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instead they had us read books written by a socialist who thought it was so obvious that communism was a good idea that we would need warnings against authoritarianism masquerading as communism. and the interpretation they gave us was "see! communism is bad!"
i don't know how anyone can read 1984 and not realize that the message is that a centralized authority is the problem
I see how.
The lack of the rest of the sufficient context.
Oh and also, we don't teach at all how evangelical Christianity was literally weaponized against 'communism/socialism', by capitalists, since before WW2, since FDR was trying to do the New Deal.
We don't teach that because uh, well basically that propoganda worked, and has continued to work, for nearly 100 years now, to the point that the people affected/brainwashed by that, well they have inordinately outsized control over what gets into school textbooks.