{"id":40212,"date":"2017-09-19T03:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40212"},"modified":"2017-09-18T09:33:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:33:31","slug":"even-in-a-progressive-educational-bubble-this-isnt-correct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/19\/even-in-a-progressive-educational-bubble-this-isnt-correct\/","title":{"rendered":"Even in a progressive educational bubble, this isn&#8217;t correct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gab.ai\/hollynicholas\/posts\/12285888\" target=\"_blank\">Holly Nicholas<\/a> shared this photo, which is said to be from an Alberta school:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-id=\"40213\" href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Political-spectrum-as-taught-in-Alberta-schools.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Political-spectrum-as-taught-in-Alberta-schools.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"893\" height=\"517\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Political-spectrum-as-taught-in-Alberta-schools.jpg 893w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Political-spectrum-as-taught-in-Alberta-schools-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Political-spectrum-as-taught-in-Alberta-schools-480x278.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Political-spectrum-as-taught-in-Alberta-schools-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Political-spectrum-as-taught-in-Alberta-schools-853x494.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 893px) 100vw, 893px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If this is indeed how public schools are presenting the political spectrum (and it&#8217;s unfortunately easy to believe that they do), the closest thing to a &#8220;centrist&#8221; party in Canada is the loony left Green Party &#8230; who somehow pip the NDP on the <em>right<\/em>. The far right end of the spectrum, Fascism, is graphically indicated to be all about &#8220;Market Economy, Free Enterprise, and <em>Laissez-Faire<\/em> Capitalism&#8221;, because as we all remember, Hitler and Mussolini were in no way fans of state intervention in the economy, right?<\/p>\n<p>The graphic does, however, support certain shibboleths of the left including implying that libertarians (who are <em>actually<\/em> in favour of market economies, free enterprise, and <em>laissez-faire<\/em> capitalism) are in the same economic and political basket as actual fascists. Nice work, faceless agitprop graphic artist!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holly Nicholas shared this photo, which is said to be from an Alberta school: If this is indeed how public schools are presenting the political spectrum (and it&#8217;s unfortunately easy to believe that they do), the closest thing to a &#8220;centrist&#8221; party in Canada is the loony left Green Party &#8230; who somehow pip the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,79,10,53],"tags":[542,457,817,1020,269],"class_list":["post-40212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-education","category-liberty","category-politics","tag-alberta","tag-fascism","tag-laissez-faire","tag-progressives","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-asA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40215,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40212\/revisions\/40215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}