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Is it really illiberal to have some control over public schools? Or do we have to wait decades in the hopes that they will fix themselves?

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No I donтАЩt think itтАЩs illiberal тАШto have some control over our public schoolsтАЩ, but I also donтАЩt think that statement is representative of RufoтАЩs work. Some of what he has advocated for and achieved arguably amounts to censorship.

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By which I mean that something needs to be done but it needs to be done carefully and Rufo isnтАЩt doing it carefully enough for me.

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"Some of what he has advocated for and achieved arguably amounts to censorship."

Can you cite a specific example? This sounds untrue to me. Rufo makes clear he isn't involved in the drafting of actual legislative proposals, but rather references model legislation.

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Mounk references the Stop WOKE Act specifically and in my view makes a compelling case (he goes into more depth in other podcasts/articles).

If Rufo is going to take credit for the legislation heтАЩs influenced donтАЩt you think itтАЩs kind of disingenuous to then claim no responsibility for any overreach that comes from it?

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Fair enough.

I'm o k with censorship that says you Can't teach white supremacy in public schools

I'm also o k with censorship that says you can't teach Whites are evil in public schools.

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In theory I am too. But I am afraid that when you enshrine this power into law, eventually unreasonable people will get to be in charge and we will have granted them a power they shouldnтАЩt have. This is always the problem with censorship of any kind.

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agreed it's a danger. I just don't think we can wait decades in the hope that we can take our education system back. Meanwhile they indoctrinate millions of kids in this poisonous ideology

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I agree

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