re: #416 Obdicut

Though these people wouldn’t the assholes who really started this shit:

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

Anyone who wants to know the particular history of this textbook propaganda should read about them.

Thanks for the Mel and Norma Gabler link, I found the article fascinating and also this one linked from it on the 1974 Kanawha County textbook controversy:
en.wikipedia.org

The boycott escalated quickly. 9,000 out of 45,000 elementary school students in the county were kept home from school. Thousands of miners, bus drivers, and trucking workers joined in the boycott. The Department of Education called for a compromise, but Reverend Horan denounced them, demanding that the boycott continue until the books were permanently removed and the supporting members of the school board fired. Bombs were planted at an elementary school and a school board building; another elementary school was dynamited, school buses were attacked with shotguns, and the homes of children who continued to attend school during the boycott were stoned. Alice Moore herself fled town during this point.

Reverend Charles Qugiley asked Christians to pray that God would kill the three board members who voted to keep the books, leading one student to point out, “They’re shooting people because they don’t want to see violence in books.” Kanawha’s sheriff asked for state troopers to be sent in, but West Virginia Governor Arch A. Moore, Jr. denied the request. Schools were closed several times to avoid further violence.

Wow.