This is actually v important and needs to be reblogged
Gonna just share this:
My European Studies professor decided a few weeks ago to take a Friday and instead of following the syllabus, he spent the entire hour and a half comparing Hitler’s actions from a European perspective to that of what Trump is doing in America. He never repeated a single point, and even used video and photos like this to show the comparison.
To make things better, he had us do an in class assignment for participation points. He first played a clip on youtube of one of Hilter’s speeches, subtitled and 3 minutes long. He then played a clip of one of Trump’s rallies. Our assignment? Copy down every single sentence that matched in translation down on a sheet of paper or a word document that wasn’t repeated. The person with the closest amount to what my professor found got a candy bar.
My professor found, in just three minutes of a speech, that Trump matched 65 different phrases/sentences to that of Hitler’s translation.
65 nearly identical phrases used in his speeches. Take a moment to think about that.
Like, according to Trump’s first wife Ivana he kept a book of Hitler’s speeches in his nightstand and would read it periodically… so the overlap is not at all surprising given his obsession with Hitler’s propaganda.
“Don’t compare Trump to Hitler though.” – Conservatives
Spent the night emailing Elementary schools because I’m tired of this.
I’ll never forget the conversation I had with my niece when her kindergarten class said they were having a “powwow” to learn about Native Americans. She was so excited, thinking it was the same powwow she knew, so she put on her mocs and waited in excited anticipation for her favorite jingle dress dancers. When I spoke to her after, the sadness and disappointment in her voice as she described shitty craft stations and making paper feather headbands broke my heart into a thousand tiny pieces.
This was in 2017.
I really had high hopes that people would get their shit together and stop doing this in time to not traumatize the generation after me, but uh, turns out, nah.
I am a Mexican Native living in the area the the Lumbee and Coharie live. When I was a school teacher back in 04-07 the curriculum I had to teach at the private “chr*stian” school I was teaching at. Had teachers teaching that Natives no longer exsisted and we moved from our own land willingly. I ofc refused since out of a class of 20 16 of my kids were Native. So I junked that crap and used that day to invite parents and the kids if they cwlt comfortable. To share their culture,traditional wear and even regalia. I was written up all 3 times and was fired for my “inability to stick to school a sanctioned circulum and makeing a spectical of myself in Indian clothes.” I wore a simple Huipil and Tehuana with Chinantec to wear while it was my turn. Nothing grandiose or over the top. But yeah American schools are shit.
Tonight at Walmart I saw a little boy ask a little girl if he could hug her because he liked her sweater. The girl (these kids looked to be about 5, MAYBE 6) said no, so the boy said “okay. I like your sweater. Bye.” And then ran back to his parents.
He said to his Dad “I didn’t hug her because she said no, but I told her I liked her sweater!” And his dad said “Cool buddy!” And they went on with their shopping trip.
If a small child understands the ‘complex’ concept of consent, and the meaning of the word ‘no’, then so should everyone else.
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