I’m highly critical of CRT, but let’s not mince words—these new laws are speech codes. Censorship is a concession to an idea’s power, not a defense.
I join @jasonintrator, @kmele and @DavidAFrench to denounce these illiberal banshttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/opinion/anti-critical-race-theory-laws-are-un-american.html …
The question: who should decide what happens in public schools? Parents, voters, and state legislators? Or should teachers unions, public school bureaucrats, and federal civil rights officers? I believe we should empower voters, who have authority via state legislatures.
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The saddest part of this is that it can’t acknowledge that there’s already a speech code in place. That’s what these bills are combating These bills will ban teaching the bell curve along with crt but they refuse to acknowledge that only one was being taught in the 1st place
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Like if you wanted to a true market place of ideas you’d want to mandate the bell curve as one possible explanation for disparities along w/ systemic racism But none of them are going to advocate for that Call me crazy but I don’t think the bell curve be taught in k-12 schools
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Maybe this will sound naive, but I think the best route would be to all those groups involved in the discussions about what gets taught. That’s why I joined
@fairforall_org. (To clarify, I joined FAIR to help with those discussions; not because I might be naive
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