In right now’s episode of Trump Is Nonetheless Making an attempt To Hold America Dumb For Apparent Causes, the ex-president made an in-person look on Fox & Mates to, as soon as once more, float across the thought of shutting down the federal Division of Schooling to make sure that all the pieces educators are instructing in lecture rooms is whitey-approved. (He didn’t really say that final half, however the previous few years of anti-woke GOPropaganda proves that’s precisely what he was getting at.)
“We’re going to take the Division of Schooling — shut it — we’re going to shut it,” Trump mentioned of his plans ought to he be elected to the White Home in November.
He additionally mentioned he would punish faculties that train about slavery. When Fox & Mates co-host Brian Kilmeade requested about faculties in liberal states or cities instructing that America was “constructed off the backs of slaves on stolen land”, Trump mentioned they’d be defunded.
“Then we don’t ship them cash,” replied Trump.
Trump made the identical marketing campaign promise final month throughout a rally in Wisconsin.
“I say it on a regular basis, I’m dying to get again to do that. We’ll in the end eradicate the federal Division of Schooling,” he mentioned, CNN reported. “We’ll drain the federal government training swamp and cease the abuse of your taxpayer {dollars} to indoctrinate America’s youth with all types of issues that you just don’t need to have our youth listening to.”
To begin with, neither Trump nor any of his loyal MAGA minions give a rattling about college students being “indoctrinated” so long as it’s the proper form of doctrine. Indoctrination, of their minds, solely occurs when youngsters are being taught in regards to the spectrum of gender identities and sexual orientations that exist. To them, it’s indoctrination when college students are taught that systemic racism is a factor in a rustic the place Black folks have been barred from accessing the “American dream” by two and a half centuries of slavery and one other century of legally sanctioned second-class citizenship.
Nevertheless, it wasn’t indoctrination of their minds when Louisiana formally grew to become the primary state in U.S. historical past to require by regulation that the Ten Commandments be displayed in each public college within the state from kindergarten by school. It wasn’t indoctrination when Florida training officers accepted necessities to show college students that enslaved folks benefited from slavery and that Black victims of race massacres additionally dedicated acts of violence. Those self same officers chosen PragerU — an unaccredited conservative non-profit group based by a loud and proud racist — to offer classroom supplies to Florida faculties. PragerU produced animated movies for kids that taught, amongst different issues, that Frederick Douglass, a slave-turned-abolitionist, would have agreed with America’s option to prioritize white supremacy over ending slavery.
Trump, nevertheless, hasn’t threatened Florida’s Board of Schooling with any form of sanctions underneath his future presidency, as a result of when he talks about indoctrination, he doesn’t imply white nationalist indoctrination, as a result of that form of propaganda is his political bread and butter.
What Trump doesn’t appear to know is that as a lot as he tries to distance himself from Venture 2025 — the Heritage Basis’s pro-fascism brainchild aimed toward completely MAGA-tizing the federal authorities as soon as Trump is again in workplace — he can’t appear to cease saying the Venture 2025 half out loud.
One of many tenets of Venture 2025 that opponents have highlighted probably the most is its intent to rid the nation of its Division of Schooling.
Talking of which, just lately, reporters for Hip Hop Hollywood spoke to Black males between the ages of 18-65 and had them learn excerpts from the conservative plan for America and share their ideas on digicam. The interviews lined, amongst different issues, the venture’s affect on training ought to it ever be enacted.
You may watch the video under. Spoiler alert: Black males weren’t feeling any of it.