Here's a clear statement, written by prominent educators and champions of the campaign against racism, of how the pressure to censor the Advanced Placement African-American Studies course is an attack on freedom of thought and education, and part of a much broader campaign against education and to cover up important areas of Americans history.

It says nothing to suggest that today's young Americans should feel guilty about crimes that American whites in the past committed against Americans blacks (though some people do that). Rather, it says that we should teach young Americans these aspects of their country's history, so they can carefully draw moral lessons from those past events and apply the conclusions today and in the future.

That goal applies to other issues besides racism. If democracy and schools exist 50 years from now, they will teach what has been learned from investigations based on critical environment theory and critical computation theory, showing how powerful interests distorted laws and institutions to poison the Earth and make computing subjugate its users.