Ward Churchill Solidarity Network

Arizona Legislature Considers Bill to Ban Teaching Truths that “Encourage Dissent” from the “Values of Western Civilization”

No, we didn’t make this up.  On April 17, a bill emerged from an Arizona legislative committee that would prohibit the “denigration, disparagement or encouragement of dissent from values of American democracy and western civilization” in any publicly funded educational institutions.

Courses or school-sponsored activities that “assert as truth or feature as an exclusive focus any political religious, ideological or cultural beliefs of values” said to do so would be banned.  Also prohibited would be campus organizations “based in whole or in part on race-based criteria.”

Click here to read the entire bill.