I don't know how much everyone knows about this and/or how close everyone is following it, but it looks like the Missouri House of Representatives passed House Bill 213, the so-called "Emily Brooker Intellectual Diversity Act," today. For more context, here is a story from The Missourian, here is another one from The Columbia Daily Tribune, and then here is one more from The Maneater.
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Rest in peace Kurt Vonnegut.
This bit from the Maneater seems like a rather likely interpretation (at least from my frothing, leftist perspective):
ReplyDelete“It is part of a larger movement among the extreme right in a lot of different fronts to try to have a witch hunt, if you will, within academia,” Johnson said.
Johnson said universities and colleges are among “the few institutions where people are in a position to be able to critically analyze people with power.”