The Texas Brain Drain

May 17, 2010 • Rudy Chen  
Filed under Opinion

Texas is a beautiful state. I also understand that there are good people in Texas. Unfortunately, Texas seems to be missing the point when it comes to creating textbooks.

According to Texas, Thomas Jefferson never existed. Separation of church and state is unconstitutional, apparently.

   Other brilliant ideas proposed by Texas include the following: the U.S. is not a democracy, hiphop music has no cultural value, Christianity is the “best” religion, and Senator McCarthy is a hero. The Texan fascists also argue that students should only learn about the “conservative resurgence” during the Reagan administration; forget minorities or liberals. Sex education should be banned because learning about the opposite gender will somehow cause a spike in the number of “transvestites, transsexuals, and who knows what else,” at least according to a Texas Board of Education member.

  The word “capitalism” should be replaced with “free enterprise” because it supposedly has a negative connotation. After all, the United States should be viewed as a country that has never done anything wrong. Reagan should be given more coverage while the late senator Edward Kennedy and Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor should be rejected. Also, hispanics were definitely NOT heroes at the Alamo, because everything good the United States ever did was done by caucasian, protestant, English-speaking, Bible-reading people. (By the way, all of the above textbook amendments were passed two months ago). 

   It is very interesting that a country founded on the principle of freedom is now replacing its own history with an extremely right-wing bias. Instead of pointing fingers at other countries and how they are bullying their citizens with communist scare tactics (No, you will not get executed in China by the Red Army for searching up Democracy; I have tried), maybe we should attempt to resolve our own problems.

   Unless we want live in Stalin’s Soviet Union or Communist regimes in Latin America that Reagan obviously saved the world from, we must share a voice against Texas’ obnoxious standards and let them hear about it.

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