Look at some of the comments. I had heard that the NY Post was right-wing, but holy hannah! Basically, they all boil down to, “The Congresswoman was right, the kid is wrong, and his teachers are indoctrinating him with liberal propaganda.”
Trump, several of his cronies, and much of MAGA are the real life embodiment of insane troll logic. By definition, you can’t argue with it.
“And expensive gas is all Biden’s fault.”
A Wisconsin school board has voted to ban a high school orchestra from performing an instrumental piece at their spring concert because it was composed as a tribute to a trans activist who was present at Stonewall.
The students walked out today:
How often do school boards vet the proposed music for concerts?
Whenever right wing nutbag parents demand it.
Virginia Foxx is an archaic relic from a different time period and needs to get the fuck out of government. She was an adult when indoor plumbing was invented. She cheered when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. She booed when the 19th amendment was passed.
Not that she isn’t the only relic in the highest levels of govt (see Trump), but she is the north star, along with Chuck FUCKING Grassley. Retire!
That’s actually a really great example of a non-propaganda school assignment: Write a letter arguing some position, and mail it to someone in a position to make a decision. It doesn’t tell the students which issue to argue on or what side to take on it, nor does it tell them which decision-maker, or even what kind of decision-maker, to send it to. Encourage students to take an interest in the world, and let them work out the details. One student might argue for EVs; another might argue against abortion. One student might send it to his congresswoman; another might send it to a business executive. Heck, a student could write to their own parents arguing for a later bedtime, and be within the bounds of the assignment.
As to NYPost …
See also my comment here from earlier today and the post I refer to which cites another NYPost rage-baiting ignorant article:
I wouldn’t have normally cited the Post, but we’re in some kind of bizarro world timeline where they and the Daily Mail are actually doing legitimate journalism sort of by default because the “real” papers are all too obsessed with access and view-from-nowhere-both-sides-ism to do anything besides act as stenographers for the rich and powerful.
As a humorous aside, my late grandma (born 1941) once told me a story about her own grandpa, who grew up in rural Arkansas in the late 19th century. He refused to ever have an indoor bathroom installed in his house and used an outhouse for his entire life because, in his words, “I don’t want that shit in my house!” It was the only time I ever heard her swear, and when I told my aunts and cousins about it at her wake they were all shocked to hear me say that she’d used that word.
‘Do you think whale oil grows on trees sonny Jim?’ ~ Virginia Foxx
Agreed that this was a great example of a non-propaganda school assignment. I remember doing something similar when I was in 5th or 6th grade. Which come to think of it, would have made me about the same age as this kid is.
It’s a good hands-on way of teaching young children critical thinking, (find a topic you care about and develop an opinion on it), and civic responsibility, (figure out the correct authority figure to contact about your issue and then advocate for it.)
Not to put too fine a point on it, as I’m sure most everyone reading this thread considers this self-evident, but it’s those exact lessons that triggered Foxx’s unhinged response. MAGA doesn’t want people to think critically. They want people to swallow the propaganda wholesale without thinking about it. Gaslighting isn’t a problem to them, it’s a strategy. Foxx’s whole problem with the situation isn’t that the kid was being taught propaganda, he wasn’t, it’s that he was being taught how to resist propaganda.
The fact that a 10-year-old boy was advocating for EV’s and against climate change was also probably a reminder to her 82-year-old self that the culture war goes on. And that Trump’s cult like influence on half the country doesn’t mean they’ve won anything permanently.
I have no doubt that Foxx truly believes what she spewed.
Here, BTW, is a performance of the piece in question;
It’s awesome. Frankly, if I were these kids’ teacher, I’d put my job on the line and have them perform it anyway and dare the board to do something about it.
I have this sudden urge to have my manhood removed and use plural pronouns after listening to that piece.
Yeah, screw the planet, our wallets and our engines!
But certain R-voting corn farmers and ethanol refinery owners will be loving this. Corporate welfare at is finest.
I didn’t mean to imply any criticism of your decision to cite them. I’m not sure you took it that way, but I’m also not sure you didn’t.
I agree the timeline has gotten really bizarro. We can have legit reporting but only with RW rage-bait attached (NYP), or we can have pure fantasy (Fox et al), or we can have sanewashing bothsiderism (MSM). What’s a thoughtful individual to do?