Thread by @Sanikri

1/ What is happening in America? Why are politicians dictating what educators can say or not say in their classrooms?
Is it accurate to suggest that most of Hitler's initiatives in Nazi Germany are emulated and followed by Republicans? You decide!

2/ It’s happening not just in Florida, but all over the United States! 35 mainly Republican states have introduced 137 bills limiting what schools can teach with regard to race, American history, politics, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

3/ Similar to what the Nazis did after they arose to power in 1933. Hitler's totalitarian government exercised complete control over the people, infusing Nazi ideology into every institution and infiltrating it with Nazi personnel in key positions.
Schools were no exception.

4/ They quickly passed new laws to make public education reflect and teach their radical and racial ideologies.
Hitler placed a high value on educating the nation's youth. To be able to control the education of children, the Nazis needed to control all the schools.

5/ . Just like in Florida, where every key position is filled with extreme Republicans, the governor has full control over state legislation, and the schools and school boards are no exception. The Nazi government - like those in the other 35 states -, attempted

6/ (and Republicans continue to attempt) to control the minds of the younger generation by teaching their beliefs in the school curriculum, among other things. The Nazis also changed what schools taught. Familiar?
npr.org/2022/07/13/111…

7/ They added new subjects and altered some to make them more German. Today, similar to the Nazis, across the U.S., educators are being censored for presenting controversial topics, which means that teachers have to be very careful about how they discuss something like,

8/ let's say, fascism, racism, antisemitism, gender identification, anything about the LGBTQ+ population, or even political views. It must be a very terrifying time to be an educator at any level, whether teaching as a K–12 teacher or as a professor in a higher education system.

9/ The Nazis also censored and banned books; what books were "against the un-German spirit" were largely political, with ideologies opposed to Nazism, including books on race and sexuality.

10/ Books by famous writers like Heinrich Mann, Ernst Gläser, Erich Kästner, Bertolt Brecht, August Bebel, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Mann, and Jack London were also banned and burned, as were the works of international best-selling author Erich Maria Remarque.

11/ Efforts to ban books in the United States have surged at a rate the American Library Association calls "unprecedented," with attempts currently at their highest level since the organization began tracking them 20 years ago.

12/ Approximately 2,532 individual books are being banned, affecting 1,648 unique book titles. A total of 674 banned titles (41%) involve LGBTQ themes or have protagonists or prominent secondary characters who are LGBTQ. 59 banned titles (40%) feature protagonists or

13/ prominent secondary characters of color, with 338 banned titles (21%) directly addressing issues of race and racism. Texas ranked first among states with the most bans (801 in 22 districts), followed by Florida (566 in 21 districts) theonion.com/books-ron-desa…

14/ and Pennsylvania (457 in 11 districts). The American Library Association opposing to censor books in schools and in libraries.
ala.org/news/press-rel…
Republicans took away people's rights—the right to read a particular book or to access it in a public library.

15/ "Under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, each of us has the right to read, view, listen to, and disseminate constitutionally protected ideas—even if others find those ideas offensive," says Von Drasek.

16/ Republicans not only took away all children's opportunities for a good quality & complete education through their policies, but many of them also required teachers to denounce ideas like Marxism or socialism in the strongest possible terms. (dsausa.org/about-us/what-…).

17/ The Republicans don’t want our children or people to be well educated; that much is clear. They want those who are uneducated to believe their misinformation and not ask questions.

18/ If Americans are not vigilant and don't take action, fascism might gain control of the nation, putting our democracy and overall freedom in peril! jetsetmag.com/exclusive/busi…

19/ As Isaac Asimov said:
'The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Say NO to Fascism!
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