/14/2023 10:24AM

Excellent. And much like the information found in The 1619 Project -- WaxHoo 03/14/2023 12:09PM

I read that. I'm not sure what the controversy is. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 1:01PM

The controversy is that people who havent' read it are upset by the alleged -- NJHoo 03/14/2023 4:35PM

.** -- WaxHoo 03/14/2023 12:11PM

I get the feeling my school curriculum in Northern Illinois ... -- Blah 03/14/2023 11:50AM

Did the north ever get called out for its role in slavery? did Illinois get -- southdenverhoo 03/14/2023 2:15PM

Touche ... but we are the Land of Lincoln. ** -- Blah 03/14/2023 6:24PM

See FoxCo. Election LIES! ** -- WaxHoo 03/14/2023 12:31PM

My first year teaching was 1982. -- Newt 03/14/2023 11:07AM

Suffice it to say that school history textbooks aren't necessarily good -- Chuck Taylor 03/14/2023 10:55AM

My teacher in 4th grade told us that if blacks and whites could marry that -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 10:48AM

My dad’s fifth grade teacher told them black kids were born with -- Cold Hoober Hoo 03/14/2023 11:39AM

WTF? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 11:46AM

I know, crazy. ** -- Cold Hoober Hoo 03/14/2023 12:39PM

A damn fine writing, that. Thanks. ** -- Shenhoo 03/14/2023 10:35AM

I distinctly remember our discussion of "sharecropping" in 7th grade... -- tchoo 03/14/2023 10:28AM

We are not in agreement. Look at what’s actually happening -- TomKazanski 03/14/2023 10:23AM

Exactly. The liberals are totally not whining like little bitches -- ryno hoo 03/14/2023 11:16AM

Translation - my biases will not be swayed by facts ** -- HptHokie 03/14/2023 10:28AM

Any facts, from any source, no matter how solid … -- WaxHoo 03/14/2023 11:40AM

You take this poll as fact? -- TomKazanski 03/14/2023 11:13AM

Tom Kazanski, ladies and gents, rejecting inconvenient facts wherever he -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 11:40AM

Despite what you've been told, ignorance is NOT strength. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 10:28AM

LOL! You’re the second MAGAt here to urge me to look at what’s -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 10:28AM

99% didn’t give a shit either way about the school curriculum -- 757 03/14/2023 10:05AM

No one distrusted the efficacy of the vote either. -- Chuck Taylor 03/14/2023 10:28AM

I do wonder if the pandemic may have had an effect on the parent's -- Tuckahokie 03/14/2023 10:23AM

I think that was a factor, and as usual those with the most radical views -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 10:25AM

Regardless of what 83% of Dems believe, there are, unfortunately, -- JMHoo 03/14/2023 09:29AM

And the lunatics on the left gravitate toward positions of power… -- Los Angeles Hoo 03/14/2023 10:20AM

Seriously? You're still calling Joe Biden an illegitimate President. ** -- Blah 03/14/2023 12:01PM

Yep. You've got some psycho pedophiles out where you are. -- ryno hoo 03/14/2023 11:23AM

Something else you think you know that you don’t. You must have missed it -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 10:40AM

Lol. No one has denied we had elections. ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 03/14/2023 11:47AM

And your point, if indeed you even have one? Your contention -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 1:37PM

There may be right-wing loonies running for office, but…. -- Los Angeles Hoo 03/14/2023 4:25PM

That’s your response? You pretend not to know exactly what the term means… -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 4:56PM

And the lunatics on the right? They don't want power? ** -- HptHokie 03/14/2023 10:21AM

The right does not want to run people’s lives or… -- Los Angeles Hoo 03/14/2023 10:35AM

You really shouldn’t pretend to talk for anyone but yourself. -- 111Balz 03/14/2023 11:33AM

Bingo. ** -- ryno hoo 03/14/2023 11:27AM

“Traditional American values” = white/Christian/straight/English-speaking -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 10:48AM

Yes, those values, which created the greatest country of all time… -- Los Angeles Hoo 03/14/2023 11:59AM

By the way, a different Supreme Court came to the diametrically -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 1:46PM

Brett “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh to Susan Collins: Roe is settled law. -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 1:26PM

Oh indisputably. Well then, game over. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 12:05PM

The right has been balls deep into those issues since Falwell -- Shenhoo 03/14/2023 10:41AM

In the 80s, the right was more involved, but then abdicated for the last… -- Los Angeles Hoo 03/14/2023 11:55AM

Yep. The 80s Christians were right about everything. -- ryno hoo 03/14/2023 12:50PM

Oh, bullshit. It never left. Antibottom have been the -- Shenhoo 03/14/2023 12:38PM

+Limbaugh 1984 ->** -- WaxHoo 03/14/2023 11:42AM

No point in citing Earth 1 facts to an Earth 2 citizen. It just does not -- southdenverhoo 03/14/2023 12:26PM

Bullshit. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 10:11AM

Liberals should just let GOP handle this then. They don't need to worry -- ryno hoo 03/14/2023 10:10AM

In a nation of 330 million it’s easy to find “many” people who believe -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 09:48AM

Bingo. I think either the typical D doesn't know what's going on or -- HokieDan95 03/14/2023 09:48AM

No Dan you clearly don’t think or you wouldn’t post the dribble you post -- 111Balz 03/14/2023 10:46AM

You gonna post the 1776 Project for us again, Dan? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 10:29AM

Right. Couldn’t possibly be that your own view of “what’s going -- hoolstoptheheels 03/14/2023 09:59AM

Until you guys start standing up to the loons -- TomKazanski 03/14/2023 11:29AM

Only terrifying to dupes who take spectacular individual examples of -- hoolstoptheheels 03/14/2023 11:34AM

It’s happening all over and you know it -- TomKazanski 03/14/2023 12:25PM

No, Tom, I have no idea how widespread “it” is, bearing in mind -- hoolstoptheheels 03/14/2023 12:37PM

“Doesn’t want to side with Rs”? The research reported in the article -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 09:56AM

Or they believe it's a small percentage of wacky teachers and not at a -- HptHokie 03/14/2023 09:51AM

Not in any percentage that matters - except to rile your ilk up for votes ** -- HptHokie 03/14/2023 09:45AM

Sure it's happening but the politicization and division is totally the -- Hoodafan 03/14/2023 09:44AM

No. Recent history doesn’t support that idea. -- Chuck Taylor 03/14/2023 10:00AM

Keep fighting the good fight against made up culture issues Hooda -- HptHokie 03/14/2023 09:50AM

It just another Republican solution without a problem. -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 10:00AM

It will make it all OK when they nullify an election, because they’ll be -- WahooRQ 03/14/2023 10:42AM

Easy solution:. Just stop #Resisting. ** -- ResistHoo 03/14/2023 09:47AM

And pretty much always have been. Not just that. There have been -- hoolstoptheheels 03/14/2023 09:34AM

Of course it is a distortion because that is the lifeblood of extremism. -- Chuck Taylor 03/14/2023 09:50AM

What was your last actual experience with a public school, Fox News Grampa? ** -- WahooRQ 03/14/2023 09:32AM

It is the politicization of our past in hopes of gaining some political -- Chuck Taylor 03/14/2023 09:17AM

Side note…wtf are judeo Christian values? -- tchoo 03/14/2023 09:07AM

The opposite of another meaningless phrase, secular humanism. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 10:13AM

Excellent question. And which article of the Constitution enshrines them? -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 10:08AM

And that the bible's values are highly questionable and contradictory ** -- tchoo 03/14/2023 10:10AM

Religion continues to prevent humans from evolving -- HptHokie 03/14/2023 10:20AM

Religion does evolve as well though... -- tchoo 03/14/2023 10:54AM

OK, but the Bible doesn't really teach geocentrism. The point is that -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 11:00AM

I agree it can stunt growth, particularly the "God of the gaps" fallacy ** -- tchoo 03/14/2023 11:02AM

DeGrasse Tyson has a good lecture about the Middle East once being the -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 11:11AM

Think Alexandria, arguably the greatest seat of learning ever. Now dust. ** -- WaxHoo 03/14/2023 11:48AM

But it was ruled by Greeks at that time, no? Hence the very name of the -- SixerHoo 03/14/2023 5:02PM

Alexander was Macedonian. He laid out the city then left Ptolemy, -- WaxHoo 03/14/2023 5:18PM

Part of the plot of Agora, though with lots if inaccuracies and -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 11:54AM

I heard that as well...I think he went through nobel prizes... -- tchoo 03/14/2023 11:13AM

I think he said there were two Nobels by Muslim scholars and because one -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 11:17AM

I agree with both of you - humans have evolved from the inception -- HptHokie 03/14/2023 11:07AM

Or you could say that religion has been a missive socializing force for hum -- RML Hoos 03/14/2023 2:55PM

Are you sure?...I can give several examples of people that are both ** -- Tuckahokie 03/14/2023 10:32AM

When you say that, are you saying that their beliefs are logically -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 10:54AM

Look at your excellent Men's Hoops Coach...Tony is both religious and -- Tuckahokie 03/14/2023 10:56AM

His religious beliefs are illogical. But I don't care as long as he wins. -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 11:06AM

I'm sure he's a fine and moral man - I have no qualms with him -- HptHokie 03/14/2023 11:08AM

Imagine how good we could be if he wasnt religious!! -- tchoo 03/14/2023 11:11AM

I think Tony has a good balance unlike Dabo for instance -- HptHokie 03/14/2023 11:19AM

Dabo will be a good fit at Alabama, where the Tide is second only to Jesus. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 11:24AM

I'd argue it's a tie and Bama wins 15 Saturdays a year ** -- HptHokie 03/14/2023 12:25PM

It wouldn't work with me. But I'd want my kid to play for a winner who I -- Seattle .Hoo 03/14/2023 11:15AM

Logic does not support the existence of God, Allah, Zeus, etc. -- HptHokie 03/14/2023 11:02AM

That simply isn't correct - there are many reasoned, logical arguments for -- RML Hoos 03/14/2023 2:45PM

Just moar skydaddy bullshit like 'the sanctity of life'. And racism. ** -- ResistHoo 03/14/2023 09:35AM

And the oppression of women and killing your son because I said so -- HptHokie 03/14/2023 09:48AM

The right kind of grooming apparently -- HptHokie 03/14/2023 09:15AM

Catholic priests are the OGs of grooming. Bigtime libbrulz too. ** -- WahooRQ 03/14/2023 09:35AM

Old/New Testament. ** -- Blah 03/14/2023 09:09AM

Gross...some f'd up stuff in that. ** -- tchoo 03/14/2023 09:47AM

Democrats are liars based on what they try to put in schools. -- ryno hoo 03/14/2023 09:06AM

You are a top shelf troll. Kudos. ** -- Brown Water 03/14/2023 10:12AM

Shocking that we can have such misconceptions about political opponents. -- hoolstoptheheels 03/14/2023 08:53AM

Right? The Virginia situation does not appear to mirror Florida ... -- Blah 03/14/2023 09:03AM

Suffice it to say that school history textbooks aren't necessarily good

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