Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️

If the Klan sponsored a public school curriculum that promoted race essentialism, collective guilt, and racial superiority theory, I would support legislation to ban it from schools—while still granting them their right to express it as individual citizens.

The Supreme Court has ruled consistently that restrictions on curricular speech are not restrictions on free speech. In fact, it is the responsibility of state legislatures to craft a curriculum that reflects the values of their citizens. Nobody has the right to indoctrinate.

100% agree.

The past year’s pushed me more and more towards a free speech, marketplace of ideas absolutism. I’m against banning. I’m with Hitchens full stop: "Every time you violate or propose to violate the free speech of someone else, in potentia, you’re making a rod for your own back."

Public education isn't a "marketplace of ideas"; it's a state-run monopoly with the power to compel children. In monopoly conditions, restrictions are wise, necessary, and even justified under the most libertarian philosophies.

You have a right to advocate as you do.

Sure, but I *do not* have a right to compel public schoolchildren to believe what I believe.

Confronting efforts to indoctrinate via public school curriculum is great. In fact, there are laws on the books to address this. If the feds incentivize indoctrination, this is a legit problem too. The fix* may well be political. But agitation for any new *bans* is a line.