Silver lining:

Conservatives have learned absolutely nothing from the failures of the D.A.R.E. program...

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.

I'm a GenXer and I have literally been fed anti-communist propaganda since I was a very small child. It's only in the last 20 years or so that I finally "woke up" and realized how absolute bullshit it all really is.

I don't think this is necessarily due to age. I think it's just that circumstances have made capitalism look so bad that you realize that the propaganda was exactly that.

I already kind of wrote off any kids raised in Florida. It’s like Mississippi or Alabama at this point.

Maybe let them cook, if this is as moronic as it sounds, it could turn out like D.A.R.E.

Remember, kids: if communism is evil and communism is "taking your hard-earned money away and giving it to people who don't work hard enough," then it's your duty to demand the government stops those communist bailouts given to corporations that won't support themselves.

This country hasn't been at risk of going communist in eighty years. The right are such scared fucking babies.

Kind of like the DARE program taught kids to do drugs this will backfire and create communist.

Using schools for political indoctrination, misinformation, and propaganda in violation of student and teachers Constitutional rights? Yes, that sounds like Florida.

Had a friend's son tell me, very insistently, that Kim Jong Un convinced everyone in his county that he doesn't poop. Also, that he's planning to nuke South Korea, and we need to do something to stop him.

This was a kid with very liberal parents going to a very liberal middle school.

Red Scare shit is already everywhere. But I guess we've got to keep cranking the hysteria up to 11

Uhh? So, like... Fascism propaganda classes?

Are they located at lake Laogai?

"Stop indoctrinating the children"

If you're a student, then your entire life has been shadowed by MAGA, or the feckless Biden administration. No wonder their attitude toward Democracy sucks, and alternatives like Socialism or Communism sound like a more viable system than the broken system they know.

You can really smell the desperation in the air. The only reason to do this is because they know they're pushing people to their breaking points.

If I'm anti-anti-communist, then I'm a communist.

And by that logic, if you're anti-anti-facsist, the you are a fascist.

Reminds me of the mandatory classes on Marxism-Leninism that my parents had to take at university in the GDR.

Let's hope it works exactly as well as the state mandated abstinence only sex education, which is to say backfiring due to kids inherent rebelliousness

what a shithole

Just teach history. Teach history, without an agenda. It's history class, not propaganda class. Teach history, not a nationalist narrative.

Alongside "Pedo Worship 101"?

Death to capitalism and long live communism. Get fcked fascist piece of sht.

The kids will be okay. Exposure to the thing will foster critical thinking of the thing.

Let me guess, they will teach the evils of empathy outright.

These people don't see the evils of indoctrination? Teach history. Teach cause and effect and show the results. Then let people decide for themselves. This dumbing people down and telling them what to think isn't helping anyone at all.

Guess TikTok really did a number on Western propaganda, at least in a couple of generations, and now America is even more afraid of losing their grip on narratives? Either way, that country is well and truly fucked, they're just preparing for the collapse of the house of cards that is the American economy (people will need to be even more zombified to continue working and consuming). If the reputation of the American military crashes due to the new conflict in Iran (their reach and might have already been neutered in the region with billions in damaged and destroyed facilities), that might happen faster than expected. Hope American Lemmings either have enough money to be part of the new middle class or are seriously considering immigrating.

oh man. I so want to teach that class.

For fucks sake.