I'm still not quite sure how the Temptest got swept up in a ban on Ethnic Studies.  I mean one really can't get much more a Dead White Male European than Bill.

I wonder if they're banning Bad Day at Black Rock and The Admirable Crichton?

Plato will be next.

I mean we have to ban that guy who is Greek to me and most folks.

I mean he had the audacity to say that there was a thriving civilization 9,000 years before his time. Now if you add 2400 years to that figure and then deduce that that civilization might have taken 5,000 years to get going, well...

I mean the earth was created in 4,000 BC for chrissakes or for the sake of Genesis!

The only thing that might save Plato's ass is the fact that most right wing Evangelicals think Plato was that dog in Disney cartoons!

Just for the sake of journalistic honesty here, the right wing did not ban the Tempest. The Tucson school district removed the Tempest from its curriculum to come into compliance with a right-wing law prohibiting "ethnic studies." I doubt that any right-winger would see the Tempest as an ethnic studies work, and in fact, I suspect that someone in the Tucson school district included it to make a politcal point.

That's not to say that the law itself is not an abomination.