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Arizona Board of Education creates hotline for citizens to report all that 'CRT' being taught [1]
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Date: 2023-03-10
Just imagine this guy ten years older and a little more openly racist
Across the country, the conservative movement is obsessed almost exclusively with culture wars. Whether or not this will have any national traction remains to be seen because so far, culture wars haven’t done much for Republicans in the election results department. The fake, overblown cultural issues do seem to allow them to pretend they have actual policies that help people economically (outside of the top 1 percent).
Locally, culture wars seem to do the job for ambitious right-wingers who want to raise their profile and move up the rungs of the MAGA/NeoCon ladder. You have to remember that that ladder is slippery with swamp slime and the bigger and more bigoted and fascistic the moves, the higher the mountain of praise heaped on you. Just ask Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Right now, the big move in for conservatives is to do away with what they call critical race theory, or CRT. This isn’t something being taught to children, and is really just a boogieman catch-all phrase for American history that includes Black people and the history of racism in our country and its institutions. In order to pretend this is something beneficial for constituents, people like Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin have even set up “hotlines” where distressed parents can drop a dime on teachers and adults who deign to tell children facts and uncomfortable stuff about our country’s history.
A new Republican bigot has stepped up to the microphone in the hopes of making a racist name for himself: Tom Horne, the Republican superintendent of Public Instruction in Arizona.
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