How can you be screaming about first amendment rights when you're trying to

[malaise]

prevent the teaching of accurate history?
Please help me out here.

[RKP5637]

1. The US has so many border illiterate people that have no F'en idea what amendment rights

are about.

[malaise]

3. Nicolle Wallace pointed this out two minutes after I posted

What an effin' joke - these people are lunatics

[3catwoman3]

19. Not even borderline illiterate. Many of these folks only seem a few...

...pen strokes short of only being able sign with an "X."

[elleng]

2. Don't expect logic; it's 'gone.'

[Skittles]

4. they are not interested in accurate history

they need revisionist history to appease their racist base

[SoonerPride]

5. Using the state to police speech (CRT) is illegal

And private companies policing speech is perfectly fine. Obviously.

But in MAGA world they are the victims all the time

[11 Bravo]

6. It's easy. First ... become a Republican. Actually, that's pretty much all it takes.

The hypocrisy will naturally follow.

[dianaredwing]

23. Its easy

I think that is a key.

I can remember many times not taking people to task for crap they said or did because, I mean, it was easy and what harm could it do?

Now we see what harm it can do when taken to such a degree. They are the Lord of the Flies multiplied and not taking them to task because it was easy or 'impolite' has gotten us here.

After all, it is the adults in the room who need to maintain decorum, and as Democrats, the adults in the room, we have allowed the childish Repugs way too much leeway for way too many years and now we have to try to 'retrain them.'

Good luck. It's much easier with dogs than with children and Repugs are the 'evil children' we all feared in horror movies.

They have tried to kill democracy and in doing so have killed many humans indiscriminately along the way. They must be taken to task and punished. I can see no other way.

[lastlib]

25. Right--just change your middle name to "hypocrisy".....

and it's ridiculously easy to do stoopid mental gymnastics.

[modrepub]

7. It's All About Control

You can't let the "others" have it or they'll use it to make things worse.

[malaise]

9. So these rights only belong to one side?

That's some crazy shit.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. Because that's what they do. Lying, gaslighting, and

pushing propaganda.

They want to carry out a purge of academia, just like all totalitarians, and they want to make the idea acceptable to a significant percentage of the population, and they will say whatever it takes.

Trying to find any reasoning beyond that is an exercise in futility.

[malaise]

10. Indeed

Because that's what they do. Lying, gaslighting, and pushing propaganda.

[gab13by13]

11. 20 minutes after MF45

held his "press conference," he started fund raising off it. When you are a carnival barker people are only going to pay to see the 2 headed goat once, you are going to have to change up to bilk money off people.

[malaise]

12. Nailed it

This act is so tired

[ancianita]

13. It is about that. And it's about states' rights to decide school curricula.

States can decide WHAT their kids learn in schools -- curricula content. How that gets done can vary from state to state.
States cannot tell professionals HOW to teach that content. That has a body of law behind it.

The whole idea that teachers can go BEYOND the minimum of the What, is what worries illiberals.
Usually it's why they home school kids, and why they want corporate privatization of schools, so that there isn't union backup for teachers who get targeted as 'too liberal.'

As long as all teachers teach to any state's curriculum -- documented in planning, assignments, tests, and approved texts -- they can get all that done in three out of the four marking periods of a school year. They can then do expanded activities that bring in relevant content. That way, they've done their job.

[Traildogbob]

14. State policing speech?????

You mean like Sucker Carlson wanting cameras in class rooms so you can fire teachers not delivering the GQP messages only? That kind of speech policing? Fuck all GQP with a Rusty bent blade post hole digger. Xtra large ones only.

[malaise]

15. +1,000

All of them

[MyOwnPeace]

22. I like your

"learning tool" of choice!

[Soph0571]

16. Love, white power decided the definition of hypocrisy a long time a go

It is their first amendment

[hadEnuf]

17. Because they are hypocritical phonies & liars beyond the absurd.

Everything that comes out of the GQP is bullshit. Everything.

It doesn't even have to make sense to their media-brainwashed followers at this point. They seem to have gone past that.

[monkeyman1]

18. as usual , TFG HAS NOT GOT A CLUE WHAT IS COMING OUT OF PIE HOLE !!!

[Orrex]

20. You make the mistake of expecting these to be thoughtful human beings

But they are, in fact, a cult of ignorant racist fuckheads, and all they do is viewed through the triple-lens of ignorance, racism, and fuckheadedness.

This especially applies to those ignorant racist fuckheads lurking here from their various incestuous KKKoncervative circle-jerk forums online.

[malaise]

21. Could not say it better

[hunter]

27. Anti-intellectualism has a long history in the U.S.A....

... especially the religious sort.

I don't believe in religious "tolerance."

Authoritarian anti-intellectual religions should not be tolerated.

Government should aggressively support anyone who chooses to leave these religions with a strong social safety net.

The only true religious freedom is the freedom to say "no" to whatever religious beliefs were imposed upon you as a child.

[Orrex]

28. Preach it! (nt)

[hunter]

29. I was in the fourth grade when my culturally Catholic and distantly Jewish mom...

... was booted out of the Jehovah's Witnesses because she couldn't stay out of politics.

The first book I read cover-to-cover was the Bible.

I was seven years old and praised for that.

I'm deeply twisted.

[iemanja]

24. It's gaslighting

That's their modus operandi.

[eppur_se_muova]

26. Just because you have the right to say anything, doesn't mean you have the right to learn anything.

Uglicans believe in speaking up without learning first.