Revisionism at work
FrontpageMagazine has an article today about the appalling bias evident in middle-school literature textbooks. Reporter Edgar Anderson gives anecdotal evidence to support his claim that "Anti-American and multicultural propagandists are constantly at work attacking the minds of even our youngest children", but his examples are doozies. No Americans worth mentioning died at Pearl Harbor, Cesar Chavez should be considered more important than Abraham Lincoln, and we should all be concerned with the innermost thoughts and feelings of grafitti artists - at least according to textbooks published by the Houghton Mifflin Company and Simon & Schuster. As I said, it's anecdotal evidence, but compelling enough that I wish someone would do a more scholarly review of textbooks within states to see if this bias is pervasive.