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The Critical Race Theory Explainer Every White Person Should Read
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The current conservative narrative about critical race theory falsely claiming that the academic framework is “racist,” “Marxist,” and punishes people for being white was launched by Fox News in the summer of 2020. Throughout the rest of that year and into 2021 which coincided with one of the most significant periods of civil rights protest in decades the network repeatedly fearmongered about this decades-old study of systemic racism. The ensuing right-wing panic led to a Trump executive order and Republican bills in legislatures around the country attempting to ban the teaching of critical race theory. In turn, Fox News is now covering the local bills and right-wing outrage as supposed proof that the academic field is controversial.
Republicans want to defund schools that teach America s history of racism
Republicans’ assault on academic freedom has been kicked into high gear in the past few weeks.
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May 6, 2021, 9:30 AM UTC
First, the GOP declared its war on voting access after President Joe Biden s election victory. Then came the GOP s battle to criminalize protests in response to last summer s Black Lives Matter protests. Now the GOP rounds out a trilogy in its war on the foundations of our democracy by seeking to ban schools from teaching students about a subject it doesn t approve of: systemic racism and how it affects our institutions.
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Being our semi-regular weekly survey of what’s goin’ down in the several states where, as we know, the real work of governmentin’ gets done, and where you walk a rugged mile.
Something is circulating in the air and/or water in our state legislatures again. My evidence is that various local solons seem to be losing their minds. We begin in Tennessee, where an argument unseen in that state since 1860 suddenly erupted again. Rep. Justin Lafferty (R-Knoxville) arose in the Tennessee House to argue the upside of the Three-Fifths Compromise that was embedded in the original Constitution. This is another one of those arguments I thought was settled, but here we are. From CNN:
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