The Week in Woke

The Texas State Board of Education voted to remove knowledge of the battle of Lexington and Concord from the corpus of knowledge that students need to know to be proficient in history.

They had to make room in the curriculum.

You see, they had to make Oprah Winfrey a required part of a historical education.

On Wednesday, the Texas State Board of Education voted to remove the American Revolution from 11th-grade U.S. History. The Battles of Lexington and Concord, the opening shots of the war that created this country, gone. In their place? Oprah Winfrey.

Let that sink in.

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The result: the American Revolution, one of the most consequential events in human history and the founding act of this nation, was stripped from 11th-grade U.S. History. Three Republican members crossed the aisle to join five Democrats in passing this and dozens of other ill-conceived amendments.

The progressive vision of social studies curriculum treats the TEKS as a storytelling anthology, a collection of interesting characters and compelling narratives that whoever sits at the table that day can swap in and out. Every story has value, the thinking goes, so every story deserves a slot. But that is precisely the wrong framework for a standards document.

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Oprah Winfrey is a remarkable American success story. Her place in the cultural and business landscape is undeniable.

I'll deny it. Rush Limbaugh was a more important broadcaster and businessmen and no one's including him in a high school history textbook. (And I wouldn't ask for him to be included.)

But Oprah's a Stronk Black Woman, so.

We're now choosing what counts as history by DEI "standards."

Angela Davis, the black radical murderess protected by the Democrat Establishment, learns that she is descended from one of the 101 original colonists of The Mayflower.

Court fillings confirm the persistent actions of leftist criminals to destroy a national monument.

Details of the alleged vandalism to the recently refurbished Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. were revealed in a court filing.

According to Deputy Director for the National Park Service Frank Lands, the incident took place shortly after the resurfaced pool was filled again with water on June 9, ABC News reported.

"The U.S. Park Police responded to an NPS report of damage to the reflecting pool, including a caulk over the foam sealant that was cut with a sharp knife or razor and destruction of delaminating surface material. In addition, approximately 70 fence post tops were thrown into the pool," Lands said in a declaration.

An Interior Department spokesperson said the vandalism is believed to be an isolated incident, and details weren't disclosed in order to prevent "deranged individuals" from copycatting the crime. Several days after the incident, the spokesperson said, there were recurring cases and videos of people ripping at the coating.

"We then knew this was not an isolated incident, but a new trend to attempt to damage the Reflecting Pool," the spokesperson told ABC.

As of Thursday afternoon, there have been seven arrests, seven federal citations and 18 police reports filed related to intentional damage to the pool, according to the Interior Department.

The Washington Post blames Trump for standing water being a broth for algae.

Because Trump is causing global warming and global warming causes algae. Q.E.D.

The left is psychologically compelled to destroy civilization in all cases, but in this specific case, they have a reason to destroy attempts to beautify a city: The left has reigned over a 100 year decline of cities into dangerous and dirty shitholes, and their excuse is, as always, "there's nothing that can be done about it, don't blame us, it's just how things go."

It is therefore imperative that they block any attempts to bring order and beauty to cities. Once their excuse is shown to be a lie, a few liberals might actually ask why they're being forced to live in a shithole due to Democrat policy choice.

Update: A scoop from Deb Heine. The pair of mutants currently protesting the pool -- yes, they're protesting a pool -- were previously seen protesting outside of Brett Kavanaugh's home.

As part of the deliberately-intimidating "protests" designed to warn Brett Kavanaugh that his safety wasn't guaranteed if he didn't vote to uphold Roe v. Wade.

Two of the "Team Algae" demonstrators photographed in front of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool wearing pro-algae tee shirts earlier this month, were also involved in loud and disruptive pro-abortion demonstrations outside of Justice Brett Kavanaugh home in 2022.

Pro-abort agitators terrorized the entire neighborhood for weeks after the Supreme Court's draft majority opinion overturning of Roe v. Wade was leaked to the media.

A neighbor told Fox News in June 2022 that the agitators would show up at approximately 7:00 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

"It's a horrific experience," the neighbor told Fox. "It's not great if you have kids of any age, but it's unbelievably stressful, and the kids are very upset. The kids have to be sent inside, and it's so loud you can't put your kids to sleep."

"They have drummers. They have a megaphone, and they chant. They yell all kinds of things ... They have told neighbors 'F-ck you, f-ck your children,' things like that--and, so they're abusive toward the neighbors and intimidating," the source told the outlet. "They were very, very loud, very, very aggressive. They dance in the streets as well," the person added.

In May 2022, The Atlantic published a sympathetic article supporting the agitators, titled: What's the Point of Going to Brett Kavanaugh's House? "Demonstrators have largely given up on changing the Supreme Court justices' minds. But they're still showing up," the subheader read.

"It's imperative that they know that we exist," said Karen Irwin, described as "a reproductive-rights activist who splits her time between D.C. and New York."

Gays and trannies (self-identified) demand that Minneapolis make gay sex bathhouses legal again, because they're places of "deep connection" and the straight community has gained so much from gay sexuality.

The ordinance passed, of course.

Remember George Galloway? He was the left-wing Labour MP who was too pro-Saddam Hussein even for Labour. So he quit (or was forced out) and formed the "Respect" party, whose raison d'etre was the idea that Muslims just weren't getting enough Respect in British politics. He then is a key innovator in the Islamic-Communist political alliance.

And guess who's a Big Fan now?!

Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) @TheMilkBarTV

THIS is who Tucker Carlson believes should be Prime Minister of the UK and openly admires...

"I just love George Galloway."

A self-described socialist who pushed for full-blown, China-style lockdowns in the UK during COVID; praised some of the world's worst regimes, including Chávez, Castro and Saddam Hussein; worked for Russian and Iranian state media; aligned himself with Iran's theocratic regime; and backed Hamas and Hezbollah.

Tucker Carlson told Galloway on Tucker's show: "I didn't even know much we agreed on."

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:30 PM

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