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Class warfare: Brazil
- Class warfare 阶级斗争；阶级战争；挑起阶级战争
A committee in the lower house could vote today on whether to ban discussion of political preferences, gender and sexual orientation in schools.
The bill was introduced by a far-right movement known as Escola sem Partido (ESP) or “Schools without Parties”, which claims teachers are “indoctrinating leftists”.
- be known as 被称为；被称作；被认为是
- indoctrinate v. 教训；灌输
- leftist 左派分子；左翼分子；左翼知识份子
The movement has already changed classrooms by encouraging parents and students to post videos of lessons to social media and file complaints.
Numerous teachers have been fired for acts such as assigning books that refer to gay sex or contain left-leaning editorials.
- numerous 许多的；众多的；
- editorial 编辑的；编辑上的；主笔的；〈美〉社论的
- The left cries censorship, warning it is a taste of the persecution to come under Jair Bolsonaro, the populist president-elect.
- censorship 审查；审查制度；检查
- The judiciary has so far stood firm—courts in five states have overturned municipal ESP legislation.
- judiciary 司法部；（统称）审判人员；司法系统
- overturn 打翻；颠覆；推翻；毁灭
- Later this month, the Supreme Court will set an important precedent when it judges the constitutionality of an ESP state law.
- the Supreme Court 联邦最高法院；美国最高法院；美国联邦最高法院
- constitutionality 符合宪法
- But expect more far-right proposals to test Brazil’s checks and balances.
- far-right 极右派的；极右翼的；极右的
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