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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/
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/