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Oh No, Teachers Are Talking About Non-White Males In History Class!
Oliver Willis — The right’s desire to have us all in blinders strikes again.

Matt Hits This One Out Of the Park
If I Ran the Zoo — I usually think of Matt Yglesias as highly overrated but he simply nails this one: I’m fascinated by how common [Mark Steyn's whiny] depiction of American education is considering that it’s 100 percent false. No doubt there are bad history teachers and bad history classes in the United States, but anyone who’s vaguely in contact with reality can tell you that U.S. history is very much taught as a heroic national narrative. But since contemporary American conservatism is eye-deep in racism, Steyn can’t quite seem to grasp that teaching people about Rosa Parks ...

Shorter Mark Steyn: Nobody Here But Us White Guys
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... And what kind of a name is "Steyn" anyway? Matthew Yglesias muses on Mark Steyn's refusal to think of women, Blacks, immigrants, et cetera as real Americans: Matthew Yglesias: American History: Mark Steyn offers some typical conservative complaining: Mark K, while I was down in Australia a while back, they had a big Education Summit going on, and the then Prime Minister, the great John Howard, used a marvelous phrase to me about how they wanted to teach Oz history — as an “heroic national narrative”. We ...