Thread by @wihorne

Florida just banned everything I teach at the university level. If legislators bothered to take my class, they’d learn that backlash events like this always coincide with white supremacist vigilante & state violence. Then again, they may already know.

Students tell me they wish that they’d been taught abt histories of inequality in the US before college. They often say they feel like they’ve been lied to, well, bc they have. They don’t *want* to learn racist mythology—they want to understand the world as it actually exists.

There’s a reason that white conservatives want to hide the actual history of white conservatism from the many systems of racial plunder, torture, massacre, & genocide through their contemporary iterations in “school choice,” gentrification, or the “war on drugs.”

It’s no accident, in fact, that these book, content, instructor, & course bans coincide with an increasingly fascist Republican Party, one working overtime to undermine voting access, to expand public corruption, & to attack & eliminate their political opponents.

You can read abt what my White Backlash course shows abt todays Republican Party here: clioandthecontemporary.com/2022/01/12/tea…
And the syllabus here: clioandthecontemporary.com/2022/01/06/whi…

Or you can see the ravages of white conservatism through the lens of land & housing in the excellent Plot of Land podcast, to which I was proud to contribute. plotofland.monumentlab.com

There’s a reason they don’t want us to know this stuff: they don’t want us to know that they’re doing it right now—at this very moment—expanding the power & violence of the racial state. We’ve got to stop these monsters before it’s too late.