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Andrew Gutmann and Paul Rossi on the woke indoctrination that parents aren’t supposed to see:
In workshops such as “Integrating Healing-Centered Engagements Into a DEIA School Program” and “Racial Trauma and the Path Toward Healing,” we learned how DEI practitioners use segregated affinity groups and practices such as healing circles to inculcate feelings of trauma. Even students without grievances are trained to see themselves as victims of their ancestors’ suffering through “intergenerational violence.”
The next step in a school’s transformation is “inclusion.” Schools must integrate DEI work into every aspect of the school and every facet of the curriculum must be evaluated through an antibias, antiracist, or anti-oppressive lens. In “Let’s Talk About It! Anti-Oppressive Unit and Lesson Plan Design,” we learned that the omission of this lens—“failing to explore the intersection of STEM and social justice,” for instance—constitutes an act of “curriculum violence.”
Children of kindergarten age are defined, enthusiastically, as “natural social-justice warriors” and “small activists.”
Regarding the above, a professor of political science doesn’t want you to notice:
Dr Tabachnick, above, also thinks that “critical race theory,” of which we’ve spoken many times, is being targeted with a “smear campaign.” As opposed to, say, being revealed as stupefying and pernicious, and its boosters and practitioners quoted verbatim.
Another leftist academic, this chap, is irked that value isn’t determined by self-imagined importance and the needless stating of pronouns. As James Morrow quips:
The crisis of elite overproduction in one tweet.
From the archives and somewhat related.
And Noah Carl on the unsayable:
How naïve of [chemistry professor, John] Sherman to assume that you could discuss such things at a university, especially after everything that’s happened over the past two years. In August of 2020, Professor Greg Patton was suspended for pronouncing a Chinese word that sounds like a racial slur. If Sherman wanted to broach the subject of race and IQ, he should have picked a location more conducive to free inquiry – like a warehouse or a bus stop.
Feel free to share your own links and snippets, on any subject, in the comments.
Children of kindergarten age are defined, enthusiastically, as “natural social justice warriors” and “small activists.”
Nothing creepy to see here. Move along…
we learned that the omission of this lens—“failing to explore the intersection of STEM and social justice,” for instance—constitutes an act of “curriculum violence.”
Too much to absorb in so few words. After a lie down I will attempt to grapple with this “intersection” thingy, which seems to get many an outing in academe.
the woke indoctrination that parents aren’t supposed to see
It’s like education’s being taken over by a f*cking cult.
That’s because it is a cult. I keep recommending on other sites to watch the New Discourses podcasts on this subject – Marxism is a Hegalian theology. It’s a cult religion that seriously believes that the world must be remade to match the perfect idea (Marxism) and the end result after all oppression has been destroyed will be perpetual paradise (Communism).
It’s like education’s being taken over by a f*cking cult.
As noted before, the activism we’re seeing is growing in its presumption and overreach, and is increasingly weird. The term that comes to mind is ideological capture. Also, psychological abuse. When every middle and high school principal in a district is told to fabricate a fake curriculum so as to deceive parents, and thereby hide the indoctrination taking place – as happened in Rockwood, Missouri – then I think we can say there’s a serious problem.
Children of kindergarten age are defined, enthusiastically, as “natural social justice warriors” and “small activists.”
Then these “Rousseauian” infants do not require “teaching” (in this case a euphemism for being required to recite and adhere to a secular catechism).
It’s like education’s being taken over by a f*cking cult.
One that attracts people who are titillated by inculcating “white shame” in other people’s children, via the “disintegration” of their personalities, such that those children “feel bad for being white” and become alienated from their parents. Degradations that are celebrated by those same people, the ones entrusted to educate, as signs of “change-making” and “solidarity.” Of emerging wokeness.
But hey, smear campaign.
It’s like education’s being taken over by a f*cking cult.
Not entirely unrelated.
Six-year-olds.
Children of kindergarten age are defined, enthusiastically, as “natural social justice warriors” and “small activists.”
Remember this?
https://youtu.be/kmdWvKzH6R4
Those kids are now, what? In their early 20s? Betcha they’re on TikTok, proclaiming their pronouns and having meltdowns over the myriad of microaggressions they face minute by minute.
Over at Unherd, here is Geoff Shullenberger on why face masking mandates were a complete waste of time:
From the (unblocked) link above:
Over the past month we have watched nearly 100 hours of leaked videos from 108 workshops held virtually last year for the National Association of Independent Schools’ People of Color Conference.
In workshops such as “Integrating Healing-Centered Engagements Into a DEIA School Program” and “Racial Trauma and the Path Toward Healing”, “Let’s Talk About It! Anti-Oppressive Unit and Lesson Plan Design,” “Small Activists, Big Impact—Cultivating Anti-Racists and Activists in Kindergarten,” “Traversing the Long and Thorny Road Toward Equity in Our Schools,” “Moving the Needle Toward Meaningful Institutional Change,” “Building an Equitable and Liberating Mindset” and “Breaking the White Centered Cycle,” …
Goodness. If these “educators” applied merely a fraction of their efforts to teaching black children how to add up and speak the Queen’s English correctly imagine how much equity might be achieved!
A question is asked:
If these “educators” applied merely a fraction of their efforts to teaching black children how to add up and speak the Queen’s English correctly imagine how much equity might be achieved!
Ah, but teaching grammar and spelling and maths isn’t sufficiently glamorous or enough of a basis for self-exaltation as a higher being. And as we’ve been told, repeatedly, being articulate and precise, and in possession of your own thoughts, and being perceived as both comprehensible and employable by people outside of your own immediate peer group, is “linguistic racism” and damning proof of “white supremacy,” and therefore really, really bad.
It’s like education’s being taken over by a f*cking cult.
“Mass” or Group Education has always been a cult. Prussian style, anyone?
As I’ve said before – you want to raise my family? You’ll have to go thru me. Or I’ll go thru you. Your call.
healing circles to inculcate feelings of trauma
“healing” “inculcate” “trauma” does not compute. In the words of Hex ++++out of cheese error++++redo from start++++
“intergenerational trauma” wut? Please demonstrate that this exists. I saw a video of an old black person talking to some black teen girls about the 60s–they had no idea about any of it. Not about red-lining, segregated schools, lynchings, nothing. Therefore, no idea how far we have come.
The claims of this training are basicly that there has been no progress, that the small income gap is due entirely to racism rather than say spending time in jail or not having 2 parents. It is 100% based on lies. Black married families, for example, have similar incomes to white families. Black college grads are not far behind white college grads. The average white person is not rich.
this chap, is irked that value isn’t determined by self-imagined importance
It was 40 years ago that I decided that, while staying on the academic track might be more fun, getting a job in industry would pay a hell of a lot more, and thus make obtaining a mortgage a feasible proposition. I thus have little time for anyone bleating about their academic salary, when they would have other options available — indeed, he might already have learned how to code.
If these “educators” applied merely a fraction of their efforts to teaching
I’ve told this story before but it’s apropos to the topic.
I once knew a female elementary vice-principal who was quite proud of her ability to game the system for her own career advancement. One of her tactics, she said, was padding her CV with academic papers by finding out whatever the hot pedagogical fad was from ten years prior, lightly rewriting a contemporary paper and submitting it as her own work. The fads just cycle, you see.
Aside from the obvious plagiarism, I pointed out that if the vogue in pedagogy reliably cycled every ten years that implied that either no pedagogy was any better than any other, or no one cared to find out if any pedagogy was any better than any other. And so all of this “research” was a waste of time and money. She wasn’t too happy about that.
This was close to ten years ago. The current woke bollocks is really just what’s always been going on in education finally getting so extreme that normal people are starting to notice. My mother volunteered with the local schools when I was in my teens, which meant many social events with teachers. Their contempt for parents and the notion that anyone but themselves ought to be the arbiters of what and how children were taught was constant and vocal; that was near forty years ago.
If these “educators” applied merely a fraction of their efforts to teaching black children how to add up and speak the Queen’s English correctly imagine how much equity might be achieved!
How about those “educators”, along with parents, teaching those children basic rules of civilization.
How schools hide critical race theory in the curriculum.
https://youtu.be/W-GqSlagX1Y
Red-pilled. “I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.”
Schools must integrate DEI…
It’s appropriate to think of it as DIE.
How schools hide critical race theory in the curriculum.
It’s long, but it’s worth listening to James Lindsay’s series on Critical Education Theory. There are currently five parts and it’s growing.
https://newdiscourses.com/2022/02/critical-education-what-is-culturally-relevant-pedagogy/
A new euphemism for violence is “problematic celebrators“.
“I turned down $1 million severance in exchange for my voice.”
Buried lede: “Over my two decades at Levi’s, I got married. I had two kids. I got divorced. I had two more kids. I got married again. The company has been the most consistent thing in my life.”
Will Hell need to repurpose a bolgia or two to accommodate those who damage & destroy children for political power?
Bolgias #9 and #10 should do for most; others may go straight to the Ninth Circle itself.
teaching black children how to add up and speak the Queen’s English
That was part of a 1960’s projection of self-reliance and content-of-their-character and Afrofuturism, according to which Lagos now looks like Wakanda, American blacks are as capable of middle class thinking and future orientation as ads on television represent them to be, and blacks can sustain a lifestyle equal to whites without needing the help of whites.
The timeline we’re actually on was fully described by Tom Wolfe in 1970: Programs for blacks aren’t a means to an end but an end in themselves. Education for blacks is education in mau-mauing. Education for whites is education in flak catching.
Daniel Ream if that was 10 years ago, please tell me there’s a plan to beat her to the punch and plagiarize a paper right before she does, forcing her to plagiarize you? It would be marvelous.
Will Hell need to repurpose a bolgia or two to accommodate those who damage & destroy children for political power?
Well, quite.
Ccscientist,
Apparently theory is being developed, or at least promoted, suggesting that trauma might be heritable. Supposedly certain parental stresses might alter the biological environment in which meiosis and fetal development occur.
It’s been pushed by a psychiatrist friend of Oprah, among others.
Back in 1970 there was a Czech guy who taught French and German at my High School.
He bitched vigorously about how he had to teach his students basic grammar before he could teach his actual subject matter.
And claimed that the English faculty should be paying him.
I’m sure he’d last about a nanosecond in today’s schools.
Thanks, JP, wherever you are.
Apparently theory is being developed, or at least promoted, suggesting that trauma might be heritable.
Still just a theory, but that doesn’t stop Oprah’s guest “experts” from over-selling their claims, right?
Well, okay, Prof Tabachnick. The thing is though, I have no grievance with liberalism. My problem is with pompous, illiberal, authoritarian asshats like yourself who, for some unfathomable reason, fondly believe against all the available evidence that they are liberals.
Case in point. “Liberal Party”… give me strength.
Uh … what?
The theory of heritable trauma does not entail what black activists want to call inter-generational trauma. A very traumatic life could lead to children being anxious, not drug dealers or murderers. Maybe. If people are lab rats.
It would be marvelous
Well, you’re presuming the district school board isn’t entirely aware of the sham and permitting it for the sake of getting more women into senior administrative positions. Given that this particular vice-principal 1) gave up the position because it was too much work, and 2) bragged about defeating the school’s network security so she could play World of Warcraft on school time in her office, I’m not sure they were entirely successful.
A very traumatic life could lead to children being anxious
I can easily accept that children could be affected by the trauma that their parents experienced because the parents’ own behavior towards the children is colored by that trauma. But the more generations you put between the child and the trauma, then, no. Not a chance.
The theory of heritable trauma does not entail what black activists want to call inter-generational trauma…
But will they stop trying to claim otherwise?
…A very traumatic life could lead to children being anxious, not drug dealers or murderers. Maybe. If people are lab rats.
One could also point to various immigrant groups which suffered generations of cruel mistreatment before coming to America and yet did not become criminals.
Uh … what?
Didn’t somebody like to that only a few days ago? And to the person she debated? Or did I see it somewhere else?
High school students throw out dozens of books written by white authors to “decolonize” the school library
@pst314, they all look mighty white to me.
Intergenerational trauma…
Sadly, I actually had reason to read up on this theory. In short, the inherited stress supposedly biases the child’s developing brain to react to stimuli disfunctionally, in particular, to react with reflexive defensiveness or reflexive offensive posturing.
Hence the explanation for biological inheritance biasing children toward (what used to be called, anyway) anti-social behavior.
But the arguments had a distinct political odor to them… Try to hide your astonishment.
“Woke doesn’t mean anything. It’s just a placeholder for whatever grievance you might have against liberalism.”
So it does mean something.
“Intergenerational trauma” is invoked by exactly the kinds of charlatans and hustlers you’d imagine, and for exactly the reasons you’d imagine. The term can generally be considered an attempt to deceive.
See also Daniel’s comment here.
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As we’ve seen many times, there are people who want to displace their own shortcomings and neuroticism and the consequences of their own bad choices, to forever place the blame elsewhere. “Intergenerational trauma” is an attractive excuse. For moral idiots, I mean. Say, the kind of person who wants us to believe that she’s “a marginalised body that experiences the trauma of oppression,” when in fact she’s an expensively educated middle-class woman with plenty of leisure time in twenty-first century America. The kind of woman who invokes the “trauma” and “oppression” of being disagreed with.
The words insufferable narcissist and neurotic trash-fire don’t begin to cover it.
…there are people who want to displace their own shortcomings and neuroticism and the consequences of their own bad choices, to forever place the blame elsewhere.
It’s not just the druggies and crazies and welfare bums who do this. It’s also the “social engineers” who need reasons to explain away the failures of their policies. (And with each new failure the reasons must become ever more convoluted while the solutions become ever more draconian.)
Many people have experienced trauma in life, not just blacks. My grandfathers were both alcoholics. I can see that it affected my dad but he struggled to overcome it–being white he had agency. Entire generations lived through the great depression and WWII. People have had family members murdered or died young or they have a serious illness (like MS). Do these produce intergenerational trauma? To claim this for events that happened 180 years ago is simply absurd.
On the one hand curing cancer.
On the other, hysterically overwrought feminists who want more money and respect than their lack of talent would merit.
Place your bets.
The kind of woman who invokes the “trauma” and “oppression” of being disagreed with.
Wow. She’s… special.
Wow. She’s… special.
Oh yes. See also her supposedly helpful views on interracial dating. It’s a tangle of ideological tics and farcical pretension. And I very much doubt that any argument or marshalling of evidence would change her opinions or attitude to any meaningful degree. She won’t permit it. To concede significant error would risk the roof falling in.
And yet her mindset, laughable as it is, is pretty much the woke ideal.
So many people want to be special, universally admired, important. So they dye their hair something unnatural, proclaim their very deep philosophical views, and lecture the world on pronouns. Do they realize that there are 7 billion people in the world? If you have a family that loves you and a circle of friends, that is a huge victory. But even your friends may not care about your unique achievements (assuming you have any). To claim uniqueness without even achievements is…a conceit. Pretend. I saw a meme with a bent spoon: “just because you are unique doesn’t mean you are useful” The world certainly cares very little about your philosophy. Even “very little” is giving too much credit. It is not at all. Almost the entire 7 billion will live their entire lives without ever hearing about you at all. Yes, it is a harsh reality.