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Re:A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Ugly by res0nat0r on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @01:20PM (#29727828)
I think the bigger issue as of right now is that this book banning and "anti-CRT" nonsense is actually becoming a major rightwing talking point driving voters and is backed by coordinated dark money groups which are trying to take over school boards and harass / oust all educators who don't toe the current propaganda line. These folks are working now to take over at the local government / local level then start working up the chain to impose whatever crazy talking points they're currently drowning in.
Re:A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Ugly by slowmovintarget on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @02:14PM (#29728729)
So the people on the right have learned from the people on the left (I guess it eventually happens) and are now doing what they did.

Progressives have forty years of work to dominate school boards, starting with University administration, on down through K-12 administration, to the point where some elementary schools are teaching "white" children they should feel guilty for being born "white." No, this isn't happening everywhere, but it is happening in some schools.

Progressives have blown past Martin Luther King's "content of their character" and haired off into Animal Farm territory. This is why MLK is now being claimed to be "problematic." His way led to reconciliation, rather than a new dominance hierarchy. Progressives in general seem to be playing to "win" not to solve, as MLK was.

When one force pushes that hard, it's likely to cause a reaction. I think we're seeing it.

Re:A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Ugly by bradbatt on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @03:08PM (#29729365)
> to the point where some elementary schools are teaching "white" children they should feel guilty for being born "white."

No they aren't. No one is doing this anywhere.

Re:A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Ugly by res0nat0r on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @05:33PM (#29730975)
No, this hasn't happened.
Re:A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Ugly by bjt2n3904 on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @02:24PM (#29728885)
Yeah, and it's difficult to stomach the gaslighting. "We haven't been pushing you at all! Why are you reacting like this!?"
Re:A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Ugly by bjt2n3904 on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @01:34PM (#29728072)
> backed by coordinated dark money groups which are trying to take over school boards and harass / oust all educators who don't toe the current propaganda line

I believe this is what they call, "the iron law of woke projection".

Re:A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Ugly by res0nat0r on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @06:56PM (#29731699)
This is actually happening in the real world and has already been documented, so not sure what this means.
Re:A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Ugly by bitwize on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @02:01PM (#29728524)
It's well known that unfounded conspiracy theories are hallmarks of the right, not the left. An example is the irrational and dangerous suggestion that George Soros has been doing what the Koch brothers have clearly been doing for decades.
Re:A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Ugly by bjt2n3904 on Wednesday December 29, 2021 @02:05PM (#29728595)
- Covington Catholic Kids

- Jussie Smollett

- The Steele Dossier

Should I go on?