Outrage over college textbook that suggests Ronald Reagan was a sexist who viewed people as 'corrupt and lazy'

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[h=1]Outrage over college textbook that suggests Ronald Reagan was a sexist who viewed people as 'corrupt and lazy'[/h]

• Social Work & Social Welfare angered a student so much she was tempted to throw it in the bin
• It suggested that he saw women as domestic servants and people as 'lazy'
• Critics have pointed out that Reagan appointed many women to positions of policy-making power

 

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A college textbook has come under fire from students for suggesting that Ronald Reagan was sexist and that conservatives are pessimistic about human nature and view people as ‘corrupt and lazy’.

Introduction to Social Work & Social Welfare: Critical Thinking, a textbook used at the University of South Carolina, angered one student studying there so much that she was tempted to throw it in the bin.

The book, by Karen Kirst-Ashman, quoting from various academic works, says that conservatives 'tend to take a basically pessimistic view of human nature' with 'people conceived of as being corrupt, self-centered, lazy, and incapable of true charity'.

The 40th president, it is stated, ‘ascribed to women primarily domestic functions’ and ‘failed to appoint many women to significant positions of power during his presidency’.
The book adds that Reagan 'failed to appoint many women to significant positions of power during his presidency'.

And conservatives, it is argued, 'oppose change and thrive on tradition'

 

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Social Work & Social Welfare has been slammed for portraying Ronald Reagan as sexist

 

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Staying power: Ronald Reagan was in power between 1981 and 1989

 

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She added: ‘This book goes out of its way to glorify liberalism and demonize conservatism.’


Blog Campusreform.org criticises the book for failing to mention that Reagan, who was in office from 1981 to 1989, appointed Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court Justice; the first female U.S. Representative to the United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick; Elizabeth Dole, the first female appointed to Secretary of the Department of Transportation - and over 1,400 other women to positions of policy-making power’.

The book has also been slammed on Amazon.com, with reviewers describing it variously as ‘flat wrong’ and a ‘hunk of trash’.

The text book has also had several very positive reviews on the site, with some customers giving it five stars.

 

[BleedingPurple]

i would like to read what it says. If it is making false accusations then it should be condemned and the author should lose all credility

 

[ScottL]

Textbooks were the biggest racket going in my college days. Back then tuition was only slightly ridiculous but books were a criminal enterprise, overpriced and outdated. But hey, if kids are going to pay a ridiculous amount of money for a book (actually a text that should be accessible to them online instead for what they're parents are paying) they should at least get the douchebag author's opinion included a no extra charge ;-)