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10 Nov, 7 tweets, 4 min read
It's not a moral panic. We're just banning prize-winning books relating to race, gender or sexuality from school libraries.
kmuw.org/education/2021…
We're not banning books. Heavens no. We are just refusing to allow them in circulation because *one* person submitted a list of books they object to. kmuw.org/education/2021…
What I vaguely remember from being a kid is that if you are old enough to read difficult content you are probably the best judge of whether you can manage it.

Also, kids are interested in banned books.

Here is a list of the books this Kansas school district has banned.
Its not just that book bans seem to be happening quite a bit in 2021. They are also certain types of books that are systematically being banned.
And its not Huckleberry Finn. Its books related to gender, sexuality and race being targeted by conservatives. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/making-publi…
Example from Virginia
School Board member to School Superintendent: "Dr. Baker, you saw this coming from Northern Virginia—did it not occur to you to check what is on our libraries?"
fredericksburg.com/news/local/edu…
Some of the anti-CRT folk are trying to distance themselves from the surge of book bans. But if you tell parents their kids are being brainwashed, and the solution is to ban materials like the 1619 Project, why on earth do you think they will stop there?
edweek.org/teaching-learn…
Well, good! The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. It’s worth pushing back against book bans, even if it’s frustrating that we have to do it in 2021.

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With David Brooks new column, the NY Times has featured five pieces, plus multiple reader's letters about Dorian Abbot being disinvited from giving a talk.
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Why is the NY Times more focused on the Abbot case, rather than the U Florida censorship case, a story it broke? The simple answer is the opinion page, which has continued to push the case as an example of university failures, but can't find the same outrage for the Florida case.
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7 Nov
Turns out that the woke mob coming to cancel Aaron Rodgers is *checks notes* Terry Bradshaw
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5 Nov
Youngkin spokesperson: Just "a 17-year old kid who honestly misunderstood Virginia election law and simply asked polling officials if he was eligible to vote; when informed he was not, he went to school."

Twice? In the same day?
The election fraud was coming from inside the house
If the kid made a honest mistake about voting rules...twice...while his Dad was running for Governor, that's fine. But our tolerance for such errors often doesn't extend to former felons or immigrants unsure about their voting status. aclu.org/issues/voting-…
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4 Nov
More than anything, this is an example of how culture wars has broken people's perspective. In other countries like NZ, Aus and Canada (I think) acknowledgment of native peoples is routine. And people seem to be fine with it. But here its viewed as some new cradical wokeism.
Folks from other countries can chime in here, but when I visited Aus and NZ, acknowledging native peoples seemed routine. Pretty sure they figured this out themselves rather than learn from the US (or whatever McWhorter's thesis is)
Its perfectly reasonable to view this as cringe, as empty theater. But by making the acknowledgement, the parties involved create some normative expectation where they either do something more than empty words or being accused of hypocrites. Thats not nothing.
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These are the human cost of the CRT moral panic: a school principal was accused of CRT. No evidence was offered but he was fired. Students say his real crime was trying to create an inclusive environment for those who were traditionally excluded. washingtonpost.com/education/inte…
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The best way to make sure students don't believe in the false allure of CRT is to *check notes* punish previously apolitical students for protesting when the community's first Black school principal is fired for dubious reasons.
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