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TexasTowelie

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5. While I don't condone spreading propaganda,

Reply to niyad (Reply #4)

Mon Sep 26, 2022, 03:28 PM

Sep 2022

there isn't a history test for obtaining a drivers license or state issued ID.

As ignorant as most citizens are about Texas history and as long as the pamphlet remains politically neutral, I can support learning history even if it is sanitized. The pamphlet is supposed to be promotional rather than provide critical analysis---if anything too controversial is included in the pamphlet then I expect media will provide that analysis. However, I fully expect that 99% of those pamphlets will end up in the garbage within a week.

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1836 Project promotes sanitized version of Texas history, experts say [View all] TexasTowelie Sep 2022 OP

I doubt their history will tell how Jim Bowie sat in Fredonia (Nacadoches) vlyons Sep 2022 #1

I endured 6-7th grade at a small school in Central Texas. yonder Sep 2022 #6

The larger cities in Texas, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, etc are becoming more cosmopolitan vlyons Sep 2022 #7

I recommend you read Forget the Alamo instead. broiles Sep 2022 #2

I could smell Dan Patrick on this before I read it. (nt) Paladin Sep 2022 #3

I have never been in a state where its history was part of acquiring one's license. niyad Sep 2022 #4

While I don't condone spreading propaganda, TexasTowelie Sep 2022 #5

Given that, as it states in the OP, this is a conservative ba klash to thev1619 niyad Sep 2022 #8

If a state agency tried that with me when I had to renew Genki Hikari Sep 2022 #9

I told you so. This was Abbott's response to Trump's squashed 1776 Project. Shell_Seas Sep 2022 #10