Opinion | Fed-up teachers in Tennessee find a novel answer to anti-woke hysteria

  • Bias Rating

    -80% Extremely Liberal

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableFair

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  • Politician Portrayal

    80% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"Pressed during a debate on how slavery might be taught impartially, Ragan equivocated, acknowledging slavery was abhorrent but counseling against including personal opinion."
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-12% Liberal
"And when Ragan was asked what balance in a discussion of the Holocaust or 9/11 might look like, he inexplicably suggested it might entail saying the perpetrators of those events were created in the image and likeness of God, just like everybody else."
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-18% Liberal
"The statute, signed by Republican Gov. Bill Lee in 2021, is absurdly vague: It prohibits pedagogy that includes allegedly divisive concepts without defining what that means, leaving teachers fearful that even neutral mentions of such concepts could violate the law."
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-36% Liberal
"The folly of all this was recently illustrated by the law's sponsor, state Rep. John Ragan, a Republican who has raged that woke seditious charlatans are destroying our country."
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-38% Liberal

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*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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