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8. Nolte said he was responding to an incident where an ABC executive was suspended after saying to Robin Roberts during contract negotiations that the company wasn't asking her to "pick cotton" https://t.co/LtE0hJXl7U https://t.co/UQd4wEQwir — PolitiTweet.org

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7. Nolte has a history of racial controversy. In 2020, Nolte posted a meme on Facebook: "POOR CHILDREN OF EVER COLOR PICKED COTTON. OPEN A BOOK AND GAIN SOME KNOWLEDGE." https://t.co/LtE0hJXl7U https://t.co/vLGNyccYs2 — PolitiTweet.org

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6. Nolte also said he "didn't talk to the teacher at all about why she picked that text." He decided to remove the book because of profanity. Other books in the English class contain profanity but Nolte said he was concerned with the frequency. https://t.co/LtE0hJXl7U — PolitiTweet.org

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5. Before deciding to remove the book, Nolte told https://t.co/Gl6evXRDcZ that he did not have time to read it. Instead he "talked to some people who had read different sections of it" and "looked at some of the parts of it that were published online." https://t.co/LtE0hJXl7U — PolitiTweet.org

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4. According to Nolte, the parent had previously spoken to the high school principal who offered to provide an alternative text for his child. But he wasn't satisfied with that. He wanted it removed from the class entirely. https://t.co/LtE0hJXl7U — PolitiTweet.org

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3. The parent who complained objected to the book's "explicit language," including "GD" and "the s-word." He suggested that providing Dear Martin to 10th graders violated the "age of consent" because "they are still adolescents." WATCH: https://t.co/ztZLGimK70 — PolitiTweet.org

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@getnicced 2. The superintendent who made the decision, Dr. Bill Nolte, told https://t.co/Gl6evXRDcZ that he did not read the book — or even obtain a copy — prior to making the decision https://t.co/LtE0hJXl7U — PolitiTweet.org

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1. An acclaimed MLK-themed novel, Dear Martin by @getnicced, was removed from a 10th-grade English class in North Carolina The decision was made in a matter of hours after one parent complaint Things get more disturbing from there https://t.co/LtE0hJXl7U — PolitiTweet.org

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"When it comes to power, white and male are silent, like the 'u' in disguise." — PolitiTweet.org

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For the first two centuries of the Supreme Court's existence, the only people considered were white men https://t.co/nFoile0Ure — PolitiTweet.org

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@TWillmc @ejeancarroll @PepsiCo You should read my report. Pepsi admitted that the original check expired and they reissued the check in 2021 — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: @spotify says it will "add a content advisory to any podcast episode that includes a discussion about COVID-19" https://t.co/AX6rWmzoeZ https://t.co/JfwU3vI9bL — PolitiTweet.org

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Seems like a great idea to entrust your life savings to a company that trolls its critics on Twitter in real-time https://t.co/lTpubl0xa2 — PolitiTweet.org

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Commercial during the NFL playoff game encourages people to invest their retirement savings in crypto. What could go wrong? — PolitiTweet.org

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MAKE AMERICA PARDON THE PEOPLE WHO VIOLENTLY ATTACKED THE US CAPITOL — PolitiTweet.org

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And as Jeffrey notes, creationism is not banned in schools. It can be discussed — just not presented as scientific fact. These bills are an entirely different animal. — PolitiTweet.org

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Side note: I’m pretty sure Glenn means “I certainly would not define it that way” I’m the last sentence of the excerpt I posted. But who can know for sure — PolitiTweet.org

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Personally, I am sick of the people passing laws creating thought crimes — and the people defending them — holding themselves out as champions of free speech. — PolitiTweet.org

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The idea that an advertiser severing ties with Tucker Carlson’s show is a grave threat to free speech and dozens of laws banning a laundry list of concepts that make some people uncomfortable is perfectly fine is seriously some Galaxy Brain logic — PolitiTweet.org

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On a basic level, if you oppose censorship and support free speech — and you want those values to persist — you can’t exempt children. Students have free speech rights that are recognized by the SCOTUS and they also have the right not to be subject to ideological censorship — PolitiTweet.org

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Moreover bills are designed to censor and terrorize teachers, who are also adults. They can be subject to discipline if they are perceived referencing several poorly defined concepts. Other bills put teachers under video surveillance None of this is consistent w/free expression — PolitiTweet.org

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Many of these bills ban Critical Race Theory and a host of concepts from colleges as well as K-12 schools. Last I checked, colleges educate adults In Florida, @RonDeSantis is proposing banning private business from talking about a range of topics he says are related to CRT — PolitiTweet.org

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Surprise! Self-proclaimed free speech champion @ggreenwald is fine with the right-wing push to legislatively ban “Critical Race Theory” because, he says, censorship is not something that can exist in schools This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what’s happening https://t.co/2oTvh5K4Uw — PolitiTweet.org

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Maus is also the #1 and #2 bestselling book at Barnes & Noble https://t.co/VUyGmSc8F4 — PolitiTweet.org

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UPDATE: Maus is now the #2 AND #3 bestselling book on Amazon https://t.co/VCxiTjTGP3 — PolitiTweet.org

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@TheAmishDude You should work on your reading comprehension. There were multiple votes. The one to remove the book was 10-0 — PolitiTweet.org

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The primary beneficiaries of affirmative action in the law have been white men, who for many years were the only people allowed in most law schools — PolitiTweet.org

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"Wicker notably did not raise an objection when former President Donald Trump vowed to appoint a woman to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she died weeks before the 2020 election." — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenatorWicker .@SenatorWicker says Biden's nominee, who has not been announced, "will misinterpret the law" and will only be nominated because of "affirmative racial discrimination" — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: Mississippi's @SenatorWicker says Biden's Supreme Court nominee will not be "a nice, stately liberal" like Breyer but "in the style of Sonia Sotomayor" Biden says he will nominate a black woman https://t.co/QaBezV5Krb — PolitiTweet.org