The cancel culture in full display in House committee today
The cancel culture in full display in House committee today
Amid all the Republican moaning about
“cancel culture,” they sure do a lot of cancellation, as even a cursory view of the legislative agenda illustrates.
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It includes HB 1816 by Rep. Aaron Pilkington that specifies which
flags schools may fly (they MUST fly a U.S. and state flag and otherwise may only fly a school or county flag, lest some decide to fly a rainbow flag or something.)
More pernicious is HB 1592 by Rep. Mark Lowery, dishonestly labeled a “student protection act.” It’s more anti-abortion legislation, prohibiting any connection, even unpaid, between a school and an agency or health professional who might
The war against transgender children continues and the nation takes note. Also: Is it drawers-dropping time? UPDATE
Brian Chilson
The toll is mounting in the
Arkansas legislature’s war on transgender children, with perhaps the cruelest for sheer personal pettiness on the agenda in the House Education Committee this morning.
It is Rep. Mary Bentley’s HB 1749 to require public school employees to refer to children by the name and sex listed on their birth certificates. It is the intentional, demeaning ghosting of transgender children. (UPDATE: It was announced this morning that the bill would be amended and so would not be heard in committee today.)
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March 17, 2021 - 1:38pm
Donald Trump s presidency was defined by racism. His rhetoric and policies consistently denigrated and harmed people of color. And as he ran for a second term in 2020, his White House and campaign strategy merged into one, a broad campaign to scare white suburbanites into voting for the supposed law and order candidate.
While the Trump administration arrested racial justice and antifascist protesters and spread racist propaganda, it sought to further exploit racial divisions by targeting education on history and race. Now Republican lawmakers in several states are trying to ban a curriculum that teaches students about America s racist past.