Live free or die!

New Hampshire state motto.

This fearless state is apparently becoming quite fearful of “divisive” concepts, whatever that might be. And just like their friends in Texas, they want the public, other moms, evidently (as if we dads don’t check in on our kids) to help enforce their code, the one against teaching “divisive” concepts. We get the feeling they don’t mean “divisive” as it relates to who makes the dance team or other things that make some parents quite… active in school matters.

According to Forbes Magazine:

“Live free or die” has given way to “shut up or else.” New Hampshire has set up a system for letting the public turn in public school teachers for violation of its new anti-divisive subject matter law, and Moms for Liberty have offered a cash reward to parents who use it.

New Hampshire’s GOP-controlled legislature inserted its “anti” language into this year’s budget as the “Right to Freedom From Discrimination in Public Workplaces and Education”, and as many critics have noted, the language is particularly vague, forbidding the teaching of “divisive concepts” related to race and gender.

“Divisive concepts.” Some of us consider it awfully divisive to not teach the horrors of slavery and how historical prejudices continue to this day. Do we get to turn a teacher in, if he is glossing over many of those horrors?

New Hampshire’s GOP-controlled legislature inserted its “anti” language into this year’s budget as the “Right to Freedom From Discrimination in Public Workplaces and Education.”, and as many critics have noted, the language is particularly vague, forbidding the teaching “divisive concepts” related to race and gender is exceptionally vague. The Department of Education has offered some clarification, but it focuses on the “discrimination” portion of the law, not the “divisive concepts” portion. And if the department’s guidance really is the whole story, the “anti-critical race theory” law doesn’t actually prohibit critical race theory at all. After Governor Chris Sununu signed the bill into law, more than half of his diversity council quit.

We aren’t sure if we could help with the vague issues inherent in the law, but we could have cleared a lot up with the name. How about just naming it; the “Do Not Blame the White Race for Horrors Done to People of Color, Either in History or Today; Do It, Get Reported, and Die!”

How else does one live free?

"Live free or die" has given way to "Shut up or else." New Hampshire And Moms For Liberty Put Bounty On Teachers’ Heads via @palan57 https://t.co/Xb5W6ZJ0bJ

— Peter Greene (@palan57) November 13, 2021

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