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themaguffin

(3,824 posts)
Tue Jun 16, 2020, 04:14 PM Jun 2020

Here's why trump declared school choice a civil rights issue at a time about police reform

The "religious" right was born from school integration.

Not abortion. Not anything else, but good old fashioned racism.

They latched on to the other issues in order to support their racist agenda.

So here we are and trump is slated to talk about the executive order on police reform.

This order disgusts him. It further disgusts the base.

So, as he often does, he upends with a wink to the racist base by declaring school choice the civil rights issue of our time.

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Here's why trump declared school choice a civil rights issue at a time about police reform (Original Post) themaguffin Jun 2020 OP
The christofascist would prefer we have only private christian schools for the "us" Thomas Hurt Jun 2020 #1
Partly. I think their fear of "those people" in the same schools is the bigger issue for them themaguffin Jun 2020 #2
Trump opposes Brown v. Board of Education? ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2020 #3
This. BComplex Jun 2020 #4

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. The christofascist would prefer we have only private christian schools for the "us"
Tue Jun 16, 2020, 04:24 PM
Jun 2020

The christofascists would consign the "other" to ignorance and indoctrination. All the easier to control and exploit.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,780 posts)
3. Trump opposes Brown v. Board of Education?
Tue Jun 16, 2020, 04:37 PM
Jun 2020

Segregated school choice?

Separate was not equal. That is code for "We are not going to fund Public Schools."

Trump is parroting Betsy DeVos.

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