The MAGA War on Education: A Culture War Upon KNOWLEDGE ITSELF (Part II)

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Republicans Have Introduced 377 'Educational Intimidation' Bills Since 2021: PEN America

"Such bills represent a growing effort to "hijack public education in America," said PEN America's Jonathan Friedman."

Over the past two and a half years, Republicans across the United States have introduced nearly 380 bills aimed at establishing a climate of fear among educators, librarians, and other school officials, according to a report released Wednesday by the free expression group PEN America.

Distinct from the outright censorship measures that GOP lawmakers have unveiled in a number of U.S. states in recent years, "educational intimidation" bills "pressure educators to be more timid in the content they teach, pressure librarians to be more restrictive in the books they make available to students, and pressure students to limit their self-expression, without imposing direct prohibitions," the new report notes.

"Put simply, these 'educational intimidation' provisions... empower the use of intimidation tactics to cast a broad chilling effect over K-12 classrooms by mandating new and intrusive forms of inspection or monitoring of schools, as well as new ways for members of the public—including, in some cases, citizens with no direct connection to the schools—to object to whatever they see that they do not like....

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1. The right-wing campaign to make our kids dumber

The right-wing campaign to make our kids dumber

For reasons that may not be too hard to understand, Republicans and conservatives seem to be intent on turning their K-12 schools, colleges and universities into plantations for raising a crop of ignorant and unthinking students.

Experts sound alarm over concerning ‘propaganda’ found in public school curriculum: ‘It’s evil more than it is stupid’

The Florida Department of Education has approved screening videos that deny the Earth’s changing climate to schoolchildren in the state, according to the Guardian.

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2. As soon as a movement enrobes itself with the magic word

"rights" -- "my 1st Amendment rights", "my 2nd Amendment rights", "my parental rights", etc., etc., etc. -- it seems to allow for all sorts of weaseling to corrupt the concept. This includes the MAGA mindset that their rights are superior to your rights.