The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire's Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education

by James Lindsay

The “generative” potential of drag queens, in specific, is therefore visible. They are “fun,” both drag queens themselves and public officials (including Attorney General Dana Nissel of Michigan) tell us. As Freire has it, they’re “neither overly explicit nor overly enigmatic.” The gender and sexual provocations are obvious but at the same time tucked within a blatant clown. A stripper would be too explicit (while reifying gender instead of calling it into question); a passing and professional gay, lesbian, or trans individual would be overly enigmatic. Drag queens are simple in their complexity and offer various decoding possibilities. That enables the facilitators using them to have plausible deniability about their real purposes—here, about LGBTQ “representation” and “empathy”; in CRT, “we’re just teaching honest history,” for example. They do not, however, avoid the brainwashing tendencies of propaganda; they are that.