Fascism’s History Offers Lessons about
Today’s Attacks on Education
Scientific American,
by
Eden McLean
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
4/8/2023 6:09:44 AM
Public education has long been a battlefield in the U.S., from the Scopes trial to desegregation to climate change. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s recent demands for greater control over public education—and students’ bodies—in the guise of “parent’s rights” accelerates this conflict, rejecting the importance of learning as a public good in itself in favor of promoting conformity and uncritical thinking.
As a historian of fascism and Italian fascist education, I find the moves to exert more power over education disturbingly familiar. Even ignoring the obvious harm DeSantis’s campaign inflicts on Florida’s students—already detailed by numerous experts
Baloney! Scientific American is a woke fraud.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Subsuburban 4/8/2023 6:47:14 AM (No. 1443558)
Unscientific Unamerican. Antiscientific Antiamerican. Either one fixes it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
privateer 4/8/2023 7:17:33 AM (No. 1443562)
Dark Arts Pangean.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
downnout 4/8/2023 7:33:01 AM (No. 1443569)
What a crock. He argues conservatives are trying to create conformity and to ban critical thinking. He has it backward. Promoting conformity and non-critical thinking are precisely what the leftists have been doing for years. But I am quite sure he knows that. His article is nothing more than gaslighting.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
petrichor 4/8/2023 7:41:06 AM (No. 1443573)
So sad. Such a slow crawl to the basement for SA. They're not even trying to be scientific anymore.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Californian 4/8/2023 8:03:38 AM (No. 1443596)
Uh huh science. Like when I walked in to my kid's science class on conference day to see a balding pushy middle aged nerdy white guy in a silk blouse and leather skirt and heels introduce himself as Michelle.
Science today.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
CJohnson 4/8/2023 8:15:36 AM (No. 1443605)
Not even remotely close to science...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
BeatleJeff 4/8/2023 9:00:43 AM (No. 1443654)
I'd ask this fruit loop to "Show us the science," but I'm sure it would simply cause him/her/it to have a meltdown of monumental proportions, so I'll spare us all the sideshow.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/8/2023 9:18:29 AM (No. 1443669)
FTA ... Even ignoring the obvious harm DeSantis’s campaign inflicts on Florida’s students—already detailed by numerous EXPERTS
Ahhh ... EXPERTS ... the subscribers to SA
yawn
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JackBurton 4/8/2023 9:20:01 AM (No. 1443671)
Imagine that. Banning fascist indoctrination is a sign of fascism.
Stick to telling me breakfast cereals are racist, OK?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/8/2023 9:35:02 AM (No. 1443687)
False analogy. Scientific American is neither scientific nor American!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
franq 4/8/2023 9:44:21 AM (No. 1443694)
The attacks started almost 50 years ago, right after I got out of high school. New and better ways of teaching were needed.
It has been a complete failure.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/8/2023 10:05:08 AM (No. 1443720)
Science magazine is in the same boat, but preaching to a slightly more credentialed readership.
The science is: Orange Man bad! All Orange Man's friends also bad!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/8/2023 10:10:59 AM (No. 1443726)
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Vladimir Lenin
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Penelope27 4/8/2023 10:17:01 AM (No. 1443738)
Hmmm…only “experts” can be teachers…these “experts” who were produced from mini fascists dictatorships known as universities…what am I missing here…?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
czechlist 4/8/2023 10:21:21 AM (No. 1443743)
So the Federal Executive DEA oversight is acceptable but State and local government should not be allowed any say in education? Niw, that, my dear , IS Fascism. I dumped SA in the early 90s when it began proselitizing that carbon units are bad for the planet coincidental with the Agore re-invention of government scheme which IMO was the beginning of the government controlled anti-science religionx we have today
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/8/2023 11:25:01 AM (No. 1443790)
Eden doesn't actually support her charges with any facts, she just shows a picture from Fascist Italy and refers to nameless "experts" as evidence. What we actually have in the article is more evidence that our scientific community has been taken over and corrupted by Marxists.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
privateer 4/8/2023 11:25:27 AM (No. 1443791)
Intestinal Gaslighting.
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I stopped reading SA in the mid 60s, when they began to turn political. I was working in DC and could see what they were writing about first-hand!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/8/2023 1:34:30 PM (No. 1443872)
Ask Dr Fauci - He IS science.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
cheeflo 4/8/2023 2:59:38 PM (No. 1443916)
As a historian of fascism and Italian fascist education, I find the moves to exert more power over education disturbingly familiar.
But the federal government and teachers unions exerting more power over education isn't ringing any bells in his head. Ron DeSantis is trying to wrest control over education from the federal government and return it to parents and local municipalities, but this guy thinks that's fascist ... and he knows fascism when he sees it ... he told us so.
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