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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The issue is that the reasons people say they don't like Common Core either don't actually directly have anything to do with Common Core (i.e. problems with bad textbooks, lousy implementation, testing) or they simply aren't valid [b]or were specifically intended to inflame (i.e. conservative websites saying CC "forces Islam on kids" - something that has zero merit or truth[/b]) [/quote]

I have not read any poster on this thread state that.  Have you?[/quote]

These kinds of falsehoods and bullshit are all over mainstream conservative media, i.e. FOX News.  http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/12/20/school-islamic-vocabulary-lesson-part-common-core-standards/

The reason many people are pissed off about Common Core is not the actual Common Core standard, it's the fabricated, non-existent Common Core bogeyman that conservative media keeps constructing with lie after lie.

While posters haven't explicitly articulated this specific example, it's nonetheless quite clear that many of the anti-CC posters are coming from that right-wing group-think, particularly given that despite all of the emotional argument, they still haven't been able to give one specific, coherent example of a standard that is actually bad, or which actually goes against sound educational theory and principles.  They just "know" it's bad, in large part because they've heard that message that it's bad repeated over and over and over again.  As a historical note, Goebbels was the Third Reich's infamous Minister of Propaganda, he had a saying about propaganda - "repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it" - this is definitely how conservative media operates.[/quote]

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