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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.
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On the one hand curing cancer.
This sort of tribalistic shame-culture behaviour strikes me as somehow familiar.
Children of kindergarten age are defined, enthusiastically, as “natural social justice warriors” and “small activists.”
Ominous.
G. K. Chesterton:
Children of kindergarten age are defined, enthusiastically, as “natural social justice warriors” and “small activists.”
In the series I linked to above, James Lindsay explains that the objective of Critical Education Theory is to create a dissatisfied class of activists who will throw of the yoke of the status quo. Again, a feature not a bug. These are neo-marxists and racial-marxists who are going to bring us to the promised land–whatever that is. They will criticize things until they control them when that need will disappear.
High school students throw out dozens of books written by white authors to “decolonize” the school library
I’m pleasantly surprised to see The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers in a high school library. I’d have thought it would be suppressed by the teaching or library staff, never mind by the Tracy Flicks in the student body. From the way the video is edited, it looks like Tracy and her friend didn’t really dump that book, or the football coaching book, or the stock market investing book (the sorts of books that smirking Covington type boys would read – if they read any books at all, ha ha). No school property was damaged, no permanent record was in danger of being blotted. The books that eventually get thrown in the dumpster are yellowed old textbooks with “DISCARD” stickers. All-in-all an orderly, productive, and energy-efficient Saturday morning where they helped out the school librarian AND they rebelled against the system.
High school students throw out dozens of books written by white authors to “decolonize” the school library
Odd how my many white women friends aren’t repro-meming the crap out of that story like they did regarding the horrible, horrible tragedy of the comic book Maus not being used to teach about the Holocaust in Cleveland, TN. Odd.
Odd how my many white women friends aren’t repro-meming the crap out of that story like they did regarding the horrible, horrible tragedy of the comic book Maus not being used to teach about the Holocaust in Cleveland
Kto-Kogo is the answer you are looking for.
Farenheit 451 was a cautionary tale…once again.
She is, of course, a teacher.
She is, of course, a teacher.
I am suddenly reminded of the character “T.T.” from Reno 911.
She is, of course, a teacher.
That might work on the soi bois she’s acquainted with, but there are plenty who would drop her with an open hand slap before that flinch foot hit the ground.
Haven’t I seen her in one of those fast food video brawls where she explodes because they brought her the wrong sauce for her nuggets?
there are plenty who would drop her with an open hand slap before that flinch foot hit the ground.
Oh, I doubt that. People, most people, lack the cajones to even speak up about such things. You think the cowards would be willing to risk putting everything they own, their liberty even, up against Godknowswhat coming back from a DA’s office or eventually a jury room? No. There are no such ‘plentys’. Not any more.
Farenheit 451 was a cautionary tale…once again.
Here’s the thing I’ve been dwelling on lately as I see us moving more and more toward the dystopian societies in such books. Ever notice how few of them have a decisively victorious happy ending? Some of them, like 451 end in a bit of a draw that might hint at hope, but even there one had to escape to a forest or whatever and be assigned a book to memorize. Gee wiz, what fun! No, I can’t think of a one that ends in true, total victory right now. So..cautionary in what sense?
WTP: cautionary in the sense that you do not want to go there as a society–451, animal farm, soylent green, 1984, none of them…or in the current world, Canada.
Oh, I doubt that. People, most people, lack the cajones to even speak up about such things.
Maybe on a University Campus or a corporate meet and greet or a school board or any place where decorum still (supposedly) reigns, but if she tried that shit on a subway platform or a cab stand she’d meet at least one person who would set her straight. Otherwise, where would we find such enriching youtube/instagram/twitter content?
Ccscientist: or possibly cautionary as in once your society gets there, there’s no winning. I don’t like saying that, and this is conspiracy theory on steroids, more likely mass psychosis that happens to feel like a conspiracy, some subconscious Freudian BS, but still…name one dystopian story of the last 100 years or post-WWII era that has a positive outcome. Granted I haven’t read many beyond the standard Orwell, Bradberry, Huxley set and maybe that’s my problem but I certainly cannot think of one.
if she tried that shit on a subway platform or a cab stand she’d meet at least one person who would set her straight.
True, but I don’t think this particular young lady would try it with the hoi-polloi. She strikes me as someone who knows how to be successful at her…craft. She’s a bully but not necessarily a thug. A teacher, after all. Anyone in polite society, no matter how otherwise tough, a white football player say, or wrestler or whatever would be too chickenshit to push back. Best case scenario they’d find a way to push it down inside and take it out, subconsciously or not, on some other unsuspecting white person.
Post at 2:43 should read “once your society gets there, there’s no winning so there’s no sense in fighting back“
name one dystopian story of the last 100 years or post-WWII era that has a positive outcome
By definition a dystopian work of fiction has no “happy ending”. That’s why it’s dystopian and not, say, Star Wars.
She is, of course, a teacher.
Nice bouncy boobs, though, with an attractive amount of pokeosity. IRL I would, however, stay well clear.
She is, of course, a teacher.
I haven’t as yet found any evidence to that effect, revolting as she is. So far as I can see, she seems to regard herself as some kind of influencer, which is a thing, apparently.
Oh Noes.
Diversity and Equity damage anthropology. Women most affected.
Oh Noes.
Diversity and Equity damage urban society. Women most affected.
By definition a dystopian work of fiction has no “happy ending”. That’s why it’s dystopian and not, say, Star Wars.
True. But not necessarily. But still to my point. Did the success of those books strike some subconscious desire in the general western psyche of wanting to lose? Maybe they were truly instruction manuals after all.
I haven’t as yet found any evidence to that effect
If not, I’d be curious how/where that slipped into the narrative because there wasn’t much about any of that that made me think she’d be a teacher. Except for someone just saying so. Most of these toxic teachers are of the pathetic loser-in-looks variety. Most anyway. So much of what we know about pretty much anything becomes a victim of the old telephone game.
By definition a dystopian work of fiction has no “happy ending”. That’s why it’s dystopian and not, say, Star Wars.
One did just occur to me, Logan’s Run. But they don’t feed you that one in school. For some reason.
Also speaking of education…a minor victory in left-left-leftist ‘Frisco (I understand they hate it when you call it that). And no, that’s not our David Thompson. Obviously.
One did just occur to me, Logan’s Run…
Heinlein’s If This Goes On… (collected in Revolt in 2100) about the overthrow of a religious dictatorship.
name one dystopian story of the last 100 years or post-WWII era that has a positive outcome
Many writers have remarked (some in my presence) that the purpose of a dystopian story is to act as a warning to the reader, and the emotional impact of that warning is greatly reduced if the story has a happy ending.
Diversity and Equity damage anthropology. Women most affected.
Shhh. Only white people can do wrong. We’re not supposed to notice the pervasive prejudice, superstition, and intolerance in “indigenous” cultures.
Repeat after me: They Waz Kangs. They Waz Kangs. They Waz Kangs.
One did just occur to me, Logan’s Run…
Larry Niven’s Organlegger stories? The detective protagonist always catches the criminal, but the background society remains, the society which supports keeping the organ banks full by expanding the list of capital crimes.
and the emotional impact of that warning is greatly reduced if the story has a happy ending
And yet it seems more like the emotional impact of losing has had a much greater effect. At least among the books we were forced/pressured/encouraged to read. Odd that.
Diversity and Equity damage anthropology. Women most affected.
We hereby express our remorse that our liberal arts college is the usurper of the sacred land of the Foofoofoo tribe, and pledge to devote our efforts to restoring the rightful predominance of Foofoofoo science and morality (*)
(*) Except where this may contravene Title IX provisions on female career advancement and we can’t synthesize the contradiction into being the fault of white men again.
We hereby express our remorse that our liberal arts college is the usurper of the sacred land of the Foofoofoo tribe
“…not that we’re going to give it back, or anything.”
One of my grandchildren is educated at a private school — his parents work hard to pay for that (and curiously, get no discount on their tax bill even though they are not any sort of burden on the state system of education) — but I am pretty sure if any of the teachers at the lad’s school tried even a smidgeon of this woke ‘Integrating Healing-Centered Engagements’ crap there would be immediately a ton of angry parents descending on the school, followed swiftly if the nonsense is continued by a lot of withdrawals of pupils from it which would mean, er, no fees received.
However, in the good old state sector, it’s okay because everyone knows that the local Shitflinger Comprehensive exists merely to act as child-minders, so what the yoof learn is of no consequence. They may as well learn ‘intersectional wokery’ as they weren’t being taught anything useful, anyway.
but I am pretty sure if any of the teachers at the lad’s school tried even a smidgeon of this woke ‘Integrating Healing-Centered Engagements’ crap there would be immediately a ton of angry parents descending on the school, followed swiftly if the nonsense is continued by a lot of withdrawals of pupils from it which would mean, er, no fees received.
It’s not a Catholic school or in a leftist neighborhood or a Lutheran school or a Presbyterian school or a Methodist school then? Because there’s a few other exceptions so I would not be too sure. On top of that, no one knows what goes on behind closed doors.
…I would not be too sure.
Agreed. There are lots of expensive private schools that have gone all-in on leftist dogma.
Dystopias with happy endings… There are some. Since the point of a dystopia needn’t be solely in what we ought to avoid, but also in what we might need to escape.
There is a strong sense in which Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is a dystopian novel, with a hopeful ending. Even after much destruction. And her Anthem, too. (Though, We the Living, about the very real Soviet dystopia, had a tragic ending.)
There’s a sense in which a lot of today’s trashier teen-lit dystopias have happy endings. The Hunger Games series, I presume without reading, doesn’t conclude with a downer ending. Though I’d think of these as straw-man dystopias, invented only for defeat by the protagonists and some sort of self-congratulation by the reader.
This explains the rarity of shootings In Chicago since they have no gun stores. Oh, wait…:
“RutgersU researchers have found evidence that, in neighborhoods facing high rates of poverty and unemployment, shootings tend to occur closer to gun stores. The finding comes amid a federal push to crack down on problem gun dealers.”
Another nominee for the annals of ideology-driven “research”.
1984‘s appendix is written in standard English, and speaks of The Party in the past tense.
The Hunger Games series, I presume without reading, doesn’t conclude with a downer ending.
Uhhh…you might want to read the novels.