But this project of Christian nationalists rewriting history has expanded well beyond false or misleading quotes from the founders about religious liberty. Of special interest is propping up phony histories that paint American slavery in an honorable light, justify white supremacy, and lie about the lives of civil rights leaders. There are also efforts to erase the history of feminism, falsely portraying suffragist leaders as hostile to a woman's right to bodily autonomy. It's probably just a matter of time before they start claiming the riot at Stonewall was in opposition to LGBTQ rights.
Moms for Liberty was founded, in large part, to push fake history into American classrooms. With their lobbying and the cooperation of Republicans like Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, they placed texts in public schools that falsely portrayed slavery as a benevolent institution, akin to a jobs training program rather than lifelong forced labor. They removed biographies of civil rights heroes like Rosa Parks, whitewashed the genocide of native people in the U.S., and erased damning facts about the life of Christopher Columbus from classrooms.
-Amanda Marcotte in Salon.com
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