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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTo those who would tyrannize over America, they're "Government Schools" now...
Public Schools? To Kansas Conservatives, Theyre Government SchoolsTo 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
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TygrBright
(20,733 posts)1. An afterthought: Once ignorance has been weaponized...
...of course they have to remove what most effectively counters it.
soberly,
Bright
lastlib
(22,978 posts)5. "weaponized ignorance" I have to use that!
Permission requested!
elleng
(130,126 posts)2. Yes, Bright.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)3. At what point does Kansas become a failed state that must be federalized?
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.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)4. I stopped reading at "oligarch". eom
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)6. Conservatives have been denigrating public schools
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.
mopinko
(69,803 posts)7. left wing home schoolers call them that, too.
they are government schools.