Nucleic Acids posted:

Didn't some goon once source a Battlestar Galactica quote to George Washington and have it stay on his page for two years?

jojoinnit posted:

Really Schlafly, Chinggis Khan?

Yaos posted:

It's still there and it's been there long enough that if somebody removes it they will be called a traitor and a liar. In fact, it's been there so long people are now parroting it on other sites. I can safely post it without fear of deletion because I am a liberal liar. The original quote, or the quote Galactica stole from George Washington, uses 'universe' instead of 'world'.
http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=%22god+wills+the+world+according+to+his+design%22

Just remember, in five years when somebody says this quote on TV and all the Galactica fans call them on it, and then they claim Galactica just used it because it sounded good, you can thank the goon hive mind and the 4chan user that will claim he started the whole thing.

mintskoal posted:

I'm not sure how you would offer a degree program focused on the belief in no god but obviously it's not offered because it's shameful.

PrBacterio posted:

Am I the only one who finds that absolutely terrifying? It's like something taken literally (and I use that word advisedly) right out of 1984: History doesn't exist, there is no actual truth to it, there is only what the records say, and the records are ours to be 'corrected' in any way we see fit.

PrBacterio posted:

Am I the only one who finds that absolutely terrifying? It's like something taken literally (and I use that word advisedly) right out of 1984: History doesn't exist, there is no actual truth to it, there is only what the records say, and the records are ours to be 'corrected' in any way we see fit.

Angry Avocado posted:

Because I can't access Conservapedia, I have a question for goons who can: What's the most racist and sexist thing you can find on that site?

For a website that hails the enlightened mindset of the people who lived in the freaking Dark Ages, something like that shouldn't be too hard to find, I imagine.

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Women in combat are not only less effective than men, but they reduce the effectiveness of the men they serve with. This has been proven in Poland and in Israel.

When campaigning against the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], Phyllis Schlafly pointed out that the nation was threatened by, "groups more interested in social experimentation and appeasing pressure groups than in building a fighting force."

blue squares posted:

Yes, you're the only one. It's conservapedia, not the loving library of congress.

Killin_Like_Bronson posted:

It is used primarily for a circle of home schooled children. Children are learning this garbage as fact and tested. That's pretty loving lovely.

Killin_Like_Bronson posted:

It is used primarily for a circle of home schooled children. Children are learning this garbage as fact and tested. That's pretty loving lovely.¹

blue squares posted:

What?! Do you have a source on this?

Conservapedia posted:

Conservapedia, launched on November 21, 2006, is a conservative, family-friendly Wiki encyclopedia. It was founded by teacher and attorney Andrew Schlafly with the help of several students from his fall 2006 World History class. In May 2008, Schlafly and some of his homeschooled students appeared on the CBC news program The Hour (see: Videos on Conservapedia ).

When a student handed in her paper using the date-markers “BCE” and "CE” from Wikipedia, Schlafly realized that Wikipedia, despite its claim of neutrality, contained bias against the achievements of Christianity and conservatism. Other occasions of liberal bias, including the reversion of factual edits about the 2005 Kansas Evolution Hearings, led to the creation and launch of Conservapedia.

Though Conservapedia originally contained mostly history articles, it has grown over several years to be a general reference, with information about history, math, science, politics, religion and other topics. It also contains debates, essays and educational resources.

Conservapedia strives to keep its articles concise, informative, family-friendly, and true to the facts, which often back up conservative ideas more than liberal ones. Rather than claim a neutral point of view and then insert bias, Conservapedia is clear that it seeks to give due credit to conservatism and Christianity. Schlafly said in regard to the point of view issue, "It's impossible for an encyclopedia to be neutral. I mean let's take a point of view, let's disclose that point of view to the reader." [2]

Wikipedia articles may contain trivia, gossip, profanity, and even pornographic/sexually explicit images. The latter three are prohibited on Conservapedia and trivia is largely discouraged.

The administrative hierarchy prevents Conservapedia from being hijacked by a faction, and thus preserves it from mobocracy, as discussed above.

Reasons for Homeschooling

Reasons for homeschooling include:[23]
Seeking a higher academic level, and avoiding violence, intimidation, invasions of privacy (e.g., searches) and other hostile aspects of the public school culture.[24][25][26]
Freedom from a culture of depression and liberal and/or atheistic bias found in public and many private schools.[27][28][29]

blue squares posted:

Ok, that doesn't mean it is actually being used. Nothing on that site can be trusted.

Andy Schlafly biography posted:

Conservapedia developed as a result of his World History course. Andrew Schlafly and several of his top students continue to lead the project, and most of his students have contributed entries to it.

Andrew Schlafly has taught homeschoolers online since the late 1990s, and in person since fall 2002. Several of Andrew Schlafly's prior course materials are available on Eagle Forum University.

Andrew Schlafly is the fifth child of attorney John Fred Schlafly, Jr. and noted political activist Phyllis Schlafly. His great-grandfather, August Schlafly, was founder of the Union Trust and Savings Bank of East St. Louis, Ill., the First National Bank of Edwardsville, Ill., and other banks in Western states. [1]

MOLLUSC posted:

This is the entirety of the Women in Combat article:

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Women in combat are not only less effective than men, but they reduce the effectiveness of the men they serve with. This has been proven in Poland and in Israel.

When campaigning against the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], Phyllis Schlafly pointed out that the nation was threatened by, "groups more interested in social experimentation and appeasing pressure groups than in building a fighting force."

Corrupt Politician posted:

I love how Schlafly uses his mom as a source.

Corrupt Politician posted:

I love how Schlafly uses his mom as a source. For those who don't know, Phyllis Schalfly is the renowned anti-feminist who made a very successful career out of telling other women not to have careers.

The apple didn't fall far from the tree, apparently.

Phyllis Schlafly posted:

"What does a woman want out of life? If you want to love and be loved, marriage offers the best opportunity to achieve your goal…Marriage and motherhood give a woman new identity and the opportunity for all-round fulfillment as a woman"

Phyllis Schlafly posted:

Schlafly believes that motherhood is the best job option for women seeking career fulfillment, and that "it is ludicrous to suggest that [other jobs] are more self-fulfilling than the daily duties of a wife and mother in the home"

Phyllis Schlafly posted:

Schlafly believes, even if men really do earn more than women, this is beneficial to society as a whole, because, "we want a society in which the average man earns more than the average woman so that his earnings can fulfill his provider role in providing a home and support for his wife who is nurturing and mothering their children"

Phyllis Schlafly posted:

"a satisfying and rewarding relationship between a man and a woman can last through the years only if she is willing to give him the appreciation and admiration his manhood craves". Whereas a woman’s needs are active, in that she needs to love, a man’s needs are passive, i.e. he needs to be loved, appreciated, and admired.

Phyllis Schlafly posted:

"By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don't think you can call it rape."

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The nature and rules of soccer very much resemble socialism in many ways:[3][4]

The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies.
The "off-sides" rule prohibits using certain aggressive ("unfair") tactics in the game.
The game forbids frequent stops, which can be compared to "carbon footprint" efforts to fight supposed global warming.
Soccer is very bureaucratic, and teams are very much tied to their countries.
The US is often treated unfairly by other nations in the game, one reason being soccer's lack of popularity in the US - socialism always claimed to favor the absolute will of the majority rather than personal and economic freedom of the individual.
The World Cup trophy resembles socialist Hollywood's Emmy Award.
In youth leagues, everyone gets a trophy for their efforts regardless of achievement, and there is no scoring in the game.
Even the World Cup encourages "achievement" by holding a third-place game for the two losers in the semifinals.
Union strikes, even during the playing season, are a major issue with soccer.
Riots caused by "hooligans" - fans of a team which lost a game - often include violent crimes, such as infringement on private property rights.
Participants are known to behave dishonestly and illegally and act against the interests of their team in order to gain financially themselves.[5]
Soccer coaches only need a vocabulary of about 100 words to coach their teams [6], which is reminiscent of socialist pandering to the lowest common denominator. At least twice as many conservative words alone originated in the 20th century.

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Participants are known to behave dishonestly and illegally and act against the interests of their team in order to gain financially themselves.[5]

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The "no hands" rule can be compared to socialist tax policies.

Corrupt Politician posted:

I love how Schlafly uses his mom as a source. For those who don't know, Phyllis Schalfly is the renowned anti-feminist who made a very successful career out of telling other women not to have careers.

The apple didn't fall far from the tree, apparently.

appropriatemetaphor posted:

Trying to make fun of this, but it's breaking brain to think people actually think this is real.




These two are great. The kid makes some solid points, and Shlafly misuses the term "illogical" to mean "thing I don't agree with".

I assume that Schlafly himself believes that he does not belong to great swath of degenerate IQers and devolving language users...

appropriatemetaphor posted:

Node posted:

Is this whole idea about humans devolving and becoming more stupid over time a new thing? I've never heard that before.

Node posted:

Is this whole idea about humans devolving and becoming more stupid over time a new thing? I've never heard that before.

raezr posted:

How the hell do you assess a question like "Write about anything in the lecture?"

Ograbme posted:

She also helped shut down a Holocaust memorial because it didn't give a fair shake to the Nazis or the Klan.

RPZip posted:

I've never heard about this, but it sounds like a great story.

WaPo posted:

Schlafly charged "Facing History and Ourselves" [the program] with "psychological manipulation, induced behavioral change and privacy-invading treatment" and urged the department to reject its proposals. . . . Concluding her remarks [one of the Education Department's reviewers] wrote: "The program gives no evidence of balance or objectivity. The Nazi point of view, however unpopular, is still a point of view and is not presented, nor is that of the Ku Klux Klan."

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I don't even know why anyone would believe that, given the massive, MASSIVE worldwide jumps in literacy and other educational metrics over the last few hundred years. You really do have to be a special kind of dense to think that we as a species are currently becoming less intelligent.

Senor Science posted:

As someone who wasn't obviously born yet (1984), what was the reason for Phyllis Schafly's opposition to the equal rights amendment? On paper, it sounds like a good thing.

Rand alPaul posted:

http://www.conservapedia.com/Soccer#Soccer_and_socialism

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Also I like that the kid named Plate the Julius Caesar as two of the smartest people. I mean Caesar was a savvy guy sure... but he's not really known for his intelligence.