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Michael in Norfolk looks at Florida Man’s war against history. A snippet:

DeSantis’ actions are also motivated by the reality that today’s GOP needs an ignorant population that is too poorly educated to graps that politicians like DeSantis are lying to them and who will fall for the GOP’s “god, guns, and gays” propaganda.

At the Des Moines Register, Matt Pries, teacher from a family of teachers, offers some thoughts about why public schools have become a favorite target of the New Secesh. Here’s a bit of his article; I commend the entire piece to your attention.

Our schools don’t look like them. Don’t sound like them. Don’t act like them. Don’t do learning the way they think learning should be done. So instead of realizing our schools are a picture of the world where teachers and staff are doing the best they can to help all kids be ready for the world? They go after the school — which is really their way of going after the world. Because the world doesn’t look like them. Doesn’t sound like them. Doesn’t act like them. Doesn’t do life the way they think life should be done. But it’s hard to go after the world.

At NJ.com, Keith E. Benson points out that the right-wing’s ginned up outrage over critical race theory (which, again, is a graduate-level subject not taught in primary and secondary schools) is part of a long pattern. Here’s a tiny bit of his article:

The decrying of CRT is part of a long American tradition of white backlash that is aided by a well-funded conservative messaging apparatus skilled in amplifying white rage for political gain based on misinformation in efforts to protect whiteness and the societal benefits it provides white Americans.

Under cover of opposing CRT, the right and the racists they wish to rally have gone farther. As noted elsewhere in these electrons, they are using CRT as a smokescreen to whitewash (a most appropriate term) America’s history of slavery and discrimination against and exploitation of black persons and other minorities. They want to go back to teaching the same sort of sanitized history that I was taught in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un, in Virginia’s segregated school system.

AL.com’s Francis Coleman suggests that some persons have a–er–misguided notion of the meaning of “freedom.” Here’s a bit from his article:

Freedom — the kind people shout about — is usually the freedom some people want so that they can do whatever they please without anyone objecting. Trouble is, those same kinds of freedom-lovers often want to restrict others in their desire to do whatever they want to do, also without objection.

If you want to be free to do practically anything you want to, you have to extend the same to everyone else.

And there’s the rub.

Follow the link, where he expands on said rub.