2. The Kanawha County textbook wars of 1974 are a direct precursor to the anti-CRT struggles today. While political battles over schooling are immemorial, the specific model of 1974 (agitated parents, right-wing think tanks proving organizing) started in 1974.
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3. Heritage Foundation has taken the lead in organizing anti-CRT for the same reason they intervened in text book wars of 1974: school battles are a good way to recruit grassroots into movement conservatism.
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4. In 1974, Heritage people specifically thought they could take anger at comparative religion textbooks and enlarge it to other targets like "union bosses." As one right-wing leader said, "we organize discontent."
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@rickperlstein about what happened in 1974 and how it resembles now as well as the larger strategy of the anti-CRT agitation.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-rick-perlstein-on-moral-panic?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter …Show this thread
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Religion always = violence
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“school battles are a good way to recruit grassroots into movement conservatism”https://twitter.com/justspaceonline/status/1367455465626599425?s=20 …
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Maybe my memory is incorrect but I thought at one point Elaine Chao was associated with the Heritage Foundation- am I mistaken?
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I seem to recall the same thing so no you are probably correct.
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