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The Rabid Right-wing Attack on Education in the United States By David Starr To be ‘woke’ is to be committing a ‘sin,’ as the right-wing in the United States have gone  on the attack against being woke  and in turn dissing the awareness and knowledge associated with it. Education is a prime target of the right-wing because it hates and fears students actually learning about such things as racism, religious fanaticism, etc. The right has become intoxicated with its warped agenda which fuels hate and fear. Putting it a little more directly, the Zinn Education Project (named after Howard Zinn, author of ‘A People’s History of the United States,’) published an informative piece called ‘Teaching in Perilous Times.’  It starts out this way : ‘Educators are teaching in perilous times. We face a white supremacist backlash – funded by billionaires – against the 2020 uprising for Black lives, when tens of millions built a multiracial movement against systemic racism.  ‘In resp...