{"id":873,"date":"2007-02-16T18:01:32","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T22:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=873"},"modified":"2007-02-16T18:01:32","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T22:01:32","slug":"arizona-legislators-want-historians-to-stop-talking-about-brown-v-board-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=873","title":{"rendered":"Arizona legislators want historians to stop talking about Brown v. Board of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/collegefreedom.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/worst-bill-ever-for-academic-freedom.html\">John Wilson<\/a> points out the obvious flaws in Arizona <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azleg.gov\/FormatDocument.asp?inDoc=\/legtext\/48leg\/1r\/bills\/sb1612p.htm\">SB 1612<\/a>, the latest attempt to channel David Horowitz&#8217;s idiocy. To wit, the proposed 15-511(D)(3) Arizona Statutes&nbsp;would be created, prohibiting Arizona faculty from being able to &#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Endorse, support or oppose any pending or proposed litigation in a local, state or federal court or endorse, support or oppose any judicial action taken by a local, state or federal court.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That means that if an history teacher in any Arizona public school or an historian employed at an Arizona university says that <em>Brown v. Board of Education<\/em> was the right decision in 1954 (i.e., endorsing &#8220;a judicial action taken by a &#8230; federal court&#8221;), they&#8217;d be breaking the law. <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, that would also be true for anyone commenting on <em>Marbury v. Madison<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Wilson points out the obvious flaws in Arizona SB 1612, the latest attempt to channel David Horowitz&#8217;s idiocy. To wit, the proposed 15-511(D)(3) Arizona Statutes&nbsp;would be created, prohibiting Arizona faculty from being able to &#8230; Endorse, support or oppose any pending or proposed litigation in a local, state or federal court or endorse, support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-education-policy","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-e5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}