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Sorry I'm running late today. Went to a strike rally in Alabama last night.
As you should
yay!
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That's our Beau. Looked like you got back late too. Cheers partner
Was Gary Palmer there🙂
@@Sohbek yeah. I drove up and back in the same day. I'm beat. Lol
"They see the parallels because they're _not_ indoctrinated. You don't see them because you _are_ indoctrinated."
Excellent. Perfect. Bravo, sir.
right on. thank you.
That IS a good line worthy of a T-shirt. It made me think of our founding fathers and their own indoctrination (or lack there of) into what it means to be British.
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One of the kids needs to put that on a poster and hang it in the hallway
THAT is exactly IT, in a nutshell!
BREAKING: School outraged students actually read and understood the assigned text.
Yassss!!!🤣
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Kinda like how some/most religious people read the bible and don't follow its teachings.
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Pulling down someone's art from a wall is one of the quickest ways to make a lifelong enemy.
A certain short man would agree to this
"Hey, Hans ... these skulls on our uniforms, do you think .... you think WE could be the bad guys?"
Perhaps knowing your enemy is a good thing they are coming out of the wood works if they don't they are covert and sneaky and this is how they get power.
Been working for years protesting things and now people are just starting to wake the heck up. When you make a enemy you don't forget what they are up to and the damage they are capable of doing and it's lasting. Time to hold your ground and speak up.
"the truth is, there's something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there?"
Ugh, that’s such a good quote. That whole scene where he uses a device so he can speak freely and talks about Three Waters and conspiracy…damn good movie
I believe the cold war was a distortion of American principles in pursuit of economic and political empire and domination. We were subjected to a funhouse mirror version of reality because the cold war is like any other war. The first casualty in war is truth. Things get maimed, mangled and killed during wars.
Not to mention all the other wars we are simultaneously waging. War on poor people, war on drug users, war on homeless people, war on illiterate people. We fight so many wars it's hard to keep track of the casualties at this point.
@@disney.daze.55 The scene about the dominoes falling is good too.
Edit: Went and found it. Dominoes aren't actually mentioned, but shown.
czcams.com/video/68Dlb4B3m24/video.html
@@PhilLesh69 True that!!
What Country is better?
Critical thinking endangers status quo. Give your kids the gift that keeps on giving; teach them to be critical thinkers. It's a survival skill.
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"We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.”
-Republican Party of Texas
@@dynamicworlds1 all that to state they choose to keep people ignorant... 🤗
@@susangordon1153 not just ignorant, but stupid and unwilling (and incapable) to challenge their indoctrination.
My mom wanted her kids to be smarter and better educated than her. To her absolute horror, she discovered that one of the results of that is a constantly bruised ego and strained relationships because she sits at a very unfortunate spot on the Dunning-Kruger graph.
The students are not just seeing similarities they are experiencing them.
Hopefully it will lead them to draw more parallels to Fieseler court and the judge protecting Rattenhause and the Antifa, White Rose Society thereby inadvertently creating more Trae's and Beau's, I hope.
@@tomasinacovell4293 ANTIFA? Antifa and Rittenhouse are about as diametrically opposed as you can get. How exactly is the Rittenhouse judge protecting ANTIFA?
Yes and they will never forget it.
And many of us are watching from the outside, seeing sooo many similarities.
The establishment is always wrong. Because they are all corrupt.
"Hey, stop calling us fascists!" say the people acting like fascists....
You know, I don't think I've ever heard that from someone not at least fascist-adjacent.
When it get thrown around at other people it tends to get either ignored, pointed out how it's projection, or starts an actual discussion on what actually is and isn't fascism.
"Stop saying that" and "you call everyone that" is pretty much exclusively the response where the accusation is at least close.
Trump is VERY anti-anftifa. Doesn't "antifa" mean anti-fascism? So if Trump is anti-anti-fascism, doesn't that mean ....
@@gobblinal I mean, just look up "Trump Nazi Facebook ad"
Even he knows what he is.
Wait, did we just discover the 15th characteristic? ;)
@@ml1209 It's not experimental dingus, and when there was a *suspected* flaw in .00000088% of *one* company's it was pulled and reevaluated. Meanwhile 90%+ of the hospitalized and dead are currently the unvaccinated (making those who choose not to be an active threat to those who can't.)
Now lets look at the other side: remote learning for dissent, book bans, suggested book burning, using active warzone suppression tactics (and some which are considered warcrimes) on protestors. If you project any harder you can be used to show powerpoints.
God bless that teacher for trying to bring some enlightenment to these kids....
Hopefully some valuable lessons they learned as well, in spite of the admin butthurt feelings
@@aazhie As far as I can tell the administrations behavior is reinforcing the lesson.
Assuming that’s true, How did she enlighten them?
@@Adreal357 a project based on the message of V for Vendetta, which was written by Anarchist Alan Moore. The theme of the story is challenging authority, and free and critical thinking. The students took that to their conclusions of challenging what they saw rotten in their society, which was too uncomfortable for the establishment school officials. The students learned that challenging authority will be retaliated, but was it worth it? Well that’s how change and progress happens, challenging the status quo.
This is why good teachers leave the profession because they care and get black listed for teaching kids to critically think!
Cops: “Why does everyone compare us to jackbooted fascist thugs?”
Also Cops: “Let’s dress like jackbooted thugs and remove children from a school for dissenting!”
My brain: 🤦
Lol 😆 🤣 😂 😹
I get what you are saying, and I agree for the most part, but the cops didn't remove the students. The school board did
@@ajd2393 Well if you watch the movie there is the shadowy council handing down marching orders for the jackbooted thugs so....
@@idigamstudios7463 you comment on the wrong thing? cause that has nothing to do with what i said.
@@ajd2393 You said it was the school board, I'm juxtaposing the school board handing it's orders to the resource officers with the ruling cabal handing their orders to the 'fingers' (V's word for their jackbooted thugs.)
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
"V for Vendetta" is a blueprint. THAT movie is on point about the path to fascism!!! Thank you, Beau.
Well, unfortunately, some only see the bombing plot as the value added section, and get the wrong takeaway.
Because they're not interested in the end result of an ethical government beholden to people, but the lashing out feel-good part.
This is why terror-attack prone conservatives tried to adopt V themes n' memes for themselves, consciously denying the irony.
Second Act, Fahrenheit 451...guess we are already at the point of burning books 🔥 📚 🔥
@@denisemarcus5633 And have only access to cartoons with no text. Who needs to read, anyway...
Let's not forget that one of the tools of fascism is religious superiority. I think it's obvious which political party is leaning more towards fascism
I remember when my daughter was very young, the things she noticed and pointed out to me that I didn’t notice. Young people haven’t learned not to see the things we’ve learned to ignore.
I learned that I can only point out the shallow shit to my parents. Like how the lyrics to The Police song "King of Pain" are incredibly depressing and dark.
THIS. Children haven’t compromised their morals with accepting “that’s just how it is” yet.
We have accepted the horrors of our society so long we no longer even see them as wrong.
In our defense, we must grow somewhat insensitive and unaware just to survive. Being an adult means DOING all that can be done to care for others. That can grow exhausting.
Though, we need their voices and observations as badly as they need our care and protection.
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I believe Terry Pratchet wrote about something similar in this Tiffany Aching series. To paraphrase, Second Sight, as he termed it, isn't anything special. First Sight is. Because First Sight is being able to see things as they are. Second Sight is what most people do, where they only see what they are comfortable with or want to see, altering their viewpoint and essentially editing it.
1 peaceful protest and the whole school gets put in a time out (aka remote learning). And they still don't see the irony.
It's a pretty consistent failing, really...
In the words of many stereotypical american exceptionalists: The only country in the word with freedom of speech
They never fail to use dystopian literature as a checklist instead of a caution. It's kinda their modus operandi. See also: Handmaid's Tale.
It's because they are halfway through the checklist
I've followed the Alex Jones truther/birther/trumper progression through the years.
I mean at one point Alex Jones was featured in cameos in some conspiracy oriented movies. Like *_A Scanner Darkly._*
V for Vendetta was another popular movie in that crowd.
They are also using Aristotle's essay warning people about deceptive logical fallacies as a how to guide.
I think they're getting too much credit. I doubt many of them have even seen the inside of the novels they are imitating. Beau hit it when he said " They don't read but they'll watch the movie." Then when they're watching the movie they are so busy admiring the jackbooted thugs they don't grasp that they are the antagonists.
It’s the old “Orwell is spinning in his grave” thing.
as a student of Muncie Central and a leader of these protests I cannot express my thankfulness for giving this to a larger audience. THANK YOU SO MUCJ
Stay strong because you are seeing things clearly! Keep doing what your doing, question authority & keep using your critical thinking skills! See on here that there are a whole lot of people cheering you on that support your efforts! 😁💖
Hi. I hope u r truly a muncie student. Congrats on being here. U have support
@@clarkpalace yeah not sure if you saw it or what gout outside of the town but the initial list of demands I actually wrote!
Hi. Congrats on your efforts. Thks
Our children were terrified by a huge police presence! All over the schoolyard. Don't get me wrong, we do have some great LEOs, however, this was a huge misstep. With the exception of the actual teacher of the class, these students were not supported by school administration! Smh. #Oh, Muncie.
I wish I had a HS teacher bad ass enough to teach “V for Vendetta” in class
We didn’t have V but we did at least have 1984. (I also don’t know when V came out - I graduated HS in 2001)
I wrote a term paper my junior year on the novel Hammer of the Gods.
My English teacher gave me an A and asked me if he could borrow my copy of the book. Mind you, this was an exclusive Catholic college prep school.
Unfortunately this tends to lead to the teachers no longer being employed at that particular school.
Or, often, any school....
All my high school English teachers were also educators . There is a difference. 😉
This really sounds like that one teacher saw the lesson plan and knocked it out of the goddamn park.
No kidding. Those kids are going to remember the time the course material came to life in their school for as long as they live.
A True Educator, The lesson that keeps on a Teaching!
I'm only 40 minutes from Muncie. Good for those students for choosing critical thinking and standing up for what they believe in.
I am 30 minutes from there, these kids give me hope.
That’s my high school. Bravo to the kids - their generation will be the ones to save our asses.
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The establishment is trying its hardest to make sure they become sheep. I hope they keep that spirit of rebellion and they don't get too cynical. We need them in the future!
Thank god Indiana can be known for something other than Mike Pence.
@@ml1209 This is why I am not too worried about the future. Adolescents SHOULD challenge adults like this. It is a critical part of growing up.
People shouldn’t be afraid of their government, government should be afraid of their people. Words to live by
Beat me to it
The French government is quite careful with their people.
I would be more afraid if the people on the 6th had succeeded.
@@shawnr771 Next time they might.
@@shawnr771 agreed, though even in that case, I want the government a hell of a lot more afraid of even those people than it is. I'm afraid of how unafraid my government is of those people.
What a pity the people who most need to hear this video will never do so.
Maybe not, but we can convey those thoughts when we speak to them!
Umm, Joe Rogan says that I only need Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and stand up comedy for a fulfilling life... as well as pills, weed, LSD, shrooms....
As in they'd meet find it or wood stop listening part way through if they did find it?
Share it. That's what I do...
If I could afford it, I'd pay radio stations in the South and Mid-West to play Beau's vids Between 9 and 11am, and between 4 and 6pm.
"People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people."
-V
"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson
🤔I see a lot of guns in America@@ml1209... what I don't see is a government who knows you exist, let alone is "afraid" of you.🙄
Stop living in your fantasies of American "exceptionalism". Most of your countrymen couldn't lift or use a heavy weapon, squat or get up from a prone position, run a mile, etc..... except those your government trained and pays to kill. Guess whose side they'll be on?
(Trump or Biden could personally kill any American, and their whole block, if they wanted. From their pajamas, with a touch of a button. You'd never even see what got you.) Your greatest infrastructure is all built around violently contoling you.
IE. your armed/police forces, and prisons.
...But whatever you say Captain America....
#dronewarfare #hellfiremissile
Right now a lot of people who hold together the social fabric of the country, from election workers to public health figures, are afraid of a certain part of the people. Even elected officials shouldn’t be afraid of being murdered - only of being recalled or not being re-elected. Criminals in government should be treated like criminals elsewhere, and that’s not happening, but good people are leaving because they won’t risk the safety of their families.
Thankfully, our youth isn't blind to current events. I read about this and have hope that our youth will have a future. As long as we don't blow it and keep the fascist right from gaining power. Vote like your life depends on it. Our youths future certainly does.
If you grew up with the Internet (Gen Z or younger millennial) , it's pretty much impossible to be just out-of-the-loop - you're either extremely informed or extremely misinformed
@@EnigmaticLucas I grew up in the 50s and 60s. I am happy to see young people able to tell the difference between the BS and the reality. I do know there are those who are being indoctrinated with the hatred, the racism, etc but this story does give me great hope.
@@harleycontrarian6111 I was born in the mid 1980's, in Spain. Gen Z looks way ahead of us Millennials regarding politics and social issues, and our Boomers are still spouting the ultra-Catholic, hyperconservative Francoist nonsense.
(incidentally, the brighter and more educated members among the Boomers tend to be WAY more progressive...)
Disappointment and cruelty. Centerist media is far more dangerous when they fail in challenging people politicians on their show who deliberately misuse and lie about Build Back Better and CRT. Biden currently not using executive orders to inforcer his build back better. Leaving the youths to turn to apathy not vote or turn in anger to Fascism. This was what happened to generation W & X. This generation is the hope of either a right or wrong. Truth matters or obivious lies don't make a difference. Dark authoritarianism or Justice Democracy Progressive hope for all American people future.
@@danielr.y5261 I wouldn't exactly call myself a Boomer. It implies a generation that had it good and entitlement went along with being born in the era. I was born and raised on a reservation in the Navajo nation. Poverty is still rampant along with everything that goes with it. I was lucky, I had parents who made sure I went to college and knew I could have a life outside of that environment. I still have very close ties to my people and make sure I am giving back. Just because I no longer live there doesn't mean it's not my home. There are many people labelled with Boomer who did not have the typical Boomer experience. Thanks for realizing we are not all the same.
They're scared of a comic book, and perhaps they should be; Alan Moore warned us about the kind of people who ban books and no attentive student could fail to learn that lesson.
We already had that lesson in the 30's
And they are already preparing the matches and gasoline for the next step !!
@@nuanil and then un-learned it ...sigh ..I pray we ALL see better days
@@cerob9612 Well, you see, back in the 30's it was the BAD guys banning books. Now it's the self-proclaimed GOOD guys banning and burning....
Yeah, you caught me: they were self-proclaimed GOOD guys in the 30's too.
So... This all started in a history class as an approved assignment. The students realized real life, present day correlations. (how dare they!)
The "establishment" did not like the outcome of the approved assignment and "jack booted" the students.
This all started in a history class. wow...
I agree with your comment-but just to be clear, it was an English class.
[I taught ‘V for Vendetta’ to 12th grade English students while they were simultaneously learning about fascism in their Civics class…it was, by far, one of the better units of study I ever created and the students were ALLLL over making meaningful connections.]
V for Vendetta is basically a preview of the 2nd trump term in the Whitehouse. A highly underrated movie by the way. It gets better every time you watch it.
Alan Moore's original comic was better imho. It's an easy leisurely read and it can be found online for free pretty easily.
I adore this movie. (It also hits some nostalgia for me since I lived in the UK and enjoyed bonfire night and the story of Fawkes). Reminds me of 1984 too, another fantastic book.
Damn you, now I have to watch it again just to try and prove you wrong. Lol
The Lewis Prothero character is basically a British Tucker Carlson, it's a fantastic film
Not even Trump's supporters are stupid enough to elect that seditious joke of a man again. Him winning another term will cause civil unrest like we haven't seen since the Depression era. Good luck to you.
I would like to think that Alan Moore would really really enjoy his story being the stone of contention in this
A self-proclaimed anarchist like him? He'd find it hilarious.
his daughter has been in contact with the teacher on twitter. Leah Moore said “On the phone to dad now he says "send them all my love and support and tell them I am really sorry that V for Vendetta continues to be relevant all these decades later, i really hoped we'd have sorted this out by now”
I cannot stress just how smart kids can be. They've yet to be fatigued by the nature of adult life, so they have the mental space to observe and connect.
There are reasons why the youbger generation are the one to make connections adults don't want to. Even in other species, the young teach adults new ways of living and adapting.
Also the brain, for all its faults while developing is so much more flexible before about 25 or so. I say this as someone in their 30s already, so pretty darn close to that switch. It is so much easier to learn new ways of thinking and how to see things from different perspectives when you're younger.
The emotions can run dangerously hot and there's a lot less life experience to pull from, but the mind works so much better (a hugely disproportionate number of big ideas in science, for example, come from people in their 20s, not the older more experienced scientists, who tend to be better at other more sedate aspects of their fields) and there's so much less time to have the works clogged up by BS.
@@dynamicworlds1 our brains _can_ change well after that age... we just have enough baseline patterns, that are mostly serving us well enough, that we don't tend to seek it out as much.
@@DavidLindes my talking about easier vs harder, not can vs can't was an intentional phrasing choice.
They haven't spent years terrified of being kicked off the great wheel of capitalism. That fear keeps us in check.
Administration: Picking on teachers and students since…….always.
Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Those who cannot teach, administrate.
@@tygrkhat4087 My late mother was a teacher, and your comment is sadly true.
Longtime Watcher chiming in from Muncie. We currently have 4 officers on trial for brutality and falsified reports and a long history of corrupt police behavior. This story is not surprising whatsoever. Keep up the good work Beau!!!
"It leads to a society that can be led astray very easily." Or worse, subjugated and controlled.
That is their goal, and it must be stopped.
"You say that like it's a bad thing." - The Establishment
Why do you think Trumpkin put the kill public education lady, Betsy DeVos incharge of education?
"I ask myself, what would a fascist do?"
I heard that somewhere. Wise words.
i wonder where? 😜
@@ml1209 Congrats on unironically pushing a 19th century aristocrats view of education - that us plebs should only learn the minimum to be good little wage slaves and everything else should be verboten! As per the old adage about "teach a man to fish", it's vitally important to teach kids how they can make associations between what they read and what they experience, how to apply and adapt what they learn to different situations and how important it is to question everything to make sure they're not falling into fallacious thinking. (And good luck trying to keep that apolitical these days when even applying reality and science has somehow become politicized!)
Employers are constantly complaining that the newest recruits coming straight from school and college are absolutely useless, partly because they can't effectively think for themselves and try to apply any learning outside of the little silo'd boxes they're taught in!
@@ml1209 before one can learn, one must learn how to learn. Before one can trust ones self, one must learn the difference between truth and fiction. Before one can feel free, one must understand what it feels like to be without freedom. Don’t hate youth because they still have passion that you’ve long since forgotten, instead, rejoice in the fact that without it, they would never experience the beauty young people are envied for.
@@ml1209 Except being a politician or somebody involved in government and policy making is a job. Should every student become a doctor? Prob not. Should every student vote and influence policies that affect wars, economies and the health of the their peers and the world? Prob not. But school is supposed to be an environment where you find out what you are good at and what you like and improve what you are bad at. By eliminating that possibility to learn in school, you eliminate the foundation for future government leaders. Also why shouldn't engineers and scientists become leaders in government? Would help if they gained some confidence and experience in school.
@@ml1209 Yeah, no that's not how it works at all. A student that only knows how to regurgitate what they've learned in an exam and nothing more, is an absolute liability in the workplace, whether they did STEM subjects exclusively or not. At that stage, some can still learn how to be reasonably good at what they do, but for many it's just too late to adapt. The actually good students are the ones that actively look for how they can apply their learning to different situations. Giving them freedom to try things out and express themselves encourages the good students to become even better.
Banning every idea you don't like (for being "activist", which is as I alluded to earlier, apparently defined as "anything the right don't like" these days) is exactly the indoctrination you think you're standing against!
Oh and please stop with the zero-sum thinking: A good education at High School should be a wide-ranging combination of many subjects, with specialization starting at College/University, so it's not an either/or proposition at High School.
This might well be the place to quote Mark Twain on school boards:
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
Send this to everyone in Bucks County PA
Trust me they would of barred "Mark Twain" because of the "N" word used in a book classic which at the place and time is to the story value students can figure that out by critical thinking!
@@sa-iw4dr I think they did. Bar him. Not recently but in his lifetime.
@@sa-iw4dr The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn is already in trouble with many school boards.
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”If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be--a Christian.”
- Mark Twain
"And these children,
that you spit on,
as they try to change their world,
are immune to your consultations,
they're quite aware
of what they're going through."
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"Hey children
What's that sound
Everybody look
What's going down"
"Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when your always afraid
Step out of line the man comes
And takes you away"
It is so gratifying to see that kids are a hell of a lot smarter than the current crop of adults in the US. It does give me a bit more hope for this planet than I had before.
As do many of the comments here! I bet if we were all to meet up physically for lengthier conversations, we wouldn't always agree and sometimes not even close, but I'd bet we'd be willing to talk...and listen.
They can surprise you. I have seen adults talk about trans rights and students talk about trans rights in the same school. Guess which one is the more mature conversation?
@@ml1209 Ok boomer.
Being a bad parody of themselves aside, who empowered the cops to determine curriculum?
@@ml1209 Ah you subscribe to the idea that education is just to make citizens good labourers, and not actually educate them.
@@ml1209 in that case quality of education shouldn't be variable by zip code should it? Apparently critical thought isn't something you value. To quote George Carlin.
But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want: They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head in their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working people continue -- these are people of modest means -- continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all -- at all -- at all. And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on; the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
George Carlin
@@roverwanderernomadvagabond6392 Wow! Thanks for writing that out. I usually jst link to the video. Poor Benjamin is one of those indoctrinated people Beau refers to. The ones who vote against their own best interests. Good job, my friend.
@@ml1209 Sure lets keep activism out of schools...lets start by having no prayers; no pledges and no whitewashing of history...
@@ml1209 So that's a yes?
It never fails to astonish me when thugs in jackboots get offended when someone points out the jackbooted thuggery and they get offended by it. Double points for when this happens and the response is to intensify the jackbootedness of it all.
Why did the "resource officers" even have a voice in this issue? They're not students and they're not educators. Their job is to run and hide from active shooters.
One can only hope these students see the life imitating art imitating life happening here and that it further cements their resolve AGAINST indoctrination. They appear to have a sharper head on their shoulders than their supposed educators so I suspect they will.
When I was at school in the 80’s we did “To kill a mockingbird” and “A midsummer nights dream”.
They would both probably be banned now, because one is about racial injustice, and the other is about Bottoms.
Whats really sad is for many who saw the movie or read the book years ago and took any of it to heart I'm sure we've all seen the parallels forming for a long time.
I remember Republicans, during the Dubya Bush administration, getting all sore and butthurt about V For Vendetta and the Star Wars prequel movie because they felt it was a political hit-job on them. Like these were made especially to criticize them and Right-wing ideology (while they also vehemently insist that Fascism is a Left-wing ideology). It was all apparent then who and what they were (or what they were becoming), it's just even more obvious now because they've been dumbed-down and are worse at nuance and keeping the quiet parts behind doors.
Yep. Hugo Weaving unknowingly became the voice of many of us.
This action shows why everybody needs to read 1984 . I swear their using it a a blueprint.
I was given a month to read that in high school. I read it in a day? Maybe two. Could not put it down
They don't have the critical thinking skills needed to analyze it. They think they're Winston and INGSOC is the Woke Cancel Culture mob
And Fahrenheit 451 👍🤙✌️
They need to _understand_ 1984...which is a much harder task. We could start by teaching people that Orwell (like MLK) was a socialist and that the last scene of Animal Farm boils down to saying "it was state capitalism, not socialism"
The number of people who can't even understand that book really makes it clear how few are able to understand 1984, unfortunately...
I finally was reading it just before the 2016 elections took place. I was halfway through the book when Kelly Anne Conway said something about "alternative facts." The media went nuts over that phrase. All the sudden 1984 shot up to the number one book on Amazon, a bunch of people that had previously read the book saw the parallels and realized how much of 1984 was happening in 2016. For me 1984, V for Vendetta and the Matrix have been highly influential in my life.
Yea this is an issue. We don’t need YOUR Education we don’t need YOUR thought control!
Hey Karens leave them kids alone!
Good connection there
Need Pink Floyd on the school board.
@@ml1209 I think you got it backwards. Nobody put posters on the wall to influence the kids. The kids were allowed to express their own views. And just curious, i wonder about kids being forced to recite the pledge of allegiance, like I was in grade school, when it is painfully apparent that the last words, with liberty and justice for all, doesn't exist in our country.
@@ml1209 I disagree, education is important, thought control is the evil forcing of beliefs onto other people's children and just plain wrong.
@@ml1209 The posters are fine as long as they are in good taste and don't name individuals.
One of many reasons I left the teaching profession, right here.
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And underpaid over worked..
I wouldn't give up though, if were you (Tutor students on your own, give them what need to learn!?! Be a private tutor (Remember that during the time of "Slavery" it was a crime to teach Black people how to read!?! It's the same principle!?!
@@ml1209 false equivocation with religion, and yes, we want to be teaching politics to kids. They should understand, for example, why fascism is bad and how to identify it.
Almost every highschool in the country puts a selection of highly political books in their required reading for good reason, and no history/social studies class worth a damn can avoid talking about politics.
You don't get to deny kids access to important information just because you don't want people to be able to point out when you're wrong.
@@ml1209 When in the cited example did anyone put up a Biden poster? What was being taught was--it seems to me--democracy vs. authoritarianism. The primary purpose of secondary education is to prepare adolescents for the adult world, and part of that is making sure they're good citizens. In a democratic regime, what the US supposedly is, good citizens should be hostile to authoritarianism.
Again the David Bowie lyrics seems so appropriate here
“ the children that you spit on as They try to change the world, are immune to your consultations. they are quite aware of what they’re going through.
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"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." - Edmund Burke
Those who do know it are defined to watch baffled as it plays out a second time....
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn Yep. Majored in history in college, focused on totalitarianism in Europe. It's unreal to watch things unfold here almost exactly as they did over there - which, oh, wow, we went to war to stop.
I also like :" those who dont learn from history are damned to repeat it, the rest of us are just damned"
@@BeauoftheFifthColumn why baffled anymore? The cycle itself has been noted and notable for decades. Those who can read history can see other people at that time being baffled by the repeats then. So shouldn't it be expected?
Mark Twain once said that “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” Which is probably closer to the truth and it would explain why people who are supposed to know at least some history fail to see the similarities.
I gotta hand it to this school, that’s one hell of a way to make sure they never forget the lessons of the book
✋🤞✌️I don’t think the facts over feeling crowd is sending their best….
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Amazing how the side that created that statement have yet to live up to it. I have yet to meet or see a single conservative who when confronted w/ facts, acknowledge them & not respond solely on their feelsies!
When are they ever, really.
@@ArtisticlyAlexis Rightist narratives aren't meant to be consistent or logical or be something to be lived up to. It's only meant to stroke their overflattered egos.
" They see the parallels because they're not indoctrinated, You don't see them because you are." Simply brilliant.
I'm 59 years old and WE used to talk about how much of an effort it was to overcome the State Sponsored Indoctrination. I don't have any kids myself so I'm always extra shocked to hear stories like this about how, not only are we fighting the same battles we've been fighting my entire life, we appear, in many areas, to be losing.
If I could frame it another way - you're hearing about it, at this level, because we're winning. This was always going to happen, and they're terrified. The question has never been will society evolve, but will society survive the death throes of its former masters?
"Knowledge, like air, is vital to life". Alan Moore. (I can't possibly read all the books you point out lately, but I'm sure going to try).
I showed the movie to my kids (13 and 16) for the first time on Nov 5th this year. We had some really interesting conversations about fascism, indoctrination, violence, oppression, and resistance. It was pretty amazing to watch them grapple with how their feelings about V changed over the course of the film. And how clearly they saw the parallels between the events of the film and recent real life events, without any prompting from me.
I applaud the teacher in Muncie who took this bold step. They certainly knew how the school would react, I'd bet they were surprised by the collective action of the students. Young people will do that, lol.
I wish I had seen the movie so I could better understand what is being talked about. I'm usually up to speed on Beau's videos.
I'm grateful I had an amazing history teacher in my freshman HS accelerated class. The 1st thing he told us was to question every history book in the class. He said they don't contain the whole truth. He then encouraged us to read history books from other countries if possible. He said the books are always written by the " winners" or "conquers". Amazing. We could even debate why our answers on tests that were graded as wrong were what we chose. If we had put critical & factual thinking into them he changed the grade. What an amazing " teacher"
Those who don't learn....never understand...
those who don’t understand… never learn ..
Students are waking up and that scares the"elite". AWESOME!!!
I love this teacher, we need more like them in the school system.
On the upside, the more like them we have, the more we will produce. Just gotta get the feedback loop going past their ability to push down on it.
@@dynamicworlds1 Sounds like a Societal bowel movement to me
@@krisfrederick5001 ...I mean, if that's how you want to think of it I'm not going to stop you.
@@dynamicworlds1 I mean...I appreciate that.
@@krisfrederick5001 ok, I gotta say I appriciate your sense of humor. Thank you for the chuckle.
As a Central European I can only shake my head in disbelief once again.
... I'd rather whack a few heads with the books we had in school 🤧
It's so easy to see where it's going from the outside...
@@Cygnus888 I'm sure the same was said about Germany in the 1930s. The thing is, you need to acknowledge that it can happen to be able to see and counteract it.
"The tighter you clench your fists, Lord Tarkin. The more star systems will fall through them."
- PRINCESS LEIA ORGANA
❤Carrie Fisher❤
I’d really like to see more of the posters. They were about the issues the students felt were affecting America today, and the bare glimpse I got from news reports was intriguing and impressive.
I see this as a win for progress the more they do this. You're getting kids involved in politics at a much younger age than they would have been had you done literally nothing at all. Now their first experiences will be learning that an authority figure isn't always right and neither are rules/laws.
My political awakening came soon after 9/11. I knew Bush was an idiot, but I also knew he had speech writers who had a long history of great speeches to draw on, so even if it was derivative, I expected something about how it was terrible, but we can't let this act of violence to turn us away from our values and the best way to defeat terrorism is to refuse to give into fear...or something like that.
Instead, what I got amounted to "everybody panic (and gimme your rights" and the so-called 'adults' _listened_ and I knew right then I had to grow up fast because we were desperately short on real adults.
Bless that teacher…for taking the blinders off for the children. Yes, stop dumbing down our children. They are the future who needs to be problem solvers and think outside of the box.
Life imitates the chaos from which it spawned. Art is just a happy side effect.
🤯 Unbelievable. Almost. What a sad civics lesson.
Def a case for the school and board of "tell me you've never read/watched V for Vendetta without saying you've never read/watched it." At its most cycnical, this is just emboldening the cause for students/teachers. So not only has this school failed to educate, it failed basic dealling with civil unrest..no surprise, another book they could have read.
Since when did resource officers get a say in what goes on in a school? Don't they have a job to be doing..?
Resource officers are cops who get put in schools because they suck on the street. At least that's what happened in my community years ago
"Real history hurts our feelings."
--The 21st Century GOP
When raising my kid, whenever I was asked questions about politics or religion I always answered in the format "some people believe X, some believe Y", letting them think through the differences. We need to trust the next generation to make good decisions for themselves.
Great job kids. Amazing job from the Teacher. We need more of this. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
School admin was like: "Oh, there's a protest? NO MORE SCHOOL"
I'm thankful for finding you, Beau. You're a welcome friend who gives me faith in good and smart people. You help me feel calm when I feel surrounded by fear. You're a good man and I hold you in the highest regard.
That's terrific teaching. These students will not forget that lesson.
Oh wow. That teacher gets an A+ on how to really help students understand a lesson. Those students actually understand and learned the lesson. Awesome teaching!
V for Vendetta is one of our favorite movies - we watch it every 5th of November.
Of course we can see similarities - but this isn't the only one we compare it to.
If you've seen Babylon 5, leading up to the Shadow War - what Earth does? Is the same thing. But then, it's always been about power and control.
I do too! I missed it this year sadly
Yep i watched b5 recently anf was like daaaaamn
Could definitely use a John Sheridan soon, if not now.
Babylon 5 is a great show and more people should watch it. I think the parallels would scare a lot of people.
When people ask "Star Trek or Star Wars?" my answer is "actually, Babylon 5"
It's a great show in so many ways (and is just damn entertaining too).
I love the idea that children just become mindlessly indoctrinated by reading a book. I had to read Anthem and The Giver when I was thirteen. Both seem to me as an adult to be obvious critiques of utopian socialism as perceived through the American lens (not saying Ayn Rand was American, but rather she helped develop that American lens). Both were used in a way to attempt to teach me that egalitarianism can only go so far and that our nation is a meritocracy that breeds innovation and creates better living standards. Still ended up a communist as an adult. Still saw clearly that those books weren't accurate representations of socialism.
An accurate depiction of Socialism would be Ayn Rand dying of cancer while recieving government benefits under an assumed name .
one could argue that they instilled in you the longing for an actual meritocracy and disgusted with the bleak reality you turned away ;)
@@roverwanderernomadvagabond6392 Thatcher also spent her last years living on government paychecks. "There's no such a thing as society, yadda, yadda..." Conservatives don't seem that keen of leading by example.
And people equating socialism and communism have shown they don't know they are 2, TWO, different ideologies.
@@ml1209 Do you realize that MOST of these so-called "socialist countries" were either unjustly embargo'ed and sanctioned into oblivion by capitalist countries, or even *straight overthrown* by USA (Operation Condor)?
I'm European, currently living in Northern Europe (with high taxes and significant government restrictions and regulations regarding employment and enterprising). You couldn't pay me enough to move to USA.
They say that they want us teachers to teach critical thinking skills--- but WHEN the students use those skills to think for themselves- well then.........
Similar stuff was happening when I was in high school under Bush II; I have to imagine it's gotten a lot worse in a lot of districts/states. I now work for an organization whose primary mission is to make implicit cultural/systemic biases explicit, and I cannot tell you how emotional folks get when we name the things the establishment tells them aren't really happening. You can see decades of quiet desperation welling up in their faces, and it's heartbreaking. Good on these students and this teacher for standing in truth.
I would love to see the Book Mobile program brought back. I remember how much fun it was to go on to that huge bus full of knowledge and education. They were funded by donations from people and organizations who saw education as an investment in the future of our world. States like Texas are committing an atrocity by banning amazing literary works. I wonder what it might take to get these 850 books set up as free Kindle or Audible downloads and even part of the Gutenberg Project for students. And then start a huge campaign in those states with one simple question? "Why won't your school allow you to read these books?" Let the indoctrinators...I mean, administrators be offended.
I’m so proud of these students! They just might learn more on e-learning and community classes to support a better education for them.
I am one of the students and I can assure you that it was completely peaceful and we know what we want to change and we are fighting for it we have reached out to More and more people to help thus change. They say they we are being heard but they are not listening.
Way to go Kids! Think for yourselves! Good patriotic kids!
Howdy all!
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I say this a lot these days because it’s true:
The kids are alright.
It’s great to see them be aware.
I was once told by a teacher that after the Basics of "Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic that schools were supposed to teach you how to think, not what to think but how.
Really bad decisions from the establishment. Now, instead of being confined in a high school's hallway, the posters are now making headlines accross the world wide web and viewed by millions... :))
"I don't actually expect the people who are in opposition to this to read"
lmao rekt
A teacher that's actually teaching the students how to learn for themselves. Not just a bunch of facts they need to pass a test. Getting and keeping them engaged.
Brilliant of this teacher to make this assignment. Win-Win! 📚
I graduated from Muncie Central Highschool in 1978. All 3 of my kids graduated from MCH too. I still live in Muncie and I didn’t know anything about this. Wow!
I feel certain that even if the 'establishment' read the book, or at the very least, watched the movie; it wouldn't make any difference. They still wouldn't get it. The establishment rarely does.
That forced ignorance is strong a month the crowd.
Right wing authoritarians just suck at producing and understanding art. They've done studies on this, including, for example, them being less able to tell when comedy was laughing at, rather than with, them.
@@dynamicworlds1 They clearly weren't wrong (obviously). It's times like this where I like to remind people that, for the first couple years of his show, right wingers were some of Colbert's biggest fans. They literally had no idea that he was parodying them. He was even invited to speak at the White House Correspondents Dinner one year, because that's how clueless they were. It obviously didn't last forever, but it was pretty god damned hilarious while it did.
"Are we the baddies?"
They kinda did get "BLACK BAGGED" in Portlad during the BLM protests by unidentified federal law enforcement summer of 2020,.... remember that? There's video
We need to keep showing them what their leader, the orange one said, “ remember, what you see and what you hear is not what’s really happening.”
I see "Muncie" and my heart sinks. Of COURSE it's my home state.
Of COURSE the authority reacted the way it reacted.
Of COURSE.
And of course its muncie. where else?
Its a cursed name. Every Muncie I've ever seen news of has been weird. (like 3 at last count)
I am a resident of Indiana where this high school is located and this breaks my heart and embarrasses me also. These students have my full support!
I usually think of Indiana when I hear Muncie.
I know how you feel. Being from Kentucky, I know how it is to live blue in a very red state.
I grew up in the Hendricks county area. The indoctrination has been happening for decades. Luckily my Literature and History teachers made us think and question things. They went beyond the textbooks. Back in the early 80's there was more concern about drugs in school. That teacher is my hero!
"If only there was a book who could predicted this exact chain of events."
I laughed out so loud.
If they really want to improve the system, get rid of the "school resource officers". There is no reason to have cops in schools unless you want to criminalize students and education.
V for Vandetta is an excellent tool for opening up our eyes , on how corrupt our country is !!! Corporations make the most money when there is blood in the streets !!!
"If you're looking for the guilty, you need only look in to the mirror." Alan Moore
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good morning 🌞 😃😸
Sorry brian...you din't come in this race...😦
At least your payoffs might go up a bit.
BTW...Beau himself finished in 4th!
@@PogueMahone1
hm…
there is a comments bar above the comments, and there is an X at the right side and to the left of the X, there is an icon
when you click on the icon, you get a choice between “top comments” and “newest first”
well ..
that’s how it works on the iphone anyhow
give it a try to see if you get different results ..
So I’m 70 years old. I remember being a teenager. And I’m laughing my ass off. Looks to me like a lot of budding young rebels just got another cause. And the beauty is it’s a cause well worth rebelling over.
I'm from Muncie and graduated from Muncie Central class of 2000! I'm proud of these young Bearcats!