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Political Factoid
Many American adults* fear their
children may develop feelings of guilt
if various subjects are discussed.
Therefore, teachers (and others) should:
- Never mention the taking of land from the Native Americans.
- Never mention slavery or segregation.
- Never mention the KKK lynchings.
- Never mention Jim Crow laws.
- Never mention women's suffrage.
- Never mention the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.
- Never mention the Holocaust.
- Never mention the fight for civil rights.
- Never mention redlining.
- Never mention gerrymandering.
- Never mention the struggles for voting rights.
- Never mention global warming or climate change.
- Never mention internal terrorism.
- Never mention sexuality or sexual orientation.
- Never mention gun massacres.
- Never mention pollution (water, air, land, light, noise).
- Never mention Japanese internment camps.
- Never mention any God other than a Christian one.
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Particularly, white, right-wing politicians and voters
(who typically call themselves Republicans and Christians)
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