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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Lawmaker Said Teachers Must Be Neutral on Nazism
Indiana state Sen. Scott Baldwin (R), who is facing criticism for saying teachers must be impartial when discussing Nazism, walked back his remarks, the Indianapolis Star reports.
https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/08/gop-lawmaker-said-teachers-must-be-neutral-on-nazism/
Walleye
(31,025 posts)Fritz67
(353 posts)Just like during natural disasters like Katrina white people "do anything it takes to survive" while blacks "loot and pillage"
Liberal media my butt.
applegrove
(118,659 posts)say that publicly, think of what they say in private.
paleotn
(17,918 posts)dem4decades
(11,296 posts)DBoon
(22,366 posts)"Springtime For Hitler" was meant to be ironically bad
AllaN01Bear
(18,238 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)that explains it
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,238 posts)crickets
(25,980 posts)Kid Berwyn
(14,907 posts)ShazzieB
(16,399 posts)There is video here:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/indiana-state-senator-scott-baldwin-sorry-for-saying-teachers-should-be-neutral-on-nazis
And yes, it's every bit as bad as it sounds.
LoisB
(7,206 posts)marie999
(3,334 posts)Before reading it, I was wondering if he meant the teachers should just state facts and then discuss them with the students. Your post shows that wasn't the case.
msfiddlestix
(7,282 posts)I don't know anything about this Senator's background, ideological inclinations other than party affiliation. Is he a pro-Nazi? pro-fascists as the tweet suggests?
Or is he attempting to raise the issue of concern of banning or
Editing to add: I think if his clarification is the basis of his arguments, I think it's worthy of discussion..
spanone
(135,838 posts)dalton99a
(81,510 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,120 posts)They fault teachers for so much because faux talking heads have bashed them relentlessly for over 20 years.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,328 posts)I forget who proposed the idea but I saw it brought up after the last deregulation/speculation induced market crash.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,120 posts)Possibly the Fox News people factor in to be head of the line come the next Reich. And the see Heir tfg as the only American who could forsake the Constitution for his personal gain.
They're criminal enablers that we must defeat. I fear we need Nazi Hunters to come from outside politics and rescue this country.
AllaN01Bear
(18,238 posts)EastMeetsWest
(191 posts)since that was the generation that fought WWII and is usually considered to be Americans who were born between 1901 and 1927.
Aussie105
(5,397 posts)Just give kids details on Nazi type actions, and let the kids decide for themselves!
'Well, kids, you have seen the concentration camp video, seen the piles of dead bodies, watched the smoke from the crematorium chimneys . . . what do you think?'
(Johnny, use the puke bucket next time . . .)
Very few will respond with . . . seems like a good idea!
IronLionZion
(45,443 posts)peggysue2
(10,829 posts)walk back or suggest neutrality. Nazis and Hitler are at the top of the list. No do-overs. This Indiana state senator needs to be tossed out on his ear.
We fought a hideous war to defeat these monsters. Baldwin I assume has never heard the phrase: Never Again!
Despicable.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)but forget the ear - I might suggest some other body part!
peggysue2
(10,829 posts)LoisB
(7,206 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Grokenstein
(5,723 posts)Within ten minutes Tucker will have his viewers screaming that liberals are the "real" Nazis.
LoisB
(7,206 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,957 posts)Stuart G
(38,427 posts)It is a 30 minute documentary on the Holocaust
At link are some reviews of ....Night and Fog...30 minute documentary on Nazi Germany:
In case you are wondering, mine is the 6th...written by ...stuartpiles: "The most powerful film ever made"
Please read the other reviews too..
Warning: The reviews are difficult to read, but not as difficult as is the movie to watch...
....(my guess is that that one is at the library in your town, or city...or it should be)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048434/reviews?sort=totalVotes&dir=desc&ratingFilter=0
dchill
(38,497 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)Donnie said that "there are good people on both sides!"
Initech
(100,076 posts)The only thing Nazis are good is throwing in the dumpster and that's about it.
Poiuyt
(18,124 posts)But in this day and age, it might help him.
MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)isn't that sad........
LudwigPastorius
(9,148 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,611 posts)There's no coming back for this one.
Botany
(70,508 posts)... who were from western Indiana who died fighting the Nazis.
Btw Didn't TFG keep a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed? As per wife #1.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Neo-Nazi to the core. White supremacist. Antisemitic, anti-anything-other-than-white-people, racist, sexist.
So, Scott Baldwin, would you say teachers must be impartial when discussing Soviet Communism also ? Maybe you would, given the love for Putin in the TrumpPublican Party.
PatrickforB
(14,574 posts)Neutral to nazis? We don't need more white supremacists in office. Disgusting POS needs to resign.
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)Look, we can ridicule and take this POS to task for this, BUT OUR FUCKING NEIGHBORS ELECTED HIM TO POWER
Yeah, this guy is a disgusting Nazi turd, but we shouldn't forget
- he was elected by a majority of our neighbors
- he was welcomed and elevated by the Retrumplican Party
- he was funded by corporate donors, some of which we probably support by buying their products and services
- he was supported and groomed by local and national Hate Radio stations
and, he is just one of thousands in national, state and local elected office. Most of them don't say the quiet stuff out loud.
Businesses and wealthy people fund him.
Radio Stations provide aid and comfort to him.
Any business that gave him money should be boycotted to ruin.
Any local business in his district that supported him should be boycotted to bankruptcy.
That is the "peaceful" way to defeat Nazis.
I hope people realize that if we don't start getting serious about using the peaceful tools at our disposal to crush nazis and fascists, we are going to eventually have to do it the hard way.
So yeah, he's a Nazi fuckstick, but he didn't just miraculously trip and fall into elected office
eShirl
(18,492 posts)We all know it.
Emile
(22,765 posts)with a brain to smoke a lot of weed!
spanone
(135,838 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,994 posts)They're being a little too open.
Behind the Aegis
(53,957 posts)...Deborah Lipstadt may be asked to apologize to Republican senator before confirmation as antisemitism
Though a different senator (that POS Ron Johnson), it does explain why some in the GQP are hinky about having someone monitor anti-Semitism.