Arizona channels the friendly country known as…

What country does this remind us of (hint: it’s in the Middle East, funded and armed by the US and calls itself a “democracy”)?

Arizona’s purging of brown-skinned residents continues apace with two new moves: It has decided to remove any teachers whose spoken English is heavily accented or ungrammatical – almost half the teachers in some school districts are native Spanish speakers – and to curb a popular ethnic studies program in Tucson by banning any courses advocating ethnic solidarity or designed primarily for one ethnic group.

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