I’m so tired of my US History class. We’re approaching WW1, and my teacher is talking about communism. Firstly, he’s a hardcore liberal, but oh my goodness for him to teach AP, he doesn’t even SOUND like he knows what he’s talking about. His articulation and the way he talks, along with his word choice just shows he doesn’t know shit about communism.
Today he was talking about communism and I told him “communism is a moneyless, stateless, classless society.” Then he said “no, communism is where EVERYTHING is equal.” Then I proceeded to tell him that there’s different types of communist ideologies apart from the one he’s talking about, such as Anarcho-communism who believe that “true” communism is accomplished by dictatorship of the proletariat, however without a class and state. He ignored that then went back to his flawed point where communism is where “everything is equal” and that the “government controls everything, not a market.”
Then he proceeded to ask the class “What if I graded you all like a communist? Everyone in here would have a B.” And everyone was like “OH NO NO NO!!”
It’s just so ugh… He sounds so dumb it pisses me off, and the students just gobble that bullshit up, which pisses me off even more.
I have had the displeasure some time ago of being in a similar situation. Actually, several times.
I distinctly recall one ‘history’ teacher lamenting that Stalin was worse than Hitler, and that more people should recognize it. They genuinely believed Stalin didn’t want to fight the Nazis and that he was the greater evil as well. Most of their World War 2 unit was your typical “communism bad” rant, and in retrospect some Hitler apologetics in the form of “less bad” and “lesser evil” rants. Not to mention any criticism of the US in the US history class of course.
Other teachers I’ve encountered all where varying degrees of the same anti-communist narrative.
Ironically, what might have radicalized me the most was inconsistencies in the propaganda narrative(s). If your curious, these contractions will stand out to you, and upon investigation one tends to find the truth; hence one becomes radicalized.