Teachers’ Union Leader Claims Only Stuffing Diversity Programs Down Americans’ Throats Will Prevent Fascism

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten claimed during a Wednesday event in New York that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies were all that stood in the way of fascism.

President Donald Trump issued multipleexecutiveorders targeting DEI policies and programs in the federal government, saying they create “an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system.” Weingarten accused opponents of DEI programs of seeking to wipe out the “civil rights movement” during an episode of “State of New York” on 92NY.

“In the last two or three years, the behavior of some is very, very, very dangerous,” Weingarten claimed while discussing her new book, “Why Fascists Fear Teachers.” “The erasure of the civil rights movement and of equal opportunity… making words diversity and inclusion toxic when there was just a civil rights survey that said, 88% of people in America believe in diversity, the attempt to Balkanize, to undermine pluralism and the attempt to stop teachers from in schools all across America, not just pre-K through 12, but in higher education from teaching, critical thinking and problem solving. To me, all of that is gets you on the road to fascism.”

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