Project 2025 bills itself as a pro-free speech document. Our analysis found just the opposite. Our research director James Tager outlines four key threats that Project 2025 poses to the freedom to read, learn, and teach.
1. Project 2025 defines LGBTQ+ content as "porn" and treats librarians like criminals. This is wildly irresponsible rhetoric that puts librarians and teachers at risk.
2. Project 2025 would turbocharge educational censorship across the country, taking the educational gag orders already enacted in many states to the federal level.
3. Project 2025 would use "parental rights" rhetoric to target specific ideas in education - allowing censorship-minded advocates to impose their views on all children.
4. Project 2025 takes aim at colleges and universities, proposing changes to the accreditation process that would make it easier for state leaders to impose ideological control.
To read the full analysis and join our fight against educational censorship, go to pen.org.
26 сен 2024
