#1470 Distorting History and Banning Books is a Power Play of Exclusion
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 12 February 2022
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Air Date 2/12/2022
Today we take a look at the recent uptick in banning and removing educational subjects and books from school curricula as well as specifically who is being harmed and who is being privileged by these decisions.
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SHOW NOTES
Despite claiming that the left wants to stifle "free speech," Republicans are increasingly banning books, including from school libraries
Ch. 2: Is Big Money Behind Book Banning Frenzy? - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 2-8-22
What's behind the right-wing book-ban frenzy? Is it big money with a long-term plan? We do know it's not a "grassroots" or spontaneous.
Ch. 3: The Movement to Erase Black History and Culture Part 1 - At Liberty - Air Date 2-3-22
We believe that the first amendment is fundamental because it should stop this kind of erasure in its tracks. That’s why we’re meeting this surge of censorship with new litigation and fierce advocacy. Joined by Emerson Sykes, Senior Staff Attorney w/ ACLU
Education has always mattered to Black people. Our enslaved ancestors risked their lives to learn what white oppressors withheld. Because those oppressors understood the important role knowledge of ones history and oneself plays in Black liberation.
Ch. 5: The Movement to Erase Black History and Culture Part 2 - At Liberty - Air Date 2-3-22
Ch. 7: Bans & Schools Book Panics - Now & Then - Air Date 2-8-22
Book bans are back. What’s causing this resurgence? What have similar acts of censorship meant throughout American history? And how should concerned citizens respond?
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 8: Bans & Schools Book Panics Part 2 - Now & Then - Air Date 2-8-22
Ch. 9: The Movement to Erase Black History and Culture Part 3 - At Liberty - Air Date 2-3-22
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 11: A message to Nick and Quai on anger and what to do with it - Alyson from Boulder, CO
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on perhaps only thinking I have let go of my anger
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.2 | take a look at the recent uptick in banning and removing educational subjects and books |
| 0:12.6 | from school curricula, as well as specifically who is being harmed and who is being privileged |
| 0:19.0 | by these decisions. |
| 0:20.6 | Clips today are from the David Pakman show, The Tom Hartman program, At Liberty, Black |
| 0:26.8 | History Year, and now and then with additional members only clips from now and then at Liberty |
| 0:34.3 | and Black History Year. |
| 0:41.8 | We have seen over the last four years, decade, fifteen years, almost pick your time frame. |
| 0:52.0 | Much of the American right wing riddled with projection, projection where they claim |
| 0:57.9 | the left is doing that which they are actually doing. |
| 1:00.8 | So one example is the right loves to say, we are for free speech and the left is against |
| 1:06.5 | free speech. |
| 1:07.8 | And in reality, it's often the truth that the right is for free speech only in their |
| 1:13.7 | very narrow view for as long as it's convenient to them and then they are very quickly against |
| 1:20.0 | it. |
| 1:21.0 | So if you have free speech, once it's no longer convenient to them, social media regulation |
| 1:25.8 | is a great example of this. |
| 1:27.5 | As soon as the lion's share of COVID disinformation is coming from the right, they're no longer |
| 1:33.5 | okay, letting Twitter or YouTube or Facebook decide what's okay on their platform. |
| 1:40.0 | They want to mandate that these platforms allow COVID disinformation. |
| 1:45.9 | Now on the other side of that, they claim to be against business regulation. |
| 1:50.4 | That's a principle. |
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