Thread by @sissyfacey

@catchypiccolino @Dog_or_man @its_ms_croft The bill is Texas’s version of banning “critical race theory”. It is an attack on free speech and an attempt to whitewash the curriculum (even more). They don’t plan to get rid of APUSH, but it’s kind of hard to teach APUSH when the critical concept says 1/

@catchypiccolino @Dog_or_man @its_ms_croft From AP: “Racial slavery played an intrinsic and indispensable part in New World settlement. The institution was no abnormality, no aberration, no marginal feature; rather, its development is the grim and irrepressible theme governing the development of the Western Hemisphere"

@catchypiccolino @Dog_or_man @its_ms_croft #HB3979: “with respect to their relationship to American values, slavery and racism are anything other than deviations from, betrayals of, or failures to live up to, the authentic founding principles of the United States, which include liberty and equality". Clear conflict