• GladimirLenin [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    No way my teachers were equipped to properly teach Marxism-Leninism or Mao Zedong Thought. Good luck Florida.

    “Now children we will be reciting a new Florida pledge of allegiance. Repeat after me. The Maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history and led to an almost totally equal redistribution of land amongst the peasantry.”

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    School assembly in the gymnasium, principal reading from a Victims of Communism Memorial "fact"sheet

    “And then Mao personally executed over a billion landlords, which cau-”

    He is cut off by cheering and applause, some of which are coming from the custodial staff, other teachers and the vice principal

    “This was actually a bad thing beca-”

    His mic is cut off entirely as Celebration by Kool & the Gang somehow starts blaring from the speakers

    “Children, I am trying to teach you about the dan-” he tries to yell above the music after realizing the mic was cut off

    🎵Celebrate good times, c’mon🎵

    “Now, I don’t much care for communists, but I can stand by a man that done hates his landlord” an elderly man with a southern drawl wearing overalls inexplicably in a Floridian school gymnasium says before lighting a hand rolled cigarette indoors with a non-safety match he ignites on aforementioned overalls

    The entire Jacksonville Jaguars arrive on the scene, throwing out free merch and signing autographs, rolls out and proceeds to win the next Super Bowl

    Deep sleeper agent, Comrade DeSantis knows what he’s doing.

    • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      Yeah Im more offended over America’s blatant omission of history rather than the complete fabrication of it.

      Shit like the 8 hour work day, the fact that the children are even inside a classroom learning this drivel instead of working at the daw mill or slaughterhouse, desegregation and civil rights. These things didn’t magically happen or even organically happened. Communists, socialists, anarchists, and hell even some liberals fought, killed, and died for this shit. Not just on the streets against cops and your neighborhood racist, but in the mountains and fields with machine guns against American soldiers as well. The US was scared shitless of the USSR because so much of the country was suffering that their possible sympathies with communism was a national security concern.

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      AKA the same stuff they’ve been teaching American students since the Eisenhower administration.

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      Yes, and next month will be the section on the “Trail of Happy Tears”

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      how exactly do they think this is going to play out?

      Teacher: Communism is bad because Stalin killed people.

      Student: So all Stalin had to do was not kill people and communism would have worked?

      Teacher: No, the ideology made Stalin kill people.

      Student: So Stalin did not have free will?

      Teacher: No, free will exists, don’t be a dirty Calvinist, Stalin was willingly following Marx’s ideology to the letter.

      Student: So how did the ideology create the regularly recurring famines that happened for centuries until the 50s, cause the kulaks to burn their own food, or the Western powers to sanction the USSR before the USSR had done anything wrong? What part of Marx’s writings caused this?

      Teacher: I’m legally required to report all dissenters to the Department of Freedom.

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    My Westoid school decided it would be a good idea to have us read Animal Farm in English class before we had learned about the Russian Revolution in History class.

    Cue an exasperated English teacher trying to explain to a class of confused middle schoolers how the pig is obviously Trotsky or Stalin.

  • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Lol, can we talk about the Redditor for a second? “This is Chinese-level indoctrination shit.” Homie, do you hear yourself? Which is it exactly, are the Chinese doing the “Bad Thing” that you want people to avoid, or are we trying to teach kids about the “Bad Thing” which is some how just as bad as China teaching “Bad thing actually good thing though”?

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      If they don’t get their daily fix in whining about the dastardly orientals, they will explode in a fit of rage rampaging through chinatown calling everyone slurs

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    So students in Florida will learn that there is something called communism and that the deeply uncool assholes who are in charge of everything thinks it is very very bad.

    I wonder what will happen once the students gets fed up with how the assholes are ruining the world they’re growing up in.

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      the difference being that today (unlike 80s, 90s, etc) you can go on the internet and see communism is actually awesome, and kids starting Kindergarten next year will not be able to stop seeing China winning for the rest of their lives.

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        They might not be able to see what China is like if the same republicans pushing this law also get their internet censorship laws passed.

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      In the year I went to school in China (5th grade), we learned a story about Mao Zedong helping peasants and also memorized the Long March poem. Unfortunately, at the time I was an America-poisoned 10 year old and didn’t appreciate it ooooooooooooooh

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    Critical support for Comrade DeSantis as he brings Communism back into study, opening the gateway to Communist Florida!

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    It would have been great to learn about communism since kindergarden, but most of my teachers were libs at best, so no thanks.

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    big-cool no better way to brainwash children let everyone know communism is bad but to tell them communism is a freedomless totalitarian ideology from the comfort of your freedomless totalitarian theocracy.