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Yesterday, 3:21 pm

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So basically kids in the USA are going to be brainwashed into worshiping Trump and thinking countries like Canada are the rabbit and USA is the fox that eats the rabbit and therefore Canada is weak and cowardly and they should hate it while a portrait of Trump looking like a cuddly old grandpa hangs in their classrooms.

Lovely. On the other hand, the personification of USA in Trump's version of sleeping Beauty as an extremely obese woman will be much more accurate. :twisted:


Probably not into literally worshipping Trump, but you might find topics like slavery and The Trail of Tears reframed in a less critical light. Instead of teaching history, warts and all and covering the mistakes and failures as mistakes and failures they'll adopt a much more uncritical, jingoistic framing.


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Yesterday, 5:32 pm

Family Guy summed it up perfectly:



But it's also how the MAGAs view what they consider "woke":

CRT (not taught in public schools anyway): "White Christian men are the cause of all the world's problems and should be punished for what their ancestors did for all eternity"

Biology: "Teaches people how to fornicate and that we're descended from monkeys"

LGBTQ+ issues: "Teaches people to hate Christians"

Physics: "Teaches 'lies' about the Earth's creation"


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Yesterday, 7:18 pm

Political education Camps. ... :ninja: :skull: ......."How many fingers am I holding up ." George Orwells book 1984.

but have seen some people ,whom skated on a murder conviction. claiming to home school their children, that I personally knew . (before the murder of course). That could not recite the alphabit at 16 yrs of age . And the woman would say supportive things to them when they got away with stealing something from someone. Glad those peeps are long behind.


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Today, 1:31 am

Tim_Tex wrote:
CRT (not taught in public schools anyway): "White Christian men are the cause of all the world's problems and should be punished for what their ancestors did for all eternity"

Biology: "Teaches people how to fornicate and that we're descended from monkeys"

LGBTQ+ issues: "Teaches people to hate Christians"

Physics: "Teaches 'lies' about the Earth's creation"


More directly
CRT: Hastening the great replacement
Biology: Don't reveal we share 50% of our DNA with a potato
LGBTQ+ issues: Hastening the great replacement
Physics: Actually this one they are on board. they believe in the big bang and that it was all Intelligent design - only just got the dates wrong - 6000 yrs Vs 14,000,000,000 years



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Today, 8:44 am

I was already uncomfortable with how much patriotism is pushed in schools and how that informs what’s taught.

My son and I have talked a lot about patriotic indoctrination. I told him that it was up to him whether or not he chose to do the flag salute, for example, and said that I would talk to administration if it was something he didn’t want to do. He dislikes it and thinks it’s stupid but decided that it wasn’t worth pushing back against. Of course, now that he’s (temporarily?) switched to online, it’s a bit easier. He’s free to just roll his eyes whenever he’s confronted with something idiotic.