Post by celawson on Nov 29, 2016 11:32:34 GMT -5
I just don't think Kaepernick, or anyone who praises Castro's Cuba, has thought things through. First of all, Cuba tightly controls its own narrative. As do all totalitarian governments. How can we know the reality? Some people work very hard to try to give outsiders the reality. Maybe we should listen to them instead of Fidel and Raul.
www.cnn.com/2016/11/27/us/nfl-colin-kaepernick-castro-feud/index.html
Does Kaepernick not think Cuba has invested in its prison system? They sure throw a lot of people in it, for the most dubious of reasons and oftentimes for months before a trial. It's one of the largest per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean per Human Rights Watch.
www.hrw.org/reports/1999/cuba/Cuba996-05.htm
As for Cuba's literacy program: From The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/how-education-shaped-communist-cuba/386192/
Is that the kind of education Kaepernick would want for himself or his children? Indoctrination and the absolute inability to express the views Kaepernick himself thinks are so important to express? Come on, Colin (and much or all of the left in the U.S.)-- THINK CRITICALLY!
Over a teleconference call, Kaepernick reportedly praised Castro for investing in Cuba's education system, as opposed to the American investment in the prison system, according to Salguero.
Does Kaepernick not think Cuba has invested in its prison system? They sure throw a lot of people in it, for the most dubious of reasons and oftentimes for months before a trial. It's one of the largest per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean per Human Rights Watch.
www.hrw.org/reports/1999/cuba/Cuba996-05.htm
As for Cuba's literacy program: From The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/how-education-shaped-communist-cuba/386192/
He (Castro) had mentioned plans to raise teachers’ salaries and improve rural schools briefly in the manifesto of his revolution, but once in power it was clear that he saw education as having a pivotal role in consolidating his revolution. Under Fidel Castro, education became universal—but he also stipulated that anyone who received this education would have to actively promote government policies both during and after their schooling. They would also be required to take government-approved courses that didn’t tolerate any criticism of socialism as a way of life. In other words, education was seen as key to the revolution taking hold and creating a literate population loyal to the government.
Increasingly, Cuban education was geared around the needs of the state. As Cuba became officially socialist, children followed the Marxist maxim of combining work and study. The government assigned them tasks like working in agriculture or tending the gardens of the school. And adolescents were sent to boarding school for a period to make sure their loyalty to the revolution was secure. Engineering and technical education took priority over the arts. Rebellious youth who mimicked the long hair and western ethos of the Woodstock-Beatles era were punished; the revolution would determine what was appropriate appearance and behavior. Elite schools like the Centro Vocacional de Lenin, on the outskirts of Havana, catered to the children of the top party cadres and military.
Cuba for its part demonstrates how a political system can exercise effective government social control over ideology and political culture; it shows how a government can reduce sophistication by emphasizing the importance of the collective wellbeing of the state—not the individual. The system has broken down the ability of individuals to claim ownership of central historical experiences, beliefs, values, and myths that a new education system will have to restore.
Is that the kind of education Kaepernick would want for himself or his children? Indoctrination and the absolute inability to express the views Kaepernick himself thinks are so important to express? Come on, Colin (and much or all of the left in the U.S.)-- THINK CRITICALLY!