So, here in Idaho-ho-ho we are launching into modern day “commie” hunts of our educators to root out “Critical Race Theory” anecdotes. Our esteemed Lt. Gov. is heading up this select group of “Hunters” to find anecdotes, stories, gossip, but not evidence of this. I just sent off this missive to her to remind her she is not doing anything great or new, she is just doing more “Commie” hunts.
My letter:
“Dear Mrs McGeachin,
Education is very important, history a subject all too many politicians ignore is quite instructive and useful, at least for those that intend to use it to avoid past mistakes and violations of civil rights.
A man named Tail Gunner Joe (he was not a tail gunner by the way) once hunted “commies” in all kinds of places and destroyed many peoples lives and found no real dangers or “commies” to prosecute. A very fascist thing, not Americas proudest moment I would say.
Now you and a select group of “Hunters” seem to have within your sights our Idaho education system to “hunt” for, well one rare bird I have heard of is Critical Race Theory, a theory by the way that is taught only in post graduate courses in Law Colleges/Universities.
How many lives are you going to destroy looking for evidence of something you have mis-defined, propagandized, and turned into a modern day “commie” hunt, how much public money will you waste, and how many subjects will you and your “hunters” deem dangerous to teach to children.
Will you outlaw reading 1984, where Big Brother determines what is to be taught and history changes from day to day.
Will you outlaw teaching about slavery, better to avoid our less than stellar record there.
Will you outlaw teaching about Jim Crow, both the old and the present day?
Will the Chinese expulsion act be flushed down the memory hole since sadly yet again this was not a shining city on the hill moment for the USA and for Idaho.
Will we plow under the Minidoka Internment Camp to avoid looking at our national paranoia and racism so as to avoid “propaganda”.
Hmmm, are you and your select group of “Hunters” to be the arbiters of what education can teach?
You may, or may not, believe in some conspiracy to teach propaganda to children, perhaps this is just a political posture and stunt; only you know for sure. You may truly want only a whitewashed positive unquestioned and propagandized history to be taught to everyone’s child; again only you know for sure.
Education is too important to censor and perform “commie” witch hunts on, our past both the good, bad, and odd is all important and to be recognized, understood, and learned from. Idaho deserves better than modern day “commie” hunts.
In the end all I have to ask is “Have you no sense of Decency?”