Comments on: Are you annoyed by those pesky Indians and Black folk? https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Tina wildcat https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/#comment-574753 Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:19:20 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2056#comment-574753 Horrible. Here’s something funny. I was sitting in my living room on the Cherokee reservation looking at a children’s dictionary from the 80’s and it said CHEROKEE INDIANS. A tribe that used to exist in North Carolina many years ago.

]]> By: pyrobryan https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/#comment-19731 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:31:12 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2056#comment-19731 lol, don’t teach the truth if it makes people who we idealize look bad.

]]> By: mouthyb https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/#comment-19730 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:16:08 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2056#comment-19730 I need to invent a good set of swears specifically for this kind of thing in the US. In the mean time, I leave this report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, about the effect of not teaching Civil Rights history:

http://images.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/downloads/publication/TeachingtheMovement.pdf

Assholes.

]]> By: rob https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/#comment-19729 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:16:20 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2056#comment-19729 all right! now that we are going to ignore our recent history, there is nothing stopping us from actually rewriting it.

should be a lot easier to get creationism into our classrooms now.

]]> By: d cwilson https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/#comment-19728 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:09:00 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2056#comment-19728

“an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another.”

Because nothing is worse than made-up criticism about stuff that actually happened.

We are at war with Eastasia. We’ve always been at war with Eastasia.

]]> By: DaveL https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/#comment-19727 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:37:45 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2056#comment-19727

the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership.

How can a majority of citizens have reached positions of leadership? They must mean members of some other majority group who reached leadership positions – as in women like Harriet Tubman, or right-handed people like Martin Luther King Jr? I’m sure that must be what they meant.

]]> By: ischemgeek https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/#comment-19726 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:25:57 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2056#comment-19726 Whaaa…?

I’ve… got nothing. I literally just spent five minutes spluttering incoherently at my computer screen. I would say, “The stupidity burns,” except that I get a bad feeling that it’s not stupidity behind this at all.

]]> By: unbound https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/#comment-19725 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:11:25 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2056#comment-19725 I guess people will have to be swore in court now “…to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth…” since the whole truth is to be legislatively banned in Tennessee.

And people wonder why public education is so very important. You know these parents aren’t going to be teaching their kids how to think, so somehow has to…

]]> By: F https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/#comment-19724 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:00:08 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2056#comment-19724 I’m so tired of this shit. Now they are blatantly admitting to it and legislating it. No longer good enough, I guess, is “Dude that happened so long ago, what would you do about it now?”

I can’t begin to imagine the experience of the victims of this freaking bizarro reality. Slaves. What? Genocide. Never happened. Imperialism. Who?

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/01/23/are-you-annoyed-by-those-pesky-indians-and-black-folk/#comment-19723 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:05:39 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=2056#comment-19723 I forgot to add WTF????!

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