Textbook tells truth about RAYGUN & wingnuts (corrupt lazy sexist racist), wingnut heads explode!1 [View all]
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/controversial-textbook-paints-ronald-reagan-conservatives-sexist-corrupt-article-1.1621536
[font size=5]Controversial textbook paints Ronald Reagan, conservatives as sexist, ‘corrupt’[/font]
The author of a controversial university textbook that paints late President Ronald Reagan as a sexist and calls conservatives “corrupt and lazy,” is under fire from young Republicans who feel insulted by the book’s contents.
“Introduction to Social Work & Social Welfare: Critical Thinking Perspectives,” by Karen K. Kirst-Ashman, suggests that Reagan had narrow views about women’s roles and may have been unconcerned about the well-being of minorities.
Reagan "ascribed to women, primarily domestic functions and failed to appoint many women to significant positions of power during his presidency,” Kirst-Ashman wrote in the textbook.
The 40th President also "discounted the importance of racism and discrimination, and maintained that, if they tried, African-Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans could become just as successful as whites," according to the book’s author.
The text was used by a professor at the University of South Carolina, prompting outrage among young campus conservatives. ....
“I was absolutely shocked and was tempted to throw the book away,” Anna Chapman, a 19-year-old sophomore political science major, told FoxNews.com. “I would even write comments in the actual textbook next to some of the offensive things that I read. I didn’t know that this is what I had signed up for.”
The book also goes on to draw broad conclusions about political conservatives, suggesting that right-leaning Americans “take a pessimistic view of human nature” who generally see humans as “being corrupt, self-centered, lazy, and incapable of true charity.” ....
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