The politics of disappearance at work currently in the U.S. takes place under the cover of state legislative policies that erase the histories of marginalized groups and other displaced populations.
as laboratories of left-wing ideologies whose ultimate purpose is “to destroy family, community, and national unity.” All of these policies represent the return of what Ellen Schrecker has called “the new McCarthyism,” which uses the smear of communism to attack critical education, teacher autonomy and “real-world issues of race, gender, and social inequality.
The right’s attack on universities as citadels of leftist ideology dates further back than the purge of academics by the rabid anti-communists under Sen. Joe McCarthy in the 1950s. Authoritarian governments in the 1930s performed a similar task in order to control universities. Ruth Ben-Ghiat makes this point clearly.
erases history, memory, critical ideas, dissent and racial justice. Its tools are fear, manufactured ignorance, engineered panics, and a paranoid racist politics draped in the language of white nationalism and bigotry. Its goal is racial cleansing, a white nationalist notion of citizenship, and the undermining of the public and civic imagination. Its endpoint is a rebranded fascism.
Overcoming the divorce between historical memory and political agency is the first and crucial step to learning how to remember differently — and deeply — so as to act differently. Under such circumstances, reviving the political and moral imagination is more crucial than ever in order to resist the assassins of memory and social justice who have turned critical education and thinking into a crime. This suggests a mass movement in defense of education as a public good and the right of educators to teach as a practice of freedom in order to make education a formidable site of literacy, liberation, and individual and collective empowerment.
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