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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Jun 2021

      1. In 1974 violence broke out Kanawha County, West Virginia over comparative religion textbooks. Fundamentalist parents dynamited a school building among other acts of violence. Then the Heritage Foundation stepped in & offered legal defense for the alleged dynamiters.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Jun 2021

      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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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Jun 2021

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Jun 2021

          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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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 22 Jun 2021

          5. For a podcast, I sat down & talked to the great @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 …

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        1. Charles P. Pierce‏Verified account @CharlesPPierce 22 Jun 2021
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          EXCELLENT call, Jeet.

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        1. mistergizmo‏ @mistergizmo 22 Jun 2021
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          Given that WV split off from VA over slavery, wonder what their take on CRT is 150 years later.

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        1. Daniel Batt‏ @DanielJBatt 22 Jun 2021
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          Or the IRS case against Bob Jones University's racist policies in 1970.

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