Conservative pundit Dr. Ben Carson on Monday suggested that the new AP U.S. History curriculum will make students want to “sign up for ISIS.”
During a speech at the Center for Security Policy’s National Security Action Summit, Carson railed against the College Board’s changes to the course framework, which conservatives have condemned as a “radically revisionist view of American history that emphasizes negative aspects of our nation’s history while omitting or minimizing positive aspects.”
“I am a little shocked quite frankly looking at the AP course in American history that’s being taught in high schools across out country right now,” Carson said. “There’s only two paragraphs in there about George Washington. George Washington! Little or nothing about Dr. Martin Luther King.”
Carson then lamented a few negative aspects of history included in the course framework like “a whole section on slavery and how evil we are,” Japanese internment camps, and “how we wiped out American Indians with no mercy.”
“I think most people when they finish that course, they’d be ready to go sign up for ISIS. I mean, this is what we’re doing to the young people in our nation,” he said. “We have got to stop crucifying ourselves. Have we made mistakes as a nation? Of course we have. Why? Because we’re people. And all people make mistakes.”
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And…here is another reason why this man will never be president. Not even of the PTA.
Because all people make mistakes Dr. Carson, your solution to prevent those same mistakes from being repeated is to never talk about them. We should instead spends hours staring into mirrors lamenting how wonderful we are and how all the other countries are just jealous I suppose.
Either this man is performing the ultimate right wing troll job, or he is a sociopath whom has truly lost his mind. I am now firmly in the “he’s a nutter” camp.
It’s just this Palinesque, dumb-ass word salad with these people. They just pick a couple of keywords that their Neanderthal base will react to, string them together in things that sorta sound like sentences, then kick back and enjoy the Pavlovian applause.
Give this moron another month, and he’ll be stating that “Obamacare created ISIS” or some other ridiculous crap.
Like Newt Gingrich, Carson is a stupid person’s idea of what a smart person sounds like.
Dang, I hope he did a better job reading whatever it took to earn his “Doctor” credential, than what he read about the AP framework.