Current Events > Texas Senate Votes to Remove Required Lessons on Civil Rights

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https://news.bloomberglaw.com/social-justice/texas-senate-votes-to-remove-required-lessons-on-civil-rights

The Texas Senate on Friday passed legislation that would end requirements that public schools include writings on womens suffrage and the civil rights movement in social studies classes.
Among the figures whose works would be dropped: Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King Jr., whose I Have a Dream"speech and Letter from a Birmingham Jail would no longer make the curriculum cut.
The bill (S.B. 3), which was passed on a vote of 18 to 4, now is stalled because the House cant achieve a quorum while a breakaway group of Democrats is out of the state. The special session is set to end on Aug. 6.
It would remove more than two dozen teaching requirements from a new law (H.B 3979) that bars the teaching of critical race theory, an academic framework exploring racisms shaping of the country.

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of course they want to pretend slavery didnt exist but they love holding on to the confederacy forever

Texas is going to have their own GOP Ministry of Truth soon aren't they?

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The GOP is a force of evil
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They find this countrys history upsetting and contrary to their beliefs, so they seek to rewrite it.

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Reminder that the GOP is completely full of shit when they talk about "preserving history" when it comes to removing Confederate statues.

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I was repeatedly told that erasing history was bad.

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GOP states love "history"

Fucking shitholes

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CableZL posted...

I was repeatedly told that erasing history was bad.

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metallica846 posted...

They called a special session for this shit.

Meanwhile, the Texas power grid is still a fucking joke

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I gotta move outta here

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Republicans should receive no representation in public office.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Reminder that the GOP is completely full of shit when they talk about "preserving history" when it comes to removing Confederate statues.

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Hypocrisy doesn't matter to them. All they want is to teach a white Christian nationalist version of history that produces far right Republicans. They don't really care what they have to do to get there.

Focusing on their lack of consistency between this and the confederate statue stuff might be a gotcha that makes us feel good, but again, it doesn't matter to them. They just want to produce more of themselves and shut down knowledge that might push someone to think things aren't perfect as is.

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I remember Texas also taking rap music and other contributions of black/latin culture out of textbooks.

For the sake of argument what was the reason given for this?

legendary_zell posted...

Hypocrisy doesn't matter to them. All they want is to teach a white Christian nationalist version of history that produces far right Republicans. They don't really care what they have to do to get there.

Focusing on their lack of consistency between this and the confederate statue stuff might be a gotcha that makes us feel good, but again, it doesn't matter to them. They just want to produce more of themselves and shut down knowledge that might push someone to think things aren't perfect as is.

I guess it's a good thing that the internet exists and people aren't really falling for it.

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I guess it's a good thing that the internet exists and people aren't really falling for it.

It's not about us falling for it.

It's about kids who will never be exposed to the truth being fed this whitewashed "history".

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Umbreon posted...

It's not about us falling for it.

It's about kids who will never be exposed to the truth being fed this whitewashed "history".

I get that, but I feel like it's going to be difficult to maintain the illusion when kids are learning so much outside of school from the internet these days.

I could be wrong though

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The bill (S.B. 3), which was passed on a vote of 18 to 4, now is stalled because the House cant achieve a quorum while a breakaway group of Democrats is out of the state. The special session is set to end on Aug. 6.

I bet the Republicans thought they would be really clever by trying to pass this shit while all the Dems were out of state, but didn't realize Texas law... doesn't let them do that.

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BLAKUboy posted...

I bet the Republicans thought they would be really clever by trying to pass this shit while all the Dems were out of state, but didn't realize Texas law... doesn't let them do that.

Lmao

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Im waiting for someone on CE to defend this

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DepreceV2 posted...

Im waiting for someone on CE to defend this

I'm expecting Broseph_Stalin to pop in any second now

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I get that, but I feel like it's going to be difficult to maintain the illusion when kids are learning so much outside of school from the internet these days.

I could be wrong though

Think about all the information available on the internet now and people still spout falsehoods and misinformation with extreme confidence.


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metallica846 posted...

I wonder if they will try and change these quorum rules or if they even can without a quorum lol

If they could change the rules without a quorum, they would just do that instead of threatening to arrest the Dems that left which only further gives the game away.

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NinjaWarrior455 posted...

Think about all the information available on the internet now and people still spout falsehoods and misinformation with extreme confidence.

Eh good point

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Reminder that the GOP is completely full of shit when they talk about "preserving history" when it comes to removing Confederate statues.

CableZL posted...

I was repeatedly told that erasing history was bad.

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