Exactly, the US education system “propagandizes” its students just as much, if not more, than the Chinese one. As does every education system by necessity. Literally what does it even mean to teach someone without propagandizing them? Because you can spin anything, even incontrovertible stuff like atomic theory, as propaganda if you really wanted to. “Lucretian propaganda” you could call it haha

It’s such a reductive way of looking at things that completely glosses over what the supposed propaganda actually is. Because like you said, the stuff that’s taught in the US is fucked up and deserves much more criticism than China. Though this article notably did not use the p word against the states.

And since the author didn’t specify what “propaganda” their kids were repeating or what the “Communist Party propaganda” they were being exposed to in school was, we can only imagine that those ideas were so objectionable that they couldn’t be shared with us in print (I’m guessing they were taught the metric system lol)