Institutionalizing Discrimination
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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From LPGBTQ persecution to rampant racism, why does the G.O.P. aggressively pursue a pro-prejudice agenda? What can and must we do about this? Also, Thom reads from 'Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America' by Michael Eric Dyson.
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| 0:47.2 | Our Nazis, white supremacists, just weird people basically deciding what books our kids can read |
| 0:55.6 | in classrooms all across the country. |
| 0:58.3 | The Washington Post did a deep dive into this and came to some really startling conclusions. |
| 1:05.5 | Frankly, just breathtaking. The title of the piece over at the Washington Post is |
| 1:10.1 | Objection to Sexual LGBTQ Content Propel Spike and Book Challenges, which sounds kind of anodine. |
| 1:16.0 | But the subhead is where they kind of buried the lead into the subhead. |
| 1:19.8 | An analysis of book challenges from across the nation shows the majority were filed by just 11 people. |
| 1:26.6 | 11 people, 11 people are bringing all this to us. |
| 1:32.5 | In total, officials in more than 100 of those school systems, which are spread across 37 states, |
| 1:38.4 | provided 1,65 complaints totaling 2,506 pages. |
| 1:44.5 | Nearly half of the fileings, 43% targeted titles with LGBTQ characters or themes, 36% |
| 1:51.6 | targeted titles featuring characters of color, or dealing with issues of race and racism. |
| 1:58.3 | So basically what you've got is homophobes and racists, who are driving this process. |
| 2:05.5 | And there's 11 people who are responsible for the vast majority of it. |
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