Judd Legum: New Oklahoma curriculum includes pro-Trump conspiracy theories

[Nevilledog]

https://popular.info/p/new-oklahoma-curriculum-includes

Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump's debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum created by Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters (R).

The new curriculum includes a section that requires students to "analyze contemporary turning points of 21st-century American society." That requirement includes the following:

Identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results by looking at graphs and other information, including the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, the security risks of mail-in balloting, sudden batch dumps, an unforeseen record number of voters, and the unprecedented contradiction of “bellwether county” trends.

In March, Walters said the purpose of this section was to teach "students to think for themselves" and "not be spoon-fed left-wing propaganda." According to Walters, there are "legitimate concerns" about the integrity of the 2020 election that were "raised by millions of Americans in 2020."

Walters is wrong. There are no "discrepancies" in the 2020 election results that validate the claims of Trump and his allies that the results were fraudulent. The new curriculum is simply an amalgamation of unsupported claims.

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[Demovictory9]

1. "sudden batch dumps" is simply huge batches of ballots coming in from urban areas

[LudwigPastorius]

2. Why doesn't Texas fall into the Gulf?

Because Oklahoma sucks.

[sakabatou]

3. Maybe they should teach what a conspiracy theory is

and how to recognize and dispel it from their own thoughts.