I am speechless. Well, actually, no, I am the opposite. I haven't posted a diary on here in years. I just opened the Tampa Bay Times and read the following headline "Bill forces movie in school". Knowing that the Florida legislature is full of old, white, conservative rednecks I knew it couldn't be good.
http://www.tampabay.com/...
State Senator Alan Hays and state Representative Neil Combee want to shove American exceptionalism down the throats of 8th and 11th grade students. Goebbels couldn't have come up with a better idea than these two numbskulls.
When he first began watching the film, Hays said he was flabbergasted: The narrator "was interviewing those who were espousing what I consider anti-American views." By the time the documentary ended 105 minutes later, he had a completely different thought. "I looked at my wife and I said, 'Every student in America needs to see this movie.' " Hays praised its message of American exceptionalism.
For those of you who have not or will not watch this piece of crap, here are a couple of nuggets that pass for wisdom in this trash.
In the film, D'Souza aims to discredit what he considers the philosophy of left-wing progressive Democratic politics, taught in schools, that the U.S. society is based on theft and plunder. He says he wants to debunk the arguments.
D'Souza argues, for instance, that American Indians couldn't adhere to treaties and were killing one another anyway.
On the subject of slavery, he writes in his book of the same name: "Did America owe something to the slaves whose labor had been stolen?" Yes, he states, but "that debt . . . is best discharged through memory, because the slaves are dead and their descendants are better off as a consequence of their ancestors being hauled from Africa to America."
In closing I will leave you with a quote from the greatest propagandist of our time.
“We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals”
― Joseph Goebbels
We need to make sure these idiots are remembered for being the latter of the two. Being an officer in the service, I am not sure how much I can do about this politically but I will damn sure be writing letters to the Tampa Bay Times and anywhere else that I can express my opinion about what an awful idea this is. If you live in Florida, and even if you don't, I urge you to do the same.