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[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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."

[–] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Florida passed a law that military vets are permitted to teach without being certified in order to address a teacher shortage in the state, schools are not being properly equipped for any subject

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Was it vets? I thought it was worse than that. It was military spouses LMAO

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 73 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"The history of Communism" curriculum will just be

Gommulism killed 10000 gorillion people, no food, no innovation, no freedom.

And that's it.

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine going to war because you just want a weekend.

Truly on the shoulders of giants.

[–] regul@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] jonne 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the headline makes it sound based as fuck.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

What happened Mao Zedong? The strong silent type.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we got an explanation when my class read it but for some reason the interpretation was basically lenin = good and stalin betrayed the revolution.

i think our teacher was a trot

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ive never read animal farm but I thought that was the intended reading

[–] Des@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

pretty sure it is. blair was still nominally a "socialist" even if a total POS

even in my most anti-communist youth there was always a seed of "what-if" lenin didn't die would the communist project have succeeded. i just thought it was a historical one-shot that never could be repeated

fucking great man theory BS

[–] IMF_DOOM@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i did the same but our teacher didnt even bother to explain that it was about the russian revolution so we all thought it was just about some pigs being mean and stuff

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best interpretation, pigs be assholes 4 real.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I remember reading Animal Farm and not getting it at all. I remember thinking the book was kinda dumb. I probably would have thought that given the right contenxt, just for new reasons though lol.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to read it at about 13 in English, and I got it was about communism and the pigs were lenin and stalin but I only had really vague knowledge of the soviet union, so I thought the ending was about the dissolution of the ussr

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We definitely watched the 1999 live action Animal Farm, I honestly remember very little about the whole book/movie.

Edit: Aw fuck I forgot that Jim Henson's Creature Shop worked on that movie.

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is kinda funny, in my high school the whole class came to the unanimous conclusion that Animal Farm was about the American revolution. The pigs were the rich whites and the other animals were the slaves and poor.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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"?

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bruh, American, you invented the fucking red scare FFS.

The US (and it's allies) are a whole set of countries in denial. Probably due to the American-level indoctrination

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

Full support for the Florida Department of Education vanguard as they Chinese-style indoctrinate future generations of comrades

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, the racist redditors are right about one thing. They probably do teach the history of communism in Chinese schools.

[–] khizuo@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Sharing is caring

astronaut-2 astronaut-1

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Kindergarden?

A is for AMERICA! B is for BOMBS! C is for COMMIES!

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Shoehorning “sharing is bad actually” into the kindergarten curriculum ftw.