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Texas board votes to cut Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history courses


https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/09/15/texas-board-votes-to-cut-hillary-clinton-helen-keller-from-history-courses/23528034/

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MARY PAPENFUSS
Sep 15th 2018 8:10AM



{AKA alternate facts"}

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The Texas State Board of Education voted Friday to slice mention of Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller from the state’s mandatory history curriculum — but will keep in Moses’ influence on U.S. founding documents, The Dallas Morning News reported.

The changes are part of an effort to selectively ”streamline” information in history classes for 5.4 million schoolchildren.

As part of its assessment, each historical figure was given a numerical importance rating from 1 to 20 by committee members
, according to the newspaper. Clinton, the first woman in U.S. history to win a presidential nomination by a major political party, only ranked a five. Keller, a writer and activist born in 1888 who was the first deaf and blind American to earn a college degree, rated a seven.

Local members of the Texas legislature rated a 20. All students are required to learn about the current U.S. president so Donald Trump was not assessed.

Texas Monthly reported that board members had considered cutting a “value-laden” phrase about “all the heroic defenders who gave their lives” in the 1836 battle of the Alamo against Mexican soldiers in what was then Mexican Texas. One state official called it “politically correct nonsense,” and the board chose not to drop it.

“In Texas, you don’t mess with the Alamo and you don’t mess with our Christian heritage,” Texas Values president Jonathan Saenz said in a statement. “We applaud the majority of the State Board of Education for doing the right thing by restoring our foundational rights and history.”

{No but Texans are just fine with messing with the truth!}

The vote is preliminary and may still change. The final vote is in November.

The annual decisions are often controversial.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost.



Ah Texas has instituted it's own Ministry of Truth:

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/09/15/texas-board-votes-to-cut-hillary-clinton-helen-keller-from-history-courses/23528034/


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Ministry of Truth

Senate House, London, where Orwell's wife worked at the Ministry of Information, was his model for the Ministry of Truth
The Ministry of Truth (Newspeak: Minitrue) is the ministry of propaganda. As with the other ministries in the novel, the name Ministry of Truth is a misnomer because in reality it serves the opposite: it is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events.

As well as administering truth, the ministry spreads a new language amongst the populace called Newspeak, in which, for example, "truth" is understood to mean statements like 2 + 2 = 5 when the situation warrants. In keeping with the concept of doublethink, the ministry is thus aptly named in that it creates/manufactures "truth" in the Newspeak sense of the word. The book describes the doctoring of historical records to show a government-approved version of events.



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On the rare occasions when I feel down, I can always cheer myself up by reminding myself that I'm no longer in Texas.
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not surprising when the board is made up of hard-line conservatives who only vote to have other hard-liner on the Board .
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Stupidity loves company snow! emoticon

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