Paying large sums of taxes for a school that is unquestionably failing my children, with no option to attend another school (without shelling an unfathomable amount of money for private schooling), feels like educational authoritarianism to me.
Either every university should get subsidies proportional to the effectiveness of their graduates or no universities should get any subsidies at all.
Anyways, moving is not an option for me, as I have local dependents that I am responsible for taking care of and who would be abandoned if I left.
I don’t see how that makes your child’s school better, can you explain how we get from A to B?
I’m guessing not the people literally using the slogans of the American movement that opposed fighting fascism.
> Or was the US fascist in 1923 when the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind that Indians aren’t white and therefore can’t be granted citizenship?
It was racist (which, alone, is not sufficient to be fascist, though fascist governments are often racists and the Nazis were specifically inspired by US race policy in their racism) when it adopted the naturalization law that the Supreme Court interpreted in that case, sure.
(The fixed country-based caps in current immigration law are also largely based in racism, but a much more mild expression of it than the whites-only naturalization rule.)
The Left has spoken of "bundling" for many years now (of issues or complaints, or, looked at another way, of identity or pressure groups). That too is the idea of the fasces. The word "bundle" again suggests it.
I also note that there is a certain irony here, because, besides "fasces", we already have a succinct two-syllable word meaning "a bundle of twigs".
There is also the tasty cognate, "fajita".
Many scholars consider that Nazism was greatly inspired by American racism. Calling 1923 America fascist would be anachronistic, but also American racist policies were less related to Italian fascism than to Nazi doctrines. But plenty of scholars make the connection. Here is an example: [0].
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-American-Model-United-States/...
I’m commenting on the apparent worldview contradiction or blind spot in people who are calling current events and people fascist.
My point is that during the time period where USA was considered fascist-fighting heroes according to the mainstream account, they themselves had many views that were considered normal back then but strongly “fascist” today. I guess the definition of fascist must have changed?
I'm just one person. It's anecdotal but speaks volumes that I'd know that many.
2. If anything it's "fascism lite" and it's only for 4 years.
3. I'm not sure that forcing some belt tightening on a bloated academia is the worst thing in the world.
