May 31, 2004
Quote of the Day
landlord, cowboy, brotherhood, yacht, cult, primitive, addict, alumni, American, elderly, illiterate, mankind, penmanship, teenager, third world, uncivilized, underprivileged, unmarried, widow or widower, masterpiece or mastery.
Just some of the words you won't find in an American textbook because an anti-bias committee has airbrushed the literature.
It's funny when a line Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind" changes from "How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?" to "How many roads must an individual walk down before you can call them an adult."
Posted by Russell Whitaker at May 31, 2004 02:32 PM | TrackBackThat is absolutely insane! How the f**k is one supposed to convey the meaning of being on top of a subject, as in mastery, in a gender-free way? Ditto many other of the words mentioned. The PC crowd actually make meaningful language impossible.
One can only include that that is their intention.
Anyone who has spoken to folk working and studying in American and other western academies, well, at least the State ones, will attest to how bad this form of brainwashing has become.
Posted by: Tom on June 1, 2004 03:39 PMYou spotted the "How many roads must an adult walk down" abomination. Here's what we can do to recapture the initiative from these linguistic paleoliths:
We know there is an undercover war going on between a cabal of secretive, highly ideological, self-annointed, non-educators who control the content of all California, Florida and Texas textbooks. Their monopoly control subverts the normal, rational, competitive selection process of buying text books, because those states are so big: as they buy, so buys the nation. Parents and educators are kept completely out of the loop. The resulting war is between educators and ideologues--and the educators are losing.
There is a way to halt the textbook war--or at least reduce the carnage of wasted minds that now results. See http://www.velocitypress.com/pages/schoolbooks.php for a description of the real problem--the book buying monopolies of Texas and California--and the only real tactic that educators and parents can use to set the situation right.
The next generation of our kids will thank us for taking up this noble cause. Maybe you have some additional suggestions on how to help resolve this critical issue.
Sincerely,
Tom Holzel, Principal
www.velocityassociates.net
617-293-1958
