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22 Sep, 11 tweets, 3 min read
the wild part is that nothing about this freakout over curricula is novel. In the 1930s, there was a organized campaign by conservative activists against a set of widely used textbooks bc they acknowledged things like the existence of racism in US history and wealth inequality.
At one point, a powerful advertising lobby group got in on the controversy, taking issue with those social studies textbooks bc one included the phrase “advertising costs were passed on to the consumer.”

They said it disparaged USian marketing.
As @adamlaats told us, in some places, they took to just burning these social textbooks. (This was the 1930s, so those activists clearly didn’t think through the contemporary parallels in Europe to these book-burning campaigns.)
The language of freak out has barely needed an update since then: the opponents of those textbooks said they taught kids to hate America; were part of a socialist plot, etc.
We couldn’t even get into one of the biggest and ugliest curriculum fights: in Kanawha County, WV, in the early 1970s.

White conservative opponents to multicultural curriculum bombed + shot up school buses and a grade school. They disenrolled their kids from local schools.
They marched with signs that read: “Keep Those Nigger Books Out Of Our Schools.” Or: “I Have A Bible I Don’t Need Those Dirty Books.” The local Klan came out in full-throated support of the protest.
@Trey_Kay did a v good radio doc on that controversy called “The Great Textbook War”:

wnyc.org/story/70579-th…
And as @meaganmday wrote, that conflagration in Kanawha County was a harbinger of things to come in USian politics:

timeline.com/this-violent-1…
(Apologies for typos.)

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and this drop is true of nearly every big city in the US – homicide and violent crime rates have PLUMMETED over the last two decades, and at or near record lows in some places. but if you watch local news (or read Nextdoor) you might think it's Mad Max out here.
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it's a very politically useful innumeracy — hard to make an argument for rethinking budget priorities around, say, policing if crime is "skyrocketing."
on our neighborhood Nextdoor, a police captain posts these context-less crime incident reports and commenters are always like "what is happening to/in our neighborhood?"

it's a good q, but not for the reasons they ask. who are the most likely victims?(it's not ppl on nextdoor.)
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He’s a volume shooter who is a below average three-point shooter with an elite floater game

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We might be about to, though.
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He might be the most complete player ever, but no one considers him the greatest. It’s weird.
He’s never had to be, like, full tilt every night except for one stretch when Russ was out.

we’ve seen Bron have to do it and Steph have to do it and Harden have to do it. It’s not ideal — it usually means something has gone wrong — but KD hasnt.
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