The War on Education, Knowledge & CRT

and the rise of Christofascism (with bonus nazis)

public service announcement

this will be long and cover multiple overlapping interconnected topics

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books and libraries have always been points of contention in America

there's only one book they like, the bible and it is only to be used in the oppression of others

In 1959 Police were called to a segregated library because a Black nine-year-old boy was trying to check out books and refused to leave unless he had the books

After being told by library staff that books were not for Black people and only for Whites, I'm sure that planted the seed of determination; the young boy eventually grew up and In 1976, he received a PhD degree in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the guidance of Michael Feld, becoming nationally recognised for his work in the field of laser physics.

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Also in 1976, he won the AAU Karate gold medal.

He would subsequently win five regional championships and earn a 5th degree black belt in karate.

McNair received four honorary doctorates, as well as a score of fellowships and commendations.

He became a staff physicist at the Hughes Research Lab in Malibu, California.

The library is now named after him; respectfully Mr Ronald Mcnair!

Now you know

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now we have the flipside

SOME white people (Republicans) are afraid of becoming the minority.

Why? — Are minorities treated differently in America or what?

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i have seen peddlers of white replacement theory on here


During the 2021-2022 school year, more than 1,600 books were banned from school libraries.

The bans affected 138 school districts in 32 states, according to a report from PEN America, an organization dedicated to protecting free expression in literature.

And the number of bans is only increasing yearly.


Texas and Florida lead the nation in book bans — a revelation that recently spurred Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot to call her city a "book sanctuary."

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one of the books they banned is....Fahrenheit 451 (what is irony lol)

Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury.

Often regarded as one of his best works, Fahrenheit 451 presents an American society where books have been personified and outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found.

The novel follows Guy Montag, a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings.



also banned is 1984 which is hilarious, as they literally Ministry of Truth history surrounding CRT and slavery

The Ministry of Truth (Newspeak: Minitrue) is the ministry of propaganda.

As with the other ministries in the novel, the name Ministry of Truth is a misnomer because in reality, it serves the opposite: it is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events.

However, like the other ministries, the name is also apt because it decides what "truth" is in Oceania.

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/the-50-most-banned-books-in-america/


The use of contradictory names in this manner may have been inspired by the British and American governments; during the Second World War

the British Ministry of Food oversaw rationing (the name "Ministry of Food Control" was used in World War I) and the Ministry of Information restricted and controlled information, rather than supplying it

while, in the U.S., the War Department was abolished and replaced with the "National Military Establishment" in 1947 and then became the Department of Defense in 1949, right around the time that Nineteen Eighty-Four was published.

all of this is interconnected, the rise of Christofascist supremacists, the whitewashing and rewriting of the histories of slavery and CRT, the repackaged war against the LGBT communities, the rise of the f**king evangelist nazi homeschooling networks and qanon.

it was the same group of Christofascists that influenced Brexit, and vote leave that was influencing things behind trump/stop the steal etc

the recent riots against refugees in Liverpool were started by those exact same f**king nazis


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https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/05/25/meet-woman-hitler-tattoos-campaigning-voteleave/

Eva says, “Though I heart emoticon my swastika, Adolf Hitler quote, SS motto, SS bolts & Swastika eagle… they will stay and I won’t ever dislike those ones.”

lol

the man on the left is the leader of Britain First, sound familiar?

remember 5 minutes ago when i said it was all interconnected and the same group of Christofascist nazis

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/09/the-big-money-behind-the-big-lie

https://www.popmatters.com/christian-fascism-american-democracy-hedges

from the last article dated 2007

By Guest Contributor / 1 March 2007

Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, told his students that when we were his age — he was then close to 80 — we would all be fighting the “Christian fascists.”

The warning, given 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and television evangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts toward taking control of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the government.

Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a global Christian empire.

This call for fundamentalists and evangelicals to take political power was a radical and ominous mutation of traditional Christianity.

It was hard, at the time, to take such fantastic rhetoric seriously, especially given the buffoonish quality of those who expounded it.

But Adams warned us against the blindness caused by intellectual snobbery.

The Nazis, he said, were not going to return with swastikas and brown shirts.

Their ideological inheritors had found a mask for fascism in the pages of the Bible.

He was not a man to use the word fascist lightly.

He had been in Germany in 1935 and 1936 and worked with the underground anti-Nazi church, known as the Confessing Church, led by Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Adams saw in the Christian right, long before we did, disturbing similarities with the German Christian Church and the Nazi Party, similarities that he said would, in the event of prolonged social instability or a national crisis, see American fascists rise under the guise of religion to dismantle the open society.

He despaired of US liberals, who, he said, as in Nazi Germany, mouthed silly platitudes about dialogue and inclusiveness that made them ineffectual and impotent.

Liberals, he said, did not understand the power and allure of evil or the cold reality of how the world worked.

Adams was eventually detained and interrogated by the Gestapo, who suggested he might want to consider returning to the United States.

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ps i added a bunch of clicky if you would like to know more links to names etc

Aren't these the same people saying everything they don't like is just like 1984 and saying the people who disagree with them just need to read 1984?

Getting rid of the Department of Education would definitely do two things: it would facilitate greater inequality in education outcomes between rich districts and poor districts, and it would exacerbate the tendency of state governments to specifically promote their ruling party via curricula. If your only hope for the children of poor families is that they develop the specific skills their local ruling class has an interest in exploiting economically, then this is a great idea.

Aren't these the same people saying everything they don't like is just like 1984 and saying the people who disagree with them just need to read 1984?

aye this is why i thought it was f**king comical that they did it to themselves

it would exacerbate the tendency of state governments to specifically promote their ruling party via curricula

anything left wing is cultural marxism and gets you doxxed by libs of tikkk tok

If your only hope for the children of poor families is that they develop the specific skills their local ruling class has an interest in exploiting economically, then this is a great idea.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mcdonalds-hiring-children-staff-shortage-b1913699.html

this is literally their only idea, is also why they want to ban books that question the status quo

even here the tories just banned teaching left wing economics

Doesn't even have to be left-wing. Even milquetoast liberalism is "cultural Marxism."

She said: “There are always staffing issues, but this is unheard of.” [...] The young workers have been “a blessing in disguise,” Coleman said. “They have the drive and work ethic.”

Translation: we're offering non-livable wages, and we can't find anyone willing to go without necessities for the privilege of making us profits. Children are subsidized by their parents, they're unfamiliar with labor laws, they don't have the experience to know we're an especially shitty employer, and they often lack the confidence to stand up for themselves.

SC judge calling herself a "handmaid"
cool cool the judicial system is in excellent hands

@abughazalehkat

Conservatives love to accuse liberals of “indoctrinating” kids.

So I decided to try Mike Huckabee’s Christian nationalist children’s magazine.

It’s even weirder and more dangerous than you think:

(its literally capitalist Christofascist propaganda)

YouTube video vM2ljWEgWwA

So "religious extremism is bad and modern liberalism is nothing more than inactionable lip service."


Yup.

SOME white people (Republicans) are afraid of becoming the minority.

What a shocker. I had no idea.

All misinformation wether it is leftwing or rightwing should not be taught in schools

Agreed. Now if only everyone could all agree on what’s misinformation, we’d be golden.

So it goes

I graduated HS in 1984 and we joked about the possibilities then, not so much now.

I’m always curious about whether the ones who support banning books have actually read them. If they have, then aren’t they telling us we aren’t smart enough to make rational decisions and form our own opinions?

Where DO you draw the line though? Most libraries are publicly funded, shouldn’t we err on the side of caution when establishing what is available to the entire community?

We have the wrong egos make policy decisions

Ron DeSantis is building a campaign on culture war issues and this one seems to get the base fired up. It’s a calculated political move and people either through misplaced fear, anger, or ignorance are eagerly being manipulated

They know how shit they treat minorities and fear what’ll happen to them.

Especially in this day and age, it really doesn't matter whether libraries "err on the side of caution" (whatever that means), since they also offer internet access (which most people have at home anyway), where they can likely find much worse ideas than you can find in 1984, Fahrenheit 451, etc.

The other argument is that public libraries serve the *entire* community, and shouldn't just cater to *some* constituents (and what those constituents deem to be 'proper').

Couple more things, actually. Plenty of libraries do banned books displays at least once a year, you can find lists of banned books online, and I recall a library reading event where you had to read books from various categories within a few months to get a prize. Most categories were things like "read a book by an author with the same first name as yourself" or "read a work of poetry," but one of the categories was "read a banned book." So, if the goal is to reduce the number of people reading a book, banning it probably isn't the best method unless you can ban it (inter)nationally.

Even if your local library has banned a book, you're perfectly free to purchase it from your favorite bookstore and provide the author with royalties (if the author's still alive), which then means that a library banning the book only means its banned for people with severely limited financial means (and even then, only if it's still under copyright - otherwise you can just get it from Project Gutenberg or something).

So, overall, it's a rather futile and classist exercise.

Obviously, school libraries are different... but only if the local public library doesn't carry the banned books, or a kid's friends don't share banned books with them. Otherwise, it's trivial for tweens and teens to get their hands on it anyway.

if the goal is to reduce the number of people reading a book, banning it probably isn't the best method

I read Fahrenheit 451, Catcher in the rye and 1984 because I saw them on a list of banned books, Imagine my disappointment when I didn’t become a serial killer psycho terrorist

Think on the bright side. Yet. You didn’t become a serial killer psycho terrorist yet.

Back when I was growing up, whenever the school or library banned a book (or at the very least were talking about it) my mother made a point to go out and buy the book so it would be available at home for me to read if I wanted to. I have been, and always will be, against banning books. It's an absurd practice that needs to stop.