It is important to never really take too much stock in textbooks found in your typical U.S. high school. They are filled with propaganda, distortions, and downright lies, such as World War II ended the depression and Native Americans were peaceful people.
Conservatives are apoplectic about a new textbook titled “By the People: A History of the United States.” Published by textbook giant Pearson with copyright of 2019, the high school textbook pretty much goes full social justice warrior, slamming President Donald Trump and his supporters.
You could have easily found some of the passages in The New York Times, Huffington Post, or Vox.
Here is one excerpt describing Trump and his supporters (emphasis ours):
“Trump’s supporters saw the vote as a victory for the people who, like themselves, had been forgotten in a fast-changing America–a mostly older, often rural or suburban, and overwhelmingly white group. Clinton’s supporters feared that the election had been determined by people who were afraid of a rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the country, discomfort with their candidate’s gender, and nostalgia for an earlier time in the nation’s history. They also worried about the mental instability of the president-elect and the anger that he and his supporters brought to the nation.”
Here we go again with the entire white male shtick:
“Whatever people’s opinions, on January 20, 2017, Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the forty-fifth president of the United States. The inner circle of his advisors seemed to represent a mix of some deeply ideological conservatives, traditional politicians, and his family. His cabinet nominees were mostly highly successful business leaders who had made their fortunes and were now joining the team of another unusually successful businessman. They were largely white males, more so than any presidential cabinet since Ronald Reagan.”
At least the author of the textbook makes it clear that he thinks Trump is a racist:
“He was strongly anti-free trade as Sanders was and, like Sanders among the Democrats, Trump tapped into the sense of alienation and ‘being left behind’ that many voters–most of all white poor and working-class voters–felt. …
Most thought that Trump was too extreme a candidate to win the nomination, but his extremism, his anti establishment rhetoric and, some said, his not-very-hidden racism connected with a significant number of primary voters–more voters than any other single Republican candidate.”
It also suggested that opponents of former President Barack Obama “found it difficult to adjust” and implied that the Ferguson police department is racist.
Ugh.
Now you know what libertarians and conservatives are up against by the government indoctrination centers. Their children are being indoctrinated on a daily basis in every single subject, except perhaps the hard sciences, but even then…
Here are the images:
In case you didn’t think there was an effort going on in public schools to indoctrinate kids with an anti-conservative agenda, a friend of mine took pictures and highlighted parts of this AP US History book. pic.twitter.com/rj2AN3MIqI
— Alex On-Air (@yoalexrapz) April 13, 2018
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