It is amazing the extent that the right-wing will go to slander educators in TUSD and to ban a curriculum that they do not understand but are afraid of because of the powerful truths taught within.

Let us consider some of the obvious lies told by my colleague here at the TC, Hunnicutt (husband and wife team) made this week.

The continuing development of the Mexican American Studies mythology relies on propagandists like Acuna and David Morales. The legal fight requires the selling of the myth due to the fact that none of the legitimate and monied civil rights groups are supporting the classes.

via Acuna selling the big lie and the big guy – The Daily Independent.

I have compiled a video of an incomplete list of some of the legitimate and monied (because money is what really matters to right-wingers?) civil rights groups that not only support the classes, but are supporting the Save Ethnic Studies case.

MALDEF and LULAC are supporting the case, just to name two in the group, which immediately renders their “fact that none” as a lie.

Will Hunnicutt apologize or acknowledge their lie? Of course not, and they will continue to delete my own comments on their blog. To attack the historical truth taught in class requires an assault made up of lies.

But now let us see the unfair Catch-22s they love to set up for MAS teachers in Tucson.

Dr. Lupita Garcia

For example, Dr. Lupita Garcia is now Hunnicutt’s ally because she has launched her own assault on Latino students and their education in TUSD. Dr. Garcia once called LULAC, which hosts an annual conference for high school students in Tucson, a “radical organization.”

If LULAC is radical, then surely most civil rights organizations are extremely radical since LULAC tends to be more moderate. So that would make organizations such as MALDEF, NAACP, NACCS and others mega-radical organizations?

But the attack that was attempted was meant to say that none of them support Save Ethnic Studies (SES), but they do.

So rather than admit their lie, I expect the other side of the Catch-22 to arise; be afraid Americans! Look at all these minority civil-rights organizations coming together to fight the right-wing assault that the Hunnicutts are waging with Tom Horne and John Huppenthal in Arizona! There are radical organizations such as LULAC and MALDEF supporting Chicano Studies teachers!

One should not wage a war on the truth. Don’t be a creationist and don’t try to ban Ethnic Studies because it does not fit within your right-wing dogma.

The Hunnicutt’s article is filled with flaws and false claims, using comparisons of Hitler and Mandela without references and just making stuff up. But we will consider now another Catch-22 that they set up.

One of the claims that Tom Horne repeats without evidence against the MAS classes that Hunnicutt has never called him out on, but rather supports him fully, is that the courses “segregate students by race.”

This is a flat-out lie, as the courses are not required and students decide on their own to enroll in them, and there are a diversity of students in there (side-note: why don’t they ever attack the lack of diversity at University High?).

But let us just see how the Catch-22 trap is set. Segregating students is bad. But then Hunnicutt chastises Sean Arce, the MAS director:

Last year Arce was reprimanded by his boss, a real crusader for all students Dr. Lupita Garcia, for failing to hold an award ceremony for the district’s Latino students.

Yep, Sean Arce was supposed to spend thousands of dollars setting up a lavish awards ceremony at the UA (which Hunnicutt and the Arizona Daily never covered in the past but now all of a sudden it is so important?) during a time of budget cuts, but furthermore to have the awards ceremony only for Latino students?

Sometimes I wonder how the right-wing’s heads do not explode with the internal inconsistencies. You are damned if you do and damned if you don’t!

You save the district money and don’t segregate students and get reprimanded, or you do have a Latinos-only awards ceremony and then get attacked by the media, from Jon Justice and all the way up to Fox News and Tom Horne criticizing the Latinos-only awards ceremony and strengthen the state’s case against TUSD?

Author of the AZ Daily Independent, both Hunnicutts, with Republicans Tom Horne... Gabby Mercer... Margaret Dugan.

The logic of the right-winger in Arizona today is twisted and illogical. That is why they rely mostly on feeling and emotion, mostly fear and anger. This is what fueled their star Michael Hicks’ rise to TUSD school board after he watched a news report about the future demographics of America (aka the browning of America) and decided he had to get involved at that moment to “stop it.”

The virus has spread to Mark Stegeman also, who is now an unknowing (or perhaps willing) pawn in the right-wing’s plan to eliminate Ethnic Studies.

The right-wing had a chance when they commissioned the costly 6-figure Cambium audit to make their case, and they failed. They continue to rely on hearsay and anecdotal evidence. An anonymous source said this, and an anonymous source said that.

And of course, they have to resort to spreading lies.

I would love to see a public debate between these anti-MAS haters and Chicano scholars, but the right-wingers are too afraid.

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