MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Senate voted Wednesday to put a politically appointed board in control of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, a change proposed after some lawmakers were upset about the department hosting a lecture on LGBTQ+ history.
State senators also approved legislation that would allow local government officials to dismiss library board members they appointed if they become displeased with their performance. Both bills now move to the Alabama House of Representatives.
The Archives’ monthly lunchtime lecture series last year included a June presentation titled “Invisible No More: Alabama’s LGBTQ+ History.” The lecture discussed topics ranging from the state’s first Pride march to the contributions of gay Alabamians.
Sen. Chris Elliott, the sponsor of the bills approved Wednesday, said a dozen lawmakers called the Archives urging them to cancel the lecture but the department went forward with it.
Translation: Alabama Senate votes to politicize history and suppress minorities and realities due to them being snowflakes
“Suppressing minorities” is Alabama’s state sport.
“This isn’t history. This is indoctrination,” Elliott said
Exposing people to ideas your don’t like is not indoctrination. Exposing people only to ideas you do like is the definition of indoctrination.
The noose of fascism is tightening. The tree of freedom is becoming thirsty.
And the tyrants will feed it and feed it the blood of the innocent until it’s given their blood instead
“We need a historian that ignores history.”
These people are insane.
The irony of a presentation titled Invisible No More being the impetus for them stepping up their efforts to end LGBTQ+ visibility in every public institution 🤦🤬
Fucking snowflakes.
