Tony, Pretty MuchJun 4, 2023

So let me get this: instead of appealing to young voters and producing a slate of policies to address the needs of the country, the Republicans want control over universities and are running scared as they are often snubbed by young voters. They are just desperate and it smacks of fascism.

Please do what you can to fight this. Express your support for public education and vote for people who do, too.

Conservatives seek control over public universities with state bills-
https://wapo.st/45IE2Yu

Conservatives seek control over public universities with state bills

Conservative lawmakers have accelerated efforts to try to rein in what they see as liberal indoctrination on college campuses, with dozens of state bills igniting debates over academic priorities and how public universities should operate.

The Washington Post
Show threadMarkJun 5, 2023

@TonyStark public education in the US is completely globalist woke/democrat run. If not by law, then by practice.

Comparing this pushback with fascism shows that you are not only woke, but also ignorant.

It seems you cannot find real arguments so you revert to the tried and tested "fascists!". They are probably pedo's and terrorists to. At least that is what our government always uses when they want to pass a bill that nobody supports...

Try talking to them: ask WHY they want these bills...

Show threadarceuthobiumJun 7, 2023
@mark @TonyStark isn’t a university supposed to wake people’s minds up? That’s literally what they’re for. A US history class that doesn’t teach about racism is as worthless as a biology class that doesn’t teach about evolution.
Show threadMarkJun 7, 2023

@theothersimo @TonyStark no, they are not intended to wake people's minds up. Right now they are intended to teach people what to think.

They should be to teach the mind how to think and question. Not provide narratives with ready given answers.

Did you know public schooling as we know it was (is?) originally intended to mold the populous so they would be obedient to the ruling class? Look it up!

Teaching about racism is fine. Teaching black over white: not so much. That IS literally racism.

Show threadarceuthobiumJun 7, 2023
@mark @TonyStark if by “ruling class” you mean white people… you want to talk about ruling elites (and you’re not wrong but seem confused about who the ruling elites are) but you want it to be illegal to talk about school segregation, “massive resistance,” and the school-to-prison pipeline.
Show threadMarkJun 7, 2023

@theothersimo @TonyStark I know the (then) ruling class was all white.

But that is not the point: they suppress both white and black. And they are using the whole white/black to let us fight among ourselves whilst they still remain in power.

Quite possible whites are in for a century or so of segregation and discrimination now. They don't care: as long as they remain in charge.

I have no problem with black people. I do have a problem with people that have problems with whites or teach us so.

Show threadarceuthobiumJun 7, 2023
@mark @TonyStark I just don’t know what to say to a person so divorced from reality as to believe white people could be persecuted in the US or that schools are going to start teaching people to hate whites. That’s like Chris Rufo level psychopathy.
Show threadMarkJun 8, 2023

@theothersimo @TonyStark strange.

They are already actively teaching this in schools in the US.

In NL we are now talking about reparations for the late-late-grand children of black slaves (paid for by people who never enslaved anyone).

My ancesters worked in labour camps mining peat: they had to work from the age of 6, buy their food from the shops owned by their bosses and where only given housing if everyone in the family worked for him. Do you think I will get reparations? Racism...

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@theothersimo @TonyStark but I will end the debate here. I do not think we will get anywhere constructive.

I've said my part, you think different. Fine.

Jun 8, 2023 at 5:38amWeb