Randi Weingarten projects her fascism onto – Latest News
Chutzpah, thy title is Randi.
American Federation of Teachers head Randi Weingarten is touring the nation pushing her new ebook, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers,” which pretends her work is significant to warding off the authoritarian risk posed by the Trump administration.
“A public with strong critical thinking muscles is more likely to strengthen democracy and resist authoritarianism,” she preens — pretending the AFT and its fellow trainer unions are all about building robust younger minds.
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Hah! COVID and the lockdowns supplied an eye-opener to America, particularly its mother and father, about these unions: They care solely about their own energy and their members’ privileges; the children’ wants don’t matter.
Weingarten fought relentlessly to keep faculties closed for months and years after it grew to become apparent they weren’t virus-spreaders — demonstrated not simply by the info however by the truth that Europe saved its faculties open safely.
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She even received her allies within the Biden administration to corrupt the nation’s public-health officers into strongly recommending our children make do with the farce of “remote learning.”
That travesty not solely led to huge studying loss for a era of schoolchildren; it triggered a spike in continual absenteeism that is still years later.
And because the harm grew to become apparent, Weingarten cynically and shamelessly started pretending she’d tried to get faculties reopened.
Her profession now is determined by defying “strong critical thinking” — on fooling Americans into considering she cares for his or her youngsters, when all that issues to her is her own continued energy.
What she despises concerning the Trump administration isn’t supposed “fascism,” however its drive to foster college selection and so break the unions’ energy, and to revive steadiness and depoliticize the nation’s public faculties.
The trainer unions are actually all-in for the onerous left as their solely hope to keep their grift going — no matter how a lot diseased considering their reckless “anti-fascist” rhetoric causes.
Even the Charlie Kirk assassination has given her no pause, as a result of Randi is aware of no disgrace.
