Commentary: Fox News’ Laura Ingraham escalates the GOP’s war on learning: “Time to defund government education” – By Amanda Marcotte (Salon) / July 8, 2022
Along with Florida’s new law, the GOP end game comes in to view: To turn Americans into a bunch of ignoramuses
Anyone familiar with how Fox News gradually warms its audience up to an idea could see it coming. First, the network ran endless segments hyping the myth that school teachers were training kindergarteners to hate white people with something called “critical race theory.” Next came false claims that schools that accept LGBTQ teachers and students were “grooming” children to be sexually abused by pedophiles. Having implanted the idea that public schools are a scary place turning their grandkids into self-loathing sexual perverts, the end game was finally rolled out during the popular primetime program “The Ingraham Angle”: It’s time to end public education entirely.
“A lot of people are saying it’s time to defund government education or at least defund it by giving vouchers to parents so they can say, ‘No, we’re not doing this anymore,'” ranted host Laura Ingraham on Thursday. “And I think that just has to happen. We have to stop funding this madness.”
This is not the first time that Fox News has seeded the idea of shutting down public education entirely.
