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TygrBright

(20,733 posts)
Sun Jul 10, 2016, 03:47 PM Jul 2016

To those who would tyrannize over America, they're "Government Schools" now...

Public Schools? To Kansas Conservatives, They’re ‘Government Schools’

To those who want to empower the strong and ruthless to exploit and crush the weak without let or hindrance, a government "of the people, by the people, for the people" is anathema.

To the oligarchs whose power and wealth depends on cheap labor and a docile underclass, public education is the quintessential threat.

To the extremist fundamentalist would-be theocrats, critical thinking is the last weapon they want available to their opponents.

This is nothing new, really.

The attack on public education is more than forty years along. They've been chipping away at it here, swinging a wrecking ball there, deforming and disempowering it somewhere else. They've been systematically destroying teaching as a profession, and belittling the value of education itself.

They've nearly succeeded.

So I'm not at all suprised that they've now pulled out the semantic artillery to dogwhistle their ignorant mobs into a final frenzied orgy of self-debasing destruction.

disgustedly,
Bright
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To those who would tyrannize over America, they're "Government Schools" now... (Original Post) TygrBright Jul 2016 OP
An afterthought: Once ignorance has been weaponized... TygrBright Jul 2016 #1
"weaponized ignorance" I have to use that! lastlib Jul 2016 #5
Yes, Bright. elleng Jul 2016 #2
At what point does Kansas become a failed state that must be federalized? Moostache Jul 2016 #3
I stopped reading at "oligarch". eom MohRokTah Jul 2016 #4
Conservatives have been denigrating public schools SheilaT Jul 2016 #6
left wing home schoolers call them that, too. mopinko Jul 2016 #7

TygrBright

(20,733 posts)
1. An afterthought: Once ignorance has been weaponized...
Sun Jul 10, 2016, 04:33 PM
Jul 2016

...of course they have to remove what most effectively counters it.

soberly,
Bright

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
3. At what point does Kansas become a failed state that must be federalized?
Sun Jul 10, 2016, 05:59 PM
Jul 2016

I am only half joking.

Brownback and his bloodless zealots are in full bloom crazy over there and the damage they are doing is not going to be undone easily.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
6. Conservatives have been denigrating public schools
Sun Jul 10, 2016, 06:24 PM
Jul 2016

by calling them Government Schools for a very long time. I'm thinking I heard this a good twenty years ago. RW and fundamentalist conservatives have pushed home schooling for a long time, and along the way the make public schools seem illegitimate.

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