If We Just Stop Noticing, Everything Will Be Fine

Just the boost private schooling, or even home schooling, needs.

The underlying message is that POC students are tardy, disruptive, and dishonest, and it’s unfair to insist they change their ways because they’re inherently unable to meet “white” standards of conduct.
The Klan never really died away. They just became Critical Race Theorists.

The Klan never really died away. They just became Critical Race Theorists.
That.

There’s nothing honest about it.
One more time:

And then there’s “equity” – another word favoured by both educators and campus activists – and which is defined, if at all, only in the woolliest and most evasive of terms. And which, when used by those same educators and activists, seems to mean something like “equality of outcome regardless of inputs.” Inputs including diligence and punctuality. And that isn’t fair either.

For those who missed it.

Very much related:

What’s remarkable here isn’t that young thugs and budding sociopaths will quickly exploit immunity from punishment based solely on their race, but the fact that grown adults, supposed professionals, many of whom will be parents, either didn’t see this coming or realised what would happen and went ahead anyway, thereby screwing everyone else.

On racial discipline quotas in public schools – and their consequences.

Jordan Peterson’s take on Pinocchio seems apropos. They are turning high school into Pleasure Island in order to make students suited for nothing but servitude. They are depriving students of the skills necessary to become more than they are now.

Doubtless some will choose to believe that the proponents and enforcers of “equity” policies mean well, that their hearts are in the right places. Though this conceit doesn’t often withstand scrutiny. Especially when the practical consequences of such policies become hard to miss and the proponents refuse to concede any error on their part. As I said following the post on racial discipline quotas, linked upthread:

The episode above is a marvellous illustration of leftist psychology given power – and by marvellous I mean ludicrous and horrifying. The policy is egregiously unfair, pathologically unrealistic, and results in everyone at the school, including the supposed beneficiaries, doing much, much worse, with parents and children trying to flee the policy’s effects… But despite the subsequent chaos and degeneracy – the fall in maths and reading scores, the rapid rise in assaults and classroom thuggery, up to and including actual riots – despite all this, Ms Silva and her associates doubled down, dogmatically, and tried to silence critics of the policy by smearing them as racists. Perhaps Ms Silva found comfort in having made “white privilege” guilt-hustling mandatory. While terrified staff were consoled with free emergency whistles.
Ms Silva is the definition of mediocrity and tends to blather aimlessly, even in the softest of interviews. At no point does she acknowledge any downsides to her vision, beyond the fact that teachers are the ones who will have to adapt to this new learning environment. Instead, she coughs up a lot of fluffy boilerplate about the alleged benefits of “diversity” and “inclusion.” By which she means your kids may be stuck sitting next to violent morons. We’re told this arrangement is a chance for everyone to “learn” and be “enriched” by the “culture and language” of the aforementioned violent morons, who, she says, require “different incentives and strategies” to learn. “It’s a great opportunity,” says she.

Well-meaning, my arse.

“If we’re actually going to be an anti-racist school district,”
I respectfully suggest that while they might be “anti-racist” (with all the requisite caveats necessary for the use of that thoroughly misleading term), they will cease to be, in any meaningful sense at all, a school district.

they will cease to be, in any meaningful sense at all, a school district.
As seen, for instance, here.

The death of this particular canary doesn’t bode well for what’s around the corner.
Indeed. And when parents hear the word “equity,” they should regard it as an alarm bell.
Not a gentle ringing, mind, but a full-on Ripley-escaping-the-Nostromo klaxon.

Captain Nemo:
I was being a bit tongue in cheek. But taking my comment seriously (allowing me to have it both ways), I didn’t say the two movements were identical. They do, however, have similarities.
The most obvious is their fanatical focus on race as THE defining aspect of individuals. Neither movement knows how to deal with someone without knowing their race. The idea of treating people equally regardless of race is foreign to both. Another is their belief in race essentialism, meaning that all members of a race share certain essential qualities beyond merely the color of their skin. They also believe that some races are superior to others. The CRTers flipped the hierarchy when it comes to whites and blacks, although both movements agree that Jews and East Asians should be near the bottom.
But in some respects they maintained the hierarchy. Both posit that blacks are incapable on the whole of certain civilizing behaviour. The Klan thinks that this makes blacks inferior. The CRTers think that whites exploit such innate characteristics to keep blacks oppressed, making whites inferior.

The elites are determined to dumb down the entire population of the world in tandem with disarming those who still have guns.
The problem is that if there are no smart people to maintain and continue the complex systems that we all depend upon, how will the elites manage when their internet goes down or have a power out.
Just look at some of the many countries whose populations are totally ignorant … those are folks who live miserable short lives over-seen by despotic ‘elites’.
Smart people are needed in running a complex modern world, but smart people will not enjoy being slaves. They will rebel eventually …
Being the only one’s who know how the infrastructure works, they may be successful, but that will be in the distant future. Way too late to save our asses.

Smart people are needed in running a complex modern world
Fewer and fewer are needed every day, due to automation.

Oh, I’ve seen smart people do all kinds of stupid things.
I have encountered plenty of smart people in the STEM fields who are more or less clueless about many other things.

I was being a bit tongue in cheek.
Ah, I see. Sorry – tone doesn’t tend to carry that well in written form.

I believe the problem is in how we define “smart”. And “smart” doesn’t translate into “good character”. Smart is an innate, goodness is not, honesty is not, a work ethic is not.
Yes indeed.
Also, many in the STEM fields are ignorant because they focus on their chosen fields and never really take much time to learn other things: thus what they do learn is often, by default, the official truth peddled by the left which they absorb without thought or question.

Also, many in the STEM fields are ignorant because they focus on their chosen fields and never really take much time to learn other things…
My neighbour is an engineer. Nice guy. His wife is a social worker working in a hospital. So I expect her, at least, to lean a little left. We had them over for drinks one day and I made the mistake of bringing up what a fiasco global warming policies were. He was a big believer in the orthodoxy of today–the science is settled etc. He accepted everything without question. It was the last time I brought it up.

Also, many in the STEM fields are ignorant because they focus on their chosen fields.

I think VSPs (or just plain old experts) in any field also tend to get intellectually lazy. They’re accustomed to understanding new ideas and information in their areas of expertise with little effort, so when something new outside their fields comes along, they take only a superficial look and assume they’ve mastered it. We’re overrun with pro sportsball players pontificating on sociopolitics, actresses lecturing on foreign policy, etc.

they will cease to be, in any meaningful sense at all, a school district.
Watching the video, I can’t help wondering whether Mr Zachary Patterson – who seemingly believes that cheating should be permitted, or at least not punished, when brown-skinned students do it – imagines himself as some kind of righteous and enlightened being. Rather than, say, a dupe. Which is to say, the kind of student most susceptible to, and most eager to regurgitate, fashionable hokum.
Perhaps his future includes a career in leftist politics. Maybe one day he’ll be steering the educational policy of a school near you.

Emotional dysregulation is the defining trait of humanity in the 21st century.
The video posted this morning is not entirely unrelated.

Black kids are not unemployable though.
Assuming as a minimum, they avoid lengthy penal incarceration, there are “colleges” just itching to take them irrespective of being as dumb as a box of rocks. Said colleges, taxpayer funded naturally, will issue degrees for just occasionally showing up. Said degrees will be accepted, via the joys of positive discrimination, in both public and private bodies filing their quotas by creating new positions, departments and entire industries centred on blackness. As I have said several times on here the Golgafrinchans are going to need a much bigger Ark B, presumably built by Indians with H1B visas.

Thanks to the San Diego School Board and young Zachary Patterson, we now know African-Americans just aren’t capable of making it through life on the content of their character.
Oh yeah, we know who the racists are all right. The Reverend Doctor must be spinning in his grave.

…followed 45 minutes later by a flash mob in front of your shop loudly demanding that you get rid of the racist job application and fire the manager who so unfairly tried to humiliate the Job Applicant Of Colo(u)r.

‘Related’
Thanks, Rafi. See today’s post.