Republican cancel culture

The Republican Party rants about cancel culture, but they are the foremost agents of cancel culture. Two examples:

1. Republican-led state legislatures across the country are busy passing laws to prevent the teaching of history that accurately details the devastating impact of the institution of slavery, as well as the devastating impact — specifically on Indigenous peoples — of the doctrine of manifest destiny.

2. Republican legislators in some states have recently misrepresented the goal of the Constitution’s three-fifths compromise, falsely claiming it was an effort to curtail the power of slave-owning states, with the ultimate aim of ending slavery, when in fact it was an effort to give more power to slave-owning states.

Why are Republicans afraid of the truth? This country won’t be able to come to grips with its imperfect founding until it acknowledges, in true terms, the existence of those imperfections.

Warren Rodgers, Jr., Matteson