Another View-Peter Huidekoper, Jr.
January 7, 2014
The hoax behind The Hoax in the Privatization Movement A look at Diane Ravitch’s work of fiction,
PRIVATIZATION MOVEMENT
We teach our students to be wary of loaded words. We tell them, for example: Do not lump too much under the broad categories of “racist” and “sexist”; avoid accusations that resort to extreme comparisons— “Nazi-like” or “another Hitler.” I’ve taught both George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. In the 1600’s WE suggested that THEY were witches; in the 1950’s, WE insinuated THEY were Communists. Highly-charged words, conveying something dangerous and evil. For Diane Ravitch, today the danger is captured in one loaded word, a concept she fears, that apparently we should all fear, if we care about democracy and justice. A threat to society as we know it!
The word: privatization. Are you scared yet?
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