Young Republicans’ Panties In Bunch As Textbook Dares Criticize St. Ronnie

The Young Shrill Republicans at the University of South Carolina are outraged – outraged – that their patron saint, Ronald “Facts Are Stupid Things” Reagan, has been criticized. In a textbook! Required for a course that teaches (horrors!) Social Welfare!! Pearls clutched in anticipation of stumbling to the fainting couch in 3… 2… 1…

The author of a controversial university textbook that paints late President Ronald Reagan as a sexist and calls conservatives “corrupt and lazy,” is under fire from young Republicans who feel insulted by the book’s contents.

“Introduction to Social Work & Social Welfare: Critical Thinking Perspectives,” by Karen K. Kirst-Ashman, suggests that Reagan had narrow views about women’s roles and may have been unconcerned about the well-being of minorities.

Reagan “ascribed to women, primarily domestic functions and failed to appoint many women to significant positions of power during his presidency,” Kirst-Ashman wrote in the textbook.

The 40th President also “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 whites,” according to the book’s author.

The text was used by a professor at the University of South Carolina, prompting outrage among young campus conservatives.

“I was absolutely shocked and was tempted to throw the book away,” Anna Chapman, a 19-year-old sophomore political science major, told FoxNews.com. “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.”

By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.