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@koherecoWatchdog @gabriel @baslow i'm not in the US but tbh i see much more of "blindly following", willfully ignoring and declaring things "misinformation" in the left camp here in europe. from what i've seen that's the case in the US too. it's always "trust us" from the left, and people have a hankering for blind trust. you can't trust someone who has power over you.
@gabriel @baslow @bonifartius The US is a 2 party system. Democrats on the left have /vast/ differences in opinion and represents most of humanity in ways of thinking. Republicans in the US have nowhere near that diversity. They are in a monoculture of a single set of values that they all cling to. Most of their values are derived purely out of opposition to dems w/the sole mission to obtain & hold power.
@bonifartius @baslow @gabriel Since the focus of the republican party is to take power, the party who has chosen #Trump as their leader will blindly support him in everything that he does. A few republicans tried going against Trump & they got canceled. It’s pretty well proven that climate change is real & that masks reduce coronavirus spread but in the US you see the whole rt wing party in blind denial.
@gabriel @baslow @bonifartius I do get the impression that European conservatives are very different from US conservatives. But I wonder if the US two party system were superimposed on Europe, would Europe’s right wing turn into more of a blind following that hits the extremes of US republicans?
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Schools are inherently Prussian...
@CapitalB @gabriel @baslow @bonifartius If you want to dig into history, the 1[89]00s wouldn’t go far back enough. IIRC, universities were invented in ancient Greece.
@koherecoWatchdog @gabriel @baslow @bonifartius I meant schools ALWAYS do what the state wants. If the state is near the ppl then there is little difference.
Aaaaand it depends so much on YOUR teacher I am still not willing to generalize bc there are so many teachers in that huge system.
@CapitalB @bonifartius @baslow @gabriel Rightfully so w.r.t public schools, which draw from public money. The money flows from the taxpayers to the gov they elected to look after how the tax is spent. When schools lie/misinform/mislead students (which sometimes happens), & the misinfo is state-forced, it’s not the schools fault. The problem is in the governance that the taxpayers elected.
@gabriel @baslow @bonifartius @CapitalB I was subject to reafer madness propaganda in my public high school, which I believe was likely pushed by the state. I blame the state for that not the school (though I must admit I’m guessing that the school did not decide on its own to push reafer madness).
@bonifartius @baslow @gabriel Schools are inherently liberal institutions & science cultivates a /question everything/ attitude. The left are champions of academia & scientific research. Conservatives on the right are a minority in education, both as students & as instructors. The US state of Ohio transitioned from a swing state to a solid red state recently b/c the demographics changed & became less educated.