Rick Santorum, running for the Republican presidential nomination beat a dead horse contest, talked about the California education system while campaigning in Wisconsin. The newest Santorumism is that American history is no longer taught in California. That’s news to me. I took quite a few history, literature and social studies courses in college, where AMERICA was mentioned a few times. That was much better than what I was taught in grade school in the early 1980’s, where the teachers didn’t even mentioned Watergate and President Richard Nixon’s resignation because the 20-year-old textbooks didn’t include them.

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The traditional conservative complaints about the California education system is all those multiculturalism classes that you need for graduation.

If you’re a fat white guy like me, you have a target on your back if you’re the only fat white guy in the classroom. When I took black social studies, I took the heat for slavery,  Jim Crow and Michael Jackson. When I took women literature, I took the blame for every woman being naked, pregnant and in the kitchen. When I took small group communications, the Vietnamese guys made me do all the work and speak in front of the class (the instructor gave me all their points as a bonus). These were uncomfortable classes even for a moderate conservative like myself.

As a fat white guy today, I’ll probably take the heat and the blame for Rick Santorum. *sigh*

Updated 4/17/2012 — Closed the comments on the blog post. For whatever reason, this blog post had attracted 80+ comment spam with Asian logograms per day. Who knew that Rick Santorum was so popular with Asian spammers? After two weeks of this, I’m tired of cleaning out the spam folder. If you’re a spammer reading this, your business isn’t welcome here.