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1. StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2023 00:58:34 JST StillIRise1963

   Education is activism.

   • StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2023 00:58:21 JST StillIRise1963

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     • Chris Wiegman

     @chris People need to understand that Florida is the fascist example of their future if they don't do something.

   • Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2023 00:58:23 JST Chris Wiegman

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     @StillIRise1963 They sure do. I was too young to understand it then but, looking back, it really seems tame compared to what is going on today. Hell, Florida just added an explicitly fascist entrance exam as sufficient to get into all its schools. Most states aren't as bad but it sure isn't getting much better either.

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2023 00:58:24 JST StillIRise1963

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     • Chris Wiegman

     @chris Yep. And the hits keep coming.

   • Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2023 00:58:27 JST Chris Wiegman

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     @StillIRise1963 I keep coming back to your reply and remember the rhetoric when I was a kid in the 80s. “If you want to read don't go to public school” and shit like that because... bussing.

     The amount of effort given to keeping an entire population uneducated and, therefore, poor really is something.

   • StillIRise1963 (stillirise1963@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2023 00:58:29 JST StillIRise1963

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     • Chris Wiegman

     @chris There's a reason Black people say education will set you free.

   • Chris Wiegman (chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com)'s status on Sunday, 10-Sep-2023 00:58:33 JST Chris Wiegman

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     @StillIRise1963 Anyone who doesn't believe education is activism needs only to look at what is happening in Florida for evidence.