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That was pioneered in the texas abortion law. being sort of used copied and pasted out and other places. the anti critical race theory that movement that started, but a year ago, kind of metastasized in all kinds of ways. start to look very familiar to previous periods of american moral panics. >> yeah. it feels like the 1990s all over again. and indeed, i think republicans are clearly going to use this quote unquote education. parental involvement. what is taught in schools, whats in libraries....

Nor ambiguity. but the online sphere has come to dominate many culture institutions, universities, museums. they sometimes impose the equivalent of a lifetime scarlet letter on people who have not been accused of anything remotely resembling a crime. instead of courts, they use secretive bureaucracies. instead of hearing evidence and witnesses, they make judgments behind closed doors. this is a story of moral panic, of cultural institutions policing or purifying themselves in the face of disappr...

Something that is anticipated, under the guidance that even me in my contrarian view, that go against the moral panic thats going on, school should be the last to close, in the first to open. it doesnt make sense that schools closed, one bars, and restaurants are open. we have to have a very consistent policy, we want to make sure that it for advocating for things like school closures, were doing so because of the necessity of the pandemic. >> yeah, its a very good point. i hear that line all th...

Out of your book title. i apologize. i want to talk about this trend of policing school libraries because it is not new. weve seen this over decades. whats behind the moment that we find ourselves in, this new moral panic? >> we are witnessing the death rattle of white supremacy that has become the death march and this radicalized, weaponized minority. and so, we are seeing that hey if we can control power, we are going to attack freedoms. if we dont like the election, we are going to take over ...

Happened to the whole dont care about your feelings thing this is trying to legislate around peoples feelings. should really be called the trigger warning for white guys bill. there is similar examples in texas where new laws restrict the way history and race are taught, a lone star state legislator submitted a list of 850 suspect books to school superintendents, including works by margaret atwood and tan hasse coates, resulting in books being removed for review in districts like san antonio. in...

13% because of sexual education, not taught in all texas schools. mind you, these books are educational, not pornographic. i am enraged these harmless books are being attacked and i am not alone on this. >> joining our panel, he is also the author of the new book "go back to where you came from." and other helpful recommendations on how to become american. raj, i almost took the satire out of your book title. i apologize. i want to talk about this trend of policing school libraries because it is...

As we are talking about, they were asked to bring in pictures of their family to school which they put on bulletin boards and they get up and speak about their families. by doing that theyre bringing up sexual orientation. its not about sex, its about families. >> the florida legislature successfully manufactured something that talking heads can only dream of, a slippery slope. genuinely ask yourself, who is next years target? >> welcome back to "the sunday show." im jonathan capehart. what bega...

The people who dont. they are degrading, they are crazy, they are the opposite of what you want. you want to live in a country where wisdom and restraint and rational behavior and indecency determine the outcomes. not screaming. we live in a country of moral panic. the first one begin may of 2020 with the death of george floyd in minneapolis. the second moral panic was covid. we have lived through that. so for nearly two years, that shouting has not ended. history is now the official language of...

And the companys love affair that woke companies. apple, mastercard, lots of other american companies are taking victory laps for their role in punishing russia. right. punish russia. we are not against that. but you have to wonder. youve just just seen a handful of woke corporations crash a country and impoverished and citizens indiscriminately appear that country is russia so most of us arent even thinking about the precedent it sets. its fine. its russia. who cares? but is it possible the sam...

Trying to signal to q believers, all i could think of is what does ben collins make of this? s the moral panic around pedophilia has seeped itself into republican party talking points. its an easy way to wink and nod at this thing, saying of course we dont believe that joe biden is running some sort of secret cabal of child eaters, but what about this smaller idea that maybe theyre just being, you know, easy on pedophiles. that allows you to tie in all these other things, the transphobic element...