Saturday, January 13, 2007

Do I Live In A "Red State"?

One of the school boards in the Seattle area, banned showing An Inconvenient Truth because it is "controversial". What is the World coming to? <sarcasm> If that's their standard does this mean they can't show Schnidler's List unless they also include commentary by Ahmadinejad?! I hear that smoking is good for you too. Perhaps that needs to be taught in health class?! Maybe Civics clas needs to include reading more Karl Marx and a little less Thomas Jefferson?! </sarcasm>

The primary source of "controversary" surrounding the issue is due to oil companies. (e.g. The Denial Machine).

3 comments:

Ramanan Sivaranjan said...

American's should read a little Karl Marx. It's insightful. And yeah, American school boards are wicked dumb it seems.

Ryan said...

They're too afraid of communism and it's evilness, so isn't a banned book?

Ryan said...

In contrast,
B.C. students getting Gore's doc
...