Monday, November 22, 2004
Dumb or
I work under the assumption that everybody I interact with is at least as intelligent as I, but I'm working on reminding myself that there is a good possibility that the other is monumentally stupid. This is the assumption that most Republicans work under, and it seems to work quite well for some.
My old friend David points us to the Alliance for the Separation of School and State, an alliance of ignorant religious freakazoids who repeatedly make all sorts of outlandish claims that you have to be stupid to believe. Take this page. It states that,
Public education post-dated the founding of our nation, a claim that would give intelligent people pause even those who don't already know that the Land Ordinance of 1785 reserved 1/16th of the land we stole from Native Americans "for the maintenance of public schools."
That "government schools" "prohibit" and "ban" teaching about the origin, destiny and purpose of human life but rather teach that "religious faith is private and not subject to reason" - claims as outrageous as my degree in Philosophy with a minor in Religion from the University of North Carolina system is real.
That currently one of the ugly politicized aims of public schooling is to, gasp, "protect the environment."
If people like this can make headway with those educated by our current school system, I recoil at the thought of them succeeding.
// posted by Erik @ 11/22/2004 06:34:00 AM
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