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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharlie Kirk and Christian nationalist college team up to force their views on America's students
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Matthew Sheffield
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You may have heard the term "Christian nationalism" and have questions about what that means. This essay from @MatthewBoedy lays it out and shows exactly how Christian extremists are rolling it out in schools.
Please retweet so we can get the word out!
Charlie Kirk and Christian nationalist college team up to force their views on Americas students
flux.community
1:43 PM · Jul 20, 2021
Matthew Sheffield
@mattsheffield
You may have heard the term "Christian nationalism" and have questions about what that means. This essay from @MatthewBoedy lays it out and shows exactly how Christian extremists are rolling it out in schools.
Please retweet so we can get the word out!
Charlie Kirk and Christian nationalist college team up to force their views on Americas students
flux.community
1:43 PM · Jul 20, 2021
https://flux.community/matthew-boedy/2021/07/charlie-kirk-and-christian-nationalist-college-team-force-their-views
Turning Point USA on Saturday kicked off its annual Student Action Summit in Tampa where a series of speakers and breakout sessions will try to activate and train attendees to play offense with a sense of urgency to win Americas culture war. Hundreds of high school and college students will hobnob among Fox News and Trump administration celebrities and take back home the misinformation and mission of the organization.
The most recent exigency for the group has been the debate over critical race theory that has consumed local school board meetings. And Turning Point plans more for that issue. Recently on its career website, TPUSA posted an ad looking for someone to run its School Board Liberty Project which will be dedicated to researching and exposing school boards nationwide that are adopting radical Leftist policies and curriculum. That project will run parallel to its other new educational venture, Turning Point Academy, which will develop and distribute K-12 curricula focused on American history, our founding principles, the Constitution, and economics.
These two expansions will remake the nine-year-old political non-profit nominally dedicated to free markets and limited government into a Christian Nationalism educational arm befitting its newly converted Christian nationalist leader. In short, Turning Points new aim is to reclaim from the left all levels of education and define education as a Christian nationalist dominion. Kirk sells this expansion and redefinition by saying what happens on campuses eventually reaches the halls of Congress. Kirk made the remaking of Turning Point clear in a July 6th tweet that said among other pro-America curriculum goals, the Bible should be taught more in schools.
The Christian Nationalism influences on Kirk have also impacted Turning Point. In May I wrote about some of the religious influences on Kirk and Turning Point. In this article, I want to dive into the educational influences.
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Charlie Kirk and Christian nationalist college team up to force their views on America's students (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2021
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roamer65
(36,747 posts)1. Fuck Kirk.
POS loser.
msongs
(67,462 posts)2. how repubs control a majority of states by doing what works... nt