Randi Weingarten, the head of the largest teacher union in the country, recently implied on MSNBC that the United States is currently under Nazi occupation. So much for lowering the temperature, right?
This nonsense is even more offensive coming from Weingarten, considering she supposedly represents educators.
FOX News reports:
AFT boss Randi Weingarten suggests U.S. under ‘Nazi occupation’ with latest protest symbolAmerican Federation of Teachers (AFT) boss Randi Weingarten hinted the U.S. was under “Nazi occupation” by wearing a paper clip during her interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Monday.Weingarten promoted her new book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers,” which she described as a warning against fascism that she argued was already occurring in the U.S.”Who are the heroes? Who are the antidote? Who are the hope agents and their teachers? I mean, there is a reason why Putin said that wars are won by teachers. There is a reason why in Norway, when the Nazis took over Norway, that’s why I’m wearing this paper clip,” Weingarten said, pointing to her paper clips.She continued, “I wear two things now: the American flag — no one can take patriotism away from me — and a paper clip. What did the teachers in Norway do when there was the Nazi occupation? They started wearing paper clips. Kids started wearing paper clips. Why? To bind people together as a community.”Though she alluded to Nazi occupation, Weingarten insisted she did not label any specific figure a “fascist” in her book.
See the clip below:
Robby Soave commented on this at The Hill:
I thought we all agreed that our political rhetoric was getting too unhinged, too overheated, too emotional, too exaggerated, and that it might be making desperate people do bad things. And now you’re telling me that the nation’s top teacher wrote a book implicitly referring to her opponents as fascists? Maybe the sequel should be called, “Why Everyone Who Disagrees with Me is Hitler.”Perhaps Weingarten is just trying to distract from the fact that many, many Americans are profoundly dissatisfied with the state of public education in this country. And it’s not because teachers have too little power, but because the union that represents them is doing us all harm. Indeed, there is no single figure more responsible for keeping schools closed during COVID for so long than Randi Weingarten: The teachers unions were the main driver, the main political force, engaged in the work of pressuring relevant authorities and lawmakers to keep school closed until we had reached zero COVID cases. They’d still be closed if those people had their way.
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