PHILADELPHIA — The heated debate over whether Pennsylvania should invest tax dollars to send students from the state’s lowest-performing schools to private schools in next year’s budget has taken a bizarre turn.
A group representing the most conservative members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives compared school voucher supporters to Nazis from the film "Saving Private Ryan" in a widely shared meme.
The Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus posted a meme Sunday on Twitter that labels House Democrats as Tom Hanks, who in "Saving Private Ryan" is the brave American willing to stand up for his fellow soldiers when he is outnumbered and outresourced. The image also labels school voucher advocates as a Nazi Germany tanker in another still from the World War II movie.
