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They have once believed it. and it would challenge their understanding of who they are and they're worth in the world to lose that belief in it. it makes me worry about the ability to sort of underwire people to learn the truth. >> this is why lying is so dangerous and politics. we've gotten very casual about lying. we have a very casualty will bring us the truth or the reporters. we've gotten very casual about the historians, we're passing memory laws in this country just as russia has passed memory was. and there's a law designed in both cases to allow us to avoid the difficult little truths...

2020, then we have an argument for suppressing votes, because we can say, well, there was fraud, therefore we should suppress votes. >> it's because of the sort of commitment part of that, it makes it feel undoable, because it is an x number of people, become invested in, it because they have once believed it, and it would challenge their understanding of who they are and their worth in the world, to lose that belief in it. it makes me worry about the ability to sort of unwire people to learn the truth. >> and this is why it is so dangerous in politics. we've gotten very casual about league an...

That he wrote for the new york times magazine, cites these laws as memory laws. and he said that you see these types of laws being passed in countries that are very towards authoritarianism. and so, when you put that hand in hand with all the anti voting laws that are being passed right now, the laws against women's reproductive rights. you see that this is part of a larger strategy that turns americans against each other, that uses the original wedge issue of race in order to justify policies that are becoming increasingly anti democratic. >> we should note that one of the most striking examp...

They are putting on top and favoring over every other parent. this is not the sign of a healthy democracy. timothy snyder, in the piece that he wrote for the new york times magazine, really cites these laws as memory laws. and he said that you see these types of laws being passed in countries that are very authoritarian. and so, when you put that hand in hand with all the other anti voting laws that are being passed right now, the loss against women's reproductive rights. you see that this is part of a larger strategy that turns americans against each other, that uses the original wedge issue ...

Librarians are one of our greatest public goods. these are spaces -- i wouldn't be where i am today without my public library, which allowed me as a child to go in and read about all of these different people and places and gain a different understanding of the world and my place in it and to think that that is now a dangerous profession is demonstrative that i and others are trying to call out right now. our democracy on the brink. i don't know if our institutions will hold with the voting rights, memory laws, anti critical race laws but they are really anti history laws. they are all means o...