Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing.
protist@retrofed.com 20 hours ago
Corey A. DeAngelis is an American advocate for school choice.
DeAngelis was an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank. He worked for the American Federation for Children, a conservative education nonprofit group founded by Betsy DeVos, from 2021 to 2024.
He joined the board of directors of the Liberty Justice Center in 2022. He has appeared on Fox News multiple times to as a commentator on education policy.
DeAngelis has described school choice as “a winner for Trump”. He contributed to the Project 2025 document, in the section discussing education and the dissolution of the U.S. Department of Education.
In 2024, he released the book The Parent Revolution.
This guy’s literally done nothing his entire life besides get paid by right-wing think tanks to undercut public schools
wewbull@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
Why do people in the US equate “choice” with destroying other people’s protections?
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Almost all of it is, or at least originates, from racism, at least with schools.
When public schools allowed racial integration , school choice became a mechanism for racists to pull their kids from mixed schools.
It grew into things like charter schools that are private, often religious, schools that get public funding and maintain segregation.
SarahValentine@pawb.social 16 hours ago
It’s a classic conservative propaganda technique to name things the opposite of what they actually mean. If it contains the word “freedom” it’s about tyranny. If it says “protect” it means persecution, and if it says “children” just mentally append “fuck” in front of it.
moustachio@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
We need to stop saying right vs left framing. It’s the wealthy class propaganda technique. Poor people that are “conservative” are in most cases just tricked by these parasitic ghouls that spend money to lie to people to work against their own self interests.
SarahValentine@pawb.social 13 hours ago
The average maga voter isn’t the mind behind the propaganda they parrot.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Because of all this competition we have in the market! With many schools near your home, they compete for your conforming child’s business. What with the labor shortage, we have all these employers with that good health insurance competing for our time. And of course, small farmers are doing great and supply our many competing food markets.
Brimstone@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
It’s the I can afford it so screw your individual short term thinking.
It assumes they’ll never need help themselves especially as they get older.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 13 hours ago
Because they are idiots and evil politicians and news media spin it that way.