Fox News hosts lament algebra and history text books

[Geilinor]

The distributive property of algebra is liberal? Why would anyone say,

“Distribute the wealth!” Bolling exclaimed, reading the worksheet. “Distribute the wealth with the lovely rich girl with a big ole bag of money, handing some money out.”

[Euronion]

I disagree that math books are liberally biased but I definitely agree that History Textbooks are liberally biased. A red flag to me when reading a text book is when the authors use emotional words ex. "This was a horrible abuse," , "This was an amazing achievement for the country." A textbook should present the facts and analysis of those facts but by no means anything else what-so-ever.

Incredibly enough, the notion that slavery and genocide are bad things comes from an analysis of the facts.

No it does not. It is a matter of opinion. I think slavery and genocide are wrong as well but I believe that we need to have our textbooks completely unbiased in every respect. Textbooks should teach the facts and nothing more. If you want to show something is horrible you don't say "This was horrible" you give facts to back up your statement. The Textbook should instead say "Estimates for the amount of people Hitler killed are around 18 million people. The living conditions in Concentration camps often led to many deaths. Prisoners were given no blankets, only wooden bunks to sleep on, they were required to work as long as possible without exception, and were often not fed or fed very little.

[Socialist States Owen]

Well they can fuck right off. Revisionism for the sake of promoting a rightist, nationalist agenda is not cool - not when educating the young to say the least.

[Geilinor]

they were very, very liberally biased, saying George Bush went in there because he heard there were weapons of mass destruction and they were never found. It was a very liberal bias to the history books.

Really? That's bias? No, that's the fucking truth. Bush did not find WMDs.

[Individuality-ness]

they were very, very liberally biased, saying George Bush went in there because he heard there were weapons of mass destruction and they were never found. It was a very liberal bias to the history books.

Really? That's bias? No, that's the fucking truth. Bush did not find WMDs.

Reality has a liberal bias.

[The Emerald Dawn]

Really? That's bias? No, that's the fucking truth. Bush did not find WMDs.

Reality has a liberal bias.

Fuckin' facts. Sitting there like they know everything because of verifiability. They're not cool.

[TomKirk]

Really? That's bias? No, that's the fucking truth. Bush did not find WMDs.

Reality has a liberal bias.

It's more like: liberals have a reality bias.

[Bojikami]

The Conservatives will stop at nothing.






NOTHING.

[Individuality-ness]

Reality has a liberal bias.

It's more like: liberals have a reality bias.

Touche.

[CVT Temp]

But math does have a liberal bias. You see, according to math, finances and free market capitalism are racist and evil.

Proof:

1. Racial integration was a good thing.

2. According to the fundamental theorem of calculus, integration is the opposite of differentiation.

3. Therefore, since integration was good, derivatives must be bad, and so must everything associated with them.

4. Ergo, derivatives trading is bad and racist and so is capitalism (because it's associated with derivatives, so the associative property holds), and therefore Islam and black lesbian abortionism are good.

5. Praise Stalin.

QED

Do you really want the liberal filth known as "calculus" taught to your children?

[CVT Temp]

And I always thought "commutativity" and "community organizer" sounded to similar. You know what they sound like to me? Communism.

[Ceannairceach]

Incredibly enough, the notion that slavery and genocide are bad things comes from an analysis of the facts.

No it does not. It is a matter of opinion. I think slavery and genocide are wrong as well but I believe that we need to have our textbooks completely unbiased in every respect. Textbooks should teach the facts and nothing more. If you want to show something is horrible you don't say "This was horrible" you give facts to back up your statement. The Textbook should instead say "Estimates for the amount of people Hitler killed are around 18 million people. The living conditions in Concentration camps often led to many deaths. Prisoners were given no blankets, only wooden bunks to sleep on, they were required to work as long as possible without exception, and were often not fed or fed very little.

You sound like you're getting mad at sixth grade texts. Most high school textbooks I used are straight up and, barring the occasional bad pun, silly joke or unnecessary exclamation point, were very clear and unbiased in regards to the presentation of facts.

Perhaps its that AP standard, but really, it can't be that different.

[Ordenburg]

But math does have a liberal bias. You see, according to math, finances and free market capitalism are racist and evil.

Proof:

1. Racial integration was a good thing.

2. According to the fundamental theorem of calculus, integration is the opposite of differentiation.

3. Therefore, since integration was good, derivatives must be bad, and so must everything associated with them.

4. Ergo, derivatives trading is bad and racist and so is capitalism (because it's associated with derivatives, so the associative property holds), and therefore Islam and black lesbian abortionism are good.

5. Praise Stalin.

QED

Do you really want the liberal filth known as "calculus" taught to your children?

So that is what goes for proof these days. But on a serious note, math is numbers, equations, processes and their application, there could be the occasional word problem that may appear to have a leftist leaning but there are just as many on what could be argued to be related to capitalist economics, their just examples to help some better understand the concept and its potential applications. There fore it is ridiculous to argue that math is liberally biased, and any one who does so most likely has the IQ of room temperature (in degrees F of course otherwise this wouldn't make much sense now would it though it may seem that they have the IQ of a plant).

[Death Metal]

And I always thought "commutativity" and "community organizer" sounded to similar. You know what they sound like to me? Communism.

Want your mind blown?

What is the color of Republicans?

What is the color of Communists?

[Bojikami]

And I always thought "commutativity" and "community organizer" sounded to similar. You know what they sound like to me? Communism.

Want your mind blown?

What is the color of Republicans?

What is the color of Communists?

Dun Dun DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN

[Ordenburg]

Want your mind blown?

What is the color of Republicans?

What is the color of Communists?

Dun Dun DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN

It's all a conspiracy, quick we must inform the sensationalist media.

[Euronion]

No it does not. It is a matter of opinion. I think slavery and genocide are wrong as well but I believe that we need to have our textbooks completely unbiased in every respect. Textbooks should teach the facts and nothing more. If you want to show something is horrible you don't say "This was horrible" you give facts to back up your statement. The Textbook should instead say "Estimates for the amount of people Hitler killed are around 18 million people. The living conditions in Concentration camps often led to many deaths. Prisoners were given no blankets, only wooden bunks to sleep on, they were required to work as long as possible without exception, and were often not fed or fed very little.

You sound like you're getting mad at sixth grade texts. Most high school textbooks I used are straight up and, barring the occasional bad pun, silly joke or unnecessary exclamation point, were very clear and unbiased in regards to the presentation of facts.

Perhaps its that AP standard, but really, it can't be that different.

The AP Standard is horribly biased. The text book I have is "American People" and it is really biased. I mean there's an entire chapter I believe devoted to American Indians and the horrors they went through and they act as if all the American Indians did were live peacefully with Quakers. They glorify the violent American Indian attacks on early British Settlements, they neglect to mention that many people died because American Indians refused to trade excess food with the colonists. During the Revolutionary war they fail to mention the atrocities committed against Americans by American Indians such as scalping women but then turns around and basically says that American dislike of American Indians and trying to remove them from their land after forming a Confederation to try and fight US expansion was unjustified and that all American Indians are innocent people. I mean seriously, present the facts completely and refrain from using emotion. Though the normal History textbooks such as "Modern World History" by Nat. Geo. are pretty unbiased and so I liked them a lot more. The way my friend described it is that the people qualified to write AP Textbooks are mostly liberally biased because they all have degrees in Liberal Arts which are all taught by super liberal teachers.

[Vareiln]

I'm not surprised in the slightest.
Oh well, more to hear my grandparents worry about.

[Ceannairceach]

You sound like you're getting mad at sixth grade texts. Most high school textbooks I used are straight up and, barring the occasional bad pun, silly joke or unnecessary exclamation point, were very clear and unbiased in regards to the presentation of facts.

Perhaps its that AP standard, but really, it can't be that different.

The AP Standard is horribly biased. The text book I have is "American People" and it is really biased. I mean there's an entire chapter I believe devoted to American Indians and the horrors they went through and they act as if all the American Indians did were live peacefully with Quakers. They glorify the violent American Indian attacks on early British Settlements, they neglect to mention that many people died because American Indians refused to trade excess food with the colonists. During the Revolutionary war they fail to mention the atrocities committed against Americans by American Indians such as scalping women but then turns around and basically says that American dislike of American Indians and trying to remove them from their land after forming a Confederation to try and fight US expansion was unjustified and that all American Indians are innocent people. I mean seriously, present the facts completely and refrain from using emotion. Though the normal History textbooks such as "Modern World History" by Nat. Geo. are pretty unbiased and so I liked them a lot more. The way my friend described it is that the people qualified to write AP Textbooks are mostly liberally biased because they all have degrees in Liberal Arts which are all taught by super liberal teachers.

Is "American People" for AP United States History? For that I used "The Enduring Vision", which was pretty good.

People who write AP textbooks usually have degrees in the relevant field of study. Liberal Arts is pretty general; I wouldn't believe that they are writing textbooks. Also, I think you are making that judgement based solely on the name of the major.

EDIT 1: Typo.
EDIT 2: My textbook from APUSH. Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, U Cal, and Columbia.

[Liriena]

Oh, Fox News...how fun you are. It's like the Onion, but even funnier 'cause you guys actually believe your bullcrap!

Algebra and history text books are not "liberally biased", they are realistic. Which is something Fox News should try to get through it's thick anti-intellectual skull: text books should be realistic. They should tell the facts as they were, not the idealized and sugarcoated version of the facts that we sing in folk songs and watched in old movies and performed in mediocre school plays over the decades.

[Quebec and Atlantic Canada]

And I always thought "commutativity" and "community organizer" sounded to similar. You know what they sound like to me? Communism.

Want your mind blown?

What is the color of Republicans?

What is the color of Communists?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[Liriena]

And I always thought "commutativity" and "community organizer" sounded to similar. You know what they sound like to me? Communism.

Want your mind blown?

What is the color of Republicans?

What is the color of Communists?

OMG! Glenn Beck was right! There's nazi-liberal-muslim-atheist-communists in America!

And it's the GOP!

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I'm not sure if this is funny or depressing.

[Liriena]

I'm not sure if this is funny or depressing.

Taking into account that Fox News lost the elections (thus implying that the beliefs of its staff are now a minority in the US), it's funny.

[Euronion]

The AP Standard is horribly biased. The text book I have is "American People" and it is really biased. I mean there's an entire chapter I believe devoted to American Indians and the horrors they went through and they act as if all the American Indians did were live peacefully with Quakers. They glorify the violent American Indian attacks on early British Settlements, they neglect to mention that many people died because American Indians refused to trade excess food with the colonists. During the Revolutionary war they fail to mention the atrocities committed against Americans by American Indians such as scalping women but then turns around and basically says that American dislike of American Indians and trying to remove them from their land after forming a Confederation to try and fight US expansion was unjustified and that all American Indians are innocent people. I mean seriously, present the facts completely and refrain from using emotion. Though the normal History textbooks such as "Modern World History" by Nat. Geo. are pretty unbiased and so I liked them a lot more. The way my friend described it is that the people qualified to write AP Textbooks are mostly liberally biased because they all have degrees in Liberal Arts which are all taught by super liberal teachers.

Is "American People" for AP United States History? For that I used "The Enduring Vision", which was pretty good.

People who write AP textbooks usually have degrees in the relevant field of study. Liberal Arts is pretty general; I wouldn't believe that they are writing textbooks. Also, I think you are making that judgement based solely on the name of the major.

EDIT 1: Typo.
EDIT 2: My textbook from APUSH. Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, U Cal, and Columbia.

Yeah it's for AP US History. Yeah we have different textbooks. Our school recently acquired these textbooks so they're brand new. They're 5th edition I think. Though my APUSH teacher is someone for some historical integrity so we also read the hugely biased "Before the Mayflower," the pretty nice "Readings in American History," and the intriguing "American Political Tradition." Though without these supplementary texts and the knowledge I have beforehand about US History one would think that Native Americans were all innocent and that we evicted them 'just cause'. I'm in High School though so maybe the actual College Textbook is different. I must admit the Name of the College Major speaks to me as biased but this has been enforced by my history teacher from last year telling me that he had to read the Communist Manifesto in one of his College history courses and had several hardcore Marxist professors. I suppose you could say I do not like the way the Major is taught, I like reading, writing, history, and especially art so it comes from no disdain from the major itself.

EDIT: Here's the Textbook we use,"Before the Mayflower," "American Political Tradition," and "Readings in American History,"