Randi Weingarten Writes Book on Why Fascists Hate Critical Thinking – Twitchy

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, who makes half a million a year and funnels the rest of the union dues to Democratic campaigns, has been shutting down replies on all of her hot takes on X recently. Get this: she has a new book out called “Why Fascists Fear Teachers,” and Rolling Stone thought it would give her a platform to sell her book.

Randi Weingarten just wrote this piece for Rolling Stone calling conservatives “Fascists.”

She’s moving full speed ahead with this sick rhetoric right after Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

She needs to resign in disgrace. pic.twitter.com/LOidzydpeR

— Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist (@DeAngelisCorey) September 16, 2025

Who does she mean by “fascists,” exactly? Why, everyone who doesn’t agree with her. Rolling Stone introduces her book excerpt with this hot take:

Under the current Trump administration, at both the state and federal level, far-right forces and wannabe dictators are smearing teachers, slashing public school funding, banning books, outlawing honest history, and expanding private school vouchers. 

Fake, fake, fake. Except for the part about expanding private school vouchers so that children can actually learn to read and write.

She writes:

Authoritarians actively attack truth, knowledge, and critical thinking because an uninformed public is easier to control. Degrading public education and critical thinking skills may only prime more Americans to not recognize disinformation and misinformation and take authoritarian leaders like Trump at their word. 

Psychologist Bob Altemeyer studied personality traits that make people more receptive to authoritarian leaders. In his 2006 book The Authoritarians, Altemeyer documented his “Right-Wing Authoritarianism” scale, writing: “The authoritarian follower makes himself vulnerable to malevolent manipulation by chucking out critical thinking and prudence as the price for maintaining his beliefs. He’s an ‘easy mark,’ custom-built to be snookered. And the very last thing an authoritarian leader wants is for his followers to start using their heads, to start thinking critically and independently about things.”

In other words, those inclined to support authoritarianism exhibit a general avoidance of or allergy to critical thinking. And authoritarians like it that way.

It makes me wonder whether far-right extremists are trying to deliberately inculcate an anti-critical thinking, pro-authoritarian disposition by undermining public education.

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Oh, just shut up. If your union had the stats to back up that public school kids are better off, we’d give you the time of day.

So Randi hates critical thinking?

— SeldenGADawgs (@SeldenGADawgs) September 17, 2025

Guys, THIS was a resolution approved by the NEA at its annual convention in July. The NEA is the largest teachers’ union in the US.

This messaging is ubiquitous in teacher colleges, unions & K-12 schools.@karol @mkhammer @SteveGuest @mattdizwhitlock @RyanGirdusky… pic.twitter.com/jVX7H2gqB3

— Erika Sanzi (@esanzi) September 15, 2025

And Weingarten probably considered Charlie Kirk, who went to colleges and engaged in good-faith debate with anyone, a fascist.

She’s following the Marxist playbook: “Accuse your enemy of what you are doing.”

— Zenitram (@uscorun) September 17, 2025

“Why kids can’t read and do math anymore”

— Max (@1VeryChillDude) September 17, 2025

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— RedPillTweets (@RandoRedPiller) September 17, 2025

They call others what they themselves are.

What is fascism to them?

— Richard de los Santos (@ZeusRadls) September 17, 2025

Linda McMahan needs to perform the Flying Souffle~ on Rowdy Randi Weingarten.
Enough already.

— CoolRick and 1 million others (@CoolRickCentral) September 17, 2025

They are not backing down, they are doubling down, from the top down.
Everyone needs to see-
Over on the other side of the battlefield, they are lining up in formation.
Of course they have to lie to do it. Don’t be distracted by the lies. See through them, notice their motives

— American Made Mischief Apparel (@AmericanMSCHF) September 16, 2025

She’s projecting. She is the fascist.

— Dr. Lynn Fynn-derella🐭 (@Fynnderella1) September 17, 2025

She is a cancer on children.

— theregoesdavis 🇺🇸 🐸 🐈‍⬛ (@1105mcva) September 17, 2025

I don’t think people will appreciate this at this particular time.

— Basic_Spaceman🇺🇸 (@basic_spaceman) September 17, 2025

Absolute inversion of reality.

— Lucas Valle (@vallelucas) September 17, 2025

She’s allegedly an educator. Maybe she could look at some historical fascist regimes and explain how she can call our current elected government “fascist.” We challenge her to define the terrm. And then look in a mirror.

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