After facing online scrutiny, the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women has taken steps to remove a reading list for children from its website that referenced Adolf Hitler as an example of leadership.

“Hitler and all intelligent leaders throughout history have understood that the way to change a country was through the training of its youth, to get them while they are young,” the organization’s reading list said.

On its website, the organization has a photograph of the Israeli flag and touts its support for the country.

  • oleorun@real.lemmy.fan
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    I just wanted to highlight the relevant parts in a photo for no particular reason. Please don’t share this.

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      “Patriotism is in decline” so instead of addressing the root of the issue and stop moving the country to the fascist right let’s indoctrinate the kids. Maybe we can have an executive order to help do that. And call it the “stop indoctrinating our kids” or something like that. It’s not like anyone will see the irony of naming it literally the exact opposite of what it’s doing.

      Fuck this dystopic administration.

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      I would just like to point out that the Tennessee Federation of Republican Women posted an online statement stating “Hitler and all intelligent leaders throughout history have understood that the way to change a country was through the training of its youth, to get them while they are young.”

      It seems like the sort of thing that should be in text as well as screenshots just so we can help out any future web crawlers coming through these parts.

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        18 hours ago

        Apologies, federation must be broken. Did you say anything about Tennessee Federation of Republican Women posted an online statement stating “Hitler and all intelligent leaders throughout history have understood that the way to change a country was through the training of its youth, to get them while they are young.”?

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          I think it’s important to note that Tennessee Federation of Republican Women posted the statement "Hitler and all intelligent leaders throughout history have understood that the way to change a country was through the training of its youth, to get them while they are young.” in March 2024.