That’s not how I read it.

The subject of yesterday’s post on loosening of control on school districts by the state attracted the attention of none other than the Evolution News & Views blog. Crowther takes the same quote I did from the story to comment on, but had a strange take on it.

Notice how the paragraph seems to indicate that the textbooks that teach intelligent design (and which textbooks are these, I’d like to know) also are racist? Absurd accusations like this come out all the time, unfortunately, as ID proponents are compared to Holocaust deniers.

Funny. I didn’t read it like that at all. I saw the stuff about the Holocaust and black history as implying history textbooks rather than science books. I can see how the sentence in the original story wasn’t well constructed, but it would seem to me that an intelligent reader would understand what was meant. I still wish that particular lawmaker had been named.

Let’s hope that when schools do want to broaden their teaching of the biological sciences, the textbooks available will be adaquate to the task.

I agree, but in a different way, I imagine.

——-

[Edited to add] I just e-mailed the reporter who wrote that story, asking her to clarify that sentence in question. I’ll post here when I get a reply.