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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFL State Rep Introduces Bill To Make High Schoolers Watch D'Souza's Film
Gather round, ye graduating high school seniors, and behold the right wing propaganda film your right wing lawmakers want you to view before leaving the cozy cocoon of high school.
Republican Alan Hays said hell introduce in November his one-page bill that simply states that students in the 1,700 Florida public high schools and middle schools are to be shown the film unless their parents object.
The plan is sure to draw fire from liberals not only because DSouza is a prominent conservative but because he is also behind the movie, 2016: Obamas America, which is a profoundly negative take on Democratic U.S. president Barack Obama.
America, the movie, espouses a conservative point of view toward telling history. D'Souza takes on leftist arguments that portray the U.S. in a negative light, and he specifically attacks Howard Zinn, author of the book A Peoples History of the United States, often considered the most widely used history book in U.S. academia.
Republican Alan Hays said hell introduce in November his one-page bill that simply states that students in the 1,700 Florida public high schools and middle schools are to be shown the film unless their parents object.
The plan is sure to draw fire from liberals not only because DSouza is a prominent conservative but because he is also behind the movie, 2016: Obamas America, which is a profoundly negative take on Democratic U.S. president Barack Obama.
America, the movie, espouses a conservative point of view toward telling history. D'Souza takes on leftist arguments that portray the U.S. in a negative light, and he specifically attacks Howard Zinn, author of the book A Peoples History of the United States, often considered the most widely used history book in U.S. academia.
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http://crooksandliars.com/2014/07/fl-state-rep-introduces-bill-make-high
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FL State Rep Introduces Bill To Make High Schoolers Watch D'Souza's Film (Original Post)
Cooperstown
Jul 2014
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randys1
(16,286 posts)1. WAKE UP god dammit, i am running out of patience
YOU will ALL be to blame, MYSELF included, if we dont STOP these moronic, racist, ASSHOLES now...
jesus
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)2. Which other criminal's films does he want to force kids to watch?
Or is that the only one?
lpbk2713
(43,242 posts)3. The Florida GOP wants to program them while they are young and malleable.
I hope the voting public sees this for what it is and reacts with a solid backlash.