answered in two questions: 1)does Fascism want more or less government?
2)does Trump want more or less government?
This means they have to allow someone to argue that he’s not a fascist.
I didn’t think they’d do that.
How about adding a topic about Obama too.
Did the school ever have students debate whether President Obama was a follower and advocate of Marxism?
Is Barack Hussein Obama a Muslim and/or Marxist?
End public education.
That’s kind of sick and funny at the same time. It’s the establishment Republicans that are Fascist. They only like government running things if it is done through business entities where the owners and leaders make obscene profits. President Trump is of the ilk that would have the government not involved at all in things that aren’t Constitutional.
In my opinion, a better critical thinking exercise would have been to describe how the Trump administration both does and does not appear to be Fascist (using the dictionary definition of fascist). Require facts to support both sides.
Should be used in similar context for other political models such as Marxist, republic, democracy, etc.
Please contact your child’s teacher asking them to debate whether Obama was our first gay President or Michelle our first male first lady!!
The question should be whether Haverhill High School is a commie schithole led by hopefully-soon-ex-Principal Glenn “Bolshevik” Burns.
High schoolers don’t even know about the collectivist tenets of fascism being diametrically opposite to free capitalism.
Webster defines fascism as a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
Autocracy is defined as a government in which one person possesses unlimited power. If Trump had unlimited power, why didn’t he just throw the democrats that are refusing a safety with the wall that they agreed to under a liberal president, out? They are getting their day in “court” from the American people. And Trump is not stopping it at all. Fascist? They don’t know what it is but it makes good print and sells news.
According to Black’s Law Dictionary, the most used in the US, fascism is accomplished by imposing strict measure to empower government and remove citizens rights. A dictator rules it. No citizen’s rights have been removed. And before you argue that point, you might want to understand what a right is. Only God can award rights, and take them away. No politician can. Politicians can only award privileges. So, please, don’t mix up what the liars at the news and political arenas say are rights. They aren’t.
rwood
First of all, what does history have to do with it?
Second, why not debate if Hillary is a lesbian?
Third I could win the Trump debate with one statement. “Show me one incident where Trump was racist”.
“We will continue to provide our scholars opportunities to debate and engage in controversial topics because this is at the heart of how positive change and innovation happens.
It is not your job or duty to bring about change of any type! Your only job is to educate. You are failing at that!
If the president really WAS a fascist, these idiot administrators, “teachers,” and so-called students would be rounded up, taken to concentration camps, stripped down and tortured....and worse.
That isn’t happening, nor will it happen to them, so these lunatics on the left need to shut the hell up already.
We will take better notice of the development and delivery of lessons to make sure that the outcomes of the assignment are not skewed by the prompts of the lesson.
He no doubt received nods of approval from many of his Massachusetts colleagues.
If Trump was a fascist, you’d be afraid to have this debate.
answered in two questions: 1)does Fascism want more or less government?
2)does Trump want more or less government?
The question itself somewhat begs the answer. To link Trump to fascism presumes that there is a legitimate discussion to be had. If the homework project is to be graded, there is an implied bias to answer the question in the affirmative. You could just as well ask, “Why does Trump have the characteristics of a Fascist?”.
If the assignment causes the students to carefully look at the definition of “fascism” and apply the definition to the actions of Trump, I think it could be valuable. But an answer of, “No, Trump does not.” should be eligible for a passing grade based on the arguments made.
In high school, we had a Jr. US History Class. One of the modules was to read about the pros and cons of some aspect of American History. On Friday, the teacher would then flip a coin for pro or con and we had to write an essay based on the flip. On the subject of “Should the US have dropped the Atomic Bomb on Japan?”, the flip came up “No.”
While the rest of the class regurgitated the points from the book, I wrote that the arguments to support “No” were not justified based on the outcome of dropping the bomb. I wrote in favor of dropping the bomb, bringing into the argument that my father was one of the ones that would probably have died in the invasion of Japan. I wrote that I owed my life to the dropping of the bomb. I got an “A”.