The Trump Effect continues. It is not that the teacher did what she did. It is that she felt comfortable doing it by articulating facts that made her quickly discoverable.
The Florida teacher who has a white nationalist podcast was happy to reveal she was a teacher expounding her views to her middle-school students, the Trump effect.
The Huffington Post reported the following.
Dayanna Volitich, a 25-year-old social studies teacher at Crystal River Middle School in Florida, has been secretly hosting the white nationalist podcast “Unapologetic” under the pseudonym “Tiana Dalichov” and bragging about teaching her views in a public school, HuffPost has discovered. In her most recent podcast on Feb. 26, a guest railed against diversity in schools, dismissing the idea that “a kid from Nigeria and a kid who came from Sweden are supposed to learn exactly the same” and have the “same IQ.” Volitich enthusiastically agreed with the guest, and went on to argue that “science” has proven that certain races are smarter than others.
In the same episode, Volitich boasted about bringing her white nationalist beliefs into the classroom and hiding her ideology from administrators. She said that when parents complained to the school’s principal about how she is injecting political bias into the classroom, Volitich lied to the principal and said it was not true. “She believed me and backed off,” she said. Volitich also agreed with her guest’s assertion that more white supremacists need to infiltrate public schools and become teachers. “They don’t have to be vocal about their views, but get in there!” her guest said. “Be more covert and just start taking over those places.” “Right,” Volitich said. “I’m absolutely one of them.”
The Huffington Post article is well documented illustrates a kind of hate hard to comprehend but that the leader of our country continues to promote. As The Trump Effect grows, it is essential that we continue to expose the perpetrators to prevent a complete metastasis that would become more and more difficult to eradicate. We point it out not to be sensational but to enlighten those who do not quite believe the open nature of a growing movement in this country that unchecked will hurt us all.