As many of us returned to school last week, we now find ourselves lining up at the university bookstore buying books that we’ll read for four months and 1. turn the book into a Kwanzaa/Christmas/Hanukkah gift in December 2. keep around to make you look smarter 3. change your life and be kept in the back pocket of your corduroys.
If you were like me and spent Labor day weekend with your very-conservative-older-distant relatives, you may have watched Fox news a lot, and Fox has a few important warnings about university textbooks. The top back-to-school story was the radically democratic indoctrination in most, if not all, college textbooks. Unfortunately as a (18-25 voter) student you cannot do anything about the textbook but you can petition to get the professor fired, or bring the book’s liberal brainwashing content to the attention of the dean of studies–or my personal favorite–ask your campus religious authority for advice and suggestions on reading alternatives.
Politics aside, what’s worse? The right to publish without censorship, or the right for everyone to get an “unbiased,” fair education (if you can pay for college that is). Fox believes that if anyone can spot bias when they see it Fox can, and that these textbooks are bad for America.
The solution though not apparent at first, is obvious: they should just make me editor of all college textbooks.
-Nikki-Lee
Tags: bias, Books, Fox news