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Re:“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading sl... by anniedethomasis on Thursday July 17, 2025 @02:48AM (#44590455)
It's simply the left-wing mindset. Individuality, including one's own ability to question others and think critically, is shunned and suppressed. Collectivist organizations and entities (including government, academia, publishers and the mass media, doctors, the pharmaceutical industry, etc.) are considered to be infallible. Anyone and anything questioning the collectivist "wisdom" of the moment is met with overt hostility.
Re:“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading sl... by pessimizer on Thursday July 17, 2025 @03:54AM (#44590815)
Reading is a communist plot, but you guys are foiling it with critical theory and New Left Marxist analysis directed at children's books, with the aim of trying to detect hidden propaganda from the System meant to secretly train students to conform to the government, academia, mass media, and the medical industry... literally the consciousness-raising New Left.

The woke right is no joke. You guys and the rainbow-haired gender people speak in the same distorted stepped-on 8th-generation Freudian dream logic. There's no limit to the nonsense that one can be led into when one assumes that all of the wealthiest people on the planet who share the least (and own the media, publishers, etc.) are all committed collectivist Soviet agents bussed in from 1915, rather than as likely as not old German firms inherited by the children of the literal ex-Nazis that ran them until the 80s.

Re:“Reading Rainbow” was created to combat summer reading sl... by palmfacehn on Thursday July 17, 2025 @07:53AM (#44592277)
"...when one assumes that all of the wealthiest people on the planet who share the least (and own the media, publishers, etc.) are all committed collectivist..."

I will not engage with "woke right" or all of your points, much of which appears to be sarcasm.

However, I will note that historically collectivist movements such as the early Progressives around the dawn of the 20th century, were championed by wealthy elites. Looking back it is easy to see how the centralization of authority in this era benefited the elite classes disproportionately.

So, yes, I agree that much of the messaging for collectivist movements does focus on the perceived victim classes. However, that is only the surface level marketing. When examining the historical record, critics generally cite the outcomes rather than the slogans.

Hope this helps to add perspective to this contentious issue.