The signposts of America’s turn towards a fascist notion of education are everywhere. Trans students are under attack, their history is being erased from school curricula, and the support of their care givers is increasingly criminalized. African American history is sanitized and rewritten, while teachers, faculty, and librarians who contest or refuse this fascist script are being fired, demonized, and in some cases also subject to criminal charges. Mirroring an attack on trans people similar to the one that took place in the early years of the Third Reich, far right-wing politicians and white supremacists are waging a vicious war against trans youth and their teachers who are now treated as social pariahs while their supporters are slandered as pedophiles and groomers. More
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