Tales From The Far Side
The curriculum recommends that teachers lead their students in a series of indigenous songs, chants, and affirmations, including the “In Lak Ech Affirmation,” which appeals directly to the Aztec gods. Students first clap and chant to the god Tezkatlipoka—whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism—asking him for the power to be “warriors” for “social justice.”
Christopher F Rufo takes a look at California’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum.
The state board of education will vote on this curriculum next week.
Academic standards may not be quite up to snuff, but hey, look on the bright side. The kids can use class time to appeal to unseen demons, thereby bringing about “decolonization” and its “healing epistemologies.”
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Gouging eyes, biting ears, knees to the groin — it’s all on.
Yes. Problem is that some men and even more women are squeamish when it comes to going Berserker on an attacker and will hesitate targeting things like eyes.
Testicles damn it
Band name.
which appeals directly to the Aztec gods.
The ones to which they ritually disemboweled other Amerindians? Those Aztec gods?
Nice people.
Let’s face it: the Aztecs were low IQ Stone Age Nazis.
A constant refrain from postcolonialists and their various kindred spirits is to claim that without slavery or imperialism the West would never have generated the capital necessary to launch the industrial revolution that ultimately resulted in western hegemony.
Thank Lenin for that one. He ginned up that rubbish to explain why Marx’s prediction of the collapse of capitalism didn’t happen. Per Lenin, it was because the capitalist countries exported their problems to the Third World by exploiting the natives and resources there.
No answer yet for why those same countries are still floundering to this day.
And odds are her hand is going to hurt even more, potentially with broken bones in it.
Thank Lenin for that one. He ginned up that rubbish to explain why Marx’s prediction of the collapse of capitalism didn’t happen…
Lenin was an even bigger liar than Marx, as I recall.
Gouging eyes, biting ears, knees to the groin — it’s all on.
I’ll take my discount whiskey and deboned pork rectums to go Landlord.
Thank God for Cortez!
I’m reminded of Neil Young’s paean to Montezuma–“Cortez the Killer”
Best cover here: Grace Potter and Joe Satriani
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paeNnR33i5Q
And the women all were beautiful
And the men stood straight and strong
They offered life in sacrifice
So that others could go on
Hate was just a legend
And war was never known
The people worked together
And they lifted many stones
And they carried them to the flat lands
But they died along the way
And they build up with their bare hands
What we still can’t do today
Word.
“Personally, I’ve always thought of it as Circle Theory. By ‘always’, I mean since about 10th grade or so.”
I used to. Since about the same age, too. But I’ve come to think of all these theories that attempt to disassociate the self-described “Left” from their intellectual bedfellows on the so-called “far right” in the same vein as Ptolemaic epicycles. If you have to come up with complicated exceptions and explanations for why this is not that, despite all appearances to the contrary, then you’re probably missing something fundamental.
And they are. They’re all collectivists. The “Left” are collectivists of class and wealth, the “far right” collectivists of “race” (and, often, wealth). Which is why those on the Left often find themselves succumbing to their own forms of racism, as we’re seeing more and more often right now. Once you start thinking of people not as individual human beings with agency and responsibility but only as members of a “class”, it’s much easier to switch to thinking of them only as members of a “race”.
“The stupid thing to me is, why DST all the time but not ST?”
Good point. Here at 56°N, it gets light at about 8:45am in late December, and the sun sets around 3:15pm. But it stays fully light until well after 10pm in high summer, DST, and it’s daylight again by about 3am. (In fact, although we’re still a long way from the land of the midnight sun, in astronomical terms the sun doesn’t fully set for a couple of weeks; we only get twighlight, not full night.) No amount of fiddling with the clocks can alter the fact that we just don’t have enough daylight in winter and more than we can handle in June.
Personally, I look on DST as one of those little quirks that make life a bit more interesting. But if we’re going to get rid of it, get rid of it. It’s useless in winter and largely pointless in summer.
Then, any punch – or quick swung “whupp” on the side of a fella’s skull would hurt him far more than a straight punch, would hopefully draw much blood, and maybe tear his flesh messily too – or even puncture bone if we were lucky.
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Let’s face it: the Aztecs were low IQ Stone Age Nazis
In fact, the Aztecs were the most accomplished of the people of the Americas, and Cortez and his gang were astonished by the sophistication of their civilisation. However, they were also very nasty to anyone that wasn’t Aztec, and so all their neighbours hated and feared them. They weren’t great at the “winning the hearts and minds” thing, except for the “hearts” part. Cortez would never have conquered the Aztecs without the cooperation of their native enemies, and the assistance of smallpox. Of course, Europeans would have eventually prevailed anyway due to their superior technology.
It’s a pity we can’t send Neil Young back in a time machine.
It’s a pity we can’t send Neil Young back in a time machine.
Seems fair. It’s what he wanted, and it’s what he deserved.
However, they were also very nasty to anyone that wasn’t Aztec
They weren’t very nice to Aztecs either, as I recall.
I’m imagining some California teacher actually teaching the pupils what proper worship of Tezkatlipoka entails, and then said pupils, a few years later, dutifully taking appropriate action.
That’s exactly how Islamic terrorists recruit people. They point out what the Quran actually says, and that you (the recruit) are living a life that Allah rejects. They also point out that when Muhammad said “I have been made victorious through terror”, he meant it, and as Allah’s ordained perfect example of a Muslim, he must be imitated.
If one considers the savagery of the Mexican drug cartels, you couldn’t help but conclude that the spirit of the Aztec gods is flourishing in the present.
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I have a kubaton for about $4.
I have a kubaton for about $4.
Illegal in the UK?
self defense classes
Speaking of which, His Hands Are Weapons:
(Cover painting by the great Barclay Shaw for the first serial publication of Stephen King’s The Gunslinger. He’s published a couple collections of his art. Have not as yet found anyplace where reproductions can be purchased.)
I always laugh when I see stuff like this.
“Aztec” is what the Spanish colonizers called the Mexica.
That’s exactly the same as calling Zimbabwe “Rhodesia.”
A hate-crime in other words.
In fact, the Aztecs were the most accomplished of the people of the Americas
High praise indeed.