That's what the rest of Kitsap County, Washington calls Bainbridge Island, Washington. Rightfully so, for the most part. Bainbridge Island is nominally in Kitsap County, but that is more of an accident of geography rather than idealogy. BI is a short ferry ride (30 minutes) from Seattle and is a bedroom community for the liberal loonies that routinely inhabit Seattle and King County, so it's idealogy is more like Seattle than the rest of NAVY dominated/Rural Kitsap County.
Brain-dead has more than earned it's unflattering nickname again, Ninme picked up Michelle Malkin's post on "How Not to Teach Japenese Internment" . From Michelle:
I've seen the revised curriculum. Here is some relevant context that Bainbridge Island's sixth-graders won't be learning about:
- The Secretary of War's concern about hit-and-run attacks on the West Coast aided by ethnic Japanese residents;
- The fact that there was no analogous concern about major raids on the East Coast since neither Germany nor Italy had any aircraft carriers;
- the ethnic Japanese turncoats on Niihau Island;
- the ethnic German and ethnic Italian internees;
- the top-secret decrypted Japanese diplomatic messages called MAGIC; and
- the role that the MAGIC messages played in the development of FDR's homeland security policies. (In 1984, John McCloy, who served as Assistant Secretary of War during WW II and was the architect of the West Coast evacuation, told Congress that during the war he had read the MAGIC messages every day and every night, and affirmed that the MAGIC cables were a "very important" factor in the decision to order the evacuation.)
When supporters of Bainbridge Island's biased curriculum say "some things are not debatable" what they really mean is that pertinent facts such as these should be withheld from students. When they say there is no need for additional "context" they mean that students should be taught that internment was solely the result of racism and wartime hysteria; any evidence pointing to legitimate security concerns should be withheld.
I just don't understand how these people can call themselves "the party of inclusion and tolerance". They can't even tolerate the truth. While there is no question that the ethnic Japanese on the US West Coast were treated badly after Pearl Harbor, there is considerable debate as to whether it was necessary. I think that had I been in the government's shoes all those years ago I probably would have done something along the lines of what they did. However, to tell our children only one side of the story (at a level that is most likely above their education level to boot) is very, very wrong.
The Average American (and the average American sixth grader) is far wiser than the liberal elite give them credit for. Give them the WHOLE story and they CAN understand it. Feed them half-truths and inuendo and they become cynical and jaded - not "educated". Most folks can tell the difference between propaganda and information - despite the best efforts of the left to indoctrinate rather than educate.
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