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'Take the kids out of school': Fox News segment claims in-person learning teaches 'how to hate... (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2021 OP
Candace Owens is making good money these days... Mister Ed Mar 2021 #1
Of course racism exists... mac2766 Mar 2021 #2
It's really unsettling to me Diamond_Dog Mar 2021 #8
Yes, by all means, 'education' should be privatized. louis-t Mar 2021 #3
"Open the schools!"...."Take your kids out of the schools"... OrlandoDem2 Mar 2021 #4
No kidding TheRealNorth Mar 2021 #11
As a retired special education teacher Dave in VA Mar 2021 #5
White racists take any attack on racism as an attack on white people Clash City Rocker Mar 2021 #6
Yes, I truely believe that FOX can teach the kids how to be racist much better than infullview Mar 2021 #7
Wait, didn't she get the memo that Republicans wanted all the kids doing school at home tanyev Mar 2021 #9
Mirrors... mezame Mar 2021 #10
well said. nt Claire Oh Nette Mar 2021 #14
I got into a minute of it before I had to turn it off... yuiyoshida Mar 2021 #12
WHat projection. Claire Oh Nette Mar 2021 #13
Aren't her 15 minutes up yet? lonely bird Mar 2021 #15

Mister Ed

(5,932 posts)
1. Candace Owens is making good money these days...
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 12:19 PM
Mar 2021

...just telling certain white people what they want to hear.

 

mac2766

(658 posts)
2. Of course racism exists...
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 12:25 PM
Mar 2021

I'm a white male who works among all kinds of people. White people share there feelings with me
- another white person. They feel empowered to let me know what they think of other people.
Especially African Americans and Mexican people. Of course, I let them know that I don't share their opinions and would rather them not share with me. I do let many of them know that their opinions are backward and that they really should re-think their positions.

White racism exists folks. Not sure if everyone was aware. It really does exist. I would testify in court what I have heard from other white people. (end sarcasm. Of course you all know)

Diamond_Dog

(31,998 posts)
8. It's really unsettling to me
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 01:13 PM
Mar 2021

When another white person who I do not know well assumes that just because I am white, I share their disgusting racist beliefs and feels free to spout them to me. I always tell them I do not agree and that those opinions need to be re-thought, then they act all huffy like what’s wrong it’s you, you must be one a them sissy liberals. I don’t care what they think of me but at least around here racism is alive and well. It’s awful.

louis-t

(23,295 posts)
3. Yes, by all means, 'education' should be privatized.
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 12:29 PM
Mar 2021

Private schools, controlled by Republicans, who teach that the world was a terrible place until Ronald Reagan came along...

OrlandoDem2

(2,065 posts)
4. "Open the schools!"...."Take your kids out of the schools"...
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 12:29 PM
Mar 2021

“Home school the kids!”

STFU and stop using schools for your political ends!

TheRealNorth

(9,481 posts)
11. No kidding
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 02:44 PM
Mar 2021

They have been arguing for the past year to open the schools.

The truth is, they don't care what their kids are being taught because they can brainwash their kids at home. They care what other kids are being taught because they can't control the propaganda.

Dave in VA

(2,037 posts)
5. As a retired special education teacher
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 12:39 PM
Mar 2021

I'd like to know how she expects every parent to purchase textbooks, audio visual aides, reference materials, stay home to be parent, teacher, curriculum administrator, text book adoption committee, etc. Work at a job that pays $8 per hour and find child care for those hours?

And that doesn't even consider the physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, psychological and social workers that most of the children I ever taught were in need of receiving.

Also, I'd like to see her stock portfolio. Bet it is full of companies that will make a good profit off of privatizing these public funds.

As someone already posted: Just STFU!

Clash City Rocker

(3,396 posts)
6. White racists take any attack on racism as an attack on white people
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 12:48 PM
Mar 2021

I’ve encountered enough of those people on the internet to recognize that behavior right away.

Those people are her audience, so of course she sucks up to them.

infullview

(981 posts)
7. Yes, I truely believe that FOX can teach the kids how to be racist much better than
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 01:07 PM
Mar 2021

the public schools can....

tanyev

(42,556 posts)
9. Wait, didn't she get the memo that Republicans wanted all the kids doing school at home
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 01:51 PM
Mar 2021

because of the pandemic back in the schools?

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
12. I got into a minute of it before I had to turn it off...
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 02:54 PM
Mar 2021

FOX IS THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE for the FAR RIGHT LEFT. The same people who celebrate Qanon, the same people who thought they were SAVING AMERICA by seditious insurrection, the same party who didn't want basic Americans to get a COVID shot but was willing to sell them the some snake oil Donald Trump wanted to invest and sell on the market at super high rates. The SAME party that can say crap one moment and deny it despite its on TAPE in front of them, the most corrupted evil party in American history, whose leaders who swore an oath the United States Constitution and than walked all over it the next in muddy shoes. Fuck Fox News, and may Rush Limbaugh suffer for eternity for what he did to this country.

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
13. WHat projection.
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 03:34 PM
Mar 2021

Weren't these people demanding we open schools up right now, that kids had to be in school because they were suffering from increased depression and suicide numbers?

Show me the invitation these white families received to this woe is white people meeting. Otherwise, it's made up fantasy clap trap to scare the rubes. Seems to me it's the racists who object most to anything that smacks of diversity or sensitivity training. Seems to me a hit dog barks.

Our local schools set to go back to plan A next week, and now we're right back to pull your kids (white) out of the public schools because of marxist indoctrination. Marxist. Groucho Marxist, maybe.

It's not the Democratic party that's set out to destroy public education. It's not the Democratic Party who's demonizing teachers as the problem with schools. It's not the Democratic party who's pushing charter schools. It's not the democratic party syphoning money from the public schools to private, evangelical Christian schools. It's not the democratic party preventing the teaching of science or evolutionary biology. It's not the democratic party engaging in revisionist whitewashing of an already white washed history curriculum.

No, the only party who is "trying to fuel racism,... replacing hard academics." is the GOP (I'm looking at you, Texas textbook publishers)

She laments "These kids are not learning science and learning mathematics, they're learning how to hate white people, and how to hate their country."

Um, there's no test for that....we only teach what they test anymore. There are no common core standards for teaching how to hate their country. Speaking as a lifelong democrat and secondary teacher, I've never given a lesson in how to hate anyone. I love my country. And the people in it. It's the GOP who claims to love America while hating actual Americans. Seems knowing the country held Black people in shackles makes some folks hate themselves, but they project how they feel about themselves onto others. Classic kill the messenger and ingnore the message.

"They're trying to guarantee they have an ignorant group of people that vote based on emotion...."

um, that's exactly what the GOP has been after since Reagan. Wedge issue after wedge issue that's never, ever addressed. Attack the schools, demonize teachers, dumb down curriculum with multiple choice tests designed to spread scores evenly across deciles. It's not democrats up in arms about potatoes, and obscure Dr. Seuss books.

Of course, it's not about the schools, is it? It's about Black people in white space. It's about voter suppression--she makes quite leap to lump HR 1, which protects voting rights. She engages in further projection.

It's time for Fox to stop calling itself News. It's opinion only. Not even much analysis. Just opinion backed with supposition and faulty premises, and slippery use of weasel words and loaded language. Fox propaganda is not based in reality. The FCC or whoever regulates the airwaves has got to delineate news and information from opinion and entertainment. I no longer want any $$ from my direct tv bill to find its way into fox, oan, or newsmax coffers.

lonely bird

(1,685 posts)
15. Aren't her 15 minutes up yet?
Sun Mar 14, 2021, 07:29 PM
Mar 2021

Perhaps she doesn’t get that the second she is no longer useful to conservatives they will kick her to the curb.

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