Banned Books Week 2023 (Oct. 1–7)

[Guno צְבִי]

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.”

What book that looks honestly at U.S. history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader?



Proponents of the bills argue they are protecting children from feeling guilty and from propaganda.



In truth, what concerns the right is young people learning to ask critical questions about our society, to organize for social change, and about the power of interracial solidarity.

The book bans and anti-education laws are united in their larger political goal: to rob children of access to a usable past, an account of history that helps them fully see and understand their present.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/banned-books-usa/

[Doc Dutch]

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.”

What book that looks honestly at U.S. history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader?



Proponents of the bills argue they are protecting children from feeling guilty and from propaganda.



In truth, what concerns the right is young people learning to ask critical questions about our society, to organize for social change, and about the power of interracial solidarity.

The book bans and anti-education laws are united in their larger political goal: to rob children of access to a usable past, an account of history that helps them fully see and understand their present.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/banned-books-usa/

That rules out the Bible. LOL

Even Dr. Seuss couldn't be taught under tht rule.

[T. A. Gardner]

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.”

What book that looks honestly at U.S. history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader?



Proponents of the bills argue they are protecting children from feeling guilty and from propaganda.



In truth, what concerns the right is young people learning to ask critical questions about our society, to organize for social change, and about the power of interracial solidarity.

The book bans and anti-education laws are united in their larger political goal: to rob children of access to a usable past, an account of history that helps them fully see and understand their present.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/banned-books-usa/

From your link:

Tucson
In 2012, the Tucson Unified School District decided to abolish the highly successful Mexican American Studies (MAS) Program and called for an immediate removal of all program books, including Rethinking Columbus, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Occupied America, and Five Hundred Years of Chicano History in Pictures. The Zinn Education Project helped amplify this issue, raising awareness about the threat to all people’s history curricula.

Five years later, in August of 2017, a federal judge ruled that the state of Arizona violated the constitutional rights of students by eliminating the program.

Read about this victory in a Rethinking Schools interview with Mexican American Studies program instructor Curtis Acosta.

I played a role in getting the Raza Studies (it became the MAS program only after being exposed as a radical Leftist indoctrination program) program in the TUSD banned. I worked with a reporter, Doug MacEachern, at the Arizona Republic on this. I deep dove their online sites and showed very clearly that the program was a far Left and radical as it could be. The summer workshops for teachers in the program were filled with the most radical, communist, Leftists like Peter McLaren, Sandy Grande, and the like.
I parsed and reviewed their statistics on their courses and pointed out numerous questionable data, like how the number of students in the program remained constant, and badly done statistics--obvious amateurs at that--they were using to justify the course's supposed success.

Toss in protests to support it by the likes of the Brown Berets, students taking over a city council meeting and chaining themselves to the council chairs, and how the program was closely tied to the radical Leftist Raza Studies program at the U of A. Then you could peruse their online course bibliography and select any of a number of horribly racist, radical Leftist books to use as examples of how awful this program was.

It deserved to die.

[Guno צְבִי]

From your link:

Tucson
In 2012, the Tucson Unified School District decided to abolish the highly successful Mexican American Studies (MAS) Program and called for an immediate removal of all program books, including Rethinking Columbus, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Occupied America, and Five Hundred Years of Chicano History in Pictures. The Zinn Education Project helped amplify this issue, raising awareness about the threat to all people’s history curricula.

Five years later, in August of 2017, a federal judge ruled that the state of Arizona violated the constitutional rights of students by eliminating the program.

Read about this victory in a Rethinking Schools interview with Mexican American Studies program instructor Curtis Acosta.

I played a role in getting the Raza Studies (it became the MAS program only after being exposed as a radical Leftist indoctrination program) program in the TUSD banned. I worked with a reporter, Doug MacEachern, at the Arizona Republic on this. I deep dove their online sites and showed very clearly that the program was a far Left and radical as it could be. The summer workshops for teachers in the program were filled with the most radical, communist, Leftists like Peter McLaren, Sandy Grande, and the like.
I parsed and reviewed their statistics on their courses and pointed out numerous questionable data, like how the number of students in the program remained constant, and badly done statistics--obvious amateurs at that--they were using to justify the course's supposed success.

Toss in protests to support it by the likes of the Brown Berets, students taking over a city council meeting and chaining themselves to the council chairs, and how the program was closely tied to the radical Leftist Raza Studies program at the U of A. Then you could peruse their online course bibliography and select any of a number of horribly racist, radical Leftist books to use as examples of how awful this program was.

It deserved to die.

Good brown shirt

[T. A. Gardner]

Good brown shirt

The "Brown shirts" were the Brown Berets who protested in favor of the program:

[Doc Dutch]

Good brown shirt

I think he prefers a black shirt with a silver death's head symbol on it.

[Lionfish]

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.”

What book that looks honestly at U.S. history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader?



Proponents of the bills argue they are protecting children from feeling guilty and from propaganda.



In truth, what concerns the right is young people learning to ask critical questions about our society, to organize for social change, and about the power of interracial solidarity.

The book bans and anti-education laws are united in their larger political goal: to rob children of access to a usable past, an account of history that helps them fully see and understand their present.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/banned-books-usa/

Odd OP guano especially when your side wants to sue, have fired, or jail for "misgendering" some idiot that thinks they can pretend to be a different sex.

[Yakuda]

The Oklahoma law HB 1775, passed in 2021, restricts teaching that could make a student “feel discomfort, guilt, anguish or any other form of psychological distress on account of his or her race or sex.”

What book that looks honestly at U.S. history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader?



Proponents of the bills argue they are protecting children from feeling guilty and from propaganda.



In truth, what concerns the right is young people learning to ask critical questions about our society, to organize for social change, and about the power of interracial solidarity.

The book bans and anti-education laws are united in their larger political goal: to rob children of access to a usable past, an account of history that helps them fully see and understand their present.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/banned-books-usa/

But just don't misgender someone right? It's amazing how bold you are about letting us know just how stupid you are. Good for you. Be proud of who you are.

[Guno צְבִי]

But just don't misgender someone right? It's amazing how bold you are about letting us know just how stupid you are. Good for you. Be proud of who you are.

What an ignorant schmuck

[Yakuda]

What an ignorant schmuck

Lmfao so much for your bullshit about the risk of causing discomfort huh? Stfu cunt mouth

[Nordberg]

Have any of you crazed rightys read a book that did harm to you? The ones who burn books are the bad guys. The ones who repress them will be recorded in historical infamy. It shows you know you cannot win the debate of ideas, so you want to ban thoughts and books you do not approve of.
The rights are grooming children .