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 and very casual about the people who bring us the truth, the reporters, and casual about the historians for passing memory laws in this country as russia has passed memory laws and laws designed in both cases to avoid the difficult little truths that might prevent us from investing in the big lice and the problem with the big
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 examples of this, which came through today, is a county in tennessee that is banning maus in schools. that is of course the pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel about the holocaust, which had a profound effect on me as a kid. i know many many people for whom that book was seminal, mind-blowing, one of the most effective masterpieces of historical education for kids.
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 of race in order to justify policies that are becoming increasingly anti democratic. we should note that one of the most striking examples of this, which came through today, is accounting in tennessee that is banning in schools. that is of course the pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel about the holocaust. which had a profound effect on
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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 of stoking division and resentment. and i don t think we quite know where we re going to go at this moment sad i there, they seem to be