• jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    My elementary school used a program to teach 3rd-6th graders 'entrepreneurship'. I can't remember what it was called (Junior something?), but it was all about the power of innovation, the free market, and bootstraps.

    On the Civil War, we were taught a 50/50 split between slavery and states' rights as causes.

    Animal Farm and 1984 were taught as being pro-capitalism, anti-socialism books. Harrison Bergeron was taught as being unironically what 'equality' is about.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Harrison Bergeron was taught as being unironically what ‘equality’ is about.

      this reputation going around kept me from reading Vonnegut, I was told it was a polemic against equality