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AzureTyger  Title: Awesome
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Registered: 2002-4-1 15:49:04
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TN Tea Party demands legislature teach truthiness about American history and whitewash slavery |
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/jan/13/tea-parties-cite-legislative-demands/
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Regarding education, the material they distributed said, “Neglect and outright ill will have distorted the teaching of the history and character of the United States. We seek to compel the teaching of students in Tennessee the truth regarding the history of our nation and the nature of its government.â€
That would include, the documents say, that “the Constitution created a Republic, not a Democracy.â€
The material calls for lawmakers to amend state laws governing school curriculums, and for textbook selection criteria to say that “No portrayal of minority experience in the history which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers, or the majority of citizens, including those who reached positions of leadership.â€
Fayette County attorney Hal Rounds, the group’s lead spokesman during the news conference, said the group wants to address “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.
“The thing we need to focus on about the founders is that, given the social structure of their time, they were revolutionaries who brought liberty into a world where it hadn’t existed, to everybody — not all equally instantly — and it was their progress that we need to look at,†said Rounds, whose website identifies him as a Vietnam War veteran of the Air Force and FedEx retiree who became a lawyer in 1995.
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Taliesihne  Title: Wind on the Deep Waters
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Registered: 2004-2-19 04:47:59
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TN Tea Party demands legislature teach truthiness about American history and whitewash slavery |
The argument is weak sauce.
Our founding principals are all based on French Enlightenment. France abolished slavery in the 1300's, the age of enlightenment was 300 years later.
Granted, we were the first to actually implement those ideals into governance, but the question of slavery was settled 300 years before the mentors of the founding fathers even started writing about liberty.
It's a very weak argument. The guy that made it should have paid more attention in history class 
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Kjarhall  Title: The Pungent One
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Registered: 2002-3-1 15:47:21
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TN Tea Party demands legislature teach truthiness about American history and whitewash slavery |
We certainly wouldn't want to teach our children that the founders had human weaknesses.
They're GODS after all!
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Crooq_Lionfang  Title: Master Zergling
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Registered: 2003-3-11 11:53:17
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TN Tea Party demands legislature teach truthiness about American history and whitewash slavery |
Tali, wasn't slavery still around in form of criminal punishment in France after 1300? I thought it was, but I'm not entirely sure
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paulg_68 Posts: 2,469
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TN Tea Party demands legislature teach truthiness about American history and whitewash slavery |
If this was a Tea Party issue it would have come up in more than just one state. The Tea Party is in all 50 states and this only came up in Tennessee.
Think before you write AT. You're embarrassing yourself.
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GrilledCheez Title: The Lord's Balls
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TN Tea Party demands legislature teach truthiness about American history and whitewash slavery |
The tea party is a grass roots organization. not a national party with a unified platform. Ironically tea party supporters were using this exact same defense to explain inconsistencies and distance "mainstream tea partiers" from fringe tea partiers. it must be awesome to get to redefine yourself to the situation every single time.
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Brother_Tempus Title: Patriot
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Registered: 2001-1-9 08:07:00
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TN Tea Party demands legislature teach truthiness about American history and whitewash slavery |
the tea party in TN should be abolishing public education not rewriting curriculum
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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Date Posted:
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TN Tea Party demands legislature teach truthiness about American history and whitewash slavery |
paulg_68 posted:
If this was a Tea Party issue it would have come up in more than just one state. The Tea Party is in all 50 states and this only came up in Tennessee.
Think before you write AT. You're embarrassing yourself.
Irony. 
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Kjarhall Title: The Pungent One
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TN Tea Party demands legislature teach truthiness about American history and whitewash slavery |
Yukishiro1 posted:
paulg_68 posted:
If this was a Tea Party issue it would have come up in more than just one state. The Tea Party is in all 50 states and this only came up in Tennessee.
Think before you write AT. You're embarrassing yourself.
Irony.
Serious. Self-pwn.
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_Enkidu_ Title: Zen Badger
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TN Tea Party demands legislature teach truthiness about American history and whitewash slavery |
The question of slavery is not settled and continues on in many countries today. It wasn't settled legally in the US until long after the founders were all dead. There are some scholars who would argue it isn't even settled in the US today.
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