# Stupid liberal idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 20, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086 "2011-04-20T15:35:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 86
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1701 "2014-04-22T15:39:02Z")
I think there’s two likely possibilities regarding the alleged Afrocentric curriculum for Chicago. 1. The story if simply fake, either because the site got pranked (as suggested by **Revtim** ) or the reporter simply made shit up (not something that would shock me coming from the _Daily Caller_). 2. There has been a suggestion or a decision to include an Afrocentric component as a small unit within the broader curriculum, and this has been misinterpreted (either accidentally or willfully) as a policy to make the whole curriculum Afrocentric. A few years ago, a bill in California added a requirement that the school curriculum pay attention to the historical and contemporary role of LGBT folks. Some folks got all up in arms about the law, worried that their kids would be subjected to a “gay history course,” and suggesting that the curriculum would now be dominated by gay issues. But there was no such course, and the law did not mandate undue attention to LGBT issues. It simply added LGBT people to a long, already-existing list of groups that were supposed to be covered in the curriculum. That list included men and women, Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other ethnic and cultural groups. The doomsayers completely misrepresented what the curriculum change required, and if Chicago really is considering adding an Afrocentric component to its curriculum, i’ll bet that what’s happened here. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1702 "2014-04-22T15:46:28Z")
A couple of other comments about the column. It’s headlined “See what they’ll be teaching in the Chicago public schools.” They claim to have a copy of the curriculum. But do they let us see it? No, there is no link to it. There is only a link to the crazy site, so that’s what we’re given to believe that the children will be learning. They fact that they don’t link to the source document suggests to me that a reasonable person looking at it would draw entirely different conclusions about it than the article does. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1703 "2014-04-22T16:00:13Z")
Poor Tucker Carlson! He’s trying so hard to be a major tighty righty shit slinger. Glenn Beck and Hannity are rolling in the Benjamins with hookers and blow, while he would be lucky to get a hand job from Ann Coulter. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1704 "2014-04-22T16:23:42Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Poor Tucker Carlson! He’s trying so hard to be a major tighty righty shit slinger. Glenn Beck and Hannity are rolling in the Benjamins with hookers and blow, while he would be lucky to get a hand job from Ann Coulter. Fucker Carlson is Ben Shapiro + 20 years or so. A pathetic, repressed, adolescent man-child who desperately clings to his counterfactual worldview because it’s better than going to bed every night wondering why there wasn’t more… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1705 "2014-04-22T16:46:55Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > …while he would be lucky to get a hand job from Ann Coulter. Even I wouldn’t consider that “lucky”. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1706 "2014-04-22T16:50:48Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Even I wouldn’t consider that “lucky”. I’m picking up some brainbleach over my lunch hour. Can I get you some? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1707 "2014-04-22T16:51:07Z")
I cannot confirm this from direct personal experience, but I am advised there is no actual limit to male desperation. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1708 "2014-04-22T17:36:17Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > I cannot confirm this from direct personal experience, but I am advised there is no actual limit to male desperation. From direct personal experience, I can confirm that there is. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1709 "2014-04-22T17:36:48Z")
I’m guessing intentional fraud by Chuck Ross, the Daily Caller PR man. Is starts with “It includes a web link to [TheAfrican.com](http://TheAfrican.com),” which means absolutely nothing other than a web link was included somewhere in the materials. The rest of the mentions and the really scary stuff are carefully crafted to point to what the website stands for, not what’s in the curriculum. Not that the link should be there anyway (though attacking a draft version as final is a bit repugnant), and not that there aren’t issues that seem to be overbroad or need to be worked out. But that does not excuse the malignant effort put in to muddle up the story. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1710 "2014-04-22T17:39:04Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > But that does not excuse the malignant effort put in to muddle up the story. At the Failly Caller, that’s a feature, not a bug. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1711 "2014-04-22T17:40:57Z")
Went to the website mentioned. I will confine my comments to No _Fucking_ Way. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1712 "2014-04-23T22:42:51Z")
It’s entirely possible that the link to The African is part of the curriculum in a section “this is the sort of stuff that African Exceptionalists believe.” Nobody knows, for sure, but that is as good an explanation as any. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1713 "2014-04-23T23:02:13Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Even if it were true, how is that crazier than promoting Creationism as part of a public school curriculum? Egyptians _did_ exist, we know, because they left a bunch of proof lying around for us to find. Greeks too, they left us several important variations in sexual behavior. [The Greeks have words for almost everything, I know, But you little so-and-so!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-dMUtdr9yM) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1714 "2014-04-24T00:03:06Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > while he would be lucky to get a hand job from Ann Coulter. The razor claws ! They burns ussss ! … … … More, please, mistress of the Dark ! ---
**Author:** ![medic1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@medic1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medic1)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1715 "2014-04-24T00:39:46Z")
In my town, there is a private company that administers the Medical assistance for 13 or so counties in west central Minnesota. I was talking to one of the claims people a few weeks ago and asked her what was going to happen to the benefits to her people when ObamaCare kicks in. She stated that they were afraid that their people would see quite substantial cuts in benefits. When asked how the benefits would compare then to Medicare she said that she desperately hoped her client’s benefits would never get THAT bad. Being a recipient of these Medicare benefits for the last 10 years, this really pi$$ed me off and I proceeded to explain just why I was so upset, namely how I worked my ass off and paid in 50 plus years towards Medicare while Medical Assistance recipients paid in NOTHING. She just failed to see why I should be so upset. Now, am I all wrong on this? Should I just drop off from society, hide my income and assets and draw from the magic unending medical pool?:smack: ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1716 "2014-04-24T02:35:31Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Even I wouldn’t consider that “lucky”. Sure it’s a little cold and bony, but when she wanks you it sounds like those wind-up chattering teeth. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1717 "2014-04-24T02:53:41Z")
> [@medic1](#): > > Should I just drop off from society, hide my income and assets and draw from the magic unending medical pool? Seems like a lot of trouble to go through, just because somebody pays less than you do. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1718 "2014-04-24T13:49:06Z")
> [@medic1](#): > > Should I just drop off from society, hide my income and assets and draw from the magic unending medical pool?:smack: You might consider retelling your story coherently, and _then_ dropping out. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1719 "2014-04-24T14:15:36Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Gotta call 'em as I see 'em. US senator Richard Blumenthal (D - Conn.) holds press conference on commuter train safety. [Look where he’s standing and watch what happens](http://theweek.com/article/index/260202/speedreads-watch-connecticut-senator-richard-blumenthal-narrowly-avoid-a-train-during-a-railway-safety-press-conference). Not related to this story, but it turns out this idiot is among the many politicians who lied about his military service and [claimed to have served in Vietnam](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2010/0520/Richard-Blumenthal-Vietnam-misstatements-How-damaging) when he never did. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086/1720 "2014-05-05T21:12:17Z")
If you’re a Democrat, what’s a wonderful strategy to get yourself elected governor of Wisconsin? Obviously, it’s to go over to the GOP convention and hand out KKK hoods. That’s sure to get him votes by the bucketful. > **[Dem Candidate For Guv To Hand Out KKK Hoods At Wisconsin GOP Convention](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/brett-hulsey-kkk-hoods-wisconsin-republican-convention?utm_content=buffer0b5af&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer)** > > Wisconsin state Rep. Brett Hulsey, a Democratic candidate for governor, plans to blitz the state's Republican convention this weekend with Ku Klux Klan hoods he refers to as "Republican Party hats… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086.md?page=85) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086.md?page=87)