12-10-2021
'Teachers are petrified': Texas anti-critical race theory law sends waves of fear over banning books.
The Texas legislature this year passed a law banning the teaching of critical race theory in schools --
and the New York Times' Michael Powell reports that it's now led to a wide crackdown of what books can be taught in local classrooms.
The biggest move for censorship in the state came from Republican Texas State Representative Matt Krause, who sent out a list of over 800 books to Texas superintendents and demanded to know if
they could be found in their schools' libraries.
In the wake of Krause's book list, educators in the state say they've been accused of poisoning young minds and promoting communism, among other things.
"What began as a debate over social studies curriculum and critical race studies — an academic theory about how systemic racism enters the pores
of society — has become something broader and more profound, not least an effort to curtail and
even ban books, including classics of American literature," writes Powell.
“A lot of our teachers are petrified,” Sheri Mills,
a Southlake school trustee, told Powell.
“The really good teachers, if they are near retirement, they are leaving.”
Teacher Safraz Ali, meanwhile, tells Powell that the new rules have left teachers with no idea what they are and are not allowed to teach.
"It’s like you’re walking into a dark room," said Ali, who said he called up Texas lawmakers to ask them to define what constitutes "critical race theory" and has so far received no answer.
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What the fuck-- Republican crazies are beyond saving--
________“Fahrenheit 451”
A society in which books were outlawed.''
The government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers.
These are some of the burned books;
*Plato’s Republic
*Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
*The Corsair by Byron
*Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
*Alice Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
*Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
*Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
*Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Jewish Question
*The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
*David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
*The Prince by Machiavelli
*Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, volumes one and two
*Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe
*The Memoirs of Saint Simon
*The Weir of Germiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
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