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This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes (truthout.org)

submitted 1 month ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Florida public schools will force students to take a Heritage Foundation-backed class on the “evils of communism.”

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[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 74 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Funny how "communism always fails on its own" or "is a failed ideology", yet is/was so significant, that it has to have it own special section.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And also an embargo and constantly plagued by the US.

[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

Exactly and constantly and incessantly propagandized

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or that it has to be taught as an "inherently authoritarian ideology" and/or that it means .

[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"The socialist housing plan" tweet hahah

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

npc wojak.jpg

"Cheap housing in urban areas bad. Suburban sprawl with McMansions good."

[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When china does it, bad. When america does it, based

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Both still bad for conservatives. Also in Europe too, NIMBYs here whine about commie blocks not having "kitchen gardens", which is Europe's golf grass, but at least there's no HOA to force you to grow onions and grass flavored tomatoes in your garden, only societal pressure (which loosened a lot).

[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

not having "kitchen gardens"

They really whine about that?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, but nowadays less often, and only the more extreme ones.

[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Jesus. These people will find any excuse to remain enslaved

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

https://www.kesterbrewin.com/2025/01/26/14-hallmarks-of-fascism/

[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

We see this a lot with the right