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This Fall, Florida Students Will Be Forced to Take “Anti-Communist” Classes (truthout.org)

submitted 7 months ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Florida public schools will force students to take a Heritage Foundation-backed class on the “evils of communism.”

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[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 79 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Funny how "communism always fails on its own" or "is a failed ideology", yet is/was so significant, that it has to have it own special section.

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 7 months ago (1 child)

And also an embargo and constantly plagued by the US.

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[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

Exactly and constantly and incessantly propagandized

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Or that it has to be taught as an "inherently authoritarian ideology" and/or that it means .

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[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 months ago (6 children)

"The socialist housing plan" tweet hahah

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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"Cheap housing in urban areas bad. Suburban sprawl with McMansions good."

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[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

When china does it, bad. When america does it, based

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

Both still bad for conservatives. Also in Europe too, NIMBYs here whine about commie blocks not having "kitchen gardens", which is Europe's golf grass, but at least there's no HOA to force you to grow onions and grass flavored tomatoes in your garden, only societal pressure (which loosened a lot).

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[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

not having "kitchen gardens"

They really whine about that?

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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

Yes, but nowadays less often, and only the more extreme ones.

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[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 1 point 7 months ago

Jesus. These people will find any excuse to remain enslaved

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”

https://www.kesterbrewin.com/2025/01/26/14-hallmarks-of-fascism/

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[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

We see this a lot with the right

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