idk the history I was taught in school was widely patriotic with next to no mention of the wrong-doings of the US.. seems to me Trump doesn’t want children learning critical race theory because he himself... is a giant fucking racist trying to hide being the shield of patriotism https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1306671207106908161

if kids aren’t taught thoughtfully about race, inequality, social power dynamics, etc. and continue to be indoctrinated with blind patriotism, the right will continue to win because we’ll continue to raise generations that are more loyal to a flag than they are to their neighbor

AND this is largely taking advantage of poor, rural, white America because there is a lack of access to higher education. And obviously, this is intended because it benefits the right within the electoral college to have a death grip on the views of that faction of the country

this thread explains it better than I ever could but poor white america has been so blinded by racism that we fail to see how the class system takes advantage of us. To change this, we need critical and thorough education on all parts of our nation’s history, especially the ugly. https://twitter.com/lexual__/status/1032982088713203713

Patriotic education is essentially brainwashing that encourages dangerous nationalism. It’s only used in countries like China and Russia with dictatorial regimes, such a huge emphasis on patriotism is absolutely not the norm in most countries. “American First” is incredibly toxic