GOP state senator walks back comments on Nazi history in schools

Scott Baldwin faced backlash after his comments during a hearing on Senate Bill 167, which would ban concepts that divide' in schools

An Indiana state senator has backtracked on his remarks that teachers must be impartial when discussing nazism in classrooms after he sparked widespread backlash.

During a state senate committee hearing last week about Senate Bill 167, a proposed bill that would ban concepts that divide", Republican Senator Scott Baldwin, who co-wrote the bill, said teachers should remain unprejudiced when teaching lessons about fascism and nazism.