re: #853 theheat

Whoa. As I disclosed earlier, I’m only a fine arts major, so I can’t say what are in books about chemistry that shouldn’t be. But I think chemistry figures strongly in measuring/verifying/calculating things like pollution (yeah, it exists) and climate change (yeah, it exists). And as far as having minorities on every other page, that’s a fact of life. At some point whites will no longer be the statistical majority in the United States. And if you peek into your child’s classroom, you’ll see all colors there right now. Why, is that a problem?

Not for me as I don’t look at people or the world that way. But that is precisely the way in which the educational system tries its hand at social engineering. Personally, I could care less who and how many people are depicted in a high school chemistry book. But what I can tell you firsthand is that textbook committees sit down and count the number of minorities depicted and in what capacities. Learning and information is secondary.