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A conservative Christian group with ties to Donald Trump education pick Betsy DeVos once released a promotional video that proudly featured a speaker describing how Adolf Hitler and others indoctrinated children.
The undated video by the Student Statesmanship Institute ― which trains Christian kids to bring their biblical worldview to politics and media careers ― opens with a speech by Michigan leader Richard Posthumus, who describes how Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin used children to spread their message.
Sometimes, it seems like its very hard to change the world, the world is so big, Posthumus says in the video, over a dramatic soundtrack. But what SSI has done is equip young people with the tools to go out and be ready for the competing ideas thats in this world.
The video immediately cuts to another comment.
Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin: They knew one thing, that to change a culture, to change a country, they had to reach the children, he says.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/betsy-devos-student-statesmanship-institute_us_58866464e4b070d8cad498d4?
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)This is the most horrible information I've had pertaining to this nominee - De Vos. Terrible. She must be voted down.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)Why they join the PTA and run for school boards?
Why they go after school library books and local library books?
Why they have attacked everything about public schools for years and years?
They claim the left indoctrinates children because that's what they have been doing for years.
The culture war didn't end.
Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)to go into battle.
This fuckstick must have had his morals shot off (although probably not in a real war).
Hekate
(90,674 posts)Or maybe it was till the age of 7.
Rote learning and indoctrination work like a charm for the masses, if that's what you want.
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)Then there's the soap, how did I forget the soap? Did someone leave an "O" out of that ghoul's name?
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)as long as there were witnesses.
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marybourg
(12,631 posts)on young girls and sending them into a crowd.
JDC
(10,127 posts)This kind of stuff is bat shit crazy