re: My Child's AP Government Textbook Cover

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Tigahs24Seven

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nice racist melt

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That cover is a joke. MLK was neither a government institution or a policy maker.

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Our nation's founding document and the supreme law of the land began with "We the people" not "we the government or we the policy makers" for a reason.

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It would be more appropriate to have a picture of the Capital next to a image of the Constitution or Bill of Rights.

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They already had these images on various editions. There is a reason that magazines, video games (e.g., Madden), etc. don't put the same people on the cover for every issue. The product inside the cover relates to and is represented by so many more things that there is no need to be redundant. In addition, they are trying to sell a product afterall to as many people as possible so changes may entice more people, and they want to make each edition distinct.

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that cover and the implication is that his arms are crossed, because he doesn't accept the nation's institutions like the Washington monument.

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Well first of all his arms are crossed in the picture because his arms are crossed in the monument the picture is capturing. And his arms are crossed in the monument because:

Report about monument

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But the most striking feature here is the towering sculpture of Dr. King himself on the Stone of Hope. He stands, looking over the tidal basin toward the Jefferson Memorial. And the cherry trees that will adorn the site will be in bloom every year on the anniversary of his death.

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You sound like some leftist pseudo-intellectual trying to come up with some deep themes in some crappy piece of art.

Cover should be George Washington or something

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Cover should be George Washington or something

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Or it could at least include the Washington Monument. I wonder what the other monument on the cover is.

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It really bothered me when I saw this on the counter this morning.

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HOLY shite you're a pussy.

Jesus fricking Christ.

You know the funny part of your shitpost? That's probably the most conservative, dry and boring textbooks out of the 8-10 main textbooks that are used for AP Gov.

Idiot.

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Like I said it is one of the most if not the most conservative textbooks for AP government.

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You can't honestly expect a person outraged by liberal indoctrination to actually take the time to see if the actual substance necessary for that indoctrination exists.

Afterall, "Don't judge a book by its cover" clearly must be a phrase to push the liberal agenda. So not judging a book by its cover would be furthering the liberal agenda. The OP is just doing his part in the fight against a liberal agenda. It's just unfortunate that be had to be exposed to such despicable subliminal imagery of the liberal agenda.

He effected American policy. Race since the civil war has affected American history in large ways so I don't see the problem. Are we talking about album covers or something?

I'm sure I didn't get the a's vs the e's right

So just to be clear, you think the fight for civil rights is some wild agenda that you don't want influencing your son?

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but glad to hear that the liberals are shitting themselves over the text..

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So the liberals actually read the text and are outraged but the substance, but you're outraged by a book cover instead, plus didn't even read the book and evaluate the substance.

As bad as the liberals outrage may look in that, you've somehow managed to look WAY worse.

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This is one time that I am happy to have interpreted something wrong.

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And did you learn anything from it? Like maybe interpreting a textbook based on a cover is not a good approach? And maybe the cover itself didn't even warrant the interpretation, like people have been arguing since the first responses?

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Thanks....I will gladly shut up now.

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monceaux pointed out that the author was a Republican who worked in the George W Bush administration and that it was often considered "too conservative" in the 2nd post on page 4 nearly 8 hours ago. I cited a specific example of the criticisms a few posts later, 20 minutes after monceaux.

And on top of that numerous posters, across the political spectrum, addressed the absurdity of your argument in many different ways.

Yet, you continued with the absurdity, and arguably increased it, despite all of the arguments against. And the information that finally got you to change your view, was posted nearly 8 hours before by multiple posters, yet you continued with the absurdity.