If we’ve reached the book-banning stage of American authoritarianism, why is there still so much complacency? “The more you ask people to lie, and the more you ask them to accept violence,” says @ruthbenghiat, "The more you have to give them a way to assuage their consciences.”

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اسلام احمد العزب ✪ #مأرب @islam_alazeb1
23 Oct 2021
Joe Biden's obvious mental decline is a national security threat.
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اسلام احمد العزب ✪ #مأرب @islam_alazeb1
1 Nov 2021
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Books have been banned in school districts before, what is different about it this time?
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I'm a former member of an authoritarian church, invited by friends. Any of us who asked questions were excommunicated & shunned (a woman CPA, a man Dr, me - woman paralegal). Books were banned, yoga pants banned, home decor reported back to church elders. FREE at last! 😂
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"To avoid “controversy,” the superintendent pulled them from the district’s schools. Elsewhere, school boards did more than just pull the books from their shelves. In towns from New Jersey to Wisconsin, panicked patriots lit bonfires of the books." slate.com/news-and-politics/…

How Past Panics Over Textbooks Set the Stage for the “Critical Race Theory” Freakout

How past panics over humanities curricula inform the right’s current playbook.

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Most Republicans can't read. They sign their names like this: X.