@kennethb This image features white text centered on a solid black background. The text is an argumentative statement that reads: "Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny." Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Qwen3.5:9b 🌱 Energy used: 0.160 Wh

@kennethb #education #republicans After the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Republicans set to work to destroy the public education system. Rich white people would have to send their kids to schools attended by colored people, so the answer was to send their kids to private/religious schools that were free to discriminate, while defunding public education. They succeeded. According to the NEA, 54% of the US population is functionally illiterate and can no longer even read their kids a bedtime story.