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Oklahoma court stops social studies standards with 2020 election misinformation from taking effect (apnews.com)

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court temporarily put on hold proposed new social studies standards for K-12 public school students that include conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.

The state’s high court issued a temporary stay on Monday while a lawsuit challenging the new standards is being litigated. The court’s order directs the State Department of Education to keep the previous social studies standards in place while the case is being decided.

At the direction of state Superintendent Ryan Walters, the standards were revised to include new language about the 2020 election and that the source of the COVID-19 virus was a Chinese lab, among other changes.

A group of parents and educators filed lawsuit in May, asking a judge to reject the standards, arguing they were not reviewed properly and that they “represent a distorted view of social studies that intentionally favors an outdated and blatantly biased perspective.”

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[–] Atom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

and that the source of the COVID-19 virus was a Chinese lab

This is my personal favorite MAGA conspiracy theory I think, because it means willful ineptitude on themselves. In this theory, the virus is an illegal bioweapon from a Chinese lab. The bioweapon escapes the lab and spreads to every county, infecting 800 million people and killing around 7 million. By those metrics, it's a pretty damn good spreader and a halfway decent killer, if it is a weapon.

So, say I'm China, and I'm watching my weapon escape and travel the world. I watch as my greatest adversary absolutely fucking fumbles. They fail to do much of anything about it and half their citizens just straight up can not be bothered to protect themselves with even the smallest of measures.

If their conspiracy was right, they showed the world they will do nothing to stop a real attack.