Like I'm pretty sure the conclusion I had was "oh haha I see your point mr. Vonnegut, too much equality can indeed be a bad thing!"
And I definitely don't remember my teacher suggesting anything about it being viewable as satire of red scare paranoia either
I was literally thinking about this earlier today, it’s the epitome of “if you treat everyone equally, everything will suck” propaganda. Could just as easily been an episode of South Park.
The south park comparison is totally apt, I'm surprised they haven't tried to riff on this yet.