Democratic Party aims to push climate change propaganda in all grades
The Democratic Party intends to include climate change propaganda in the curriculum for grades K-12, the Daily Caller News Foundation noted Sunday.
The party’s official platform says children across the country will be taught “climate literacy,” which means they will be told what to believe is true about climate change and what they should reject as “misinformation.”
“Democrats believe we can and must do better for our children, our educators, and our country,” says the party’s website. “We are committed to making the investments our students and teachers need to build equity and safeguard humanity in our educational system and guarantee every child can receive a great education. To this end, we support K-12 instruction in civics and climate literacy. We will support evidence-based programs and pedagogical approaches, including assessments that consider the well-being of the whole student and recognize the range of ways students can demonstrate learning.”
In another place, the Democrats say they “will equip students with the knowledge and skills to understand complex scientific issues, counter the rising tide of denialism by promoting environmental and climate literacy, and reverse the Trump Administration’s cuts to the National Environmental Education Act.”
In other words, climate literacy will teach students that the climate change narrative is “science” and that any arguments against that narrative— no matter how scientific — are “denialism.”
Media literacy: ‘Regime media installation’
Climate literacy is an offshoot of media literacy, which Democrats have also been embedding in education curricula.
Last year, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a “media literacy” initiative to “inoculate” school children against “conspiracy theories, misinformation, disinformation, and online hate.”
Critics call the program a “Ministry of Truth” because it promises to teach children in grades K-12 what information is true and what is not. Hochul said she ordered the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services to develop these “media literacy tools.”
“This will teach students — and even teachers — to help understand how to spot conspiracy theories, misinformation, disinformation, and online hate,” Hochul said at a press conference. “Start talking about what we’re seeing out there. Give these teachers the tools they need to help these conversations in school. And by teaching younger New Yorkers about how to discern between digital fact and digital fiction, we can better inoculate them from hatred and the spread of it.”
Former State Department official and Foundation for Freedom Online Executive Director Mike Benz explains that media literacy is more sinister than it sounds.
“Media literacy says if you don’t read the right media sources — official media sources, official state-backed media or government sources or regime-compliant media — then you are illiterate,” he said. “You are media illiterate. And you need to get your mind right to read the right media sources. So media literacy is just regime media installation.”
Media literacy has already been incorporated into K–12 curricula in California, Delaware, New Jersey, and Texas. One of the ways students are taught to be media literate is to consume strictly mainstream media, though this is not said outright.
In the SIFT (Stop, Investigate, Find, Trace) method, for example, students are told to look up the source of the information on Wikipedia, a government disinformation tool. When they do, they find all mainstream media sources described as “trusted,” while most alternative media — including Right-leaning media — labeled as “unreliable” or “conspiracy.”
Media literacy also tells students to search for “consensus” between information sources. The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) — a partnership between mainstream media outlets, social media platforms, and Google — ensures that not only will the same information be found across all mainstream news sites, but that only those sites will appear on Google’s search engine in response to searches for news items.
In addition, Google will offer “fact checks” among search results which will declare whether information is true or false. The fact-checking industry is headed by The Poynter Institute, the world’s largest fact-checking giant and owner of PolitiFact. Poynter is funded by Google, Facebook/Meta, the US State Department, George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ebay´s Omidyar Foundation, and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), understood to be a CIA front.
“Media literacy is literally about training you to be stupid,” said Benz. “To be dumb. The underlying supposition of the illegitimate field of media literacy is that if you do critical thinking, you will become a heretic. You will become a wrongthinker. A dissident. A heterodox person. If you think critically, if you go down the rabbit hole, if you do your own independent research, you will not trust the regime. You will not trust the system. You will not trust government narratives. You won’t trust legacy mainstream media.”
