Republican Indiana state Sen. Scott Baldwin is trying to walk back his comments from a Tuesday session where teacher Matt Bockenfeld spoke, the Indianapolis Star reports. “We don’t stand up and say who we voted for or anything like that. But we’re not neutral on Nazism. We take a stand in the classroom against it, and it matters that we do,” said Bockenfeld on the Indiana ant-Critical Race Theory bill, SB167. “I have no problem with the education system providing instruction on the existence of those isms. I believe that we’ve gone too far when we take a position on those isms… We need to be impartial,” Baldwin said, adding I’m not sure it’s right for us to determine how that child should think and that’s where I’m trying to provide the guardrails.”
Baldwin tried to walk back from his “remain neutral” bullshit in an email to the Indianapolis Star on Tuesday, writing “When I was drafting this bill, my intent with regard to ‘political affiliation’ was to cover political parties within the legal American political system. In my comments during committee, I was thinking more about the big picture and trying to say that we should not tell kids what to think about politics,” confirming he considers anything bad mouthing white nationalism to be “political”.