https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-lawmaker-says-850-books-ranging-race-sexuality-cause-discomfort-rcna3953 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-l

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-lawmaker-says-850-books-ranging-race-sexuality-cause-discomfort-rcna3953 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-lawmaker-says-850... > includes well-known titles like the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Styron novel, “The Confessions of Nat Turner” and best-sellers that were turned into movies or television series, such as John Irving’s “The Cider House Rules,” Alan Moore’s dystopian “V For Vendetta,” and the graphic novel version of Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” > The list of books also includes titles from Black writers, such as “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and “Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot” by Mikki Kendall. > Isabel Wilkerson’s book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” which, among other things, made the case that Nazi Germany modeled its anti-Semitic policies on the segregation of Black people in the United States, also made Krause’s list. https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/map-where-critical-race-theory-is-under-attack/2021/06 https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/map-where-critical-ra... > This June, a parents’ group in one Tennessee district challenged the use of an autobiography of Ruby Bridges, who in 1960 was one of the first Black children to integrate an elementary school after Brown v. Board of Education. The parents complained that in depicting the white backlash to school desegregation, the book violated the state’s new law in sending the message that all white people were bad and oppressed Black people. All of this is possible because "Critical race theory" was not defined precisely when it was banned. And by introducing these bans, it gives parents and legislatures the ability to define any concept they feel uncomfortable with at the time that they see their children learning about as "banned CRT". The very foundations of this movement were founded on bad faith, in many cases as part of backlash to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project An inaccurate totem of what children were learning was created, and then filed under "CRT".