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Re: [xmca] Off-topic: false history, Texas, & the Del. GOP House nominee
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- Subject: Re: [xmca] Off-topic: false history, Texas, & the Del. GOP House nominee
- From: mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:43:38 -0700
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Where is Jim Wertsch now that we need him?!! Its very hard to keep up with
even quasi-plausible versions of history.
mike
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote:
> This is off-topic, but some people here have been interested in such items
> in the past (and besides, Jim Wertsch has written on the importance of such
> matters as the ideological distortion of national history).
>
> This concerns a movement whoese propoenents claim, among other things, that
> the US founders did not advocate the separation of church and state, but
> that that idea originates from Hitler.
>
> National media has been filled with news and commentary about popular
> mainstream Republican Congressman Mike Castle's loss to a "nutty" (Karl
> Rove) Tea Party candidate in the Republican primary to run for Joe Biden's
> seat in the U.S. Senate.
>
> Less noticed, another Tea Party candidate, Glen Urquhart, defeated the
> moderate businesswoman who had been endorsed by the GOP state party
> convention to run for Delaware's only seat in the House of Representatives,
> vacated by Mike Castle in his run for the Senate.
>
> Urquhart's campaign has featured the kind of outrageously false history
> propounded by David Barton and promoted by Glenn Beck that depends on a
> level of historical ignorance in the general population, and which threatens
> to displace real history in the public school curriculum, beginning with the
> Texas social studies standards.
>
> For video and links, see
>
> http://curricublog.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/tea-partiers-anti-democratic-ignorance/
> shortlink: http://wp.me/p1V0H-14i
>
> Tony Whitson
> UD School of Education
> NEWARK DE 19716
>
> twhitson@udel.edu
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