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Spectre@lemmy.ml to Communism@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago

The US passed a law saying that all students must be tought that communism is evil: Crucial Communism Teaching Act

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The US passed a law saying that all students must be tought that communism is evil: Crucial Communism Teaching Act

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Spectre@lemmy.ml to Communism@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago
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The U.S. House just passed the Crucial Communism Teaching Act, a bill that claims to educate students on the 'dangers of communism' but is rooted in misinformation and fear-mongering. #politics #Re...
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  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    The House passing a bill is not the same thing as the US passing a bill. School House Rock

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    Weird how nobody is teaching the dangers of capitalism.

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    If the rich and powerful want this, then what does this yell us, plebs.

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    It’s right up there with creationism and intelligent design…

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      Communism? Can you elaborate?

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        Indoctrination

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          Communism is “indoctrination,” or anticommunism?

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            The law that requires that students are taught that communism is evil is right up there with teaching creationism and intelligent design.

            All three of those are forms of indoctrination.

            I’m not sure what else to tell you.

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              Gotcha. Your comment could be read either way, thanks for elaborating.

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    Do they also get taught what communism actually is?

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      They usually correctly point to the USSR, Cuba, PRC, Vietnam, Laos, etc. as actual implementations of Socialism, but lie, exaggerate, and omit key details, and conflate Communism with (insert scary buzzword here). It’s a rational target (for their interests, at least) using irrational methods, something Michael Parenti illuminates on in Blackshirts and Reds.

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        This is way too nuanced to actually be what is taught in American public schools. I know it certainly wasn’t what I was taught.

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          They don’t give it nuance, they portray AES states as enemies of US Hegemony as Socialist, but affirm that that is bad. They lie about what they look like and what Socialism is, so that way they can tie Socialism to failure and to enemies of the US, furthering anti-Communist dogmatism.

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    Everyone who died under communism also died under capitalism because communism resides within a larger capitalism.

    Checkmate atheists.

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      What are you talking about?

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        Humans

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        World system theory

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