Trump signing executive order to create the '1776 commission' to "promote patriotic education"

[Zerokku]

Surprised there wasn't a thread on this yet. But this is absolute disgusting

Trump Launches 'Patriotic Education’ Commission, Calls 1619 Project 'Ideological Poison’

The president accused the left of attempting to ‘demolish’ the constitution and impose ‘tyranny’ through progressive education.

www.forbes.com

President Trump on Thursday announced several measures aimed at promoting what he called "patriotic education" while blasting progressive efforts at re-examining American history through a race-critical lens as "toxic propaganda."

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Trump also called out what he said is "left-wing indoctrination" in schools and curriculum, which he claimed "views every issue through the lens of race" in an effort to impose "tyranny" and "a new segregation."

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[Wolf]

 

[Dodongo]

No thanks I'm good

 

[Possum Armada]

Fuck that and fuck him.

 

[Merv]

Trumpler Youth

 

[entremet]

Sounds toothless. States control education.

 

[Jmdajr]

You love your country by teaching the TRUTH. And learning from it.

 

[AMAGON]

Fuck you, blow me.

 

[Deleted member 3542]

As desperate as him hugging flags. Incredibly obvious pandering.

 

[Kraken3dfx]

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

 

[WedgeX]

"Oh, 1619? Well I know what will make people LOVE AMERICA INSTEAD."

Embarrassing.

 

[darkwing]

lmao what is going on in America

 

[Tawpgun]

It would be nice to not view everything within the lens of race

But it seems every goddamn issue in this countries ends up boiling down to racism.

 

[Patryn]

Remember when that Republican congressperson tried to pass a law banning the 1619 Project from being taught in schools?

 

[Biggersmaller]

Nothing says "Land of the Free" like federally mandated propaganda in schools.

 

[Protein]

Sounds like something out of a communist country.

 

[Lady Bow]

I'm guessing doing the pledge of alienage everyday wasn't enough.

 

[Humidex]

Look, if you're going to bring this in, you may as well do it musically...

(but seriously, an absurd EO)

 

[apocat]

lmao what is going on in America

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Fascism.

 

[Mona]

our education is already far to patriotic

 

[Keywork]

The evangelicals will still home school their kids, this is obvious pandering.

Remember when that Republican congressperson tried to pass a law banning the 1619 Project from being taught in schools?

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You mean 2024 Republican presidential candidate and Supreme Court Justice, Senator Tom Cotton?

 

[19thCenturyFox]

So are they going to go for lies or large stretches of blank pages?

 

[No Depth]

As usual, Conservatives merely twist and contort anything that is well-meaning into something that benefits only them and destroys or supplants what they steal from.

They really are triggered by the Pulitzer winning 1619 Project.

 

[gofreak]

Good lord... get this man out in November, America.

 

[Grym]

"I will call the commission The Trump Youth"

- Trump probably before an aide made him change the name

 

[Cronogear]

Propaganda 101

 

[CountAntonio]

Straight propaganda. Fuck that.

 

[John Rabbit]

He is SO FUCKING MAD about the 1619 Project, jesus christ.

 

[entremet]

Nothing says "Land of the Free" like federally mandated propaganda in schools.

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It won't go to the schools automatically. It would have to be adopted by school districts like any curriculum.

He's just using taxpayer money to create the curriculum, probably funding right wing think tanks in the process.

 

[Shy]

Sounds about right.

lmao what is going on in America

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The mask has finally come off.

 

[Slayven]

It's less then nothing, like when he says 2 weeks

 

[teruterubozu]

our education is already far to patriotic

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Yup. Basically he wants Reagan era textbooks, which wasn't that long ago and isn't radically different from US history textbooks today.

 

[LuigiMario]

Seems like something that's not actually gonna mean anything outside of making conservatives get excited about Trump "bringing back good education." No millennial teacher (you know, the people who will soon be the majority of teachers) are gonna commit to this and states are probably just gonna say this sucks and drop it.

 

[jon bones]

lmao what is going on in America

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nothin good man

 

[Jogi]

Sooooo we're China? What a turn.

 

[platocplx]

Yep he pretty much All Live Mattered the 1619 project. When like Shit i never learned like the chinese exclusion act and all of the US's history of racism. this shit has to be taught in schools so our society moves forward. This shit is such a pain in the ass to teach fucking adults about because they think america is some patrotic utopia that beat england lol

 

[TheAndyMan]

Now all he needs is that little mustache.

 

[Jogi]

Seems like something that's not actually gonna mean anything outside of making conservatives get excited about Trump "bringing back good education." No millennial teacher (you know, the people who will soon be the majority of teachers) are gonna commit to this and states are probably just gonna say this sucks and drop it.

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Maybe...but our text books in schools are already heavily skewed white and with a religious slant. The last thing we need is more of that.

 

[Zerokku]

our education is already far to patriotic

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Yeah that was my discussion with my brother about it. Like our history is already so hilariously and disgustingly white washed and propaganda filled as it is and we want to increase that because god forbid people actually admit our country has done some truly fucked up shit in its brief existence?

 

[entremet]

lmao what is going on in America

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Post empire America. All empires see stuff like near their collapse bring out jingoistic trinkets like this.

 

[Ithil]

This garbage will do nothing but have another culture war headline for a day.

 

[Wreckord Collection]

This reminds me of being raised around Mormons and how careful some of them were about only reading/watching/listening to "faith-promoting" media.

It was creepy then. It is creepy now.

 

[Cat Party]

He is SO FUCKING MAD about the 1619 Project, jesus christ.

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It's been a big issue in the right wing mediasphere for a while. "They're teaching our kids to hate America!" "My cousin's friend's former roommate's school district is being forced by Soros to teach 1619 Project to kindergartners!"

Most people outside that sphere don't even know what the 1619 Project is.

 

[thecouncil]

what a weird country.

 

[Keldroc]

Cult? What cult?

 

[krazen]

This garbage will do nothing but have another culture war headline for a day.

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Yup. More and more desperate; looking forward to him showing up wearing a pointy white hat as a "Halloween costume" in late Oct.

The irony is that he's fed the news cycle so much crazy in these 4 years he's having a problem cutting through and trolling through all the negative media coming his way. This is now just the 'Muslim Ban' remixed...there's only so many ways you can reheat bigotry to serve it again.

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

NOW EVERYBODY DO THE PROPAGANDA!

 

[Palette Swap]

Could have called it White History Year and saved everyone time.

 

[Slayven]

Yup. More and more desperate; looking forward to him showing up wearing a pointy white hat as a "Halloween costume" in late Oct.

The irony is that he's fed the news cycle so much crazy in these 4 years he's having a problem cutting through and trolling through all the negative media coming his way

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It will be on page 12 tomorrow, Pence's aide made sure of that

 

[Joseph Joestar]

So Hitler Youth?