COLLEGE SOCIOLOGY TEXTBOOK TRSHES RONNIE REAGAN AND CONSERVATIVES

Professors who adopt Kirst-Ashman’s ‘Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare’ for their classes should be horsewhipped, tarred and feathered, and ridden off the campus and out of town on a rail

The author of this nefarious political text is Karen K. Kirst-Ashman, a professor and former chairperson in the social work department at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She has written several social work textbooks and numerous articles on social work and women's issues. At $159.83 - $201.05 this book is one gigantic rip-off.

Kirst-Ashman obviously has a left-wing political agenda, as do most activists in behalf of women’s issues. What Ronald Reagan has to do with social work is a mystery to me. I’ve dealt with a lot of social workers in my time and many of them couldn’t walk and chew gum at the same time. But they were shrill supporters of left-wing causes.

REAGAN’S PORTRAYAL AS SEXIST IN TEXTBOOK STIRS CONTROVERSY
By Courtney Coren

Newsmax
February 18, 2014

A college sociology textbook portrays Ronald Reagan as a sexist who downplayed racism, stirring anger among some students.

"I was absolutely shocked and was tempted to throw the book away," Anna Chapman, a sophomore at the University of South Carolina, told Fox News. "I would even write comments in the actual textbook next to some of the offensive things that I read. I didn't know that this is what I had signed up for."

According to the textbook, "Introduction to Social Work & Social Welfare: Critical Thinking Perspectives," Reagan "ascribed to women, 'primarily domestic functions' and failed to appoint many women to significant positions of power during his presidency."

The textbook doesn't mention that Reagan appointed the first woman to the Supreme Court, Sandra Day O'Connor; the first woman to be the ambassador to the United Nations; the first female secretary of transportation; the first female secretary of health and human services; and the first female labor secretary, Fox News said.

According to excerpts obtained by the blog Campus Reform, Reagan's main accomplishments were reducing taxes, increasing defense spending, and cutting welfare spending.

"Reagan 'discounted the importance of racism and discrimination,' and maintained that, 'if they tried,' African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans could become just as successful as White people," the textbook says. "He viewed American males as rugged individualists who could accomplish almost anything if they tried."

It also describes conservatives as averse to change and clinging to traditions. The textbook says that "conservatives 'tend to take a basically pessimistic view of human nature. People are conceived of as being corrupt, self-centered, lazy, and incapable of true charity.'"

"This is really outrageous, it's so in our face, and people need to know about it," Chapman told Campus Reform.