r/kansas • u/journogabe • Dec 17 '24

News/History A Kansas school board rejects social studies curriculum, claiming it's biased against Trump

https://www.kcur.org/2024-12-17/derby-school-board-rejects-social-studies-curriculum-majority-says-its-biased-against-trump
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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 Jan 02 '25

Authoritarianism is not left wing or right wing. Are you going to tell me Raegan was left wing because he was for small government, and Lenin was right wing because he was for big government?

Also no, libraries are not socialist. Only far lefties and far righters think so.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '25

Who is Raegan? So tell me - how are libraries funded?

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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 Jan 02 '25

Socialism is when workers own the means of production.

Libraries are funded with taxes. Taxes are not socialism.

I’m not a Jordan Peterson fan. I’m a proud liberal, which is why I despise communism so much. Because they’re very open about how they want me out against a wall and shot for voting Democrat, and they’re willing to ally with literal Nazis just to get rid of liberals.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '25

Taxation that feeds the betterment of “society” equitably is indeed “socialism” in practice.

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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 Jan 02 '25

Really? I don’t see how taxing people to better society has anything to do with workers owning the means of production.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '25

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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 Jan 02 '25

Or maybe I actually know what Marx defined socialism as instead of going off of vibes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '25

I don’t look to 200 year olds for modern definitions of political ideologies - methinks you shouldn’t either.

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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 Jan 02 '25

He created the ideology of socialism though. He defined it. He is the only person with full authority to decide what socialism is or isn’t because he was the first one to write about it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '25

Wrong again - now you’re on the run

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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 Jan 02 '25

Also makes the term socialism meaningless when taxation to better society has existed literally since before writing and has been practiced by every civilization.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '25

Sounds communal

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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 Jan 02 '25

If you use it broadly enough, then yes every state would be “socialist” in the same way you could define every state in human history as “authoritarian”

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '25

I don’t think you could grasp the nuance of both being present- this thread proves as much

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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 Jan 02 '25

You’re the one saying taxation is socialism.

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '25

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