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LOL And they make an issue of teaching content American education:

"Military News -- Dozens of Troops Suspected of Advocating Overthrow
of US Government, New Pentagon Extremism Report Says

"One active-duty noncommissioned officer said that, aside from the fact that no one was paying attention at the stand-down briefing he attended, the commander giving the lecture was "talking about what he thought were radical groups like Black Lives Matter."
P - The idea that far-left groups are just as problematic as far-right ones is a popular talking point among conservatives and Republican lawmakers. However, law enforcement officials and experts who study the topic have consistently noted that far-right groups espousing anti-government and white supremacist views are the biggest threat to the U.S. today."

The lecturing commander. Institutional bias much?

The Dangerous Campaign to Ban Studies of Black History and Culture

These teachings challenge the biased view that enslaved people brought nothing of value from Africa. Banning them is robbing all students of vital history and knowledge of how the nation got to be what it is today.

OPINION | Feb. 23, 2023 • Jabari Simama

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The movement in opposition to what they refer to derisively as “wokism” and CRT has two political objectives: First, by playing the race card of wokism, they give conservatives a way to fire up their base among whites without having to talk about their true and dubious records and failures, such as their refusal to expand Medicaid eligibility .. https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions-interactive-map/#:~:text=To%20date%2C%2040%20states%20(including,analysis%20of%20state%20expansion%20activity. .. under Obamacare in Florida and 10 other states. Conservatives also don’t address the reasons why, amid at least 71 mass shootings .. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/02/15/mass-shootings-us-2023/11262414002/ .. so far this year, they refuse to pass common-sense gun reforms or provide working and middle-class families much-needed tax relief.

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The other advantage of branding African American history as “lacking in academic value,” from the perspective of right-wing conservatives, is that it could demoralize and marginalize Blacks and other minorities and demotivate them from voting. Such slogans as “Take back our country” and “Make America great again” would acquire a new meaning if more Americans knew that it was the exploitation of slave labor that built our economy and that every ethnic group that has immigrated to the U.S. has contributed to America being what it is today. These perspectives are likely to be taught in African American studies classes.

Those of us with academic credentials in the field obviously know more about Black studies and CRT than all the governors whose states have banned the subjects or created an atmosphere of fear and confusion over them so that they can’t effectively be taught. And we also know not to go down a rabbit hole chasing the ridiculous media obsession with changes to the Advanced Placement course in African American studies .. https://www.npr.org/2023/02/01/1153364556/ap-african-american-studies-black-history-florida-desantis .. that few students, Black or white, ever take.

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The voices of Douglass, King and Bryant must in the end reign louder than those of governors like DeSantis, Arkansas’ Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Georgia’s Brian Kemp lest we all be damned. Preserving our freedom to learn and our right to be truly educated are bedrock principles of democracy we all should be willing to fight for.

https://www.governing.com/now/the-dangerous-campaign-to-ban-studies-of-black-history-and-culture