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The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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the wording of that page is so blatantly propaganda that it's embarrassing to read. It's pathetic.

I find myself wondering if the people writing like this actually speak like that and how aware they are of how it sounds to a non-cultist. The spokesperson is a political scientist, the fact that they must know better just makes it worse.

Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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More coverage: https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-pulls-us-out-un-cultural...

"President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from UNESCO – which supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for in November," White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said."

I have come to think of UNESCO with regard to their World Heritage sites (I saw in the news that Neuschwanstein was just recently added), but one of my favorite science books when I was growing up I found was compiled by UNESCO, "700 Science Experiments For Everyone" [1]. I loved the way it showed you how to set up a modest "lab" with inexpensive (or found) things. Perhaps they were considering poorer communities/nations.

[1] https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780385052757

Re: The United States withdraws from UNESCO

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> UNESCO works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy.

Ummm...what?

This is the kind of nonsense that makes me want to leave this country.

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