Sometimes today's anti-CRT freakout is almost a quote of older Ed Right talk.
E.g. Mel and Norma Gabler, c. 1986:
“Your tax dollars pay for the textbooks that glorify Marxist revolutionaries and their revolutions.”
For the Ed Right, the strategy has always been to spread fear about the goings-on in public schools. adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/the…
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The news by @ElizRedden is sad but not surprising.
LGBTQ students don’t feel at home at anti-LGBTQ Christian colleges.
Why don’t colleges do more?
It’s not so simple. (THREAD warning) insidehighered.com/news/2021/03/1…
I said it in my book, Fundamentalist U: There’s lots of pressure from the Right edge.
Tuition dollars are tight.
Why would anti-LGBTQ parents shell out $$$ for a pro-LGBTQ college? adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/fun…
Plus, there can be HUGE payouts for holding the anti-LGBTQ line.
Gordon College got $75.5 MILLION.
Every Christian university president noticed. iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2019/10/08/a-d…
Anyone ready for some depressingly predictable history?
Turns out the Noble confession from Chicago is only the latest in a long tradition of cruel extra punishment in schools for Black kids. (Thread warning.) wbez.org/stories/top-ch…
The lead reformer back then, Joseph Lancaster, claimed not to see any problem with shackling Black kids together and making them parade backwards around his classroom. iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org/2019/08/01/why…
Back in the 1940s, even hard-core Fundamentalist U sometimes put ideology in the back seat.
Exhibit A: in 1946, Bob Jones College grabbed as much army-surplus as it could, in spite of BJC’s generally leery attitude about the feds.
Exhibit B: In one famous case, though, Bob Jones clung to its conservative, segregationist ideology WAY longer than other white southern fundamentalist colleges. How did that work out?