{"id":710276,"date":"2010-04-06T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011536811_texastextbookstweaktotheright.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-06T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T19:42:08","slug":"texas-textbooks-tweak-to-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/710276","title":{"rendered":"Texas textbooks tweak to the right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>American history goes rogue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a response to \u201cRewriting American history\u201d [News, April 4].<\/p>\n<p>Revisionist history was a charge levied against the Soviets. We maintained that our history contained the credible elements of a social science. Now Texas greets Joe McCarthy as a hero, Franklin D. Roosevelt as a Great Depression instigator and President Barack Obama as an Islamic socialist?<\/p>\n<p>If ideologues want to reconstruct events and people, let them write books such as Palin\u2019s \u201cGoing Rogue\u201d and sell them at Costco.<\/p>\n<p>But in schools, children risk brainwashing. Ideology triumphs over providing them with objective constructs for understanding events.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, the left and right pen nastily tendentious stuff. Pundits for each side rebut. Who rebuts in school when Teddy Roosevelt is portrayed as a socialist? What test grade do you get for thinking of him, instead, as the quintessential Rough Rider?<\/p>\n<p>Pretty scary, and growing. That is what the right seems bent upon: Recreating events to suit the special interests funding supposedly neutral think tanks that disguise the ideology, calling it \u201chistory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Peter Loeb, Sequim<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American history goes rogue This is a response to \u201cRewriting American history\u201d [News, April 4]. Revisionist history was a charge levied against the Soviets. We maintained that our history contained the credible elements of a social science. Now Texas greets Joe McCarthy as a hero, Franklin D. Roosevelt as a Great Depression instigator and President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2YM4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}