Why Ban “Divisive” Teachings While Protecting Divisive Confederate Monuments?

<p><a href="https://medium.com/illumination-curated/critical-race-theory-opponents-stand-in-the-tradition-of-anti-abolitionists-tk-7ddc7510c939" rel="noopener">In a previous article</a>, I compared recent attempts by conservative legislatures to pass laws prohibiting the teaching of American history that emphasizes the systemic oppression of Black people by white people to attempts by American anti-abolitionists to limit the dissemination of abolitionist teachings that emphasized and rejected the systemic oppression of enslaved Black people by white America.</p> <p>A respondent,&nbsp;<a href="https://medium.com/u/88f0559ad92a" rel="noopener">Blanc2</a>, replied by writing,&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;I find so much irony in the fact that some of the most outspoken critics of falsely labeled &ldquo;CRT&rdquo; are the same people who oppose the removal of Confederate monuments from public places.&rdquo;</em></p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/illumination-curated/why-ban-divisive-teachings-while-protecting-divisive-confederate-monuments-0665de82978a"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>