More dispatches from the front lines of the culture war aka Texas. The rage is never ending and exhausting
I’m not trying to be a shit about this but like we *need* solidarity over this because the alarm was being sounded almost 20 years ago when W let Texas (and other southwestern states) start cutting out Mexican and Chicano history.
As a reminder, Texas constitutes one of the largest textbook markets. Whatever they remove, smaller and/or poorer states will struggle to put back or compensate for when they make their textbook purchases.
That means how Texas goes a disproportionate amount of school resources go.
This is an extremely, extremely important addition ^
When it comes to almost any issue…Texas isn’t “just Texas.” The people in the notes that are like “Texas should just secede” or “can we just get rid of Texas already” are missing a critical point here. (And throwing the community activists who are trying to combat this stuff under the bus, but I digress.)
As I (and many others for longer and better than me) have tried to explain: Texas is a state of 29 million, and very powerful. The state government is NOT acting in the interests of the majority of the people, they are trying to maintain their decades long stranglehold on power, by doing everything they can, including miseducating youth with propaganda.
Even in the best of voter turnout years, only 52% of the eligible voting population casts a ballot in Texas. Communities of color, low income communities, disabled voters and all kinds of other marginalized folks have had their voting access nearly strangled to death.
What happens in Texas is coming for everywhere. We should be talking about national policies to curb this shit.
