Banning Critical Race Theory Is More Serious Than One Might Think
Until I listened to Terry Gross’s interview with researcher Jeffrey Sachs (pictured), I thought the war against Critical Race Theory was simply a windmill that the far right could tilt its jousting stick at. Wrong. I learned that, “across the U.S., educators are being censored for broaching controversial topics. Since January 2021, 35 states have introduced 137 bills limiting what schools can teach with regard to race, American history, politics, sexual orientation and gender identity.” (more…)
As a critic of 
What a brilliant man, and a true humanitarian.
I love the ads for survival guides that claim: “They don’t teach this in our schools because they don’t want us to be self-reliant.”
Science has been aware of the toxicity of mercury and the other heavy metals for more than half a century. This is why we have unleaded gasoline and a campaign to remove lead-based paints.
Assuming Trump is gone by 2024, Ron DeSantis is, at this moment, the most likely Republican candidate for the U.S. presidency. As shown at left, he’ll certainly have the backing of every anti-science moron in the country.
Ooo! Ooo! Call on me!
Great point here, and I think pretty much every one of us understands this, at least at some level.
The banning of “controversial” books from our schools’ curricula is a horrific development in American education–as if we needed yet one more.
I had perhaps 8 – 10 clients in Texas through the many years I operated my marketing services business, mainly in Dallas and Austin, one in Houston. I never resented going there, perhaps due to the fact that I was getting paid, but probably more so because it wasn’t the three-ring circus that it is today.
