Sixteen Republican lawmakers - including Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene - voted against a bill that would promote education around internment camps that 120,000 Japanese American residents were forcefully moved to during World War II.
include Reps. Lauren Boebert , Mo Brooks , Louie Gohmert , Chip Roy and Marjorie Taylor Greene . Most of the lawmakers who voted against the bill have not publicly stated why they are opposed to it, but some said that the federal government should not be in the business of rectifying historical wrongs and educating the public.
“Rep. Roy believes this matter should not be the responsibility of the federal government and that it would be best handled by private and charitable entities,”Republican Rep. Andy Harris , who also voted against the bill, justified his opposition by saying that Congress should be focused on other issues, such as the war in Ukraine or gas prices. But the same day that the bill on Japanese American internment was voted on,in Eunice, Louisiana.
The Republicans’ opposition to the bill comes amid a far right push to censor or ban lessons on race in K-12 classrooms across the country. Indeed, bans on the teaching of Critical Race Theory have even gone as far as toIn some places, such bans have included lessons or books that discuss the U.S.’s internment of Japanese Americans. A school district in Pennsylvania, for example,
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