coming for texts about other marginalized groups. that is exactly what we are seeing happening. it was inevitable. these laws are anti-democratic, as tim snyder says. what we are seeing now is that a war on history, is a war on democracy. you brought up the osceola law, which i have read quite a bit. the guidance from the osceola in reference to the florida law. it bans the 1619 project and then it says that history has to be factual and objective. and then it mandates that you can only teach the story of america that says we were a country founded on universal rights. so we see that these two things are antithetical to each other, but what these laws are really about is indoctrination. they are about nationalism and patriotism. a healthy society does not ban ideas and it does not ban books. yeah, i mean, you quoted
so those of us who study these types of things knew that they were also going to eventually come for historical tests. that they were going to start coming for text about other marginalized groups. that is exactly what we are seeing happening. it was inevitable. these laws are anti democratic, as tim snider says. what we are seeing now is that a war on history is a war on democracy. you brought up the osceola law, which i have read quite a bit. the guidance from the osceola county in reference to the florida law. it bans 1619 project and then it says that history has to be factual and objective. and then it mandates that you can only teach the story of america that says we were a country founded on universal rights. so we see that these two things are antithetical to each other but what these laws are really about is indoctrination. they are about nationalism and patriotism.