Was this a mistake—or did the Department of Education post this on purpose?

Idiots who have no critical thinking skills in charge of education folks.

  • zloubida@sh.itjust.works
    40·
    14 hours ago

    Three possibilities :

    • the DOE staff is Nazi;
    • the DOE is uneducated, which is kind of ironic;
    • both.

    None of these possibilities looks good.

    • kylie_kraft@lemmy.world
      33·
      13 hours ago

      OK so I’m probably borrowing from the Alt-Right Playbook here, but it’s been long enough that I don’t remember which ones. The wink-wink, nudge-nudge references to nazi catchphrases and imagery are deliberate. They serve three key purposes:

      1. They let the nazis know that they are seen and valued by the administration. This is critical, because Trump’s success has depended upon keeping extremists happy rather than appealing directly to neoconservatives.

      2. The neocons like the message but will usually miss the references. They will get angry when the nazi undertones are exposed, because they feel they are being called nazis for agreeing with what they see as standard conservatism.

      3. It “triggers the libs,” which everyone still seems to think is hilarious.

      All of which is irrelevant, because there is no useful distinction between nazis and people who participate in nazism because it advances their agenda.

      • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Im white and Ive been around other whites who will casually drop the n word. To see how I react. Or will say something blatantly racist even without the nword.

        For example I was viewing a rental property and the landlord said something like “you don’t have to worry about the darkies , there ain’t any around here except a few blocks over and they don’t bother nobody”.

        At first I didn’t know wtf he was talking about. Warlocks?

        I also was only half listening as I had noticed how shitty the place was and already decided no.

        Racist landlord was just cherry on top.

        Anywho.

        I swear it’s a way for them to find each other.

        They also seem to assume that since I’m white I’m with them on being racist. Or at the very least don’t mind that kind of talk.

        I’ve only had a few of these encounters in my life. It’s not something I experience often. So it always catches me off guard.

        But my buddy who is a mechanic, white, interacts with the public a lot more. He says it happens to him a lot more. Like they assume they are in the company of similar minds.

        Nope.

        My point being that. Yes I agree. It’s advertising to find similar types of people. To tell them they are welcome. And to promote it as normal.

        It’s done on a big scale but happens a lot on an individual level too.

  • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    13 hours ago

    The video was a clip from the 2017 film Darkest Hour about Winston Churchill during World War II, and has Gary Oldman playing Churchill shouting, “You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth!” Oldman’s character was talking about Hitler in the scene, but the department’s clip followed the line with techno music over a montage of President Trump, implying that he’s the tiger. The post carried the tagline, “No one does it like us,” followed by a tiger emoji.

    They’ll say they were comparing Trump to the tiger, not to who the tiger represented.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    4·
    10 hours ago

    Even ignoring the nazi bit (we shouldn’t), unwillingness to be reasoned with is traditionally supposed to be a flaw