Arizona: our racism is Legal!

[Jonny]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/201...versities-too/

Two years ago, Arizona outlawed the teaching of some ethnic studies courses in K-12 schools, and now it may expand the prohibition to universities too. Just weeks after the state passed its infamous immigration law, it also passed a law aimed at scuttling Tucson’s Mexican-American studies program, which critics claimed taught kids to resent white people. The argument, at the time, was that teaching subjects like critical race theory to kids in high school amounted to indoctrination because they were not old enough to question the teaching critically, like university students.
But now, Arizona’s chief education official sees university-level Mexican-American sudies programs as a danger too:

Arizona’s superintendent of schools, John Huppenthal, says Tucson’s suspended Mexican American studies curricula teaches students to resent Anglos, and that the university program that educated the public school teachers is to blame.
“I think that’s where this toxic thing starts from, the universities,” Arizona Superintendent of Schools John Huppenthal said in an interview with Fox News Latino. “To me, the pervasive problem was the lack of balance going on in these classes,” Huppenthal said.

Not surprisingly, a long list of Latino groups and education activists have protested the move, as they did when the state shut down Tucson’s program, decrying the imposition on free speech. “What we’re trying to do is expose children to a much broader perspective, so that we’re not indoctrinating,” said Augustine Romero, the former director of Tucson’s Mexican American Studies Department.
The ethnic studies law, which bans schools from offering courses designed for a specific ethnicity, had far-ranging consequences, including banning books like Shakespeare’s The Tempest and other seemingly anodyne works of literature.
And while many call the state prohibitions unprecedented, Devon Peña, the former director of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies said, “There is a precedent, and it’s called McCarthyism.” “It’s just a witch hunt of a different color. Now, instead of going after the reds, they’re going after the browns.”

why do i live here again?

[Jonny]

also http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/t...cid=todmsnbc11
Arizona law would censor the Internet

State of Arizona

The state of Arizona could find itself in the company of countries like China and Syria for censoring the Internet if the state's governor signs a bill recently passed by the legislature.

Arizona House Bill 2549, which is now on Gov. Jan Brewer's desk for signature, was created to counter bullying and stalking. The law would make it a crime to use any electronic or digital device to communicate using "obscene, lewd or profane language" or to suggest a lewd or lascivious act, if done with the intent to "terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend."

First Amendment rights group Media Coalition, which represents the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, the Association of American Publishers and other related groups, says the bill is not only a violation of the First Amendment, but is so far-ranging as to be preposterous.

In a letter to the governor, the coalition said while government can criminalize speech "that rises to the level of harassment, and many states have laws that do so," Arizona's legislation:

... takes a law meant to address irritating phone calls and applies it to communication on web sites, blogs, listserves and other Internet communication. H.B. 2549 is not limited to a one to one conversation between two specific people. The communication does not need to be repetitive or even unwanted. There is no requirement that the recipient or subject of the speech actually feel offended, annoyed or scared. Nor does the legislation make clear that the communication must be intended to offend or annoy the reader, the subject or even any specific person.

This bill isn't the first the legislature has tackled when it comes to regulating what's said -- or seen -- electronically. Another, Senate Bill 1219, would let parents see the text messages on the phones of their children, if they're under the age of 18. That legislation remains in committee.

H.B. 2549 "would apply to the Internet as a whole, thus criminalizing all manner of writing, cartoons, and other protected material the state finds offensive or annoying," Media Coalition says on its website -- at least for now, until what it says is found to be offensive or annoying by those in Arizona.

[Tajin]

hilarious

[Milkster]

I love how smaller government basically means small enough to watch and patrol your every move. Ironing.

[Ksandra]

There's a Ron Paul joke in there somewhere.

[Milkster]

Conservatives/tea partiers sure have been doing a really great job lately with their image.

[Denchi]

Step 1: Move to Flagstaff
Step 2: Forget about everything ever

[Sera]

Arizona is such a fucking caricature at this point. Sad

[Blarg]

glass 'em

[hey]

why do i live here again?

If it's for any reason other than not having the means to leave, then you're doing it wrong.

[Gryffes]

Party of small government, keeping the gubmint out of peoples lives.

Obv.

[Lucavi]

That's some seriously small government going on in Arizona right now. I'm impressed with the sheer... small-ness.

[Acevalefor]

Wait...I resent Anglos and I am one. Why is it a bad thing to teach just how fucked up rich old white men are? Especially when they are the ones fucking up our country right now. I guess it goes against the "christian republican" way of telling the truth.

[ronin sparthos]

I love how smaller government basically means small enough to watch and patrol your every move. Ironing.

In republican-land small government means cater to largely white evangelicals who want how things were in the past while at the same time crafting a different term for the old status quo.

Conformity or obscurity. Choose your poison.

If you dismantle the structure of government it becomes that much easier to take out the outliers you deem incompatible with your view of American life.

[Lucavi]

When you're in power, you can shape history how you want to. Its always been that way. Who else, other than old, rich white men, have been in power in the entirety of the history of the U.S.?

[ronin sparthos]

When you're in power, you can shape history how you want to. Its always been that way. Who else, other than old, rich white men, have been in power in the entirety of the history of the U.S.?

But if you put it like that it makes the past seem like it was full of evils, intolerance, persecution, injustice and single-minded thoughts dominating the public. Slavery wasn't all that bad, blacks got homes, religion, food, clothing and jobs. Could you ask for anything more? It sounds like charity the more I think about it really.

The Asians got to build railroads and experience white technology and without that they'd have never developed all those fancy video game systems and animes we consume today. Hispanics? They'd still be chewing coca leaf and pulling the hearts out of their captives if whites didn't show up and civilize them. Forcing them to mine gold and silver was a small price to pay for today's nannies, construction workers and Taco Bell employees.

[Lucavi]

No no, it was; that's why everything that exists today with its compromise and its equality-talk and all that is wrong and evil. That's why we have to go back to those good ol' days where women wore dresses that covered their feet and the white man could slap a nigger and all he'd get was some laughter or cheers from those around him.

[Ragnus]

Wait...I resent Anglos and I am one. Why is it a bad thing to teach just how fucked up rich old white men are? Especially when they are the ones fucking up our country right now. I guess it goes against the "christian republican" way of telling the truth.

Same reason that people rarely bring up how "In God We Trust" was never on our currency until the late fifties. The USA's history is getting re-written into something that it never was. =/

[ronin sparthos]

Same reason that people rarely bring up how "In God We Trust" was never on our currency until the late fifties. The USA's history is getting re-written into something that it never was. =/

People bring this up all the time but the hardcore right doesn't want to hear it.

Anti-education and all that jazz. Just believe whatever your told and stay in line.

*Bleats*

[Acevalefor]

Else you incur the wrath of the Capitol and they reinstate the Hunger Games!