A wave of Republican enthusiasm for banning concepts, authors and books is sweeping across the United States.
The College Board chose to remove these authors and subjects from its curriculum, claiming, as it turns out dubiously, that it did so independently of Florida’s pressure.
It is frequently claimed by proponents of such laws that banning discussion of structural racism and intersectionality is freeing schools of indoctrination.
Celebrating the banning of authors and concepts as “freedom from indoctrination” is as Orwellian as politics gets.
The authors targeted by these laws do not just theorize about problematic structures – their work is also essential for understanding solutions.
More generally, these laws make it illegal to teach students about how to form social movements to challenge dominant interests and structures.
The media’s portrayal of these laws as moves in the “culture wars” is an unconscionable misrepresentation of fascism. »
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