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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 76 points 1 month ago

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 35 points 1 month ago

And also an embargo and constantly plagued by the US.

[-] choui4@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

Exactly and constantly and incessantly propagandized

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 19 points 1 month ago

Also gen X & I remember always playing as the U.S.S.R. in any game that let me choose because of the absolute banger of a national anthem!

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

I went to one of the very posh UK universities where they're split into smaller colleges, and my friend's college would play the Soviet National anthem at the end of every big party that was hosted in the college bar. The college student union had even passed a motion mandating that.

It was a surreal experience to see. A large chunk of people loved this tradition, but for very different reasons. There were a decent number who were straight up communists (or at least sufficiently left wing that they loved the political subversiveness of celebrating this song at such a posh university); Some people liked it ironically, for the meme (of the anthem-enjoyers, this faction were typically the poshest of the bunch); meanwhile, some people just thought the song was a banger — in my view, on this matter, these were the most based of them

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[-] lmdnw@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago

I already kind of wrote off any kids raised in Florida. It’s like Mississippi or Alabama at this point.

[-] its_kim_love 33 points 1 month ago

As a Mississippi communist I resemble this statement.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 month ago

As a Mississippi communist

Damn. Talk about being behind enemy lines! 😬

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

May you spread the revolution even into your forsaken land

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[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe let them cook, if this is as moronic as it sounds, it could turn out like D.A.R.E.

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[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Remember, kids: if communism is evil and communism is "taking your hard-earned money away and giving it to people who don't work hard enough," then it's your duty to demand the government stops those communist bailouts given to corporations that won't support themselves.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

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

[-] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

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

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Using schools for political indoctrination, misinformation, and propaganda in violation of student and teachers Constitutional rights? Yes, that sounds like Florida.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Donebrach@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] wavebeam@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month 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.

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Uhh? So, like... Fascism propaganda classes?

Are they located at lake Laogai?

They already do that weird culty "Pledge of Allegiance", the soil is fertile for more brainwashing.

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of the mandatory classes on Marxism-Leninism that my parents had to take at university in the GDR.

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[-] FaygoRedPop@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

If I'm anti-anti-communist, then I'm a communist.

And by that logic, if you're anti-anti-facsist, the you are a fascist.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If I'm anti-anti-communist, then I'm a communist

Logically, yes, but we both know that "anticommunism" in the US is less about ideology and more about favoring US economic, political, and military imperialism regardless of how.

So even though I'm not a communist, I'm 100% anti-anticommunist.

if you're anti-anti-facsist, the you are a fascist.

That one's true, though.

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[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

You can really smell the desperation in the air. The only reason to do this is because they know they're pushing people to their breaking points.

[-] boogiebored@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

what a shithole

[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago

Let's hope it works exactly as well as the state mandated abstinence only sex education, which is to say backfiring due to kids inherent rebelliousness

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[-] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Just teach history. Teach history, without an agenda. It's history class, not propaganda class. Teach history, not a nationalist narrative.

[-] credo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

History is always written by the victor.

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Alongside "Pedo Worship 101"?

[-] cheat700000007@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

That's the theology class

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

The kids will be okay. Exposure to the thing will foster critical thinking of the thing.

[-] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

Death to capitalism and long live communism. Get fcked fascist piece of sht.

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[-] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

These people don't see the evils of indoctrination? Teach history. Teach cause and effect and show the results. Then let people decide for themselves. This dumbing people down and telling them what to think isn't helping anyone at all.

[-] Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe 10 points 1 month ago

Americans think it's normal to pledge allegiance to a flag in school, they thank people for "their service" Indoctrination has been happening the whole time and it works.

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[-] TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

They are afraid people will decide they don't really like a .01% hording 50% of the worlds wealth like dragons in their lairs on piles of gold.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

For fucks sake.

[-] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Guess TikTok really did a number on Western propaganda, at least in a couple of generations, and now America is even more afraid of losing their grip on narratives? Either way, that country is well and truly fucked, they're just preparing for the collapse of the house of cards that is the American economy (people will need to be even more zombified to continue working and consuming). If the reputation of the American military crashes due to the new conflict in Iran (their reach and might have already been neutered in the region with billions in damaged and destroyed facilities), that might happen faster than expected. Hope American Lemmings either have enough money to be part of the new middle class or are seriously considering immigrating.

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[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 10 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

Hiring people educated in Florida is a liability.

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