Texas GOP Passes Bill To Stop Teachers From Talking About Racism

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I saw a headline a few weeks ago but did not read the article. I did not know how bad it actually is. I have to say, I am really shocked--yes, it is possible to be shocked yet---at how Republicans can openly pass such a bill such as this.

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05/11/2021 11:32 pm ET Updated May 12, 2021
Texas GOP Passes Bill To Stop Teachers From Talking About Racism


“It’s going to have a chilling effect on social studies and civics teachers across the state,” said Democratic state Rep. James Talarico.


Republicans in the Texas House passed a bill Tuesday that effectively bans public school teachers from talking about racism, white supremacy or current news events. :mad
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/texas-republicans-ban-teachers-racism_n_609a96c8e4b063dccea1a3ef?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004


The bill, which is being fast-tracked to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to sign into law, states that social studies and civics teachers aren’t allowed to discuss the concept that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex,” or the idea that “an individual, by virtue of the individual’s race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex.”



It also states that social studies and civics teachers “may not be compelled to discuss current events or widely debated and currently controversial issues of public policy or social affairs” as part of a course.

The legislation, which passed 79-65 almost entirely along party lines, doesn’t explicitly use the word “ban.” But it might as well.

“The bill is written in kind of a clever way,” said Democratic state Rep. James Talarico, a vocal critic of the bill. “You can talk about race in the classroom, but you can’t talk about privilege or white supremacy. It doesn’t outright ban talking about race, but the idea is to put in landmines so any conversation about race in the classroom would be impossible.”

The legislation also states that teachers don’t have to take professional training ― like cultural proficiency and equity training ― if it makes them feel any “discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress” because of their race or gender.


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[Lovie777]

1. Red state Texas has very little FREEDOM . . .

nor 1st Amendment.

[FakeNoose]

2. Hey y'know ... States' rights and Free-Dumb

[RANDYWILDMAN]

3. this is an idea

a great idea

let's go Texas you are better then that !

[catrose]

4. Remembering my high school years when I had to subscribe to a news magazine & turn in weekly reports

The times, they are a changing.

[Towlie]

5. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and that's what the Texas GOP wants.

 
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[WHITT]

6. Galileo Redux

who had the temerity to say, no, the sun does not revolve around the earth, the earth revolves around the sun.

[rownesheck]

7. Every major corporation

currently in Texas should pull the fuck out. Let Texas rot in its own fucking cesspool of racism, ignorance and perverted view of christianity.

Sane residents of the state (including myself) should move the fuck out as well. Let the goober fuckheads devolve into their thumbless, brain melted redneckery. It's what they want.

[Tree Lady]

9. If you google Alamo Heights which is part of

San Antonio, the part where the rich lives in mansions and put in damaged gardens you will see current article about a black man who dared in the mostly white area to run for school superintendent I think or something like that. People had signs out for him or they had that great sign that says in this house science matters, black lives matter, etc. 42 houses with those signs had their lawns, roses, gardens ruined by poison.

They are looking for who did it but my daughter who lives there (in older remodeled house not mansion) thinks it should be a hate crime.

In 2016 everyone there voted for Trump, no surprise the rich. He assumed they would again but Joe actually won this time.

[Tree Lady]

11. My daughter was one of the Beto people

They love him hope he runs again for something.

[DFW]

12. Once again: Republicans imitating their Stalinist role models

Before the wall fell, in West Germany, all schools taught extensively about the Nazis, how they ruled, both nationally and locally, what evil they had done, and why it was necessary they needed to remain vigilant that they never had a chance to rise again. In the Stalinist East Germany, they taught that the Nazis were bad, but that nowadays, the only neo-Nazis were in West Germany. No need to watch out for them any more because in their socialist paradise, there were no vestiges of Nazism any more. „Der realexistierende Sozialismus“ was, according to them, „Nazi-free,“ therefore, no need to beware of them.

Pretend that a latent evil doesn‘t exist any more, and that‘s the best way to assure that it will fester right under your nose. But that‘s probably what Abbott and Paxton want in the first place.