Certainly in a free society, one is allowed to embrace whatever private biases one wishes and to share them with anyone who will listen.  But the matter of the history textbooks is an imposition of someone's biases, through the medium of public education, on society at large.   This is wrong.  The state has an obligation to provide as full an account of the past as is appropriate to the age group of the students.

David Kiracofe

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We all want the same things in life: Trouble comes; we all want them on our
terms. I often exercise my bias by just ignoring this or that. Might that be
the case at the Temple University? And then again, I often exercise that
same bias by developing outrageous attacks on human events to suit my own
perception of how things should be.

For example: I proclaim synchronized swimming as a non-Olympic sport. What
idiot let it into the arena? It’s splendid entertainment. But it’s not a
Olympic sport. Why? Because you can’t judge a “wet smile” objectively.

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