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- desantisthreatensusa@lemmy.world
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Teachers can be fired anywhere for teaching the wrong thing. I’m sure teachers in New York can be fired for teaching creationism and not evolution. It’s all a matter of perspective.
While you are correct… there’s a very big difference in the creationism/evolution debate than what Florida schools and the Nazis both did.
That difference is that they both taught propaganda as facts; including with telling students who to hate. (In fact, the target of hate was broadly the same. Sure the Nazis were hating on Jews a lot, but they also hated on LGBTQ, blacks, and incidentally, Christian’s.)
That said, one key difference between creationism and evolution is that we actually have evidence demonstrating how evolution might work. We have no evidence of a mythical sky daddy; and in any case, if a god did indeed create everything, then it stands to reason that god created everything, and there’s a reason for it that evidence I mentioned.
It’s okay for you to believe whatever you want. It’s not okay for you to insist kids writ large ignore science because it conflicts with your particular belief.
Nazis hated Christians? They were Christians themselves for the most part.
Yup. It was no where near the level of hatred they had for Jews, but many of the major denominations were… removed or pulled out voluntarily.
Catholics, the major Protestants. JWs. Iirc LDS was permitted to stay but also left.
Keep in mind, it was a totalitarian state… anyone who tried to resist or rebel against it was punished- including people organized around a church.
That’s because creationism is based on a compilation of very old fables while evolution is a scientific theory tested countless time and in different ways.
There’s nothing wrong with spirituality and faith, that said those things belong in other institutions. Schools should teach critical thinking and facts to our kids.
Is what Germans were teaching kids incrhe 1930’s and what Floridians are teaching kids now the same? This gives me tons of questions with how empty the statement feels. What constitutes wrong and “wrong?” Can’t this statement be used to try to promote misinformation in schools also?
Kinda, yeah. They were teaching hate as propaganda
Dachau in Munich, Germany has the best “how did we get here” exhibit I’ve seen. And it’s exactly this.
I’m assuming op is about this recent story, in which case this seems relevant.
Beyond that there is the usual white supremacist and other oppressive agendas already being taught (or deliberately not).
There are several dozen other examples I could link to off the top of my head, but I don’t actually think you care, so I won’t bother.
To still be able or willing to think statements like these are empty you must either live under a rock, or be an active part of the problem.
Teachers can be fired anywhere for teaching the wrong thing. I’m sure teachers in New York can be fired for teaching creationism and not evolution. It’s all a matter of perspective.
