Save Me From This Idiocy

 I defy you to click through and watch the video linked in Martin Longman's analysis on current Republican efforts to fuck about in classrooms. There's an embedded link of a very compelling presentation by a history teacher about what history is, why it is resonant and why it must be taught unvarnished. He ends with James Baldwin's quote, not everything we face can be solved, but nothing can be solved if we don't face it.

Then some mook says that it is not the job of a history teacher to bring value judgments to things like Jim Crow or Marxism or FUCKING NAZIISM. 

That's right, the Indiana GOP doesn't think we should be teaching kids that Nazis are bad.

Their "rationale" is that this will prevent teachers from teaching that Jim Crow and white supremacy is bad. By removing the ability of a history teacher to teach actual history, they hope to sanitize the next generation from "wokeness", which is to say, thinking that America is not perfect. What they are saying is that we should not teach history in American schools. We should teach mindless propaganda to American greatness.