• FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    So, this sort of thing is just (or at least mostly) porky-point ruining public education, right? Like:

    porky-happy “We’re legally obliged to provide an education. But if you want that education to be ‘factual’, or ‘based in reality’, or ‘not actively harmful to understanding the world’ you are going to have to pay for the premium package.”

    • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      Considering how many private schools are religious idk how much of a difference it makes. I went to catholic school, because it was pretty much the only option available, but the catholics where I’m from aren’t crazy creationists. Not even the evangelicals are like that

    • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      Nah this is capital eating itself - this is what is meant by fascism being capitalism in decay. The imperialists have consumed their own propaganda and truly believe that they live in a fair and rational system. As such any issue must be a moral one.

      It used to be you wanted to give them no education so you could give the good jobs to your failson, but we’ve kinda moved on from that structure. Now you make them do the good job stuff for menial pay and give your failson a pointless c-suite gig.
      Worsening the quality of education is against the interest of capital, as it decreases the supply of properly educated peasants that can be used for stuff fancier than toiling in the fields. This means their productive capability worsens, they are more beholden to the workers with the requisite knowledge and they will have to pay more and agree to bargain for it. This is not in the capitalists interest.
      It is, however, of interest to Christian fascists who are given more power as things get worse.

    • Greenleaf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      Idk, I might just file this one under “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”. Sometimes the religious nuts in deeply religious areas just get the right people in positions of power and do stuff like this.