Mexican-American Studies squashed as books are snatched out of students' hands.

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...The decision to ban Chicano and Native American books follows the 4 to 1 vote on Tuesday by the Tucson Unified School District board to succumb to the State of Arizona, and forbid Mexican American Studies, rather than fight the state decision.

Way to go, Arizona... don't study something and maybe it it'll go away?

What a bunch of cretins.

*CJ

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Another notable text removed from Tucson’s classrooms is Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest.”

We sure don't want students to read Shakespeare. He's not a true American, after all.

More details here:

http://www.salon.com/2012/01/1...e_tempest/singleton/

Jeff

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Crying, students said it was like Nazi Germany, and they were unable to sleep since it happened.

Great News! The titles are available on Amazon!

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4 to 1 vote on Tuesday by the Tucson Unified School District board to succumb to the State of Arizona

Gee, Taxpayers don't want to fund LaRaza indoctrination, in public schools? And the taxpayers can get away with shaping the studies offered in the public schools! What the HELL is going on around here!

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Originally posted by Zorro:
... LaRaza indoctrination ...

Much better to teach that Hispanics, Blacks and Asians are inferior Americans.

What is someone who professes to be not bigoted but supports those who are?

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better to teach that Hispanics, Blacks and Asians are inferior Americans.

What is someone who professes to be not bigoted but supports those who are?

Give me a link to the course that does that. You know, sometimes it almost like some folks are lying sacks of crap or something.

Zorro -- wondering when you'll be willing to be judged by your own standards for being a lying sack of crap.

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Originally posted by TheOldMole:
Zorro -- wondering when you'll be willing to be judged by your own standards for being a lying sack of crap.

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Originally posted by TheOldMole:
Zorro -- wondering when you'll be willing to be judged by your own standards for being a lying sack of crap.

Lets see if PP can come up with a link, to support what it appears to be a bald-faced lie.

Then there is your claim that AZ "banned" the book, even though it is still available on Amazon and students are free to bring it to school.

How truthful is your claim?

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Originally posted by purplepentode:

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Originally posted by TheOldMole:
Zorro -- wondering when you'll be willing to be judged by your own standards for being a lying sack of crap.

You both make stuff up and then high five? So long as you are entertained...

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The titles are available on Amazon!

Got it, zorro. Any book for sale on Amazon can be expelled from schools. So, what will they read?

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Originally posted by Zorro:
Lets see if PP can come up with a link, to support what it appears to be a bald-faced lie.

Oh, and I left out Native Americans.

Ibid.:

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... Students said the banned books were seized from their classrooms and out of their hands, after Tucson schools banned Mexican American Studies, including a book of photos of Mexico. ...

... “Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years” ... features an essay by Tucson author Leslie Silko, Recipient of a Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award and a MacArthur Foundation genius grant ...

... Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest," was also banned during the meeting this week. Administrators told Mexican-American studies teachers to stay away from any class units where “race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes."

If I understand Zorro correctly (Boy, that's a load), he's asking if there is any history of white prejudice or oppression against minorities according to race or ethnicity.

Only a maggot eating putrefying remains and inhabiting dung in the hot sun would challenge its validity.

That wasn't my question. My question was, when are you going to hold yourself to the same standard you hold others?

School boards can ban a book from their libraries and approved reading lists. That is the accepted definition of a banned book. Are you going to seriously try to convince us that you didn't know that? But actually, by your standards -- not mine -- of what constitutes a lying sack of crap, it wouldn't matter whether you knew it or not.

And you're quite sure you want to stand behind the assertion that if something is not specifically on a course syllabus, it's not being taught?

Turns out that the folks at Conservopedia also lying sacks of crap, because they too accept the concept of describing something as "banned" even though it may still be available from other sources.


http://conservapedia.com/Debat...ed_from_libraries%3F

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Any book for sale on Amazon can be expelled from schools

The Book was not expelled from school, it was not banned from the school, it was not banned from the town, it was not banned from the State, no person is forbidden by the State of AZ from reading any of these books. Otis' title is quite frankly, false.

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If I understand Zorro correctly (Boy, that's a load), he's asking if there is any history of white prejudice or oppression against minorities according to race or ethnicity.

Nope. Not the question at all:

You posted

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better to teach that Hispanics, Blacks and Asians are inferior Americans.

What is someone who professes to be not bigoted but supports those who are?

And I asked you for a link to the course that does that. Which you cannot provide, because your claim has no more basis in fact than Tad's does.

Any person in AZ who wants any of these books is free to buy them and free to bring them to school.

Now taxpayers will not longer provide the book for free, and students will no longer be held captive for the delivery of the books contents to them.

But the books are easily available from any of hundreds of sources, anyone is free to purchase, read them and even bring them to school with them.

Zorro, since you spend so much time with your head up your butt, this might prove helpful.

Then all those conservative bloggers, web sites and journals who use "ban" to mean ban from school libraries and curricula are all lying sacks of crsp?

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Originally posted by purplepentode:

You posted

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better to teach that Hispanics, Blacks and Asians are inferior Americans.

What is someone who professes to be not bigoted but supports those who are?

And I asked you for a link to the course that does that. Which you cannot provide, because your claim has no more basis in fact than Tad's does.

If a Conservative told you to jump off a cliff, would you?

Anyone that wants to buy the book may,
Anyone that wants to read the book may,
Anyone that wants to bring the book to school may,
Anyone that wants to read the book at school may.

All that is has changed is that the AZ taxpayers no longer will provide the book in schools for free,

And AZ students will no longer be forced to study the book.

So now Libs can all sniff about how their precious little book was "banned" because it is no longer provided for free and studied under compulsion.

 
In 2010, Hispanics made up almost 30% of the population in Arizona; American Indian and Alaska Native persons were almost 5% of the state's population.

Forbidding any form of Mexican American Studies and banning Chicano and Native American books is the START of policies most Americans won't want to support, for what's next?

Women's Studies? 50.3% of Arizona's 2010 population.

Black Studies? 4.1% of Arizona's 2010 population.

Why stop there? They should rename Arizona (Tohono O'odham Indian name meaning "having a little spring") to StupidWhiteMale Territory, eh?

We'll have to get AZ Lib and partner out first, though.

*CJ

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If a Conservative told you to jump off a cliff, would you?

You already have, Zorro. A long time ago.