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Joshua Weishart
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Dad to school kids, husband to school teacher, professor to law students. Focused on education rights

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Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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This is why an integrated education is so imperative, to cultivate respect and empathy for the marginalized and least advantaged so that well advantaged children don't develop a sense of entitlement in the first place, become "privileged," because once that kicks in....
Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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One more thought: I won't say existing scholarship is in vain, but short of proposing transformational reform, it works within a legal architecture that surely is no longer sustainable and must be reconsidered, if not discarded. New work must be bedrock foundational, not cosmetic window dressing.
Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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This makes conservatives smile and elite progressives frown, but neither is committed to doing much about it.
Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This makes conservatives smile and elite progressives frown, but neither is committed to doing much about it.
Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
This is why an integrated education is so imperative, to cultivate respect and empathy for the marginalized and least advantaged so that well advantaged children don't develop a sense of entitlement in the first place, become "privileged," because once that kicks in....
Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Same goes for Dem senators
Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Above all else, the privileged always privilege their privileges.
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
One more thought: I won't say existing scholarship is in vain, but short of proposing transformational reform, it works within a legal architecture that surely is no longer sustainable and must be reconsidered, if not discarded. New work must be bedrock foundational, not cosmetic window dressing.
Not to diminish law review articles & law school committee work, but right now law professors should be working collectively on an intellectual & service project of immense, existential importance: building consensus around a revolutionary constitutional framework-of a Reconstruction 2.0 magnitude.
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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1. Culture Wars
2. Censorship
3. Privatization

Which of these 3 tactics of early Nazi school politics that we are now repeating presents the most existential risk?

Perhaps the one that infuses corrupting greed with despotic power.

open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Is education a lost cause?

No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.

Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
1. Culture Wars
2. Censorship
3. Privatization

Which of these 3 tactics of early Nazi school politics that we are now repeating presents the most existential risk?

Perhaps the one that infuses corrupting greed with despotic power.

open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Is education a lost cause?

No, it's THE cause, the pièce de résistance of democratic living.

Give up on it, you give in to the banality and brutality of evil.
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The Speaker should not have unilateral authority to keep the House in recess. Add this to the growing list of antidemocratic rules that must be changed when democratic power is restored.
November 7, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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"Should the school privatization agenda succeed, our education systems would be beyond all recognition—exponentially more stratified, segregated, and sectarianized than they are now, further balkanizing an already bitterly divided nation."

edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
edlawprof.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
"Should the school privatization agenda succeed, our education systems would be beyond all recognition—exponentially more stratified, segregated, and sectarianized than they are now, further balkanizing an already bitterly divided nation."

edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
edlawprof.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Let's be honest, when it comes to schooling, progressive elites want excellence for their own children and some more modest measure of equity for other people's children.

That's better than not caring about equity at all, but it's a far cry from equity for all.
November 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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“Amid a depression, Weimar governments used emergency powers to evade civil service protections and implement drastic austerity measures, cutting thousands of teacher jobs and reducing compensation.“

Excellent piece by @joshuaweishart.bsky.social

edlawprof.substack.com/p/what-rhyme...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
edlawprof.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi

insightful & interesting commentary from education scholar @joshuaweishart.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Let's be honest, when it comes to schooling, progressive elites want excellence for their own children and some more modest measure of equity for other people's children.

That's better than not caring about equity at all, but it's a far cry from equity for all.
November 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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The playbook is there for all to see.

Excellent piece from Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social :

What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Nazi-inspired school history rhymes we are repeating:

1. Culture wars
2. Censorship
3. Privatization

#1 & #2 get all the headlines but #3 brings together twin autocratic goals of indoctrination and economic exploitation & fleecing.

open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
open.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In education politics and policy, we are repeating the tactics of the early Nazis that led to the downfall of democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/edlawpro...
What Rhymes With Nazi? Far-Right Posse in American School Ponzi
How U.S. Education Politics Resembles Early Nazi Germany
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"there is nothing neutral about remaining silent in the face of creeping authoritarianism, or worse, appeasing the creep. To be sure, the power grabs are about power. But they are also about greed which brings us to the final stanza of our Nazi-inspired school history rhymes."
November 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Excellent piece on our reality and why educators saw it coming first. “not enough has been said about the educational conditions that precipitated the rise of Nazism and how those circumstances resemble the politics of schooling in American today.”
November 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM