Hate Based Ethnic Studies Banned in Arizona
The nation is abuzz after Arizona passed a new immigration law SB 1070 that empowers local police to ask the immigration status of people who police officers believe have “reasonable suspicion” of being in the U.S. illegally. About two weeks later, to much less fanfare, Gov. Jan Brewer signed another bill into law that bans ethnic studies in Arizona schools that are race based, radical, separatist, or revolutionary.
In this blog I will explain what the new bill does and why it’s needed. I won’t argue about the merit of ethnic identity classes courses in our schools as that subject has been discussed adequately on Vdare.
HB 2281 prohibits all Arizona school districts and charter schools from including classes that either promote the overthrow of the United States government or promote resentment toward a race or class of people. This is the most important part of the bill:
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