Today’s episode provides a critical commentary on the push for “patriotic education” by the U.S. Department of Education, viewing it as a thinly veiled effort by the Regime and conservative think-tanks to erase marginalised histories and impose a singular, celebratory narrative of American heritage. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, employs the metaphor of decay and rot, comparing the current educational mandate to the destructive settler colonialism of the Spanish, who refused Indigenous medicine whilst spreading disease. The text argues that this initiative, supported by significant federal funding and institutions like Hillsdale College and PragerU, systematically defunds and suppresses curricula focused on Black, Indigenous, queer, and disabled histories, thereby enforcing an “inversion” where truth-tellers are branded as corruptors and those promoting a sanitised version of history present themselves as saviors. Ultimately, the author frames this as the latest attempt to seize the “frontier” of memory and curriculum to command, rather than inspire, loyalty, whilst expressing hope that marginalized stories will continue to persist despite institutional efforts at erasure.
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/patriotic-education-and-the-erasure
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