Two Florida Republicans have drafted bills that would make conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza’s film America: Imagine the World Without Her required viewing for eighth graders, The News-Press reports. State Senator Alan Hays and Representative Neil Combee respectively introduced Senate Bill 96 and House Bill 77 in order to combat what they see as the “erroneous” and “anti-American” content of American history classes. “Frankly, it’s embarrassing that we allow these lies to be taught in our school system,” Hays told The News-Press. “Unfortunately, our parents and our school board members have not kept up with the misrepresentation of American history that is being perpetrated in our school system, and this movie gives a totally different view.” “I wish that the movie weren’t necessary, but I think that I can do everything to make sure it’s shown,” he added. Last year, Sen. Hayes told The Hollywood Reporter that “[t]he most dreaded disease in America today is political correctness. We need to inform our students of our whole history, and teach them how to think, not what to think.” The film was widely panned by critics, earning a dismal eight percent Tomatometer rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. According to RogerEbert critic Peter Sobczynski, the film is “the cinematic equivalent of one of those forwarded e-mails of mostly discredited ‘facts’ that you receive from an uncle and at least those sometimes include family photos or a meat loaf recipe that can be of some value.”
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:00:58 +0000
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