Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "What Damage Can the New "Banning Books Movement" Bring?" video.

  1. To be fair, they haven't yet hit the bottom. But yes, referring to them as Soviets isn't accurate.
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  2. The problem is that neither side here has clean hands. One side wants to remove the information about the civil rights groups. The other wants to pretend like there are no white ethnic groups that suffered and suffer from racial oppression. Anti-white racism in schools is so bad that I gave up on teaching because I refused to be a part of the problem. It's sad that we can't call out bigotry no matter what skin color people have or their particular gender. Teaching students about racism targeting people of color should not require blaming all white people in general, regardless of whether the individual had anything to do with it or even benefitted from it. Russians were banned from significant portions of the US during the cold war. The German language was completely banned from public instruction and it was a case revolving around that which prevents governments from banning languages from instruction. Anti-Irish racism was so bad that in some areas, business owners would hire black people over them because, and I quote, "At least black people can keep a clean house." Not to mention that most of the slurs and stereotypes targeting black people were originally used by the British to target the Irish.
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