The latest on the California textbook controversy
The HAF lawsuit has produced an interesting result: one that allows all sites to claim victory on points. I suspect that is what the court was in fact trying to do: leave everybody with something that they could highlight to their supporters.
Having said this, the core issue, that of the impact of deliberate anti-Hindu propaganda, on sensitive Hindu children in the US, remains up in the air. The same textbooks that have the distortions in them will continue to be used by the school districts for the foreseeable future, although the court has rapped the CBE's knuckles for poor procedure. And the court has dismissed the locus standi of the usual suspect rabble-rousers in this instance. Thus, as I said elsewhere, a half-victory.
What is entertaining in context is the fact that almost simultaneously, Chinese textbooks have dropped almost all references to the great Mao Tse-Tung. This, I suspect, is giving the leading lights of the Left in India sleepless nights, as their Great Leader is being declared as a god with clay feet by his own countrymen. What of the CPI-M which famously declared that Chairman Mao is "our Chairman"? The delicious irony is that the only places where Marxism still exists are:
Cuba (with the imminent demise of Fidel Castro this will change)
West Bengal
Kerala
Nepal
The Maoist corridor from Nepal to Andhra Pradesh
The BBC, and India's ELM
That's it!
Venezuela is not Marxist per se, merely anti-American and nationalist. And even though Marxism has become an expression of Chinese imperialism, and the rotting corpse of Mao is a ghoulish stop on trips to Beijing, China itself is declaring that it has outgrown the idiocies of this murderous ideology.
Marxism is now strictly for the consumption of others whom China hopes to dominate in its goal of world conquest, and this is where the "useful idiots" continue to be China's storm-troopers.
"Do as we preach, not as we do" -- says China now. In this, they have finally become the equal of the Americans, who have long been the champions of moralizing: they want all of us to listen to their rhetoric of free trade and so forth, but the moment we do free trade, they don't like it because it gives them no advantage. Quite hypocritical, indeed.
Underground processes, Hostile academics By Ari Saja