An anti-Trump high school textbook titled "By The People" has faced a massive backlash for a clear bias against President Donald Trump. The textbook questions Trump's "mental instability" and claims Trump supporters are racist.
Image: (Courtesy of Terra Snyder)
"Clinton’s supporters feared that the election had been determined by people who were afraid of a rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the country … They also worried about the mental instability of the president-elect and the anger that he and his supporters brought the nation," the book reads.
IMAGE: (Courtesy of Terra Snyder)
The book is set to be published for Advanced Placement honor students.
"This work is designed to convey college-level information to high school students and meet specific Advanced Placement standards. It aims to promote debate and critical thinking by presenting multiple sides of historical issues and offering a broad survey of arguments from the 2016 presidential election and other recent topics," a spokesperson for Pearson said in a statement. "We have reviewed the passages in question independently and in the context of the rest of the book. This review has confirmed that the text offers a broad view of critical arguments from both sides of the 2016 presidential election," the spokesperson added.
Comments
|
Photo used under Creative Commons from Gage Skidmore