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Episode 178 uploaded November 12: Sam Goldman talks with Kasey Meehan, Freedom to Read Program Director at PEN America. Their new report America’s Censored Classrooms 2023 states,
“Over the past three years, state legislators have launched an
onslaught of educational gag orders—state legislative and policy efforts
to restrict teaching about topics such as race, gender, American
history, and LGBTQ+ identities in educational settings.”
Plus, commentary on the latest developments and November 2023 elections.
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Kasey Meehan:
We've seen more and more introduction of legislation at the state level that's having an effect of removing books without even that challenge. It's a well coordinated campaign, a well coordinated movement, to remove certain types of stories, histories, identities from our public schools. It's a harm on students and it's a real threat to... just young people and the freedoms that they feel to read, yes, but to also see themselves reflected in books and to see other people with different experiences than themselves reflected in books, and to learn and empathize and grow from. These attacks are really intended to dismantle and disrupt a public infrastructure that is educating students.
Sam Goldman:
Trump spoke and posted a statement on Veterans Day. Yes, he called his foes "vermin" both places. He derisively called them communists and Marxists...His most extraordinary callback to the key tenets of fascism was not rhetorical, it was conceptual. He said: "The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within." He went on to weave an airtight circular reasoning for using every tool at his disposal as once and future president to take out any obstacle in his path.
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