Or ideological and economic stuff.

right wing ideology and rhetoric is rubbish

it's predicated on fairytale economic concepts and theories that hold no weight in the real world

I would know speaking as a former 'classical liberal'

it sure was simpler back then, but unfortunately it doesn't address a slew of issues and assumes the free market (which is guaranteed by the government by the way) will fix everything

is everyone on here republican or ?

No

Nah. We got people of all views

ah alr just wanted to see the point of view of a republican

nah im a dirty centrist

"Dirty" 👀

yo anyone want to debate trans rights in here wif me

and some other stuff

involving lgbtqia+ community

Look at this propaganda they released

Lol so anyone who improves on an invention becomes the inventor.

Nice

No just if they’re gay or black

yeah because screw minorities

if they did a good, no theyn didnt

No, it's a totally different thing to say "this person can be attributed to this invention" when all they did was improve on it. He patented the carbon filament ***not*** the lightbulb. To try and say thomas edison didn't invent the lightbulb is an absolute piss take.

You could argue and say it was Joseph Swan or even Humphry Davy who really invented the light bulb yet these are men who actually made something akin to the incandescent lightbulb but to say the man who patented the carbon filament, an improvement for a pre-existing invention, is the one who invented it?

That's like saying the man who invented grease or oil for playground slides invented the slide because he improved upon them.

Monark that’s one of the most retarded things I’ve heard

Many blacks have contributed greatly, and Latimer contributed but he certainly wasn’t necessary

Who do you attribute with the cure for polio Jonas Salk or his lab assistant

The reason you don't learn about Lewis Latimer in school is because, in the grand scheme of things, he is a tiny blip on the history radar. Thomas Edison is taught because the light bulb was a life changing invention, regardless of who improved on it.

Edison also has hundreds upon hundred of inventions

Many of which arent even mentioned in schools because they're irrelevant in the grand scheme of history.

That he actually did solely invent only in his old age did he enlist new inventors for his inventions

I mean phonograph is cool

Movie camera

First viable projector

Man was pretty awesome too bad he fucked over others in his spare time

It's why you really only learn about Bell's telephone invention despite him also inventing plenty of things. Schools touch on other inventions but it's the major, life altering inventions that get the most attention in education.

If educators had to mention every single invention and improvement to said inventions, you would probably grow old and die on school.

Honestly government needs to get out of education in the way they are

Since the education departments founding in 1979 we dropped significantly in education

Plus the addition of common core in recent years