• tomiant@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    I called my rep and they said they won’t do it because the opposite of all those things keeps them in power.

    • wheezy@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      So many people are in the positions they are, not because of malice, but because they already have the incorrect views that align with capital. Which is very much by design in the way our education system has been structured.

      I think of what Noam Chomsky said to the journalist interviewing him about media manufacturing consent.

      “I’m not saying you’re self censoring. I’m saying that if you believed differently you wouldn’t be sitting where you’re sitting.”

      So, as you said, bluntly to make a point, the actions of politician’s can be perceived that way. And the material outcomes are the same as if they were directly being malicious.

      But, the reality is more sad. They are in those positions because they do believe that what favors capital is the most important outcome. The filter of our media and political landscape ensures this.

      https://youtu.be/lLcpcytUnWU

      Link of Chomsky talking about this.

      • coyootje@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Nah not if you’re right wing. Then it’s one of the first places to start cutting budgets, together with Healthcare and elderly care. You want people to have less education, makes them easier to manipulate and keep under control.

        • sandwich.make(bathing_in_bismuth)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          1 month ago

          I don’t know. I’m in Europe, it doesn’t work like the US in my country. I have yet to find a party that doesn’t use budgets to further their own cause. It applies to both left and right wing here. Supporting higher budgets doesn’t need to mean the curriculum has to be in align with party beliefs. Education needs to be affordable and be good to teachers salary wise. No “higher wages only if”. You’ll never achieve an agreement in a democracy if there are conditions. All parties should agree to increment spending on education. If a right wing party uses leftists ideology in education as an excuse to not fund education, make it work so there is no argument to be made.

          • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            1 month ago

            If a right wing party uses leftists ideology in education as an excuse to not fund education, make it work so there is no argument to be made.

            The problem is that our right wing thinks that basic facts are ‘left wing ideology’ and we can’t “make it work”.

            Like, I grew up in a conservative state, with an education that stripped out everything they complained about, and we didn’t even cover reproduction in high school biology because the right doesn’t want sex-ed. Nevermind that kids were banging in the bathrooms, we couldn’t learn about mitosis because it might lead to impure thoughts.

            What sort of compromise would you even suggest with that?

            Edit: I had a girl in my senior class that was pregnant with her third kid, and she literally didn’t understand why she kept getting pregnant and actually thought god was sending her babies so she’d be a great mom.