Texas bill outlaws diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in Texas Higher ed

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Fascism is very much a part of the western tradition. Hitler was German. Mussolini was Italian. Franco was Spanish… ALL European countries, last time I checked. There is also a long history of Protestant support of white supremacy (the KKK was pulling from a very specific protestant tradition of white supremacy and authoritarianism).

Also… what “middle eastern religious values” do you mean specifically - because there is a variety of values across the middle east (and North Africa, since that is often considered as part of the ME - the MENA region), from various kinds of secularism and socialism, to Sunni authoritarianism. Many of the governments do not remotely represent the actual religious and doctrinal diversity found across the region - not to mention the people of OTHER faiths (from Judaism, Christianity, Yazidism, Bahai, Alawite, Druze, Zoroastrians, etc, etc). So what of those collection of values that vary wildly from the most conservative forms of Sunni Islam, do you mean exactly?

Just stop trying to make this the problem of the very people historically oppressed by Western civilization, and focus on fixing the problems in front of us. Islamophobia isn’t particularly helpful here.

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