Scholar who called Biden election a "literal coup" advising Texas social studies curriculum review

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James Talarico
@jamestalarico
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Jan 27, 2022
This is Stephen Balch.

He’s a conspiracy theorist who called Biden’s election a “literal coup” and pushes White Replacement Theory.

The Texas State Board of Education just picked him to revise our social studies standards. The Big Lie is coming to a textbook near you.

@TXSBOE
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James Talarico
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Balch is a former professor who claims the 2020 election was stolen.

He urged Trump to “lead his followers into America’s streets” and “stretch institutional bonds."

He shouldn’t be anywhere near our social studies standards.

statesman.com
Scholar who called Biden election a "literal coup" advising Texas social studies curriculum review
Stephen Balch, a conservative former professor, described the 2020 election of President Joe Biden a "literal coup."
9:26 AM · Jan 27, 2022

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2022/01/25/stephen-balch-appointed-review-texas-social-studies-curriculum/9204721002/

A conservative scholar who questioned the 2020 presidential election results is involved in reviewing state social studies curriculum standards for public schools.

Stephen Balch, a former professor who also has opposed the 2015 Supreme Court ruling overturning state bans on same-sex marriage, is a content adviser for the revision of the standards that will guide social studies courses from kindergarten through 12th grade.

The Texas Freedom Network, a liberal group promoting religious freedom and education, is calling on the State Board of Education to withdraw Balch's appointment, citing his writings calling the 2020 election a "literal coup," among other things.

In an essay after President Joe Biden's election, Balch questioned the integrity of the results, as did former President Donald Trump and other Republicans who continue to press unfounded concerns of widespread voter fraud.

"President Trump and his allies have rightly taken their case into the courts. But more needs to be accomplished. ... So damn the COVID, the president must now lead his followers into America’s streets and squares. They must especially flock to the capitol complexes of all the critical states and register indignant protest," he wrote Nov. 30, 2020, for the conservative website American Greatness.

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[BeckyDem]

1. Balch also called on states to assume "police powers" to seize control of international

and even interstate borders.

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/steven-balch-texas-board-of-education-16800044.php

[rurallib]

2. "scholar" sure don't mean what it used to.

[elleng]

3. 'The Big Lie is coming to a textbook near you.'

[raging moderate]

4. Not conservative; reactionary.

Nowadays people like the Koch brothers get away with calling themselves conservatives when they are actually reactionaries. They want to pull us back into the way it was about a hundred years ago.

[modrepub]

7. And They Call Democrats Radical

[bullimiami]

5. There is nothing conservative about this asshat.

[Biophilic]

6. I find this guy and his position scarier than almost anything else. It's like they

don't care who knows because they believe they have won. Yes, it scares me.

[Solly Mack]

8. K&R

[Kid Berwyn]

9. Indoctrination not Education.

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