The cold war paranoia was bipartisan and remains bipartisan. And you continue to reflect your absorption of that intensive and constant propaganda, with fearmongering about China abd North Korea, both countries which would have a lot of catching up to do to match the evil the US has done since WW2.
Truth be told, as I am old, that is Linus Van Pelt speaking to his older sis Lucy. Peppermint Patty was the red haired girl that Charlie Brown punched rather than talk to. Schulz gave Linus some amazing philosophical quotes, but not this one.
It's easy, don't push gender theory on kids. There are plenty of good books out there that don't involve cross dressing and blow jobs. If the parents want their kids to read that they can do it at home.
Why are so many conservative perverts interested in other people's genitals? It's an unhealthy obsession which leads to so many pastors and Republican jailed for child sexual abuse.
And your little brother (who grows up to be a MAGAt) can't tear the library books up the way he rips the heads off your dolls because Mama loves books.
Just like "A King In New York" the king asks the lil boy "what are you reading?" he replies "Karl Marx" the king quips "are you a communist?" the boy replies "do I need to be a communist to read Karl Marx!"
"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
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Oh dear !
Seems it is 1949 again now.
-Except the top tax rate was FAR higher then.
SNL should do a sketch where modern-day WAPO reporters are transferred in time to the Watergate era, where Deep Throat has to keep walking them through everything, because they can't IMAGINE wanting to hurt that nice president who, in his way, is responsible for their paychecks.
Rumour has it the Goon Squad goes around in three: one can read, one can write and the third keeps a watchful eye on the dangerous subversive intellectuals...
Another good one is May 31, 1953. Two State Department employees, dressed like Sherlock Holmes, hold a scroll which says "State Dep. Investigations of Authors". Behind them is a mountain of books that they look over at and one of them quips "Sometimes I wonder what's in those darn things."
Back in those days, Herblock was subversive. He was so infuriating to Republicans that the National Review took to hiring someone to creatively "edit" his cartoons. The year was 1970...
Wow incredible that Herblock
is out of the archives again! I used these cartoons in my history classes and the red scare. In the Netherlands! Are you here again America? That can’t be!
Just wow. But I believe that provoking protests and 'arranging' violence followed by blaming it on non-MAGA and declaring Marshall Law...is coming. Prepare.
So true! & it is worth noting that it is the same hard-core right wingers raising all this hell over nothing, again. Remember to Roy Cohn, who was part of first felon’s youth was a driver of McCarthyism. Now Miller, who is part of Donvict‘s dotage, is part of the 4th Reich. Always evil Voldemort’s.
In 1949 Northern Virginia Model Railroaders included a sentence in their constitution stating that the club did not advocate the violent overthrow of the United States government, just in case they were suspected of being a communist front.
Congressmen can represent their constituents if we make our voices loud and call every day so they know we’re not lazy and complacent. Tell them you do not accept cuts for the majority to pay more for the already obscenely wealthy!!
A teacher in Brevard Co. Florida has been fired for addressing a student by their Trans name and not their given name. It’s a state law and the MAGA loving parents raised the roof. The school board and Supt. Backed the Governor because it’s a law now. In a world of kids, it’s asking for a lot.
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As crazy fascist as the Trump era is, it is good to remember that we've been here before. Multiple times. We made it through McCarthyism, and even officially outlawed MAGA's direct predecessor, the American Bund party. All without going through a second civil war.
The right has always HATED education. Stupid is pliable, gullible and tend to believe power thirsty politicians dumbfuckery. America is crawling with these types.
Yeah, I read books! Whatcha gonna do about it? I just dropped one back at the library I read last week! I still memory reading books in school, 1st grade - See Dick. See Dick run. See Jane. See Jane run. Then they got tricky, they came up with See Dick AND Jane. See Dick AND Jane run. Tricky I say!
History repeats itself. Fact is: Enlightened/well educated people (be it formally educated or autodidacts) are a threat to authoritarianism. There’s a reason tRump and his entourage love the “poorly educated”.
Yes, it’s a frightening rehash of the old red scares, but in the modern drawing, the teacher isn’t cowering. She’s giving the FBI agents or whoever it is interrogating her a teacher look like “don’t you dare” and then she tells them all to f right off.
One reason I no longer teach in Texas was because the Texas Education Association sent us a list of 850 books TX Republican State Rep. Matt Krause wanted to ban, & my school district had us literally tape off our bookshelves until they sorted it out with lawyers. Time is a flat circle.
I teach a persuasive writing unit on book bans that uses a letter from Kurt Vonnegut as a model text. To quote him (a WW2 vet who was a POW in Germany):
"...books are sacred to free men for very good reasons, and... wars have been fought against nations which hate books and burn them."
It's a bit surreal because, teens being teens, my students don't always realize that this censorship is still happening. When they hear what happened to me in Texas—& how one of the books we had read earlier in the year, Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus, is often banned—they are often stunned.
My mom benefited from this program. She was born in rural Kentucky in 1933. The librarian would stay with her family. Books had so much power back then. They were valued more. My mom left the world with bookshelves full of books. 📚 She became a teacher like most of her siblings.
I highly recommend the historical fiction book “The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.” It gives beautifully imagined detailed descriptions of the life of one of these women.
What a great illustration of how we "are protecting ourselves" by destroying our own liberty and what truly makes us great. Never thought this would happen in my lifetime or more importantly, my children's.
Old white men always think they know more than the teachers. Most of these old white men couldn't do the job. Teaching is not an easy job, even though teachers make it look that way. Most people would be eaten alive by the students.
It's not professors. There are liberal & conservative profs. Take a class in the biz area of a college- few liberal professors there. But being exposed to lots of different people & views makes a person more liberal. Remaining in a closed system, like a small town, the opposite.
It's just amazing to me that they're somehow reliving this exact moment where they point to Degenerate Jewish Intellectual Professors and say that they're evil and must be purged... AND simultaneously claiming they're doing the purges to protect Jewish Intellectuals. #Doublethink #Orwellian
Yeah, the image is IDENTICAL to Nazi imagery for "Jewish Intellectuals." The Legion wasn't subtle about who they hated, but this was pretty common in the 50s.
We worked so hard to be inclusive of all!And now a President of USA tells teachers "don't teach to all" "only teach white kids necessary skills!" Embarrassing history for future generations!
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Love the guy with scissors pointing to the USSR. In 1936 Rep Thomas Blanton successfully passed the "Little Red Rider," which prohibited teachers in DC public schools from mentioning communism inside OR OUTSIDE of school.
Then how did american kids learn about what was going on in Russia and the territories it controlled during the cold war? Did they change that law once the cold war started?
As the wife of a SS teacher whose dist. just elected 2 MAGAs, this turns my stomach. His district is suddenly having him teach 8th grade English (even though he's a HS teacher, the HS SS dept. is short-staffed, he's not the only one with the endorsement, & he's not last hired). Not a coincidence 🤔
I wish I could remember who drew the one of a woman with a DOWN WITH LITERACY sign, and another woman looks at her suspiciously and says "What's that say?"
My only suspect is Telnaes, and I'm in no way certain.
Republikans started the Red Scare as political rhetoric, in the ‘20s, a century ago, to whip up public support for their unpopular policies (they also dreamt up “Trickle-Down Economics”).
Tailgunner Joe McCarthy, a lackluster senator facing defeat, kicked off the big one, in 1948, using Big Lies.
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Joe’s Chief of Staff was Roy Cohn, a piece of human filth who later tutored Donnie Dingbat in the Art of the Smear, after he left the HUAC (authors of the Black List), before he died from AIDS.
Evil infiltrated the republikan party long ago. The latest group means to destroy US democracy.
The book that I suspect you are referring to, is just as bad if not worse than all the others.
It is filled with violence, death, slavery, incest. sex, homosexuality, wars, adultery, and many other events that do NOT follow those rules mentioned near the beginning.
Our lack of seriousness about #education gradual eroding of #educational culture is harming the country & world in ways we cannot fathom. News became entertainment & global citizens are an audience becoming mini Talking Heads spouting what sounds good at the moment without doing research.
Way off topic, but when I was a child I spent many happy hours visiting some unmarried sisters who kept Herblock cartoons so that I could look for his wife Lois' name. He always hid it somewhere in the drawing.
AND IT IS OLD WHITE CONSERVATIVE MEN threatened that they may lose their power by citizens being educated that are pushing to control what people learn.
Religious indoctrination worked in the past, they want to bring it back..
This is a perfect example of why people shouldn’t dunk on teachers for our “failed education system.” It’s legislators! I used to tell my union members who said they weren’t political to get political because that’s what public ed is.
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Honestly, if a hostile country wanted to annex the US but promised to establish a Trump dynasty, would he refuse? Does he love country or self more?
Self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement is his North Star, and his every decision, and every one of his relationships is measured with them in mind.
I need to go back and read all the Peppermint Patty strips that I can find.
There's a handy chart available which has been amusing me for the last several minutes
The real underlying battle is #Regressive vs Progressive.
And we tried to warn you.
Mais bon.
You wanted American Exceptionalism tested; here you go.
Down the drain.
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Oh dear !
Seems it is 1949 again now.
-Except the top tax rate was FAR higher then.
Shall we simply tolerate?
That was very real.
The DENIAL of that reality is how we ended up with MAGA hijacking our country, instead of being in prison where they belong.
It's not the red scare that threatens us. It's the lie that it was fake.
In the 90s, they admitted to it and declassified plenty of documents on exactly how they did it - before returning to their old ways again.
And yet here you are, trying to deny it. 🤡
When you talk about capitalist Russia like its goals are the same as the Soviet Union's you sound ridiculous.
is out of the archives again! I used these cartoons in my history classes and the red scare. In the Netherlands! Are you here again America? That can’t be!
Fascism LOVES the uneducated!!
Then I will glad read and save as many books as possible.
I am a subversive!!
Been true for over 70 years now.
Moderation is what keeps Nazis off social media sites.
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And /reposted on purpose.
You seem to be mad about this request.
“Looks like we got ourselves a reader..” - Bill Hicks in Waffle House
Probably better not to say that last part out loud.
(Not a teacher)
"...books are sacred to free men for very good reasons, and... wars have been fought against nations which hate books and burn them."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/horse-riding-librarians-were-great-depression-bookmobiles-180963786/
Apparently not much has changed . . . or has it ?
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Circle.
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Wait…
Now stop listening to the lies and demand the truth. Demand Democracy.
Call your Senator call your Representatives to make your voice heard.
Don’t stop the court cases and public demands for our nations life!
Be fierce, be brave!
My only suspect is Telnaes, and I'm in no way certain.
https://www.cartoonstock.com/search?type=images&keyword=illiteracy&page=1
It isn't illegal...yet
Tailgunner Joe McCarthy, a lackluster senator facing defeat, kicked off the big one, in 1948, using Big Lies.
🧵
Evil infiltrated the republikan party long ago. The latest group means to destroy US democracy.
Big Evil
The book that I suspect you are referring to, is just as bad if not worse than all the others.
It is filled with violence, death, slavery, incest. sex, homosexuality, wars, adultery, and many other events that do NOT follow those rules mentioned near the beginning.
Also, please use alt-text when you share images.
Or the Palestine scare.
"You value human rights, eh?"
Man, nothing changes, does it?
Religious indoctrination worked in the past, they want to bring it back..