Communist Indoctrination in Chicago Schools

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Communist Indoctrination in Chicago Schools

Written By : Warner Todd Huston

So, we spend millions upon millions in tax money on state funded schools, students and their families sacrifice tens of thousands of dollars in tuition as they set themselves on a road to loan payments for decades into the future…. and for what? To be taught that the murderous scumbag Che Guevara was some sort of hero, that’s what.

That’s right, our tax-funded schools are happily indoctrinating our students in the wonderful ways of Che.

Tom Mannis of Chicago News Bench has a great post full of all the particulars, but suffice to say it is a red day at Chicago City Colleges and its so-called “Social Justice Student Expo.”

Communist and socialist literature and artwork were displayed and offered in the Dave Rowland Sports Center on the campus of Harry S Truman College, 1145 West Wilson Avenue in Uptown. Posters told students that “Without Mexicans America Ain’t Nothin” and praising Che Guevara were on the walls. Vendors sold stickers that were pro-Hugo Chavez (“Boycott ExxonMobil Buy Citgo”), anti-military (“Recruiters Lie Don’t Enlist”), and (believe it or not) stickers urging that we “Impeach Bush/Cheney.” Yes, it’s 2010, but they still want those impeachment hearings.

It is an outrage, no less than an outrage. And your tax dollars are paying for this crap.

No government paid-for school should ever be caught with this sort of anti-American, anti-Liberty, pro-slavery, pro-tyranny sort of propaganda within its walls. Should communism/socialism be taught at all, you might ask? (There is no material difference between the two, after all. Some technical particulars differ, but both end up with murderous outcomes) Of course they should. They should be taught in the exact same way we teach about the evils of racism and Jim Crow, Nazism, and other such monstrous human failures. Communism/socialism is responsible for more human death and misery than ANY other human idea. Any of them including religion. And so communism/socialism should be taught as a cautionary tale always held up as a negative example and any teacher or administration that uses state funds or other wise allows teaching of communist hatemongering as a positive example should be fired and prevented from ever working in education again, anywhere.

No wonder homeschooling is growing in leaps and bounds. Too bad we can’t do university training in homeschools!

In any case, this is one more example of why conservatives must turn their attention to education and begin to invest themselves and their ideas in our system of mis-education. Our schools are foreign entities bent on destroying this country and we need to take our kids back from these Euro-esque, traitors.

Kudos to Chicago News Bench for the report.

rjschwarz

Homeschooling combined with vouchers will hopefully force school districts to reform or die. Certainly the best bet in dividing the Dems from the African American voting block since they tend to be in the worst schools with the fewest options under the current system
Real Politik

“Should communism/socialism be taught at all, you might ask? (There is no material difference between the two, after all. Some technical particulars differ, but both end up with murderous outcomes)”

This statement of ignorance (and – one suspects – “willful” ignorance, which is so close to stupidity) is proof enough that the concepts of communism and socialism should be taught in the school system.

http://twitter.com/warnerthuston warnerthuston

Really. If there is a meaningful difference, please do enlighten us. After all, they both end in the same way. Murder and total collapse. That there are a few technical difference before they get there really is a pointless distinction. But, that's OK. I know commies want to pretend that their pet ideas are somehow better than Stalin's, Mao's, or Pol Pot's. Sadly for you your ideas are no different. You are just as much a murderer by supporting socialism as you are if you support communism. There is NO meaningful difference. You are a murderer either way.

Real Politik

Your ignorance of socialism proves my point. Thank you for this.

You can go to a broad source like Wikipedia to learn the basics of socialism. And move on from there.

Albert Einstein has an informative article about socialism here: http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einstein.php

I pick just a couple of quotes – you can read the rest.
“The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. We see before us a huge community of producers the members of which are unceasingly striving to deprive each other of the fruits of their collective labor—not by force, but on the whole in faithful compliance with legally established rules.”

“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature.”

Enjoy your enlightenment!

http://twitter.com/warnerthuston warnerthuston

Sorry, but there is nothing from socialism that can “enlighten” anyone. Plus you aren't able to dispute the final point. It all ends up in oppression and death. That makes the differences between the two meaningless in the end.

Real Politik

Not dispute the final point?

Of course I dispute the final point. It is not true. It is false. Socialism does not lead to an end of oppression and death.

Get off your knees at the pedestal of capitalism and look around at the real world.
blkdragon

The sheer lack of situational awareness in that last statement RP is astounding. Everywhere that either socialism or communism has been attempted has degenerated into failing states or murderous oppressive hell holes the vast majority of citizens wish to escape.

You are correct in that someone needs to enlighten himself, but it isn't Warner.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C2UYYYSPBB7S3NC3NQ7NOJFLME Peter

Martin, chris, and the dragon are ignorant of China, apparently. I don't see citizens pouring out of china to escape, nor is the regime murderous like you claim.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com Christopher_Taylor

… You think China isn't a murderous regime? You think people aren't hiking over the Himalayas to flee to India? How cosmically ignorant can one human being be?
http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

I don't see citizens pouring out of china to escape, nor is the regime murderous like you claim.

According to the 2006 American Community Survey conducted by the Census Bureau, in that year there were 1.6 million foreign born Chinese in the US alone. And of course, there are a whole bunch of other 'destination nations' in the world which have received their fair share of Chinese immigrants. What do you mean they aren't pouring out of China? They're pouring out as fast as the ChiComms will let them.

As to the murderous-ness of the Chinese regime, so we are to assume that harvesting body parts and tissues from executed prisoners and selling them on the open transplant market isn't murderous and oppressive? Letting 20MM of your countrymen starve to death during your Great Leap Forward because you don't want to admit that you screwed up isn't murderous and oppressive? So imprisoning and torturing millions during the Cultural Revolution wasn't murderous and oppressive? Take off the rose-coloured glasses and take an honest look at the record of oppressiveness in China.

What colour is the sky on your planet, petey/zimmy/jacqui?
http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

Bark Bark, Moonbat!
http://networdblog.blogspot.com Christopher_Taylor

The only places socialism and communism have not resulted in abject horror and misery are places where capitalism is clung to just enough to stave off the full effects a while. Greece is ground zero for what happens when that “a while” runs out. People are dying in the streets there now.
http://conservativebootcamp.com Martin Hale

So where have either socialism or communism (and not with the variant of allowing free markets to operate) NOT resulted in oppression and death? What are the real world examples of socialism and communism you think the rest of the world should model? Where has either system been wildly successful?

You can only talk in broad generalities for so long before you actually have to get down to specific examples – and so far, you've failed to do that.

Christopher_Taylor

I get what you're saying but it might be confusing to a minor intellect like RP. Sure, Socialism and Communism take different economic approaches – Socialism with a powerful central government and communism with everyone working together in common – but ultimately they end up the same brutal, bloody, and evil place. Given that Communism by definition according to Mao, Marx, Lenin, and every other major proponent, uses socialism as a transition into their ideal utopia, the two concepts really aren't that separate.

Realpolitik

Since I can (in this instance) compare my intellect to Albert Einstein – why, thank you!

http://twitter.com/warnerthuston warnerthuston

You compare yourself to Einstein? Arrogance typical of a hateful left-winger.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C2UYYYSPBB7S3NC3NQ7NOJFLME Peter

Warner, where's your sense of humor?

Are you really just another angry old white man?
Real Politik

Actually, it was Christopher_ who favourably compared my intellect to that of Einstein. As I admit – in this one instance – yes.
http://networdblog.blogspot.com Christopher_Taylor

Even you aren't that ignorant of English language and stupid enough to believe that.
Real Politik

Your words to God's ears. And it is understandable how it is difficult to tell Einstein and myself apart.
http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

Bark Bark, Moonbat!

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C2UYYYSPBB7S3NC3NQ7NOJFLME Peter

What about Europe? It's not collapsing except to the extent it is tied to the US economy, which failed in the last couple years and needed to be rescued by the, gasp! government.

The difference between communism and socialism is clear. Communist states like Russia failed due to their oppressive nature. Communist states like China are wiping the US clean with capitalism because of the government control. Sure they are still oppressive but their GDP makes up for it by improving the quality of life for the average person.

Are you arguing at china is a failed communist state like all the other communists? It owns you and me, so thats quit a failure.

http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

Bark Bark, Moonbat!

Christopher_Taylor

Well, President Obama did spend a few years in an Ayers-appointed job as head of the Annenburg Challenge spending millions of dollars in Chicago on every radical and racial focus education program he could find. That didn't make education any better, but it probably helped is radical extremist buddies infiltrate the system more.
Toastrider

RP has made several hilarious errors in his argument.

First is quoting Albert Einstein. Yes, Einstein was a top flight physicist. However, exceptional skill in one field does not grant exceptional skill in other, unrelated areas. This is a common error for ivory-tower liberals, particularly professors in beanbag courses who feel their tenure gives them a gilded invitation to pontificate on various topics, despite a lack of experience.

Secondly, note that this essay that RP holds up was written in 1949 — well before the true face of socialism and communism was seen. Before the horrors of the Soviet gulags, of death and madness in Cambodia, and so forth. I suspect Einstein would be far less sanguine about the prospects of a planned economy if he realized the prior death tolls.

Overall, this doesn't make Einstein a bad person. Speaking from a strictly logical mindset, his rationale isn't incorrect. The problem is that he fails to take into account the human factor, and the inherent tendency towards entropy that infests all systems.

Which brings us to RP's worshiping of the idol of socialism/communism.

Do not spin the tired old fairy tale of 'they're two different things', RP. You failed to depict any difference between the two, instead trying to rely on the words of a sixty-year old essay written by a physicist. For shame, sir! You insist there is some meaningful, distinctive difference; then, enlighten away! Don't point to Einstein's essay; he doesn't cover it either.

Meanwhile, the results of socialism and communism can be seen in a variety of disastrous ends: from the economic chaos infesting Greece, to the killing fields of Cambodia.

It. Doesn't. Work. Perhaps millions of deaths to make it work are acceptable to you, RP, but not to me.

http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/C2UYYYSPBB7S3NC3NQ7NOJFLME Peter

Your profound ignorance about communism and socialism, and their supposed failures, is alarming.

Again I have to ask, have you ever traveled outside the US? Every first world country other than the US is socialist, and on average people in those countries enjoy a higher quality of life than the average person does in the US. They eat better food, they get more time off, their tax dollars go towards social spending and not the military, they don't have to worry about sickness bankrupting them, they get better educations more cheaply, and their culture is more sophisticated.

Seriously, have you ever traveled?

Now I know someone, Warner probably, will argue that the economies of those countries are in shambles with regards to social policies, as reported by the oh so liberal NYT. I'm wure you reqlize that it was the US banking system making and insuring insecure real estate loans and running up enormous fees and profits in the process, that nearly collapsed the global financial system, not the socialist policies of our allies.

http://networdblog.blogspot.com Christopher_Taylor

Being humiliated by someone pointing out your rhetorical fail of an appeal to authority fallacy is not helped by yet another appeal to authority fallacy.
RappinMc

The syntax, the travel, the Cessna, the astounding lack of intellect, Jacky's defining tells. Time to fit the Lil' bird with drop tanks and head for Greece. I hear it's nice there, especially the glow of freshly thrown Molotov cocktails brought to the streets by union labor.

The wisdom of your socialist utopias, tying their hugely efficient, productive societies with the evil free market banks in the despotic USA. How could such brilliant governments be so horribly duped. Save all that money letting America protect 'em, after rebuilding their countries with the fruits of that icky CAPITALISM… cradle to grave mediocrity, collapsing currency, good stuff Zimwit.

I missed the part where you cited examples of socialist/communist nations that surpass American innovation, productivity, wealth creation, individual freedom, military might, freedom OF religion… I'm certain that haste forced the exclusion of salient facts. So unlike your usual erudite commentary.
http://www.patriotpost.com bthewolf

Bark bark, Moonbat!
Toastrider

Again: Please define the core differences between socialism and communism. I'm quite serious. Since I'm clearly not 'widely traveled', this is your big chance, Peter.

Once we've gotten over that hill, then I'll address your further assertions.

Out of curiousity, do you live Stateside, or abroad? If not the latter, why not?

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