#Russia #Putin #VladimirPutin #Stalin #USSR #BBC #SteveRosenberg #Russian #UkraineWar #Indoctrination #History #RewritingHistory #ErasingHistory
The slow indoctrination begins. If Steve asked the same questions to young Russians in thirty years, I wonder what answers he’d get?
Steve Rosenberg’s past exploits make him a top journalist in my opinion. Anyone gutsy enough to ask Putin inflammatory questions head on in fluent Russian is definitely worth listening to.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cz63n6j7407o
#Indoctrination
I am often baffled by a mainstream media establishment that has learned the phrase "every accusation is a confession" by rote, but continues to report on TrumpWorld Republican efforts to transform US public education into a fascist indoctrination factory as if it were a parental rights, or religious liberty issue. These folks are openly and blatantly turning the odious and reactionary belief cluster around Trump's cult of personality into enforced reality, and while they probably can't convince *you* that up is down and fascism is freedom, they're determined to make sure that's the only reality your kids ever know.
I wrote about a recent example of this indoctrination project in action on NIDC, while examining the recent news that noted fundie fascist ideologue Ryan Walters has passed education standards that attempt to force teachers in Oklahoma to present Trump's 2020 election conspiracies (aka The Big Lie) as factual analysis.
https://www.ninaillingworth.com/2025/05/20/26643/
Nina-Bytes: Poisoning the Well
"Folks who aren’t familiar with politics in Oklahoma or unhinged fascist cultists who worship Trump may not be familiar with state school superintendent Ryan Walters, but calling him an “ideologue” really doesn’t cover how entirely committed he is to Christian Nationalist ideology and the Trump regime’s enforced unreality. This is the guy behind Oklahoma’s wasteful and corrupt attempted purchase of Trump-branded Bibles, as well as a Project 2025-style plan to restore “religious education” to Oklahoma public schools. He’s also a big proponent of new innovations in trying to make state taxpayers support religious charter schools that will presumably teach Christian Nationalist doctrine. As the article notes, in addition to teaching the Big Lie as fact in Oklahoma schools, Walters also wants to teach kids that Covid came from a lab in China and “remove education about Black Lives Matter and George Floyd’s murder,” just in case you were worried he might not be racist enough. In other words, it’s safe to say that indoctrinating kids with horrifying reactionary ideas that support an objectively fascist agenda is Ryan’s jam."
#Fascism #Trump #TheBigLie #$2020ElectionConspiracies #Oklahoma #ChristianNationalism #Propaganda #Indoctrination #TrumpCult #HitlerYouth #Homphobia #Islamophobia #Racism #WhiteNationalist #Nativism #RyanWalters #Education #GOP #RepublicanParty #ReligiousSchools
#Texas #education #indoctrination
"The Texas House voted 112-20 on Wednesday to preliminarily approve a bill requiring public schools to teach the dangers of communism.
But the most robust debate centered around what the bill didn’t include — teachings on the harms of fascism and Nazism.
'Ignoring one side of the spectrum while scrutinizing another creates an incomplete and potentially misleading historical education,' said state Rep. Vikki Goodwin of Austin, one of several Democrats who unsuccessfully sought to amend Senate Bill 24.
SB 24 would require the State Board of Education to adopt standards for social studies curriculum for fourth through 12th grade. That instruction must include information on 'atrocities attributable to communist regimes' and contrast communism with 'the United States’ founding principles of individual rights, merit-based achievement and free enterprise,' according to the bill."
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/texas-communism-dangers-schools-fascism/
I don't think most observers, even those who understand the importance of propaganda to the rise of Trumpism in US political life, understand how important the establishment of a state of false "unreality" is to an ongoing fascist project. You can learn a lot about how this works by studying interwar Germany and the rise of the Nazi party, but since mainstream understanding of Nazism in broader US society pretty much doesn't start until Hitler invaded Poland, or worse, the Nazi regime started conducting the Holocaust, the extreme lengths fascists in Germany went to propagandize to and indoctrinate people, young people in particular, is rarely examined to provide context to our modern "fascist moment" under Trump. This has created a media environment where even the most crass, pro-Trump cult of personality propaganda efforts are reported mostly in the context of flattering Downmarket Mussolini's massive ego, with little focus on the downstream cultural effects of these efforts to mainstream fascist ideology, glorify a would-be dictator, and alter the understood historical record of our society.
This lack of attention to historically documented details is also exacerbated by the very human tendency to externalize our experiences; because most adult observers in our discourse understand Trump cultists are lying, even folks who continue to actively support the regime, the assumption is that other people also know that these distortions, lies, and revisions are propaganda too. The problem with this theory is that is presumes a well informed US public, and in particular it totally ignores young people who are not necessarily equipped with the baseline knowledge and lived experience that allows them to identify propaganda, fascist or otherwise.
You know who doesn't ignore the malleability of young people's opinions when they don't have the knowledge or lived experience to know they're being manipulated? Fascist regimes, including fascist regimes like the one Trump is running. In fact, they're actively relying on indoctrinating young people to generate long term support for their enforced unreality and a permanently-fascist society. Which is of course why recent reports that the GOP controlled government of Oklahoma will begin teaching Trump's "big lie" about the 2020 election being stolen (among many other ahistorical obscenities') as fact, should alarm the crap out of you.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/oklahoma-high-schools-election-conspiracy-theories
Oklahoma high schools to teach 2020 election conspiracy theories as fact
"After a group of parents, educators and other Oklahoma school officials worked to develop the new social studies standards, Walters assembled an executive committee consisting mostly of out-of-state pundits from conservative thinktanks to revise them. He said he wanted to focus more on American exceptionalism and incorporate the Bible as an instructional resource.
Among those Walters appointed to the review committee were Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and a key figure in its Project 2025 blueprint for a conservative presidential administration, and Dennis Prager, a radio talkshow host who founded Prager U, a conservative non-profit that offers “pro-American” educational materials for children that some critics say are not accurate or objective.
In a statement to the Associated Press, Walters defended teaching students about “unprecedented and historically significant” elements of the 2020 presidential election."
Folks who aren't familiar with politics in Oklahoma or unhinged fascist cultists who worship Trump may not be familiar with state school superintendent Ryan Walters, but calling him an "ideologue" really doesn't cover how committed to the Trump regime's enforced unreality he is. This is the guy behind Oklahoma's wasteful and corrupt purchase of Trump-branded Bibles, as well as a Project 2025 style plan to restore "religious education" to Oklahoma public schools; he's also a big proponent of new innovations in making taxpayers support religious charter schools.
As the article notes, in addition to teaching the Big Lie as fact in Oklahoma schools, Walters also wants to teach kids that Covid came from a lab in China and "remove education about Black Lives Matter and George Floyd’s murder," just in case you were worried he might not be racist enough. In other words, it's safe to say that indoctrinating kids with horrifying reactionary ideas that support an objectively fascist agenda, is pretty much Ryan's jam.
Finally it should be noted that teachers in Oklahoma told The Guardian that these guidelines still leave room to teach kids the truth; but I think that's a rather naïve position that ignores the purpose of this project. Fascists in Oklahoma are establishing an official narrative for reality, and you can bet your ass that they're not going to tolerate public workers teaching in opposition to that "reality" for long.
#Fascism #Propaganda #Trump #RyanWalters #Oklahoma #Indoctrination #Education #USPol
Former #Zionist Calls Out #Christian #Indoctrination
Secular Professor Tactics 101 https://buff.ly/iHAZDeJ #Christianity #atheism #secularism #culture #education #indoctrination #fallacy
The new standards have been championed by #RyanWalters, the state superintendent of #public instruction & a #MAGA firebrand.
"These new standards will ensure that kids have an *accurate* & *comprehensive* view of *historical* events, while also reinforcing the values that make our country great," Walters said at a February State Board of #Education meeting.
New #academic standards in #Oklahoma call for the teaching of "discrepancies" in the #2020election results, continuing the spread of a false narrative years after it was first pushed by #Trump & his allies.
The standards were enacted last month after the #Republican-controlled #Legislature declined to block them.
#education #indoctrination #BigLie #law
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5384282/oklahoma-education-standards-2020-election
People have been indoctrinated into blaming immigrants for the failures of their own governments & politicians. How they continue to fall for this sleight of hand is beyond my comprehension. Most people in the US aren't even aware that non citizens are paying taxes. The narrative is they only take from the system without paying anything into it.
Decentralized education is a vision that democratizes learning, making it free and accessible to everyone. By distributing educational resources across a network, no single entity can control the curriculum.
https://michaeltheanon.blogspot.com/2025/05/decentralized-education-free-mind-free.html
#activist #activism #mind #education #philosophy #thoughtexperiment #indoctrination #college #protest #fight #idea #decentralized
Fucking hell
#JDVance’s half brother advances in #Cincinnati mayoral primary
2 #Republicans challenged incumbent Cincinnati, #Ohio #Mayor Aftab Pureval, a #Democrat, in the nonpartisan primary.
#FarRight #extremism #radicalization #indoctrination #propaganda #media #VoteBlue #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/07/cincinnati-mayor-jd-vance-brother/
Davide Mastracci of The Maple spoke with 13 former Jewish-school students about the “brainwashing,” “indoctrination” and inculcation of anti-Arab racism they say they endured at the schools.
They claimed the schools play a crucial role in Canadians joining the Israeli military.
#Canada #Indoctrination #Brainwashing #Zionism #Racism #AntiArabHate
https://www.readthemaple.com/youre-literally-brainwashed-jewish-school-students-speak-out/
"I Escaped #Christian #Conservative #Indoctrination"
https://www.thekaysemeloneshow.com/p/013-i-escaped-christian-conservative
"When I was in grade school, I was taught that #liberals were my enemy, #God will send these #nonbelievers to #hell, and how it was up to me to ensure that the #Democraticparty failed in everything it attempted.
Because I wasn’t just raised in a #church. I was #indoctrinated into Christian #Conservatism. And I was one of the fortunate ones who were able to eventually walk away from it."
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