In my 1980's high school American Literature class, we read Langston Hughes (1901-1967) & James Baldwin (1924-1987).
Nowadays, Republicans want to replace them with Ayn Rand.
Naw Bixie.
That's in college, a private "Christian" one where they reconcile Jesus and the prophets with Randy "WHERE'S MY MEDICAID!!!" Rand and Pinochet cuz Friedman.
For high school it'll be excised parts of the OT/NT from same private "Christian" college and Donnie's "The Art Of The Deal." Then they'll watch his TV show that duped all the CNN conservatives.
Conservatism has always required fear. Fear of change. Fear of freeing the enslaved. Fear of a large middle class. Fear of unions. Fear of losing the peasant class. Fear of educating young people. Fear of "other".
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But yes, they just drop the writers and not replace them with different ones.
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Look at how fearful Republicans have become in the past 50 years. Fearful to let young adults see the truths that a good humanities education shows them.