Progressive Identity Politics

[mystieus]

Run time: 03:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3X5_bYU9o0   Posted on YouTube: June 22, 2010 By YouTube Member: lauraflanders Views on YouTube: 112   Posted on DU: June 22, 2010 By DU Member: mystieus Views on DU: 560

 
Melissa Harris Lacewell quotes South Pacific, a progressive musical of its time, saying, "You have to be taught to hate and fear, you have to be taught from year to year, it has to be drummed in your dear little ear." Alarmingly, schools in Arizona and Texas have incorporated Rogers and Hammerstein's ideas into their educational policies. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill cutting state funding to schools offering ethnic studies classes. Texas revised its history books to emphasize heroic segregationalists and question the need for separation of church and state. Lacewell wonders, Are young people inherently progressive enough to disregard these institutions?