Shitstorm over Thai textbook praising dictatorship ignores the facts

Update: This story has been updated with a comment from education consultant and former Move Forward MP Kunthida Rungruengkiat.

A former opposition lawmaker said she will file a complaint over a 13-year-old grammar text teaching middle schoolers the “virtue” of dictatorship.

Education consultant Kunthida Rungruengkiat, a former MP with the Move Forward Party, said she would complain to education authorities over a lesson extolling dictatorship over “corrupt” democracy – despite the fact the book is no longer approved for use.

“Anyone who sees a textbook with content that deviates from the facts, deviates from academic principles and contains content that contradicts democratic principles, please forward to me,” Kunthida tweeted last night. 

The pearl-clutching furor began with a simple Facebook post from someone calling out the offending passage: a…