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How to stop worrying that CRT will corrupt your kids

How to stop worrying that CRT will corrupt your kids

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Aug 24, 2021
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In 1925, John W. Butler, a legislator in Tennessee, told reporters that years earlier he’d “read in the papers that boys and girls were coming home from school and telling their fathers and mothers that the Bible was all nonsense.”

“I didn’t think that was right,” Butler told the New York Times in July of that year.

At first Butler couldn’t figure out exa…

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