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This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes (truthout.org)
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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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[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Matthew#chapter_19

(my bold)

.19 [538] Honour thy father and thy mother: and, [539] Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

.20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

.21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, [540] go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.

.22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

.23 ¶ Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That [541] a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

.24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Let me guess, they will teach the evils of empathy outright.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

Well of course, empathy is socialism

[–] super_user_do@feddit.it 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Stop indoctrinating the children"

[–] Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Is that what they call what the rich like to do to kids now?

Once they finish their classes they get a free abduction to Little Saint James!

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This country hasn't been at risk of going communist in eighty years. The right are such scared fucking babies.

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago

They want to brand Socialism as Communism so we stay stuck in Tickle Down delusions

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

It's just propaganda. It's not anti communist it's pro capitalism/imperialism and ultimately pro fascism.

[–] sneakypersimmon@lemmy.today 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ooohhh will this be like the DARE program and actually end up converting students to support communism??

I know I learned a LOT about recreational drugs from school <3

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

As soon as I saw the headline, I said, "I hope this is exactly as effective as D.A.R.E."

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 12 points 1 day ago

Some polticail staffer from PragerU at a high school teaching kids.

PragerU staffer walks in and grabs a chair turns it backwards. Turns their baseball cap backwards

"For real, we bussin about the evils of communism. We capping 67 about how communism punishes billionaires. We going to ohio all over capitalism."

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Had a friend's son tell me, very insistently, that Kim Jong Un convinced everyone in his county that he doesn't poop. Also, that he's planning to nuke South Korea, and we need to do something to stop him.

This was a kid with very liberal parents going to a very liberal middle school.

Red Scare shit is already everywhere. But I guess we've got to keep cranking the hysteria up to 11

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

I heard that one about Kim a few times, alongside some more crazy "What the people actually believe" and it scares me. Do some actually believe such obvious nonsense, or are they all loudly claiming to believe it knowing the consequences for wrongthink? Do they think they're the only ones with a working brain and everyone else is brainwashed, or do they understand they're all in the same boat?

Or maybe is none of it real, I'll be honest I cant even prove North Korea even exists, I've only seen it on maps and on TV, on the same medium that brought me Ghost busters.

[–] Donebrach@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The hyper capitalist south is by no means great but I’d rather that than a disappearance state with cardboard walls. Authoritarianism is bad regardless of economic structure.

[–] neobunch@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Yes, because north Koreans must have a gene for authoritarianism or something. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with having all of its towns destroyed and 20% of its population killed by the US in a savage bombing campaign where more bombs were dropped than in the entirety of WW2, and have been under a deathly and relentless imperialist siege since.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

I’d rather that than a disappearance state with cardboard walls

Would be crazy if South Korea had a massive, brutal police state or a long history of improvised slums and ruthless exploitation of it's citizenry.

Good thing we're sanctioning North Korea to the hilt, guaranting none of those horrible practices become common place throughout the Western aligned Asian states

[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

i heard shit like this in school too. but it wasn't from teachers or adults, just other idiot kids and i wasn't dumb enough to take it as a definite truth, though i did consider it plausible.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (14 children)

I'm a GenXer and I have literally been fed anti-communist propaganda since I was a very small child. It's only in the last 20 years or so that I finally "woke up" and realized how absolute bullshit it all really is.

I don't think this is necessarily due to age. I think it's just that circumstances have made capitalism look so bad that you realize that the propaganda was exactly that.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Alongside "Pedo Worship 101"?

[–] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

That's the theology class

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

Kind of like the DARE program taught kids to do drugs this will backfire and create communist.

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Yep that is the what we are talking about. A utter failure.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

We're already in the Red Scare III™️

This is the beginning of the cleanse.

DARE probably got a lot of kid's parents thrown in jail.

Let's not forget the foster children to didler pipeline that is apparently foundational to the modern conservative movement.

We have to get these kids isolated and institutionalized so the rich people can abuse them. The orphan crushing machine needs blood.

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