Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Good one. "This spring, memory laws arrived in America. Republican state legislators proposed dozens of bills designed to guide and control American understanding of the past.

As of this writing, five states (Idaho, Iowa, Tennessee, Texas and Oklahoma) have passed laws that direct and restrict discussions of history in classrooms. The Department of Education of a sixth (Florida) has passed guidelines with the same effect. Another 12 state legislatures are still considering memory laws.

The particulars of these laws vary. The Idaho law is the most Kafkaesque in its censorship: It affirms freedom of speech and then bans divisive speech.

The Iowa law executes the same totalitarian pirouette. The Tennessee and Texas laws go furthest in specifying what teachers may and may not say. In Tennessee teachers must not teach that the rule of law is “a series of power relationships and struggles among racial or other groups.”"

Your link - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/memory-laws.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Bit OT, still

"Inhabitants of other republics, meanwhile, mostly Russians, moved into Ukrainians’ abandoned
houses. As beneficiaries of the calamity, they were not interested in its sources."

has shades of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.