Activist fights indoctrination, anti-ICE hysteria in schools: ‘I want to rewrite the brainwashing’

Anti-ICE activism has been causing chaos in the streets and creeping into classrooms in Minnesota and beyond.

Pushing back against the politics and propaganda takes courage, as Alvin Lui, president of Courage Is A Habit, explained to Liz Collin on her podcast.

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Along with the different forms of what he refers to as brainwashing, Lui talked about ways parents and concerned citizens can prevent kids from being used as political pawns.

In talking about how we got to this point in American society, Lui explained how this is “an intended result of about eight to 10 years worth of indoctrination … if we’re talking about the modern indoctrination through social-emotional learning and all the mental health Trojan horses, this is what we’re seeing. The marching of young kids, high school, middle school, going out and protecting violent illegal aliens and advocating for them to be in our country.”

Collin pointed out how an entire generation of Minnesota school kids have suffered the politics of COVID, Black Lives Matter, boys playing in girls’ sports, and now anti-ICE fear-mongering.

“Because most Americans don’t actually know what communism is, when it comes in, no one knows how to look for it or defend against it,” Lui added.

In providing an example of how people should respond with courage, Lui advised, “If you cannot pull your kids from schools, you have to be actively involved, you have to be aggressively on offense.”

“That means that when they point a finger at your face and say, ‘What’s the matter? Don’t you like inclusion?’ You would say, ‘No, I don’t. I don’t want to be—I don’t want to include things in my child’s life. I decide what I include in my child’s life, not you,’” he explained.

Lui also talked about some of the critical labeling involved: “Racist, bigot, homophobe … all those things are meant to shut you down.”

He also talked about how to push back against the name-calling with courage.

“For the first thing, the parents have to make sure they get their mental and emotional stability to say, ‘I’m not, I don’t care about what you call me. I’m not going to shut up.’ That’s the first thing. You have to get your mind right,” Lui said.

He also pointed out how he sees indoctrination and “activation” at work at different grade levels within the education system at the moment.

As for the high-school students participating in anti-ICE activities, Lui said, “most high-schoolers that are marching, obviously, are between 14 and 18, whether it’s in Minnesota or any other state, they’ve been hearing this critical race theory, anti-white, anti-American rhetoric since they were about 8 to 11. So what you’re seeing here is an indoctrination, an activation.”

He also spoke about the indoctrination creeping into middle and elementary schools.

“In the elementary school, it comes in as inclusion, empathy, be kind, anti-bullying. That’s why so many parents have missed it and the reason why they miss it is that they, the schools have done what we call language contamination … when they use your vocabulary, but not your dictionary,” Lui explained.

He also talked about how “empathy” may not be what it seems: “When they talk about empathy, they’re not teaching your child empathy the way you and I and all your audience would imagine it to be.”

“They’re teaching young girls to have empathy for men that walk into their sports and locker rooms,” Lui said.

To help parents and concerned citizens push back, Lui and his organization, Courage Is A Habit, have released seven questions that parents can send their school.

“We made it very easy. It’s a copy and paste. All you have to do is just address your principal or superintendent. And these seven questions put your school in a rock and a hard place. They cannot answer it without showing how liable they are for the safety of your children,” Lui explained.

He also talked about how directly asking school administrators these questions—instead of posting to social media—can be much more effective.

“Schools are not used to push back. They really aren’t. If you even get 10% of parents in a school pushing back hard, they’re not going to know what to do … You have to put the schools on accountability and our tools help you do that,” Lui said.

“I want to rewrite the brainwashing that’s happened to not just parents, but Americans everywhere. There is no such thing as inclusion. The only time you want inclusion is with the family that lives under your roof. That’s it. Everything else is on a case-by-case basis. It’s not a blanket inclusion,” he added.

Lui continued and summed up the situation, explaining how “most of life is about exclusion.”

Lui will be attending an event in Minnesota this April 2026 sponsored by the Child Protection League.

See CourageIsAHabit.org or Courage Is A Habit on X for more information.

Liz Collin

Liz Collin is a multi-Emmy-Award-winning investigative reporter, news anchor, and producer who cares about Minnesota. She is the producer of The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota v We the People documentary films, and author of the Amazon best-selling book, They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and The Death of George Floyd. Her work has prompted important state laws. Yet perhaps most of all, Liz has been giving a voice to the truth—and helping others tell their stories—for more than 20 years.

Dr. JC Chaix

Dr. JC Chaix is an editor, educator, and an expert in media studies. He wrote and directed the Alpha News documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis” and “Minnesota v We the People.”