Source: Notablog
by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
“It appears that the legislature in New Hampshire — a state declared in December 2025 as the ‘freest place in North America’ — has passed a bill that bans ‘leftist indoctrination’ and ‘LGBTQ+ teaching in public schools.’ But wait, there’s more! House Bill 1792, known as the CHARLIE Act (in a nod to assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk) is designed to ‘ban certain types of instruction and punish teachers who carried it out.’ CHARLIE is an acronym for ‘Countering Hate And Revolutionary Leftist Indoctrination in Education Act.’ … the bill prohibits the teaching of any ‘critical theories or related practices that promote division, dialectical world-views, critical consciousness or anti-constitutional indoctrination’ (emphasis added). … Dialectical thinking is a crucial component of critical thinking. … Alas, the right-wing zealots know that critical, dialectical thinking is also a component of radical thinking. And it is the radical that they most fear.” (02/21/26)