Working to completely destroy western civ.
A Massachusetts teacher said she is “very proud” to have removed one of Homer’s classics from the school curriculum.
Wall Street Journal’s Meghan Cox Gurdon revealed in a column that “critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers and Twitter agitators are purging and propagandizing against classic texts,” including Homer’s The Odyssey.
Gurdon highlighted that in 2018, a Seattle English teacher tweeted that he would rather die than teach the “The Scarlet Letter” under the hashtag #disruptexts.
The biography of Twitter account @DisruptTexts, says it is “a movement to rebuild the literary canon using an antibias, antiracist critical literacy lens.”
Shea Martin on her Twitter account, that has now been restricted to those who do not follow her already, said in June:
“Be like Odysseus and embrace the long haul to liberation (and then take the Odyssey out of your curriculum because it’s trash).”
Heather Levine, a ninth-grade English teacher at Lawrence High School in Massachusetts, replied:
“Hahaha …. Very proud to say we got the Odyssey removed from the curriculum this year!”