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Paulo Freire's Marxification of Education

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The Marxist Theorist's Political Dog Whistle

Every word to a Marxist theorist is a political dog whistle. The hides meaning and enacts power, he says. Every word they deliberately choose is chosen with wizards care. We also see this apparently peculiar tendency in the verification of other terms: marginalized instead of marginal, minoritized instead of minority, racialized instead of racial. Freire makes illiterate or making disabled where it otherwise wouldn't be must be highlighted or centered as they might have it.

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