“Freedom Caucus” Types Abandon Pretense
We’re not gonna teach 1619 or CRT crap. I know they do all that up in Virginia. The rights of parents, that trumps the rights of kids. Teachers are the experts? Teachers have all the knowledge? Are you kidding me? I know lots of teachers that are very good, but to suggest they are the authorities, you’re on better drugs than me.
-Barney Bishop III, board chair of the Tallahassee Classical School
Florida's GOP wanted to avoid saying what they actually meant, so they said something stupid instead.
-Peter Greene, “Of Course Schools Teach About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity”
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
-Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
We seem to be at a point in the history of the “anti-woke” wars where everyone is so tired and/ or arrogant about their victories that even those building entire public identities around made-up crusades are giving up on hiding their actual agendas, and on trying to make it seem like those agendas really …
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