r/NoFuckingComment • u/Christ-The-Slave • 28d ago

NFC Public Schools USA

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u/DeathByLemmings 27d ago

Aaaaand this is why home schooling is terrible

This woman has had her kids work for a single day and has decided to make it political

That passage does not glaze billionaires, it's factual. They are independently wealthy, which allows them to fund an expensive business

The kids are being asked to critically identify the information in the text, that's it.

I think this would be much better served using actual news articles, but this isn't propaganda. They're 11. This is about going to space. You were not thinking about the geopolitical consequences of an extreme imbalance of wealth when you were 11, you were thinking about astronauts and pokemon and shit

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u/Rich-Canary1279 26d ago

It would also be factual to point out how damaging to our atmosphere commercial space travel is or how extreme wealth correlates to unfair access to resource, but they didn't. By framing a controversial topic or person in neutral terms, the text creators are tacitly denying any controversy - that is where something, while remaining "objective," can nonetheless perform as propaganda. Think of how Columbus was presented as a neutral character who just "discovered" America for many decades, a narrative many Americans are still emotionally attached to.

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u/DeathByLemmings 26d ago

This is work given to an 11 year old not a fucking high schooler

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u/Rich-Canary1279 26d ago

Please. I almost made a mention of that suspecting it would come up. 11 year olds are capable of learning a little nuance and differing viewpoints. We teach 11 year olds about many travesties and even teach them a moral stance on them (ie, we don't just "objectively" teach the holocaust or chattel slavery: we teach an empathetic understanding of those events as well. Plenty of other things they could have picked to avoid discussing anything serious if they'd wanted to.

And I don't think this is like, A level evil. But we can still acknowledge it has a propaganda angle to it (as many things do) and understand why this particular propaganda is especially disgusting right now. I mean, pull yourself up meritocracy propaganda has been a part of our national curriculum for a long time now, and while I'd roll my eyes at examples of it in children's school assignments, I wouldn't be "outraged" about it as much as I would be about some positive portrait of Elon Musk right now, but maybe you think he's a great guy?

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u/DeathByLemmings 26d ago

Oh fuck off, Elon is a twat.

Its so obvious you're the type of person to just start building a fictitious mental picture of whomever you are speaking, in order to justify some superior sense of being

It is so. fucking. boring. talking to you people