Thread by @wydmindfeersart

Feb. 2019:

"Shockingly, they completely ignore two of the most significant economic events: the market crashes of 1929 and 2008."

Plutocrats are controlling too much of our edu and media.

Koch Network Pushes Deceitful Textbook on Cash-Strapped Schools truthout.org/articles/koch-…

Nov 2021:

"School officials specifically instructed [teachers] to avoid books by authors of color and women...for fear we may violate [HB 1775]...can possibly face formal admonishment or lose their Oklahoma teaching licenses if...found to be in violation"
aclu.org/news/free-spee…

Dec 30, 2019:

"Tens of millions of Americans live hermetically sealed inside the vast media and educational edifice controlled by Christian fascists."

#ChristianNationalism

Onward, Christian Fascists
truthdig.com/articles/onwar…

"History was based on the glory of Germany – a nationalistic approach was compulsory. The German defeat in 1918 was explained as the work of Jewish and Marxist spies who had weakened the system from within;..."

#Fascism #Scapegoating

Nazi Education
historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/n…

July 2022:

"[Fired school principal's] critics claimed the letter he wrote to the community about “education [being] the key to stomping out ignorance, hate, and systemic racism,” was equivalent to implementing Critical Race Theory in the school."

thedailybeast.com/grapevine-coll…

Nazi math textbook:

“To keep a mentally ill person costs approximately 4 marks a day. There are 300,000 mentally ill people in care. How much do these people cost to keep in total? How many marriage loans of 1000 marks could be granted with this money?”

historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/n…

Plenty of rich and educated people are working to prevent democracy and universal thriving.

To build democracy, we must insist that pro-social traits like empathy, compassion and critical thinking —not love of wealth, power and obedience w/o question— are instilled in children.

VA Gov. Youngkin (R) has appointed a historian and former head of a Christian school to the VA Board of Historic Resources who has defended Confederate monuments and says the Civil War was fought for the “sovereignty of each state and constitutional law.”
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/…

⬆️ "In a recent article for... a student-run... website, [she] blasted “cultural Marxists” for tearing down the legacies of Lee — a “Christian soldier” — and Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, “a Sunday School teacher for a class of young black children.”"

#ChristianNationalism

All part of the #ChristianNationalism agenda.

"Some locales are making opposition to critical race theory... their core focus, but other locations are adding virulent opposition to comprehensive sex education and LGBTQIA+ acceptance in a trio of concerns"
truthout.org/articles/right…