High School summer reading list upsets liberals

[NYcarbineer]

It's got it all....Savage, Levin, Coulter...all your favorite right wing extremists!

Those aren't extremists. Those are some of your best conservative minds. A Who's Who of reading for any young mind.

'Best conservative minds'. lol, what's funniest about that is that you have no idea how funny it is.

No, what's funny is you have an opinion on that matter without bothering to read the books

I don't have to poke a skunk with a stick to know what happens if I did.

But you do have to read different ideas to understand them

I waste hundreds of hours posting on a mostly conservative message board and you think I'm shielding myself from conservative ideas?

 

[Avatar4321]

UPDATE: The Left reacted as expected. The list is banned.

As a kid I would have asked "Why?" and read every book on the list to find out.

Alabama school bans Reagan, Coulter, Levin summer reading list

I've never understood why you want to avoid opposing viewpoints. If you are correct, your views will hold up. If you aren't you learn something new. Win win.

I see this opposition most when encouraging people to read the Bible and book of Mormon for themselves. It's always puzzled me.

 

[NYcarbineer]

UPDATE: The Left reacted as expected. The list is banned.

As a kid I would have asked "Why?" and read every book on the list to find out.

Alabama school bans Reagan, Coulter, Levin summer reading list

I've never understood why you want yo avoid opposing viewpoints. If you are correct, your views will hold up. If you aren't you learn something new. WIn win.

I see this opposition most when encouraging people to read the Bible and book of Mormon for themselves. It's always puzzled me.

Conservatism is the 'opposing view' in Alabama?

Goddam!

 

[12icer]

The way to get out of a low grade in the current liberal school system is to do away with all liberal influence. The reality is that any student in the worst Alabama school is much more EDUCATED than any New York student. The new assessments are based on OPINIONS about gender bias, touchy feely lies, and the socialist structure that liberals think should be in place in this country.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

UPDATE: The Left reacted as expected. The list is banned.

As a kid I would have asked "Why?" and read every book on the list to find out.

Alabama school bans Reagan, Coulter, Levin summer reading list

Here's the school board:

Board of Education / Board Members

See if you can find the liberal majority.

Which ones aren't included?

 

[12icer]

That's alright, the parents have the list, it will get read. We might even sue to make sure the list is distributed countrywide. Be bad if the kids in New York actually got to see a conservative book one time in their poor indoctrinated lives.

 

[NYcarbineer]

To what I believe should be no one's surprise around here, the RWnuts on USMB have proclaimed the state of Alabama too liberal.

I rest my case.

 

[Avatar4321]

Alabama ranks 47th in the nation in education, and this thread is one good example of why.

How dare they ask students to read!

Of course! They don't want educated people they want kids just smart enough to pull a trigger in a war or ring up a customer at Wal Mart.

They? I'm from NY. We educate our kids.

Which is why you have a problem with students reading.

 

[Avatar4321]

Those aren't extremists. Those are some of your best conservative minds. A Who's Who of reading for any young mind.

'Best conservative minds'. lol, what's funniest about that is that you have no idea how funny it is.

No, what's funny is you have an opinion on that matter without bothering to read the books

I don't have to poke a skunk with a stick to know what happens if I did.

But you do have to read different ideas to understand them

A 100% rightwing nut reading list is an example of different ideas?

Yes.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Trump won Baldwin County Alabama with 77%,

and the USMB RWnuts have proclaimed it to be too liberal.

 

[Avatar4321]

Those aren't extremists. Those are some of your best conservative minds. A Who's Who of reading for any young mind.

'Best conservative minds'. lol, what's funniest about that is that you have no idea how funny it is.

No, what's funny is you have an opinion on that matter without bothering to read the books

I don't have to poke a skunk with a stick to know what happens if I did.

But you do have to read different ideas to understand them

I waste hundreds of hours posting on a mostly conservative message board and you think I'm shielding myself from conservative ideas?

Yes. Same reason. You don't read opposing viewpoints. You spend your time trying to prove yours. Usually with condescension

 

[hjmick]

I'd go with #25 & #29...

 

[Avatar4321]

To what I believe should be no one's surprise around here, the RWnuts on USMB have proclaimed the state of Alabama too liberal.

I rest my case.

They did vote for Donald trump. It's not like he is conservative.

 

[toobfreak]

If it were a liberal list as rabidly radical as that RWNJ list, the usual nutters would be apoplectic

That's your problem, Luddy, there is nothing "radical" about reading Savage, Levin or Coulter, those are just fundamental sound conservative voices. They are not "extreme," they are conservative. If you can't see them any other way, then your view is that conservatism itself is an extreme ideology, whereas, history shows it as just slightly right of center, where the Founders based our principles of this land.

 

[toobfreak]

Hahah....look at this reading list!

Jesus Christ...how can anyone be expected to pick just one???
It's got it all....Savage, Levin, Coulter...all your favorite right wing extremists!

You should read a few off of that list. You might start seeing the world more clearly.

Sadly, conservative thinking has been drummed out of the schools largely because conservatives are for small government and the school is owned and run by the government! So they push a liberal agenda and teachers are censured and you get a choice of reading between liberal and socialist/globalist ideology. That is what they call "choice." Liberals survive not by challenging and testing their ideas but by ISOLATING them, so they choose to keep all conservative thinking, people and reading out of their lives. Never a part of it, it thus becomes very "extreme" thought.

 

[MarathonMike]

It's laughable how hard Liberals push Racial diversity and yet completely reject diversity of thought.

 

[toobfreak]

It's laughable how hard Liberals push Racial diversity and yet completely reject diversity of thought.

I disagree. There is a lot of diversity of thought with Liberals. I am sure their diversity ranges all over the place from:

Should I shoot that Republican?

Should I stab that cop?

Can I just hope he freeking dies?

Or should I just try and run them all over with my car?

That is about as diverse as it gets. Liberals are open to all possibilities.