Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has proven time and time again that she has no talent for reading the room.
Today, just five days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Weingarten is holding a virtual event to promote her book about teachers fighting fascism. It’s beyond poor taste to do this, considering this is just the sort of rhetoric that led to Kirk’s murder.
FOX News reports:
Teachers union chief Randi Weingarten promotes book on ‘fascist regimes’ days after Kirk’s assassinationAmerican Federation of Teachers (AFT) chief Randi Weingarten is set to hold a virtual event Tuesday promoting her new book on educators battling “fascist regimes” — an appearance that comes less than a week after the shocking assassination of Charlie Kirk, reportedly motivated by anti-fascist ideology.The virtual event is slated to kick off at 4 p.m. Eastern Time Tuesday and is hosted by a group called Emerge, a liberal nonprofit that “recruits, trains, and provides a powerful network to Democratic women who want to run for office,” according to its website.The event will focus on Weingarten’s new book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers,” and will include Emerge President and CEO A’shanti F. Gholar.Fox News Digital reached out to the American Federation of Teachers and Emerge inquiring if the event had been canceled in light of Kirk’s assassination or if Weingarten would address his death, but did not receive replies. Promotions for the event are still active on Emerge’s website.
Progressive Magazine describes her book:
Randi Weingarten on Why Fascists Fear TeachersWhen former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten “the most dangerous person in the world” in November 2022, the absurd comment led to a flurry of punditry and jokes from late-night TV comics. But Pompeo may have been onto something. No, Weingarten and other educators do not pose a danger to U.S. security or sovereignty. But teachers from pre-K through university do, in fact, challenge the right wing by both championing diversity and inclusion and promoting vigorous ideological debate.“Those hell-bent on unraveling democracy, pluralism, and opportunity have always attacked teachers and education,” Weingarten writes in her new book, Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy. “It’s a very old playbook. In the 1930s, Hitler and Mussolini persecuted teachers and tried to control the curriculum. Iran’s Cultural Revolution closed universities and restricted academic freedom. From Russia to Indonesia to Hungary to Chile, fascist and authoritarian governments have sought to attack teachers and control not only what students learn but what they think.”The antidote, Weingarten writes, is two-fold: emancipatory education that brings diverse groups of students together to investigate and probe subjects such as history, culture, literature, and science; and trade unions that bring workers together to build their collective power.
Naturally, Weingarten was one of the many stupid people who shared something stupid about the Kirk assassination online.
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