Yet in nearly two dozen states, the movement to impose restrictions on the teaching of history is gaining momentum. Incited by a national hysteria over “critical race theory,” advocates of these educational fatwas are borrowing a page from authoritarian governments like Vladimir Putin’s Russia in a clumsy effort to avoid discussing the messy, controversial and painful moments in America’s history.
And as a professional historian, I can tell you that these bans will be terrible for anyone teaching or studying Jewish history.
What
exactly is critical race theory, and how is it apparently — in the
words of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who is seen as a
potential presidential candidate — teaching our kids “to hate each
other” and “hate our country”?
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