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Peter Greene: Indiana “Moms for Liberty” Quote Hitler: Not a Good Start

23 Jun

Republican Moms for Liberty should be MOMs for FASCISM.

These alleged mothers are following in Hitler’s footsteps.

They are accusing our democracy’s more than three million public school teachers spread across 50 states,

[Discover the political leaning of our countries teachers — 5% are very liberal; 4% are very conservative: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/survey-educators-political-leanings-who-they-voted-for-where-they-stand-on-key-issues/2017/12 ],

teachers working in more than 10,000 public school districts spread across the United States,

each state with its own public education system mostly funded by local state taxes/revenues,

each district with democratically elected, local school boards …

These fascist loving alleged moms that lie when they say they are Moms for Liberty, claim those teachers are programing our children to grow up and become fascists.

Who are the real fascists that want to take away our teachers freedom to teach while censoring books so all parents can’t decide what their children can read?

dianeravitch's avatarDiane Ravitch's blog

Peter Greene writes about the debut of the Indiana faction of “Moms for Liberty,” which issued a statement quoting Adolph Hitler: “He alone who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future”

Over the next 24 hours, they kept rephrasing their statement over and over, to make clear that they weren’t actually endorsing Hitler or taking inspiration from his quote. After a few contortions, they sort of clarified what they meant, I think. Your local public school is controlled by the government, so your local public school is a manifestation of Nazism.

This would be funny if it weren’t so stupid.

Ninety percent of Americans went to public schools. Are we assume then that ninety percent of Americans are fascists? Are all of us public school graduates controlled by the evil U.S. government? By Biden? Trump? Obama? Bush 1 or 2? Clinton? Reagan?

Did we get controlled when we were in school…

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