Thread by @karamballes

🧵This is how to wage culture wars in education to force through policies

"Activist propoganda"

https://twitter.com/nadhimzahawi/status/1492805317364699137

2/ We get the typical rhetoric designed to anger the paper's readers, RW love enemies and the point of this is to make Education workers the enemy, deliberate long term strategy

"Brain washing"
"Worrying race theories"
"Education not indoctrination"

3/ What actually happened?
A class watched an episode of Newsround, afterwards some students asked if they could write to their MP with their opinion

The MPs had a melt down that children were expressing a negative opinion of Johnson and went to the papers and @nadhimzahawi

4/ Watching Newsround is indoctrination, there seems to be an assumption here that a child must have been indoctrinated to form a negative view of this government

Point of this story besides turning education into an enemy is to justify new government guidence

5/ They did exactly the same when they released their RSE guidence

Considering RSE is supposed to be relationship and sex education, it all seemed to be about protecting capitalism and confusing anti racism with marxism

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1310987924083798016?t=GVJh2eVv4MjQYlov8r8SHA&s=19

6/ They are constantly doing this with schools and universities

"War on woke" is based on dishonest reporting not reality, its propoganda under the guise of fighting against propoganda

Accuse the enemy of what your doing,then play the whataboutery card

https://twitter.com/TabitaSurge/status/1490990950747111424?t=9JT_MAuqcpRALgWv_0EOMw&s=19

7/ Same forces behind this as in the US, now we see the defenders of (far right) free speech banning books like Maus.

The more extreme elements are even burning books now

Thread on how culture wars are waged and funded⬇️

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1489337468377829376?t=9JT_MAuqcpRALgWv_0EOMw&s=19

8/ Attacks on education workers serve multiple purposes, its about delegitamising views of frontline workers, we see the same with attacks on NHS workers

Opposition to a mass infection strategy can be dismissed as playing politics

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1261954157986172928?t=9JT_MAuqcpRALgWv_0EOMw&s=19

9/ The government wants to "shrink state and free people" = more austerity and deregulation

Frontline workers who oppose another decade of cuts can now be dismissed as "activists playing politics"

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1371242538661728257?t=9JT_MAuqcpRALgWv_0EOMw&s=19

10/ Spend a decade fighting against impacts of gov policy on disadvantaged and SEND students and get accuse of playing politics by the same people who then pretend to care about these students as they argue against protecting them from infection

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1466138172597968906?t=yFedpeaNCt3kKXsWATDbEA&s=19

11/ They did the same with opposition to academisation "The Blob are playing politics" they claimed as they handed control of whole chains of schools to Tory Peers, Donors, venture capitalists and hedge fund managers

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1276454783818387458?t=r8gcEScS4q_dIR7a9pYl0w&s=19

12/ Culture wars are cheaper than investing in education, just throw around rhetoric, stamp down on 'activists' and win brownie points with RW rags

What we see if is the kind of language heading in the direction of calling outright for a purge

Cancel culture enit

13/ However we do get the government pushing for more "patriotism"

Tory MPs calling for flags in classrooms, singing the national anthem, pictures of the Queen
Heard them say
"Children need to learn to love their country"
Problem is they confused country with gov,gov with party

14/ "Don't do down Britain" = lack of patriotism

But surely true patriotism is appreciating the countries untapped potential and always wanting better

15/ I do remember the DfE promoting the "One Nation, One Britain" song and organisation

16/ Turns out its an organisation to push a nationalistic agenda set up by Tories

So pushing a political agenda in schools is fine as long as its one endorsed by the party, still political

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1407577899134296069?t=zTvWNz3BYuAXZZSE_L0v5g&s=19

17/ What does protecting free speech and fighting indoctrination look like from this government

2019 General Election the Tories tried to shut down the SchoolCuts website, the website broke down the impact of Gov funding proposals on indivual schools, IFS confirmed the figures

18/ MPs tried to get the site shut down, they then accused education workers of playing politics in the RW press, gave their own stats
UK Statistics Authority told thr Tories their own use of stats was misleading and should stop being used
Tories set up their own SchoolCuts site

19/ Which repeated the stats UKSA said shouldn't be used. MPs then told constituents schoolcuts was fake news while directing ppl to their own dodgy site

Shut down, smear and lie, that's what they did and will continue to do

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1197055376514015232?t=m7bV4eOkHgAULyeNOu-JCw&s=19

20/ Daily Mail have taken up the story and have added the need for a purge