Alabammy politician objects to school curriculum, he says McCarthy was right.

[Archae]

AL Republican outraged at teaching of ‘The Crucible’ because ‘McCarthy was right’

An Alabama state senator running for Congress attacked the inclusion of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible in a high school literature textbook because a sidebar connects the play with the Red Scare.

State Sen. Scott Beason (R-Gardendale) told The Anniston Star that it’s inappropriate to “compar[e] the McCarthy investigations of the 1950s, in which he turned out to be right, with the Salem witch hunts.” The textbook — American Experience 1900 to Present — attached a sidebar in which students are asked to compare the events depicted in the play with Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s communist witch hunt in the early 1950s.

Beason’s complaint about Miller’s play is part of his general opposition to the Common Core curriculum, which he believes fails to represent “a conservative, honest, traditional, American values worldview.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/17/al-republican-outraged-at-teaching-of-the-crucible-because-mccarthy-was-right/

[Rex]

1. Wow, one week they are complaining about a movie not showing happy slaves

now they are complaining that McCarthy was right. You think next week they will be LOVING on Putin...oh wait...they already are!