Ethnic studies and critical race theory are among the #TantonNetwork targets, as one might expect from a white supremacist "population control" group that disguises itself as anti-immigration. They've been trying this tired old schtick for decades.
https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1372260844071833603
Here was an earlier effort (from 2010; story from 2013.) Guess who? archive.azcentral.com/news/politics/…
More background from 2010.
"Rather, the bills–which legislators have discussed or introduced in at least 11 states–are the fruits of a concerted political strategy seeded by the far-right group Federation for American Immigration Reform...."
colorlines.com/articles/far-r…
"Rather, the bills–which legislators have discussed or introduced in at least 11 states–are the fruits of a concerted political strategy seeded by the far-right group Federation for American Immigration Reform...."
colorlines.com/articles/far-r…
The frustrating thing is that it almost never got coverage, and when I tried to write about these astroturfing groups I rarely got more than a confused look. This was in the pre-2014 halcyon years, when everyone thought disinfo was easy to beat and no big deal
Also I didn't start to figure out the vocabulary to clearly explain how this works and why it is harmful until maybe last year? It's been a really frustrating time.
But I am not even fucking around when I say that it is a safe bet that 99.99999 percent of anti-ethnic studies legislation since 1979 or so (along with English-only and other anti-immigration efforts) has been written and promoted by the same group of people -- the #TantonNetwork
The USA - the world, really - deserves to know the truth about immigration and what it means and what it brings to a country. We deserve to have a national discussion about what affects us untainted by eugenicist lies. I don't know what that will look like. I want to find out.
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