2. I haven't done a full inventory but as far as I can tell, the only two signatories of the notorious Harper's letter to speak out against these anti-CRT bills are me & @thomaschattwill. And yet the bills clearly have a chilling effect on teaching USA history honestly.
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3. The anti-CRT stuff is worrisome because it follows a pattern familiar in USA history of pushing schools to indoctrinate patriotic history -- going back to progressive era backlash against Beard & forward to McCarthyism. This stuff has been historically poisonous.
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4. If you took the anti-CRT bills intent seriously, you'd be hesitant to question idea USA is a meritocracy (or event the value of meritocracy as a concept) or claim that Indigenous genocide occurred. More here:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/freedom-to-teach-in-north-carolina?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …
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Yet the Murdoch family is not called out enough for supporting racism disguised as news- now that’s power.
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Did Jeet hire you to come on here and make his point for him?
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Ham-fisted fingerprints. The gang that came at me yesterday for calling out some anti-CRT BS were mostly “disruptive” accounts (bot sentinels) and orbits of disruptive accts.
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Ooof... You can be anti-anti-CRT. But if you think it's astroturf, you're making a major tactical mistake.
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What would you call banning a subject from high school that isn't taught until college? Especially one that would require covering up large swaths of American history?
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