Chirag "Jay" PatelFeb 1, 2023
mtsw

Many of the conservatives who are pushing hardest for book bans in public schools homeschool their kids or send them to private schools.

They still push for this because destruction of public schools as an engine of egalitarianism, democracy and social mobility serves their larger ideological goals of having an unequal society with "good people" like them at the top, served by exploited and ignorant poor underneath.

Jan 31, 2023 at 5:55pmWeb
Show threadmtswJan 31, 2023
The ultimate goal of the project is to have the rich send their kids to secular private schools where high-level instruction is monopolized for the wealthy, the middle class to send their kids to religious schools where they are kept ignorant and propagandized, and for the poor to defunded public schools that feature almost no instruction and instead prepare them for servitude and compliance (or prison).
Show threadmtswJan 31, 2023
You may observe that this has aleady been more-or-less achieved (minus the religious middle class schools) in much of the country via residential segregation within metro areas - splitting up the school districts and funding inside one city so rich zip codes get fancy well-funded schools and poor areas get death spiral underfunded ones!
Show threadmtswJan 31, 2023
Like many revolutionaries, American "conservatives" have found success in part because the door they're kicking down is made of rotting wood.
Show threadClinical RawlsianJan 31, 2023
@mtsw I don't believe in hell, but if I did I would hope there is a special place reserved their for Bill Clinton, the Democratic Leadership Council, "Blue Dog" Democrats, and all other "small government liberals".
Show threadClinical RawlsianJan 31, 2023
@mtsw After Johnson secured passage of the VRA and CRA, Nixon then Reagan used race-baiting to attack the undermine the labor movement and drive apart the New Deal Coalition. The response of Clinton and his ilk was to try to appease the right by throwing the poor and minorities under the bus rather than fighting back. Shockingly, this strategy didn't work and only emboldened the extreme right.
Show threadRiley S. FaelanJan 31, 2023

@MadMadMadMadRN @mtsw: In Bill's hell, Hillary and Monica would be besties.

In Hillary's hell, Bill and Monica would be besties.

And in Monica's hell, Hillary and Bill would be besties.

Show threadNate Vack 🍴Feb 1, 2023
@MadMadMadMadRN @mtsw I mean, fine, but I'll personally save my “special place in hell” wishes for the DeSantis types
Show threadArt (Serious Mode)Jan 31, 2023
@mtsw Worth thinking about this as well in terms of both the historical roots of the charter school movement in America in segregation and the intersection of race and class
Show threadJosiah MannionJan 31, 2023
@mtsw I think this holds coordinated and precise parallels to their attacks on public libraries as well.
Show threadHLGEMFeb 1, 2023
@mtsw I don't know where you live, but many, many of my middle class coworkers and acquaintances send their children to private religious schools (Which are often terrible schools) that are supposedly better than the public schools (which are actually very good schools).
Show threadHill_HobbitJan 31, 2023
@mtsw among the founders of the United States were many #masons who had witnessed the affect of private schools in Europe and felt it was imperative that America have strong public schools for all citizens in order for democracy to thrive. We have widened or views on who can be a citizen, but, I do not believe they were mistaken.
Show threadkatieJan 31, 2023
@mtsw And those public schools will house all the kids that need special education since charters and secular private schools don't have to take any kid they don't want to. Finally, only public has to spend $ on buses.
Show threadQuanah SchlesselmanFeb 1, 2023
@mtsw here’s proof..
Show threadAlan CampbellJan 31, 2023
@mtsw all about bringing back serfdom, child labour can't be too far behind.
Show threadm01r4Jan 31, 2023
@mtsw grew up in memphis metro area where this is all but explicit in every conversation about education and it was a culture shock to move to the west coast and have to painstakingly explain to oregonians that their school districts were (and are)
segregated, too.
Show threadSocialistStanJan 31, 2023
@mtsw Exactly, this is a super important point. They go outside what concerns them to destroy other people's education, they're the aggressors.
Show threadSteffen ChristensenJan 31, 2023
@mtsw Damn, Michael. That's dark.
Completely self-consistent and consistent with history, but dark.
Show threadJarvis SlacksJan 31, 2023
@mtsw @hacks4pancakes Yep. That's the thing. They want to destroy our world. It's pure selfishness on their part.
Show threadgavinisdie Jan 31, 2023
@mtsw thank God I live in a (mostly) blue state
Show threadAntonVonCarmoFeb 1, 2023
@mtsw I hope you realise this post is only going to appeal to people with very extreme views. I think personally you're giving conservatives too much credit. Extremists on both sides of politics are a ramshackle bunch with little or no strategy.
Show threadFrank Bennett 🇯🇵Feb 1, 2023
@mtsw That's pretty much it, yes.
Show threadRealGravitas -Citizen SaboteurFeb 1, 2023
@mtsw These so-called conservatives are bullying their way onto school boards across the country because normal folk aren’t paying attention. Once there they push issues like charter schools and changes to curriculum in addition to the book banning. We’ve got to stay involved at the lowest levels if we want to keep the freedoms we have.
Show threadBrian BellaFeb 1, 2023
@mtsw
Eat The Rich!
Show threadRybot Calbearo🎾🇪🇸Feb 1, 2023
@mtsw
Show threadNando161Feb 1, 2023
@mtsw I love these posts, everytime I hit the reshare so quick on my tumblr account with access to free digital libraries attached.
Show threadErik EllestadFeb 1, 2023
@mtsw Ban the Bible.
Show threadRob needs sci-fi 🚀🛸Feb 1, 2023
@mtsw they want a dumbed-down, easily-controlled populace to whom the Fox News clergy will read the Gospel of MAGA. They hate public school because it gets in the way of theofascism.
Show threadWe're Not In Kansas AnymoreFeb 1, 2023

@mtsw

#MAGADomesticTerrorists #Democracy #PublicSchools #GOPSeditiousTraitors

Show threadMaggieFeb 1, 2023
@mtsw
Yes, these private schools are intended as elitist training centres for the future leaders of society. The entrance qualifications being: wealth, conservative ideals & mostly white (males) as well as a few compliant POC.
The ultimate aim is to maintain the status quo & ensure the hierarchy (i.e., at the top, the rich & powerful while underneath the less wealthy compete/ fight with each other while working to make the rich more wealthy & powerful ) remains as intact as possible
Show threadAditiCollectiveFeb 1, 2023

@mtsw I think you misunderstand the motives of most of the christian culture warriors. They see *all* of society benefitting from a return to agreement with their opinion regarding public morality. Of course, that is a fairly dubious opinion, but it is not motivated by *intentional* oppression.

Of course, there *are* people in that cohort who do favor actual oppression, but they are, by far, a small minority

Show threadMrAptronymFeb 1, 2023
@mtsw I think this is true for some at the top, but I think many of the rank and file just approve of book bans because they don't think anyone should be giving testamony to the lives of the people those books describe. It isn't about reducing the quality of education to them, they just see no value in the lives and experiences described by those works.
Show threadrandrFeb 10, 2023
@mtsw so true