Speaker At Group Supported By Betsy DeVos Says Hitler Was Good At Reaching Children

[octoberlib]

A conservative Christian group with ties to Donald Trump education pick Betsy DeVos once released a promotional video that proudly featured a speaker describing how Adolf Hitler and others indoctrinated children.

The undated video by the Student Statesmanship Institute ― which trains Christian kids to bring their “biblical worldview” to politics and media careers ― opens with a speech by Michigan leader Richard Posthumus, who describes how Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin used children to spread their message.

“Sometimes, it seems like it’s very hard to change the world, the world is so big,” Posthumus says in the video, over a dramatic soundtrack. “But what SSI has done is equip young people with the tools to go out and be ready for the competing ideas that’s in this world.”

The video immediately cuts to another comment.

“Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin: They knew one thing, that to change a culture, to change a country, they had to reach the children,” he says.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/betsy-devos-student-statesmanship-institute_us_58866464e4b070d8cad498d4?

[northoftheborder]

1. This raises goose-bumps

This is the most horrible information I've had pertaining to this nominee - De Vos. Terrible. She must be voted down.

[shenmue]

2. Nuts

[Solly Mack]

3. Why do you think the right wing went after public schools?

Why they join the PTA and run for school boards?

Why they go after school library books and local library books?

Why they have attacked everything about public schools for years and years?

They claim the left indoctrinates children because that's what they have been doing for years.

The culture war didn't end.

[Turbineguy]

4. Yes. He managed to get all those children

to go into battle.

This fuckstick must have had his morals shot off (although probably not in a real war).

[Hekate]

5. Actually, he was. So were the Communists."Give me a child until he is 5, and I'll have him for life"

Or maybe it was till the age of 7.

Rote learning and indoctrination work like a charm for the masses, if that's what you want.

[rzemanfl]

6. He also killed the ones he didn't like and gave their clothes and shoes to the ones he did.

Then there's the soap, how did I forget the soap? Did someone leave an "O" out of that ghoul's name?

[Jacob Boehme]

7. Oh, yeah...Old Adolph was Grrrrreat with kids

as long as there were witnesses.

#53

[marybourg]

8. Like ISIS strapping suicide vests

on young girls and sending them into a crowd.

[JDC]

9. Jezzuz H

This kind of stuff is bat shit crazy

[Initech]

10. Nazi punks fuck off!!!