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talkpolitics2011-07-16 10:14 am
paft.livejournal.com) wrote in talkpolitics2011-07-16 10:14 am
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They Could Always Go Work in Factories
Teri Adams, Head of Independence Hall Tea Party and School Voucher Activist:
Our ultimate goal is to shut down public schools and have private schools only, eventually returning responsibility for payment to parents and private charities. It’s going to happen piecemeal and not overnight. It took us years to get into this mess and it’s going to take years to get out of it.
In other words, Adams would like education to be, along with medical care, available only to those who can pony up the cash for it.
The article I’ve linked to includes a few quotes from people speculating about what drives the American right’s hostility towards public education. The ban on teacher-led prayer is invoked, along with the mercenary desire to funnel the money now paid into public schools into private hands.
I suspect it’s much more simple than that. Without universal education, the far right wouldn’t have to contend with so many pesky arguments about the facts of history, math, science, etc.
Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes
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Re: Public education is political indoctrination paid for by theft
Yes, I disapprove of terrorism -- a crime of which the KKK has a long, well-documented history.
Don't you?
Do you really not recognize the difference between an organization that has a long history of murderous terrorism and one that does not?
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And I do like how I short-circuited this with your help. When it comes down to it, you don't think left-wingers killing people is a bad thing.
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Ah yes, you're right. That FBI "error" being their blatantly illegal activities in COINTELPRO.
mb: And I do like how I short-circuited this with your help. When it comes down to it, you don't think left-wingers killing people is a bad thing.
Dream on. Of course I think left-wingers killing people through terrorist acts is a bad thing. I just don't think Bill Ayers, who has since denounced violence and terrorism, is the equivalent of an unrepentant Klansman.
Do you disapprove of the Klan, by the way?
Re: Public education is political indoctrination paid for by theft
Bill Ayer's has denounced violence and terrorism as not being productive... not that it's wrong.
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Do you denounce all violence?