The Declaration of Independence includes hate speech, according to Facebook’s algorithm. Christian Britschgi explains on Reason‘s blog. The Liberty County Vindicator of Liberty County, Texas began posting excerpts from the Declaration on June 24. The first nine posts were OK with Facebook. “But part 10,” writes Vindicator managing editor Casey Stinnett, “did not appear. Instead, The Vindicator received a notice from Facebook saying that the post ‘goes against our standards on

Thousands of Bay Area teenagers have attended four-day camps that claim to teach empathy and leadership by screaming insults and enacting bigotry, reports Karen de Sa in the San Francisco Chronicle. Here’s Camp Diversity, which follows what’s known as the “Anytown” model: In a campground hall deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains, 55 teenagers have been ordered to separate by race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. By groups, the children of Silicon Valley engineers and attorneys,

Swedish preschools encourage boys to draw, dance and play in toy kitchens, while girls are taught to shout “No!,” reports Ellen Barry in the New York Times. In a country where many parents send their children to government-funded centers from the age of one, “state curriculum urges teachers and principals to embrace their role as social engineers, requiring them to ‘counteract traditional gender roles and gender patterns’,” she writes. Many Swedish teachers refer to “friends,

A Maryland high school’s “Unity Day” activity meant to confront and tear down stereotypes ended in tears, reports Emily Chappell in the Baltimore Sun. Students were told to write down stereotypes and slurs — whatever came to mind — on posters. At the end, the posters were torn down to symbolically tear down the stereotypes. “There were people crying” at the negative comments, said Sophie Dommermuth, a junior. A “large number” of students were “insulted or emotionally upset” b

Is The Cat in the Hat Racist? asks Stephen Sawchuk in Education Week. In honor of Read Across America Day, which is celebrated on the birthday of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Melania Trump sent 10 Dr. Seuss books to a distinguished school in each state. School librarian Liz Phipps Soeiro dressed up as the Cat in the Hat two years ago, but now says his books are cliched and racist. Liz Phipps Soeiro, the librarian at a Cambridge, Mass. school, rejected the gift, calling the cho