Senate Unanimously Approves a Bill to Make Juneteenth a Public Holiday

Compare to "requiring ID will eliminate fraud": No. It eliminates some types of fraud, some of the time. It doesn't fix someone hacking a system and changing votes. It doesn't prevent someone creating fake IDs to vote. It also disenfranchises people who are unable or unwilling to get government ID in time to present it at the polls.

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB3979/2021

That's its full text. You can read it, it's short.

Some highlights are that the bill mandates (that's mandates - not prevents) that Texan schoolchildren are educated about:

* "the history of Native Americans;"

* "the history of white supremacy, including but not limited to the institution of slavery, the eugenics movement, and the Ku Klux Klan, and the ways in which it is morally wrong;"

* "the history and importance of the civil right movement"

* "the history and importance of the women's suffrage movement"

* The Indian Removal Act

* the Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850;

* Brown v. Board of Education;

* The Underground Railroad

The bill also mandates that Texan schoolchildren learn about such historical figures as MLK, Frederick Douglass, Sally Hemings and Cesar Chavez, to name but a few.

So tell me: who wants to prevent a "historically accurate picture of the United States" from being taught in schools - those who support a bill that requires children to be taught about the history of slavery, Indian genocide, the civil rights movement and white supremacy, or those who oppose such a bill?

And I've only talked about what what the bill requires. What does it prevent? What does HB3979 ban from Texan classroom? Again, I encourage you to read the whole thing yourself, but I know that most people don't click through to the source, so I'll quote again.

Some of the things that HB3979 bans from being taught to Texan schoolchildren include that:

* "an individual, by virtue of the individual's race or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex;"

* "an individual should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of the individual's race;"

* "an individual should feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on account of the individual's race or sex;"

Similar wording appears in most of the anti-CRT bills working their way through state legislatures.

You need to understand this: critical race theorists want to teach the above. They oppose these bills (and lie about their contents) because they want to discriminate on the basis of race, make people feel discomfort, guilt and anguish based on their race, hold entire races collectively responsible for the actions of individual members of that race, and engage in racial stereotyping and scapegoating. The sooner you realise this, the sooner you'll be able to make sense of our current moment.

The 14 representatives who voted "nay" to the celebration of the end of slavery came from exactly the usual suspects.

So, again, yes.

Nitpick: "13x as much", not "13x as often".

In general, sacrificing this important principle was acceptable if the alternative was to disenfranchise the voter (eg, they are overseas.) Now it seems there are many who want to just throw it away in the name of making voting “more accessible” in general. This is a pretty bad stance imo unless you assume it is cost-free, which it isn’t.