{"id":234224,"date":"2010-01-26T23:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T04:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=63758"},"modified":"2010-01-26T23:00:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T04:00:15","slug":"late-night-children%e2%80%99s-book-is-obviously-commie-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/234224","title":{"rendered":"Late Night: Children\u2019s Book is Obviously Commie Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Marx\"\"PictureAt first, it appeared that the Texas State Board of Education had made a mistake in banning the children’s book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?,<\/em> written by Bill Martin Jr., from a proposal for the third-grade reading section. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/a> reports:
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Board member Pat Hardy, R-Weatherford, who made the motion, cited books Bill Martin had written for adults that contain “very strong critiques of capitalism and the American system.”…<\/p>\n

Hardy said she was trusting the research of another board member, Terri Leo, R-Spring, when she made her motion and comments about Martin’s writing. Leo had sent her an e-mail alerting her to Bill Martin Jr.’s listing on the Borders .com Web site as the author of Ethical Marxism<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A simple case of “The Internets, ur doin it worng?” Did similar names lead to the children’s book author being confused with a philosophy professor at DePaul University in Chicago who wrote Ethical Marxism<\/em>? <\/span><\/span>Or perhaps, there is something more sinister hidden in the words of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?<\/em> and the school board made the right decision. Let us examine the opening passage:<\/p>\n

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Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? I see a red bird looking at me.<\/p>\n

Red bird, red bird, what do you see?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The bear is a symbol for the former USSR, a Marxist state. Red is the color that represented the USSR, hence the term “pinko” for American communist sympathizers. Obviously this is indoctrination.<\/p>\n

The red bird then sees a yellow duck. Yellow is the color of cowards, and “duck” is not only a bird but a way to avoid a blow. The commies are seeing a coward! Is that any way to teach our children?<\/p>\n

Later there is a frog! Yes, the French<\/strong> are in this book. And we all know about the French and their elitist semiotics and deconstructionist views. Why, there are no decent all-American animals in Brown Bear<\/em>–just commies, cowards and elitists.<\/p>\n

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At first, it appeared that the Texas State Board of Education had made a mistake in banning the children’s book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, written by Bill Martin Jr., from a proposal for the third-grade reading section. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports: Board member Pat Hardy, R-Weatherford, who made the motion, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}