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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 panic's. >> 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, what's in libraries. as a mechanism to draw their base voters out for this election i think it is going to be really i...

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 disapproving crowds. the crowds are no longer literal, as they once were in salem, but rather online mobs o...

Something that is anticipated, under the guidance that even me in my contrarian view, that go against the moral panic that's going on, school should be the last to close, in the first to open. it doesn't 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, we're doing so because of the necessity of the pandemic. >> yeah, it's a very good point. i hear that line all the time, that school should be the last to close in the first open. because why are barr's? open ...

Out of your book title. i apologize. i want to talk about this trend of policing school libraries because it is not new. we've seen this over decades. what's 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 don't like the election, we are going to take over the capitol on january 6th. we ever going to completely reject the majority and put in our electo...

Happened to the whole don't care about your feelings thing this is trying to legislate around people's 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 virginia, the new governor following through on campaign ads highlighting a conservative activist...