.thereidout Blog: Alabama became the latest state to take a worrying step toward educational repression as the state's GOP-led House passed a law restricting the teaching of race and history.
Here are just a few lessons the bill purports to prohibit:“That an individual, solely by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.”
"That any individual should be asked to accept, acknowledge, affirm, or assent to a sense of guilt, complicity, or a need to work harder solely on the basis of his or her race or sex.” “That fault, blame, or bias should be assigned to a race, sex, or religion, or to members of a race, sex, or religion, solely on the basis of their race, sex, or religion.”
The bill says these concepts can be taught in higher education only “in an objective manner and without endorsement.”— passed by GOP-led legislatures across the country looking to block discussions of historic inequality and the ways it is upheld today. And it’s absolutely deranged. The bill’s repeated reference to “inherent” wrongdoing by a race or gender — and its obsession with feelings of guilt — is more of an indicator of white self-consciousness than an indicator of what's actually being taught in schools. The types of lessons Alabama Republicans are targeting, for example, likely don't teach that racism or sexism — which is also rampant in Alabama — are innate to anyone, but instead that they’re taught behaviors.
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