Rewriting U.S.A History?

But we saved your bacon in 1917, 1940's, and then again with the Marshall Plan. Speaking of gratitude. Next time, we'll pull the plug and let the island sink.

Who said I was ungrateful ? its you that has made that remark not I.

I just think we'll pull the plug anyway! Not enough of you voted Tory,

I just think we'll pull the plug anyway! Not enough of you voted Tory,

So no, I wouldn't call it "re-writing history" - history's already written. They're just wanting to change what is being taught to jive with their values. And no, I don't like it at all; but its been done before and it'll be done again depending on who's holding the pen.

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"Jive" is just great! But I think you want, "jibe".

No, "jive" is the word I wanted. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have the meaning I thought it did, and tend to use it for. I suppose "coincide" is probably more proper.

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No, "jive" is the word I wanted. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have the meaning I thought it did, and tend to use it for. I suppose "coincide" is probably more proper.

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I thought it a very apt and descriptive word, Khethil...

I still think you wanted "jibe". Look it up.

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Any particular reason for that?

I still think you wanted "jibe". Look it up.

To dance wildly with their values,jive... not to taunt,gibe .....and really just to make exception to your pedantic nature.

What would that meaning of "jive" have to do with it? Anything?

This Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns | World news | The Guardian is an interesting article from the UK's national newspaper, The Guardian.

The article raises the concern of some in America who believe that there is "a clutch of Christian evangelists and social conservatives who have grasped control of the [Texan] state's education board" with the intention of "indoctrinating children by promoting rightwing views on religion, economics and guns while diminishing the science of evolution, the civil rights movement and the horrors of slavery."

Clearly, to assume that there is only the possibility of a given narrative is as erroneous as to assume that a given map is the only one possible. Histories are not innocent stories but always ideologial constructs.

So, in that light, I was wondering if anyone had their own ideas or opinions about what is happening in the States?

Is this a growing sign of sections of American culture recovering from or reacting against the effect of the Enlightenment's project? Or, again, do you understand this "rewriting of history" as something of a positive change or, as some writers are suggesting, a degeneration of U.S education which is becoming the laughing stock of the more 'enlightened' world etc, etc?

What do you think is going on here? :detective:

The wild bit..Its not the point, someone bothers to reply and you don't comment on the content but make inconsequential remarks about a particular word. You could have read through it or made your own assumptions. We are not as perfect as you remember.

I wonder what any of this means. Coherent English spoken on this Forum.

What dont you understand ?

All of it. And what your point (if any) is.

No, "jive" is the word I wanted. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have the meaning I thought it did, and tend to use it for. I suppose "coincide" is probably more proper.