She has been a First Lady, a senator, a Secretary of State, and a presidential Candidate, but last week the Texas State Board of Education decided that Hillary Clinton will be removed from the state’s social studies courses.
She will be replaced with the “heroism” of the defenders of the Alamo, Billy Graham, and Moses’s influence on America’s founding documents while kicking out Thomas Hobbes the philosopher who espoused the right of the individual, the natural equality of all men, all legitimate political power must be “representative” and based on the consent of the people, and that people are free to do whatever the law does not explicitly forbid.
Moses gave us guilt.
It is all part of an effort to “streamline” the social studies curriculum in public schools.
The Board reinserted references to Judeo-Christian biblical law when dealing with “major intellectual, philosophical, political, and religious traditions that informed the American founding.”
In that part of the U.S. History curriculum that deals with the social issues affecting women, minorities, children, immigrants, and urbanization, describing the optimism of the many immigrants who sought a better life in America is not to be included.
Hellen Keller is out because, even though she was an individual who overcame disabilities and became prominent and influential, it was decided that she did not sufficiently trigger a watershed change, was not a person from an underrepresented group, and her contributions would not stand the test of time.
Oh, and Barry Goldwater got cut too. He was a Republican and the first Jew to be a major candidate for president.
But the dropping of Hillary may have an unintended consequence. It is going to be hard to portray Bill Clinton as an adulterer if you can’t mention his wife.