The Arkansas Education Department abruptly removed course credit for an Advanced Placement African American Studies course, just months after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed bills limiting what educators can teach in public schools.

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    Conservatives are having a serious regressive episode right now. I hope they get better soon.

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    I swear these people, when it came time to name their state, said “We want to be called Kansas!” But there’s already a state called Kansas.

    Okay then, how about “Our Kansas”?

    I guess we can work with that.

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      1: Arkansas is older than Kansas

      2: Both are clearly native words.

      3: They actually might be accidentally related as a result.

      4: Lol, they are. Both roughly mean “The South Wind,” and were a name for a tribe in the area. Those dummies used a different spelling of the same word…

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    The American experiment in federalism is a failure. You need to abolish states power and become a true unitary government. The alternative is another civil war.

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        I know it’s useless to try and unbunch the State’s underwear outta their ass about taking away their “States rights” but really from the outside there are plenty of places with Provinces / prefectures / states that still have individual character and bylaw WITHOUT binding their citizens by what is in effect the sovereignty of two separate competing countries.

        Folk in the states seem to make it all about how free it makes everyone… But from over here it looks more like some kind of beaurcratic bondage fetish.