Shock (not): Advance-placement American History textbook vilifies Trump and supporters

If you're a hard-working, conscientious parent you're probably skeptical about the political bias of the public school system.  Of course the system's spokespersons vehemently deny any bias, and since most systems forbid students from recording teachers in the classroom there's no way to prove it.

Oh wait, there is:  Take a look at the content of the textbooks adopted by your kids' schools.  You may be surprised.

Many high-school advanced-placement courses use an American History textbook published by Pearson Education, titled, “By the People: A History of the United States.”

This textbook depicts President Trump as mentally ill and his supporters as racists.



The final section of the book, titled “The Angry Election of 2016,” includes these claims:

“Most thought that Trump was too extreme a candidate to win the nomination, but his extremism, his anti-establishment rhetoric, and...his not very hidden racism connected with a significant number of primary voters.” 

I'd like an example of his racism, during the primary season or afterward.  The author is inventing the claim from the president's push to try to establish some faint control of our southern border.

“Clinton’s supporters feared that the election had been determined by people who were afraid of a rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the country, discomfort with their candidate’s gender and nostalgia for an earlier time in the nation’s history.” 

Ah, I see:  The authors totally avoid mentioning the widely-held belief that Hilliary was totally corrupt, had lied about her negligence in the murders of four Americans in Benghazi, had lied about whether she'd directed her minions at State to send beyond-Top-Seccret material to her private, unsecured email server; lied about who approved the sale of at least ten percent of U.S. uranium leases to a company ultimately acquired by Russia; and on and on. 

“[Hilliary supporters] also worried about the mental stability of the president-elect and the anger that he and his supporters brought to the nation.”

Too cute: the authors cloak their charge that Trump is mentally unstable by saying this view was merely a "worry" by Hilliary supporters.  It's a well-known propaganda technique.

But hey, citizen...there is not a scintilla of bias by textbook publishers or your tax-funded public school system.

Not.  A.  Scintilla.