DO NOT MESS WITH TEXAS (this means you, hippie a** founding fathers)

[Human Snorenado]

YEEEEEEE FUCKING HAW DO NOT MESS WITH TEJAS!

New textbooks to not mention Thomas Jefferson, refused to require "that students learn that the Constitution prevents the U.S. government from promoting one religion over all others" and instead of describing the US as "democratic" instead call it a "constitutional republic."

Seriously, can we give these jackasses back to Mexico?

Although I guess it is encouraging that with so many states having budgetary shortfalls and having to close schools, not only does Texas apparently not have that problem, they can afford new, history rewriting textbooks.

[Himu]

Moving asap.

[Human Snorenado]

Too late, you have the stench upon you.  KILL THE UNCLEAN ONE WITH FIRE.

[Himu]

noooooooooooo

[huckleberry]

Following repeated failed attempts to add figures in Hispanic history to the textbooks, one board member, Mary Helen Berlanga, stormed "out of the meeting late Thursday night, saying, 'They can just pretend this is a white America and Hispanics don’t exist.'"

That is what I do at the grocery store.

[Himu]

Well we're talking about the same state that glorifies a battles against the MESSICANS when the Mexicans wouldn't let them slaves. HEY, TEJAS DESERVES SLAVES, FUCK MEXICO. REMEMBER THE ALAMO, LONG LIVE SLAVERY, BLACK PEOPLE AND HISPANICS STINK!

[brawndolicious]

Well we're talking about the same state that glorifies a battles against the MESSICANS when the Mexicans wouldn't let them slaves. HEY, TEJAS DESERVES SLAVES, FUCK MEXICO. REMEMBER THE ALAMO, LONG LIVE SLAVERY, BLACK PEOPLE AND HISPANICS STINK!

came here to post this but was beaten by a native.


THANK YOU BLACK DYNAMITE!

[Himu]

what happen in black dynamite?

[Ichirou]

Nicole Sullivan looks like shit these days.

[etiolate]

To avoid exposing students to “transvestites, transsexuals and who knows what else,” the Board struck the curriculum’s reference to “sex and gender as social constructs.”

Is this poorly worded? Don't they just mean gender as social construct, with sex as the biological difference?

[brawndolicious]

what happen in black dynamite?

it's a really good movie that makes fun of the blaxploitation films in the 70's with the main character being a black guy fighting against racial injustice.  I just finished watching it 2 minutes ago so that was the first thing that popped in my head.

To avoid exposing students to “transvestites, transsexuals and who knows what else,” the Board struck the curriculum’s reference to “sex and gender as social constructs.”

Is this poorly worded? Don't they just mean gender as social construct, with sex as the biological difference?

That is the logical way to go about it.  They probably want it to be written in a way that discourages boys from not being "masculine" or anything.

[Mandark]

As I understand it the big things are:

1)  Texas is such a big market that their curriculum influences the books used in lots of other states

2)  On the board that decides this, there are a bunch of pretty hardcore Christianists, just one vote short of the majority.  So on each subject that comes up, they need just one swing vote to side with them.


I'm actually a little optimistic about this.  I don't think Texas would let the curriculum go full on crazy (ie young Earth creationism).  As conservative as the state is, there are a lot of suburban parents that don't want their kids' education being considered a joke come college application time.

Where was the long-form story about this that came out recently?  The NYT?  I was all tl;dr at the time and never bookmarked it.

[Himu]

what happen in black dynamite?

it's a really good movie that makes fun of the blaxploitation films in the 70's with the main character being a black guy fighting against racial injustice.  I just finished watching it 2 minutes ago so that was the first thing that popped in my head.

To avoid exposing students to “transvestites, transsexuals and who knows what else,” the Board struck the curriculum’s reference to “sex and gender as social constructs.”

Is this poorly worded? Don't they just mean gender as social construct, with sex as the biological difference?

That is the logical way to go about it.  They probably want it to be written in a way that discourages boys from not being "masculine" or anything.

Huh? I know about the premise of Black Dynamite but I assumed the movie had something to do with, I dunno, people glorifying the war with Mexico when it was really just a war to get slaves. I didn't see any correlation.

[Himu]

I'm actually a little optimistic about this.  I don't think Texas would let the curriculum go full on crazy (ie young Earth creationism).  As conservative as the state is, there are a lot of suburban parents that don't want their kids' education being considered a joke come college application time.

Haha, never been to a Texas suburb, have ya!

[Ichirou]

Forget about it, Himu.  It's a post by nintenho.

[Mandark]

Forget it Jake, it's am nintenho.

[Great Rumbler]

what happen in black dynamite?

it's a really good movie that makes fun of the blaxploitation films in the 70's with the main character being a black guy fighting against racial injustice.  I just finished watching it 2 minutes ago so that was the first thing that popped in my head.

To avoid exposing students to “transvestites, transsexuals and who knows what else,” the Board struck the curriculum’s reference to “sex and gender as social constructs.”

Is this poorly worded? Don't they just mean gender as social construct, with sex as the biological difference?

That is the logical way to go about it.  They probably want it to be written in a way that discourages boys from not being "masculine" or anything.

Huh? I know about the premise of Black Dynamite but I assumed the movie had something to do with, I dunno, people glorifying the war with Mexico when it was really just a war to get slaves. I didn't see any correlation.

I've seen Black Dynamite and I still don't get it.

[brawndolicious]

1)  Texas is such a big market that their curriculum influences the books used in lots of other states

You can see the same problem (maybe not to the same degree) in California history books when it comes to treatment of Native Americans and whatnot.  It's a really fucked up situation and really shows that there needs to be an independent, federal sort of commission that chooses these things rather than state commissions pressuring flexible textbook publishers.

Huh? I know about the premise of Black Dynamite but I assumed the movie had something to do with, I dunno, people glorifying the war with Mexico when it was really just a war to get slaves. I didn't see any correlation.

uh, well the movie has nothing at all to do with Texas tbh.  It's just that you're black and pointing out racial inequality and so that type of thing just popped in my head.

[Phoenix Dark]

lol noobs

There was so much crazy shit in my A Beka history books, during the home school years. Bill Clinton was essentially written out of the high school ones

[Himu]

I'm not really pointing out racial inequality, but rather just noting the hypocrisy of many fellow Texans.

[etiolate]

I was thinking about how if this goes through if it could cause Texas highschool students trouble in getting into colleges that start boycotting or citing Texas education as subpar, but then I remembered that money talks and there's plenty of that in Texas as opposed to other states, and more so than that, what Texas buys as its textbooks so will many other states. Colleges would have to ice out a lot of states. Texas and California determine most of what the country reads in public schools.

[drew]

like a whole nother country

[etiolate]

If only they could write Romo out of their history eh?

[rodi]

What a great state.

[Diunx]

lol texas, everyone I know living in that state hates it.

[Madrun Badrun]

Texas to Jefferson:  "This is my stop"

[Akala]

lol texas, everyone I know living in that state hates it.

i'm the opposite. everyone I know there loves it. too much. scarily.

also, they constantly overrate their seafood.

I can't say much about their education program though. we are pretty much worse.

[Great Rumbler]

I've got the best of both worlds. Live in Oklahoma, shop in Texas.

[Kestastrophe]

There was so much crazy shit in my A Beka history books, during the home school years. Bill Clinton was essentially written out of the high school ones

homeschool

Michigan Public School system

[Mandark]

He'd say "Miss Hemmings, come here.  I need your help moving the bed."

[Madrun Badrun]

[Eric P]

also, they constantly overrate their seafood.

i dunno.

Gulf shrimp and crab are pretty awesome

[Akala]

in theory. I've been to hundreds of seafood restaurants in texas. their boiled seafood is usually bland, and their fried seafood usually has some crappy breadcrumb or cornmeal batter. crab is hard to fuck up, but it's usually better in LA.

the one thing texas does better than louisiana is large fillets of fish, particularly ahi. many many louisiana restaurants just don't know what the fuck to do with that stuff.

[Eric P]

i can't think of any specific "texas style" or anything remarkable i've ever eaten in a texan seafood place, so you may be onto something.

[recursivelyenumerable]

"Well that's counterproductive / counterintuitive; Jefferson would be amongst the first to say that democracy is shit, which is why we have (or are supposed to have) a constitutional republic with strict limits on the influence of democracy."

this doesn't really sound right; perhaps you're thinking of the Federalists?

[brawndolicious]

yeah, he probably mixed up his name or something.  Jefferson actually really hated the idea of a strong, centralized government.

[Great Rumbler]

Tex-Mex is awesome.

[Joe Molotov]

Texas' founding fathers were David Crockett, James Bowie, Sam Houston, and John Wayne, buddy.

[brawndolicious]

John Wayne's real name is Marion.

[Joe Molotov]

His parents were probably communists and were going to raise him to be gay, since they did live in California after all. Good thing he ran away from home to live in Texas and fight Mexicans instead.

[Dickie Dee]

Real-talk: John Wayne was a draft-dodging chickhawk cigarillo

[Diunx]

I would dodge a fucking draft too, nothing wrong with no wanting to die in a war.

[Himu]

also, they constantly overrate their seafood.

i dunno.

Gulf shrimp and crab are pretty awesome

FRIED CATFISH IS THE WORST THING EVER

[Human Snorenado]

also, they constantly overrate their seafood.

i dunno.

Gulf shrimp and crab are pretty awesome

FRIED CATFISH IS THE WORST THING EVER

Not worse than a Texas education. 

[Akala]

SMH

[huckleberry]

FRIED CATFISH IS THE WORST THING EVER

You don't like catfish?

You can't be black.

[Himu]

also, they constantly overrate their seafood.

i dunno.

Gulf shrimp and crab are pretty awesome

FRIED CATFISH IS THE WORST THING EVER

Not worse than a Texas education. 

Hey, Humble High School was a good school!

Well, it used to be, before the suburbanite white parents of my suburban town decided ENOUGH WAS ENOUGH, NO MORE MEXICANS DRIVING DOWN MY KID'S EDUCATION REPUTATION and made a new high school called Atacsocita High School. Now Humble High School is full of nothing but darkies and hispanics, the drop out rate has sky rocketed, cops patrol regularly due to crime and fights, and what was once considered one of the most highly regarded High Schools in the state is now a low-tier struggling school.

Glad I graduated way before this happened!

[Himu]

FRIED CATFISH IS THE WORST THING EVER

You don't like catfish?

You can't be black.

Catfish is the reason I said,"I hate fish." the majority of my life. It is ASS. Fried catfish in particular, a staple of southern african american cuisine, is total shitville. Terrible texture, horrible taste, flaky meat. Total ass.

And the SMELL of fried catfish is enough to make me vomit.

Catfish sucks and I'm proud of the fact that I am one of the few blacks who realize this fact. Black America will be better off knowing this and I should create a facebook page called "I'm black and I hate catfish!", I think it would be quite successful.

[huckleberry]

  preach it.


Catfish is one of those southern things that I just don't understand.  If you stop for one fucking second to think about the taste of what you are consuming you would vomit. 

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I've had catfish before when we were all broke as a joke.  Soured me on fish entirely.

I'm actually a little optimistic about this.  I don't think Texas would let the curriculum go full on crazy (ie young Earth creationism).  As conservative as the state is, there are a lot of suburban parents that don't want their kids' education being considered a joke come college application time.

Yes, I agree.  Communities like Colorado Springs are a demonstration that suburban parents do not buy into evangelical Christianity who would like to change the school curriculum to reflect a more conservative viewpoint.

[Mupepe]

A lot of people are forgetting that the wealth of the state exists in the Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Dallas megalopolis. Houston just elected the first openly gay mayor for a major city and Austin is fucking hippyville. SA and Dallas are also pretty liberal. Texas cities are not as bad as most think. Its the 600 miles from San Antonio to the west border that is completely full of backwards fucks. Texas gun laws aren't even as bad as most assume.  Shit we aren't even an open carry state. I wish we were honestly.

[Himu]

Austin, the capitol of our state, is as liberal as it gets. Well, not more than San Fran but fuck it's close.

A lot of people are forgetting that the wealth of the state exists in the Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Dallas megalopolis. Houston just elected the first openly gay mayor for a major city and Austin is fucking hippyville. SA and Dallas are also pretty liberal. Texas cities are not as bad as most think. Its the 600 miles from San Antonio to the west border that is completely full of backwards fucks. Texas gun laws aren't even as bad as most assume.  Shit we aren't even an open carry state. I wish we were honestly.

What about the people in way way way south Texas? What about the Texarkana border?

[Tauntaun]

You coloreds mad?