1. The decision of a Tennessee county school board to ban Maus from the classroom is not an isolated incident
It is part of a much broader effort to censor history and literature being packaged under euphemisms like "parents rights"
Follow along if interested
It is part of a much broader effort to censor history and literature being packaged under euphemisms like "parents rights"
Follow along if interested
2. The archetypal "parents rights" candidate was Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin.
Youngkin's closing TV ad featured a woman who tried to get Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved banned from her son's AP English class
She called it "explicit material"
Youngkin's closing TV ad featured a woman who tried to get Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved banned from her son's AP English class
She called it "explicit material"
3. In Florida, @GovRonDeSantis is pushing legislation to require teachers to describe America's founding as "based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence"
That, of course, is a lie. Black people, women, and others were denied these rights
That, of course, is a lie. Black people, women, and others were denied these rights
@GovRonDeSantis 4. In Williamson County, Tennessee, @Moms4Liberty, a right-wing dark money group, is arguing that the state's new "anti-CRT" bill prohibits second graders from reading books about MLK Jr. and other civil rights icons
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5. @Moms4Liberty argues that these books show "a heavily biased agenda, one that makes children hate their country, each other, and/or themselves"
They also objected to a negative depiction of Bull Connor, the notorious racist who used hoses & attack dogs to enforce segregation
They also objected to a negative depiction of Bull Connor, the notorious racist who used hoses & attack dogs to enforce segregation
6. In Oklahoma, a state senator introduced a bill prohibiting school libraries from carrying books "that address the study of sex, sexual preferences, sexual activity, sexual perversion, sex-based classifications, sexual identity, [or] gender identity."
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