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We're BEYOND Cooked: Oklahoma to require ideology test for teachers from New York and California
(www.pbs.org)
Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s public schools superintendent, said Monday that any teacher coming from the two blue states will be required to pass an assessment exam administered by PragerU, an Oklahoma-based conservative nonprofit, before getting a state certification.
“Sorry, can’t have teachers tell the truth! Facts aren’t popular and I might get….gulp…annoyed!”
They hate democracy in all forms except for the one time hierarchy makes sense: the truth. Only in that context oink fucking oink. I’m right and you’re wrong because I use logic and you don’t.
It’s ok, it’s all part of growing up.
I don't understand what you're getting at. This isn't democracy, just like crackdowns on school boards and so on usually aren't democracy but a concerned evangelical minority with a substantial corporate backing. That is, incidentally, great way to describe PragerU, whose popularity has been a complete astroturf from its inception to the present day. Do you truly believe that the politicians involved in this particular expression of the national project of replacing education with PragerU are doing it because their Oklahoma constituents demand it? Nonsense, it's based on the same corporate backing with an enthusiastic but minority evangelical following that the rest of the PragerU project is.
Ok ok, I was being pretty uncharitable. Elites, masses, and rebels and so on.
Odds are most Oklahoma people in reality are totally unaware. Personally, I’ve been too online and now I’m assuming every last person is a freak from /pol/, even though I know damn well I shouldn’t.
Sorry for being all “tyranny of the majority” before. Cynicism is a fuck.
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I don't remotely hold it against you, for what it's worth. It was an honest error. Alienation (both from being too online and other factors) along with frustration at the genuinely reactionary elements in American popular sentiment can easily overwhelm a person and lead to false generalizations, and I've done just the same thing myself in the past and still sometimes need to keep myself from doing it again. The main difference between your response and mine is that I'm not sure that I have the courage to directly present an autopsy in response to criticism like you did.
There's no use in moralizing over past mistakes, whether they are your own or others, what matters is doing our best to make sure something we have identified as a mistake is not repeated. Reactionaries usually (not always, but usually) need to astroturf the popularity of their policies, so we must do what we can to expose the illusion of their "popularity" in those cases.