Hippies = Satan Worship, Slaves were well treated, & KKK Respectable

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America: Land I Love

A school participating in Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's controversial voucher program is apparently using a history book that teaches its eighth-grade students that "hippies" were dirty followers of Satan-worshipping rock musicians.
The textbook, “America: Land I Love," includes a section on the counterculture movement of the 1960s.
Here's a paragraph taken from that section, which was published Wednesday by AmericaBlog.com:

(AmericaBlog)

Many young people turned to drugs and immoral lifestyles; these youth became known as hippies. They went without bathing, wore dirty, ragged, unconventional clothing, and deliberately broke all codes of politeness or manners. Rock music played an important part in the hippie movement and had great influence over the hippies. Many of the rock musicians they followed belonged to Eastern religious cults or practiced Satan worship.
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It's not clear which school is using the aforementioned textbook. John Aravosis, who published the text on AmericaBlog, said the source was "a friend" who sent him a photo of the section.
But this isn't the first time books used in Jindal's voucher program—which allows poor and middle-class students the opportunity to attend private schools that often have religion-based curricula—have been called into question. Last fall, Mother Jones magazine published a list of "14 wacky 'facts' kids will learn in Louisiana's voucher schools." Among them:

"A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well."—United States History for Christian Schools, 2nd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 1991
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And:

"[The Ku Klux] Klan in some areas of the country tried to be a means of reform, fighting the decline in morality and using the symbol of the cross. Klan targets were bootleggers, wife-beaters, and immoral movies. In some communities it achieved a certain respectability as it worked with politicians."—United States History for Christian Schools, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2001
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Last month, Jindal defended the program in Washington.
"To oppose school choice is to put the wishes of the adults who control the status quo ahead of the needs of our children," Jindal said. "To oppose school choice is to oppose equal opportunity."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/hippies-satan-worship-school-history-book-201334876.html

 

[Christian Liberty]

Weren't most slaves treated at least relatively well? I mean, it doesn't justify the practice, but I do think the "Confederacy was one step short of HITLER" that I've seen on some other sites I've debated on is ridiculous. If anything (No direct comparison intended), Lincoln ruled more like Hitler than the Confederacy did. As far as I understand, it was mainly plantation owners who had their slaves abused (Technically it was overseers) while smaller farms who were owned by slaveowners treated their slaves relatively well.

I mean, coercion is always wrong regardless, but many slaves chose to stay after they were freed. If it was an absolute dystopian nightmare for them, I'd think they would have left when they could. Some did. Yet many didn't.

 

[kcchiefs6465]

This is not a form of brainwashing. This is not a form of brainwashing.

 

[Acala]

I don't support using tax money for schools at all but with vouchers at least the parents have a choice of the school. If parents make foolish choices about which school to choose, that isn't a political problem. No shortage of lies and propaganda in the textbooks of government schools.

 

[A Son of Liberty]

Based upon the brief description of the KKK, that jives with my understanding. Unfortunately, there's also the pretty significant matter of their views on race relations.

You know, I don't mind when people discuss the history of Hitler's Germany and make mention of the autobahn, etc. Just so long as they point out the vigorous, mindless racism, as well.

 

[AFPVet]

It's astonishing that they would let a book full of such strong prejudicial and generalistic accusations continue to be issued to pre-secondary students.

Hippies were not all followers of rock bands—nor were all rock bands Satanic. Likewise, not all hippies were Satanists. This is all just full of generalistic fallacies.

 

[presence]

meh... after my blathering yesterday about how nobody puts anything in the education forum... fail. this should be there. blame it in the flu?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Here's the Satanists:

Hare, hare, eastern cultists:

 

[tod evans]

I was/am one of those "hippies", I've often been referred to as a "biker" also, and I'm a white Ozark male so I'm 90% sure many would assume that I'm racist.

Well I call bullshit on this supposed historical text!

Lies are wrong no matter who expounds them, I hope somebody with firsthand experience gets the opportunity to speak to the kids this "work" has been presented to.

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

Bob Jones University...the book publisher my HS used, so I'm well familiar with this crap.

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

Peace, love, and satan. That's what they always said, right?

 

[UMULAS]

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[osan]

I don't support using tax money for schools at all but with vouchers at least the parents have a choice of the school. If parents make foolish choices about which school to choose, that isn't a political problem. No shortage of lies and propaganda in the textbooks of government schools.

All essentially irrelevant because all of those schools are still required to follow the orthodox curricula and students to take standardized tests.

Whether your child attends a pretty state school or an ugly one the end result is near enough to identity to make the differences unworthy of mention.

If I had a child just reaching school age he would not be allowed anywhere near a school, especially one that adhered to standard curricula. T'would be more merciful to drown him in the toilet.

 

[scottditzen]

Man, I wonder how the kids being forced to read that crap will turn out. I mean, it's one thing to read or hear an ignorant comment from a parent or teacher about our history. Yet when inanity like this is printed, in a textbook, it just makes it seem like America is that much more hopeless and stupid.

America: Land I Love


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/hippies-satan-worship-school-history-book-201334876.html

 

[robert9712000]

Not justifying slavery at all,but i would have to assume based merely on practicality that most slave owners cared about the one thing any other business owner would and thats too make money.Sick and weak slaves wouldnt benefit anything so it would be in there best interests to treat there slaves well.

 

[scottditzen]

Not justifying slavery at all,but i would have to assume based merely on practicality that most slave owners cared about the one thing any other business owner would and thats too make money.Sick and weak slaves wouldnt benefit anything so it would be in there best interests to treat there slaves well.

Under that reasoning of "best interests" you would also assume that traders wouldn't have packed slaves onto ships using ridiculously unhealthy and inhumane methods. They did, basically ensuring a high mortality rate.

 

[BAllen]

I see no problem here. It's about school choice. The marxist media will be there to feed their propaganda. This school will merely give balance to the kids. Most Southrons did not own slaves. And, there were black slave owners in the South, just as there were in africa, that sold them to the white men and jews.

 

[tod evans]

I wasn't around during the "slave years" but I certainly know to question history as it is portrayed.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill;

"History is written by the victors..."

 

[scottditzen]

I see no problem here.

With all due respect, this is more than a school choice issue. This is a perpetuation of stupidity that should be called out as such. Yes. In 2013 you should be called out for this kind of idiocy.

 

[BAllen]

With all due respect, this is more than a school choice issue. This is a perpetuation of stupidity that should be called out as such. Yes. In 2013 you should be called out for this kind of idiocy.

What do you find wrong with it?