Burnt Orange Report

Is the Texas SBOE Pro-Slavery?

By Byron LaMasters

Just when you thought things over at the Texas State Board of Education couldn't get more wacky, I read this:

Conservatives' efforts over the years to edit textbooks are legendary here. In a nod to those who believe God created the Earth 6,000 years ago, a sentence saying the ice age took place "millions of years ago" was changed to "in the distant past." Descriptions of environmentalism have been attacked as antithetical to free-enterprise ideals; a passage describing the cruelty of slavery was derided as "overkill."

Ya know, slavery wasn't that bad. Via Pandagon.