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14 Jun, 7 tweets, 3 min read
And now students, you will recite your patriotic history. Please keep in mind that your teacher’s bodycam must be turned on for the duration of the class to ensure their compliance. No questions or “controversial topics” will be allowed.
Background reading: Texas “patriotic education” is raising questions. houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas…
Just questions … questions… questions…
dallasnews.com/news/education…
And not to leave out Florida… where patriotic education is just as fun as DisneyWorld with no masks or hand sanitizer…! floridaphoenix.com/2021/03/17/gov…
Body cams! ktla.com/news/nationwor…
Good piece on all the madness by @CharlesPPierce here: esquire.com/news-politics/…
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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
16 Jun
What the CRT hysterics are essentially saying — literally without knowing what Critical Race Theory is — is that teachers must not ask whether we have arrived, via slavery and its aftermath, at an unequal society. And even if we have, it’s only fair that we freeze it there.
Apparently these people want teachers to teach that the founders of this country were racial innocents, who despite all but seven of them owning slaves had a secret, hundred-year plan to end the practice that enriched them and their families even after their deaths, using a WAR.
They want storytime not history; despite the fact that thanks to Confederate socialites, American students since the civil war were taught a “lost cause” perversion of history that excused the insurrection, buried the truth about massacres and left people ignorant about our past.
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15 Jun
So let me get this straight ... this man goes into a store and is told he has to wear a mask due to covid. He shoots at the store clerk, goes home, unassailed, gets AK-47 and shoots at SEVEN cops, whose response is to shoot him in the BUTT and the FOOT and THIS IS THE HEADLINE??? Image
He "just wasn't handling the pandemic well" is the excuse that not just his lawyer uses: IT'S THE LEDE IN THE NEWS STORY! Where are the "just comply" people now? What happened to police training to shoot at the head or the center mass? And folks claim there's no white privilege. Image
And it was this paragraph that just ... just floored me. Read this and tell me it doesn't sound like a story about policing in someplace other than America... Image
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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
14 Jun
This is a great summation of how we wound up with a Confederate rewrite of American history in our cities via monuments to the treasonous South, and in our textbooks, since the “lost cause” narrative bled out of just the South into K-12 education nationwide for decades.
Thankfully, teachers today have the chance to teach accurate history that gets past the sing-song storytime that omits the violence in places like Tulsa and fails to give context to the residual racial strife that we still see today, and that now poses a national security threat.
These Republicans who are demanding that we hide history from students aren’t helping kids to be smarter or more informed. They’re trying to lock them into an era that’s already gone. And a lot of these kids will find out the truth anyway.
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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
11 Jun
Open question to those who are afraid of “critical race theory” (which isn’t being taught in K-12 schools; it’s a course offering in law schools, but you clearly are conflating it with the #1619Project.) What do you WANT taught about U.S. slavery and racism? Nothing? Or what?
Currently, most k-12 students already learn a kind of Confederate Race Theory, whereby the Daughters of the Confederacy long ago imposed a version of history wherein slavery was not so bad and had nothing to do with the civil war, and lynchings and violence never happened.
Is this about continuing to teach Confederate Race Theory? And continuing to omit things like the founders owning slaves, or the facts about the mass extermination of the indigenous? Are you insisting that those things continue to be omitted? If so, why?
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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
11 Jun
We’ll be back in Scopes Trial territory soon. Teachers being told to wear body cams, so some unnamed authority can monitor their lessons to ensure they’re teaching only “patriotic history” — droning out dirges about how slavery was actually a blessing and there is no racism…?
These people are in hysterics and desperate to zombify American students who they assume can’t get access to the truth. Are they going to monitor the Internet like China to keep kids from discovering that the founders held slaves? Ban books? Make watching the Watchmen illegal?
Seriously, it’s getting THAT WEIRD out there…
esquire.com/news-politics/…
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Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 Profile picture
10 Jun
That presumes he’s even going to run for re-election, as opposed to say, running for WV governor instead, or joining a corporate board or becoming a fossil fuels lobbyist or something else. The question is, what does he want? That’s how you figure out who has what leverage…
And don’t tell me he wants “bipartisanship” or the Senate to be like in the olden days when 100 old white guys cut deals across the aisle over cigars and brandy. The latter might be true but so what. What does he want NOW?
Also miss me with “he wants what his constituents in rural, ruby red West Virginia want, because the data suggests otherwise…
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