Trump Vows Anti-‘Wokeness’ College Online

Trump speaks in Las Vegas on October 28, 2023. Supply: Ethan Miller / Getty

Donald Trump is promising that if he’s elected president in 2024, he’ll create a federally funded on-line college that awards free levels and saves faculty college students from being indoctrinated into “wokeness” by indoctrinating them into anti-wokeness, jingoism, xenophobia, and extra of the identical outdated whitewashed curriculum that units America up as a extra noble nation than factual historical past proves it to be.

Oh, and he’s calling it “revolutionary.”

What Trump is proposing is the taxation of enormous personal college endowments to pay for a brand new establishment referred to as “American Academy.” And whereas it’s true that taxing the wealthy in an effort to give residents one thing without cost is completely what Republicans name “socialist” any time a Democrat proposes it, that little little bit of hypocrisy is the least regarding factor about what Trump desires to do, which incorporates banning “wokeness or jihadism,” which apparently consists of any nuanced dialog relating to the advanced Israel-Palistine battle.

From Politico:

Trump’s coverage proposal comes as U.S. establishments, together with high universities, have come below elevated political scrutiny, most not too long ago for his or her response to the lethal assault on Israel by Hamas. Outstanding enterprise leaders, politicians, and donors have criticized their alma maters and even vowed to pull future donations to colleges for muddled or muted statements, or for permitting pro-Palestinian audio system on campus.

“We spend more cash on greater schooling than every other nation and but, they’re turning our college students into communists and terrorists and sympathizers of many, many alternative dimensions. We will’t let this occur,” says the man who impressed a home terrorist assault on the U.S. Capitol as a result of he was legally voted out of workplace and was keen to resort to propaganda campaigns (and presumably a RICO conspiracy) in an effort to stay in energy.

Pay attention, Trump’s actual agenda right here is obvious and it has nothing to do with being “freedom-focused” as he claimed in his video selling his little on-line white nationalism faculty. This is similar man who primarily spearheaded the propaganda-reliant battle on essential race principle. He tried to determine the absurd “1776 Fee” to counter Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Pulitzer Prize-winning work The 1619 Challenge. And these aren’t the one examples of Trump hopping aboard the passive-aggressive shows of white fragility prepare below the guise of “revolutionizing” schooling in America by, nicely, principally educating the model of America that America has all the time historically taught.

Politico famous that earlier this yr, “Trump referred to as for brand spanking new accreditation requirements for faculties and universities and proposed eradicating variety, fairness and inclusion directors and selling the protection of ‘the American and Western civilization’ in class curriculum.”

Sure, the promotion of “American and Western civilization” in America and the West is certainly below assault. How can we fight this? Perhaps we will put up American flags throughout each single one in every of our state and federal authorities buildings and spend generations forcing faculty college students to pledge allegiance to that flag. Perhaps we will have a number of federal American holidays commemorating issues just like the nation’s white-exclusive independence and the celebrations of our veterans each alive and useless. We will fill lecture rooms throughout America with historical past books that do the naked minimal in educating something outdoors of white American and Western historical past that paints the nation as the best on the earth versus a systemically racist world superpower.

Sure, we undoubtedly want this federally and privately funded on-line faculty for right-wing ideology to do what American schooling has by no means carried out earlier than. (I’m truthfully undecided if I’m laying the sarcasm on thick sufficient.)

It shouldn’t shock anybody that Trump is asking himself a “revolutionary” for rehashing what has already historically been carried out to loss of life in American schooling. That is, in any case, the identical man who tried his hand at greater schooling just for “Trump College” to finish up settling fraud allegations with a $25 million payout to former college students.

That’s to talk nothing of when Trump not too long ago declared in a marketing campaign speech that if he’s elected, “We’re gonna have an amazing nation. It’s gonna be referred to as america of America.” (So, who’s going to inform him?) He additionally desires credit score for being the solely particular person to make the connection that “us” is spelled “U.S.”

“I simply picked that up. Has anybody ever considered that? I simply picked that up,” Trump stated in New Hampshire of the connection between “us” and “U.S.” that politicians and self-proclaimed patriots have been making for seemingly ever. “Now, if we are saying one thing genius, they’ll by no means say it. They’ve by no means stated, ‘Trump’s an amazing speaker.’”

Trump thinks he’s a “genius” for being most likely not even the millionth particular person to make this easy two-letter phrase remark.

Nah—that is undoubtedly the man to place in control of our schooling.