List of things banned by school text books

[Ben Kenobi]

Conservatives are to blame for some of the restrictions, just not the one that I mentioned.

See the power in these simple textbooks.

[Lorizael]

Stupid politicians. I'm so not one of them.

[Al B. Sure!]

why must the term 'fascist' be thrown around purely as a negative... it is a political belief system... "fascist liberals" makes no sense

anyway, Huck Finn is not banned from the curriculum of the philly public school district... and I've never seen the term Founding Fathers in textbooks... everywhere it is Framers of the Constitution or Framers for short... I guess Jefferson is not among them as he didnt sign the constitution


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[yavoon]

u read huck in school albert?

[Al B. Sure!]

No... one of the english teachers at my school had her classes read it. I had another english teacher so my class did not.


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[Al B. Sure!]

though it wouldnt have mattered. most people don't read these books... if they care about their grades, there's always sparknotes.com...

[Lorizael]

Originally posted by Albert Speer
why must the term 'fascist' be thrown around purely as a negative... it is a political belief system... "fascist liberals" makes no sense

It's one that most people view with disdain. And I didn't actually mean it. I used it because it does have a negative connotation, and I'm in a bad mood. It wasn't intended to actually make sense.

[Al B. Sure!]

What about communist? that has a bad connotation...

[yavoon]

the greatest american author writing his best book. while ur in the city of brotherly love which contains the liberty bell and ur teacher did not have u read it?

something is wrong w/ society.

[Dis]

I read huck finn when I was in school

I loved it. Literature I can actually understand

Unlike Melville and shakespeare

[Lorizael]

But people use that term incorrectly very consistently. They use it to describe the USSR and PRC, which were not communist states. There's no such thing as a communist state, actually, because Marx felt that in true Communism, the government would just sort of melt away. The USSR and the PRC were autocracies with command economies, not communist societies.

Fascism, however, is a term used to describe a belief that your people are superior. Fascist states were those that acted on this belief, like Germany and Italy. The term Fascism was correctly applied to those regimes.

[Al B. Sure!]

you know what i realized over the years... shakespeare tried too hard to be a poet. his plays were largely written as classical poetry what with the iambic meter, the awkward grammar, and the unclear, flowery language... i think that sometimes when he had the common people characters talk, shakespeare was a lot easier to understand. he wrote in actual sentences and was pretty clear. it's when he wrote for nobles like Hamlet or Caesar that **** don't make sense


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[Al B. Sure!]

Yavoon:

of course something is wrong with society... plenty is


Lorizael:

i do not believe that Portugal, Lithuania, Roumania, Hungary, or numerous other fascist states were particularily nationalistic to the point that their citizens believed themselves superior to all others.

[Lorizael]

What would you consider to be the definition of Fascism, then?

[Al B. Sure!]

a sort of socially conservative corporatist populism if that makes sense... in american terms, fascism would be a movement by the lower middle class (think union members) which tend to be very conservative socially and fairly pro-capitalist (at least much more than their european equivalent). it would be corporatist in that tariff walls, small business loans, etc. would aide domestic business which in turn would provide more jobs for american workers (populist).


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