'What the GOP-orchestrated educational speech bans do is create a false binary between 'pro' and 'anti'-American history, flattening all rational analysis and discouraging student engagement in the process,' anthonyLfisher writes
But there is obviously a vast middle ground between importing an Angela Davis lecture into a fifth grade social studies class and teaching children a mindlessly jingoistic version of American history.
When learning about the unsavory aspects of U.S. history during my public school education, I gleaned that America had an unfortunate period of chattel slavery, and then some stuff happened to end it, followed by some backward Southern laws that treated Black people as second-class citizens, which were ended thanks to the heroism of Martin Luther King, Jr.These fear-based laws expose the hyper-nationalist Right’s inferiority complex about America.
What the GOP-orchestrated educational speech bans do is create a false binary between “pro” and “anti”-American history, flattening all rational analysis and discouraging student engagement in the process.In a report released this week , the free speech rights advocacy group wrote that “the purpose of these bills is not simply to cultivate patriotism. Rather, it is to make patriotism—or more specifically, a knee jerk and uncritical form of patriotism—compulsory.”
The report notes that the U.S. has a long record of “censoriousness centered on patriotic sentiment”—such as “the
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