Is The Fondling On The Test?
Via Nikw211 in the comments, some classroom incongruity:
Parents of kids at Edison High School in Huntington Beach, California say this video was played to their kids in math class. The kids clearly didn’t want to watch this pride video so the teacher threatened them with Saturday school to get them to watch it. pic.twitter.com/FUnB9DKYrN
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) June 11, 2023
To paraphrase, but only very slightly:
Not a good look, really. Presumably, the conceit is that any gay pupils will somehow feel affirmed – rather than, say, mortified, or made complicit in something that’s naff and contrived, a vaguely weird imposition. And note that the teacher is the one scolding the kids for being “inappropriate.”
But imagine being a gay kid in the class, possibly a gay kid not entranced by ‘progressive’ politics. Suddenly, the classroom is a world of rainbows and cringe, something the rest of the class groans at and resents having to sit through, again – and it’s all supposedly being done for your benefit. It does rather suggest an unhappy dynamic.
The video, made by other students, and apparently shown in all classes, is presented as both a sentimental review of time spent at the school and an appeal for tolerance and “acceptance” – of cuddling lesbians, glitter-adorned transsexuals, and people with imaginary genders and pronouns. “Don’t forget to love each other,” intones the narrator. It’s very much framed in ‘Pride’ terms – i.e., in terms of social and political “change.” Of “fighting,” alongside “allies,” against unspecified dark forces. As if the purpose of being at school were to become some kind of activist.
Presumably, the forces being fought against include people who think that time in a maths class could perhaps be better spent.
Several people have commented on Twitter and YouTube that the video is unobjectionable and in no way “propaganda.” Well, seen as a child, without wider context, perhaps. But it seems to me that the readiness with which the children have internalised ‘Pride’ and its rainbows and non-binary woo as something unassailably benign illustrates rather well just how effective the propaganda has been.
That the ‘Pride’ movement is intensely political, increasingly extreme – one might say unhinged – and entails rather more than “tolerance” and “acceptance,” is not acknowledged, of course. Apparently, it’s all hugs and sparkles, and being nice.
That the same banners, the same rainbows, the same compelled groupthink, are invoked and deployed to sterilise and mutilate children, and to actively deceive parents, and to make a farce of women’s sports and women’s intimate spaces – for instance – remains unmentioned. And once you’ve demonstrated your acceptance of the flag and all that it entails, what could possibly go wrong? Because it’s all just so nice.
[ Expanded via the comments. Which you’re reading, of course. ]Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
“So how was your maths class?”
“Well, there was… a lot of gay kissing.”
Related thread.
From the above a bit down stream:
More than veers, more like deliberately drives headlong with the two tones to the floorboard.
The accompanying graphic is pretty hilarious, as if the Alphabet Mob and “working class” are the same.
Tones?
Maths was never my strongest subject, but I don’t recall quadratic equations involving quite so much lesbianism.
But imagine being the gay kid in the class. Suddenly, it’s a world of rainbows and cringe, something the rest of the class groans at and resents having to sit through, rightly, and it’s all supposedly being done for your benefit.
The consequences to the teacher will be non-existent. Compare and contrast to an English teacher at Batley Grammar School:-
https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/year-prophet-muhammad-batley-school-23493076
But oh goody. One year on and the local labour MP issues a statement saying the teacher has her full support. And she has done precisely what to resolve the situation? Maybe she should use a hashtag next time.
On the subject of lady maths teachers I am reminded of the recent case when one middle-aged example was found to have been shagging an under-aged pupil.
Her defence was that she was only trying to work out how many times 16 can go into 40.
(Rushes for door. Too late as the bitter kiss of hamster urine slams into his back).
I just though that one was worth repeating.
“when one middle-aged example was found to have been shagging an under-aged pupil”
One? It’s currently an epidemic. But hey, pride flags for all, ok?
Lesbians? Well why didn’t you say so. Must be an Advanced Placement math class. I was in college before I was ever exposed to girl-on-girl action. A couple of my teachers are still alive. I should ask them why they didn’t think that I was ready for this material.
Imagine a math teacher demanding that a class watch a video about hetero sex, about a man and woman kissing and how wonderful that is. hahaha not ever happen and teacher would be fired. They want to indoctrinate the kids before they are old enough to object that is why all the sexual stuff aimed at kids.
And that’s another (broken record for me) thing… I was told that STEM would be a firewall for the woke nonsense. Conservatives…”conservatives” told me this.
Tones?
Two tone shoes, unfortunately coming back into style.
the bitter kiss of hamster urine
English translation of the Japanese art film “Hamusutā no nyō no nigai kisu”.
Speaking of Japanese, that Somali-American jackass harassing people in Japan has apparently learned their police are different.
The little shite screamed everything but “I can’t breathe!”.
The little shite screamed everything but “I can’t breathe!”.
The Link-O-Matic 9000™ strikes again!
No, that’s on me: I was clumsy in doing copy-paste. Fixed now.
A symptom of the madness: Anti-cop ice cream chain sues Seattle over ‘significant losses’ from BLM autonomous zone they promoted
Will school teachers soon tell kids that it’s cool to be a vampire?
Might have paid more attention if it had.
Still, I suppose it could be worse.
Also, the bitter kiss of hamster urine is the second album by The Sentinelese. Yes, just like that in all lower case.
Your daily language lesson.
I recently watched The Class (2008), and Mr Bachmann’s Class (2021), documentaries about “inspiring” teachers of predominantly immigrant students in France and Germany respectively.
It’s notable what the teachers insist on. When the students say that they’re not French or German, but Moroccan, Turkish, etc, and express opinions about the host country being morally tainted, and boring too until the students’ people showed up, the teachers treat it as evidence of sensitive souls, unique voices, refined moralities.
But when it comes to immigrant boys with opinions about the role of women, and immigrants with opinions about homosexual behavior being immoral, that’s the time for a stern lecture about our non-negotiable values. The students, probably taking this as the final evidence that there’s no point in arguing with morally degenerate whites, concede the point without much of a fight, in quite a mysterious Oriental way if that can be said.
In Mr Bachmann’s Class, the teacher is a 1970’s hippy in his last year before retirement, who teaches through folk-rock singalongs, which are actually quite effective in coaxing recent immigrant students out of their shell and getting them up to speed in German. But he has one song about a boy from the village swimming naked with a boy from the castle, and then other things go on. And Mr Bachmann not only sings the song to the embarrassed 6th graders but asks the children, most of whom by that time are hunched down and giving minimal answers, what the song means and what they feel about it.
As it’s a general weirdness posting day, just like any other day, I thought I’d ask if there has been any more news about the Toronto teacher who decided to wear a cheap wig, tight hot pants and massive fake breasts although when photographed outside school hours he was dressed like a normal bloke.
The last I heard he had received the full backing of the school board which rather kyboshed the presumed plan of scoring a big compensation payout.
Setting aside for the moment the extreme inappropriateness of the subject material, I have noticed a huge increase in recent years of “woke” and “progessive” minded people demanding that everyone publicly talk about their feelings about all sorts of things. Not just in schools but in the workplace too. It’s no longer sufficient to do your job well; you must also attend sessions and company retreats where you must talk about things that you may wish to keep private. Bare your soul, as it were.
Zen’s fascists will control you
Hundred percent natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can’t happen here
Big bro on white horse is near
The hippies won’t come back, you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay
California, Über Alles
California, Über Alles
Über Alles, California
Über Alles, California
“… final evidence that there’s no point in arguing with morally degenerate…”
Speaking of which, a new book of note.
This goes way back. In the 70s or 80s the Left began making fun of abstinence for teens, pushing for condoms in high schools (mostly minors) and pushing for docs to be able to give the Pill or other to girls under 18 without parents knowledge. At the same time, they made no effort to change the age of consent, so teen boys often got in trouble with their 16 yr old girlfriend–because changing the law was too public.
the Toronto teacher who decided to wear a cheap wig, tight hot pants and massive fake breasts
Oakville, which is near Toronto but is a separate affluent bedroom community.
Basically once it became too obvious that said teacher was taking the piss, everyone kind of backed off being outraged. The focus now has shifted to how the board let him get away with it for so long, or at all, which is what he was always shooting for.
It’s a strange one. I can easily believe the school board were only too anxious to be seen to be cool and edgy. However their lack of judgement in choosing to champion this individual was truly off the scale.
The man does have a point.
However their lack of judgement in choosing to champion this individual was truly off the scale.
The residents of Halton also have to accept some responsibility. This whole affair took place during a municpal election (which includes school board elections). School Board members who allowed this to happen were easily reelected. It seems a sad state of affairs in most democracies that, through either ignorance or ennuie, the electorate fails to hold boards and governments accountable.
“Ms.”, ahem, Lemieux remains employed but is officially suspended with pay.
That sounds like a win for rubbertitz.
He’s still getting paid for doing nothing and as long as he sticks to his guns (no pun intended for once) by claiming they’re real there’s every chance he eventually gets the compensation payment just to make him go away.
From about the age of 9, I started to haunt local jumble sales where copies of old Readers Digests could be bought cheaply and which I devoured from cover to cover (that would be about 1966) and one of the things that I remember, because it terrified me, was a short story which research leads me to believe was a shortened version of “The Children’s Story” by James Clavell which is based on the idea of the old teacher being replaced by a young female teacher who proceeded to warp the minds of the young children in her charge to make them loyal servants of the new regime. I hate it when these stories turn out to be prophetic.
It’s a very short book which can be downloaded from Amazon Kindle in the UK for 99 pence, I don’t know the price in other countries. If you haven’t done so now then you should, it can be read on any computer. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Childrens-Story-James-Clavell-ebook/dp/B0BFGYTH8V Try to order through David, I forgot.
claiming they’re real
“Kayla” has been caught twice in public (once by the New York Post and once by Rebel News) without the women’s clothes and wig and, oh, sans-tits. It’s what lead to the suspension. But you’re still right, big compensation likely coming “her” way.
Well, if you add lesbianism to one side of the equation, you have to add it to the other.
But they can involve a lot of the hetero type.
This probably has two-three months before we have this stuff in UK maths (note the ‘s’, colonials!) classes.
Because there’s a new General in the Gender Wars:
Imagine saying that about, well, anything else?
“The issue has been blown out of proportion and there are only a “tiny fraction” of cases where people are racially abused in the street.“
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Julia.
Honorary fellows of Mansfield College, where the professor holds court, include Jimmy Carter, Shami Chakrabahti, Will Hutton, Paddy Ashdown and Hilary Clinton.
Actually on reflection that’s remarkably tame by Oxford standards.
Somewhat related:
It’s all sparkles and glitter until you demur. Then you become “exceptionally bigoted.”
That.
Several people have commented on Twitter and YouTube that the video is unobjectionable and in no way “propaganda.” Well, seen as a child, without wider context, perhaps. But it seems to me that the readiness with which the children have internalised ‘Pride’ and its rainbows and non-binary woo as something unassailably benign illustrates rather well just how effective the propaganda has been.
That the ‘Pride’ movement is intensely political, increasingly extreme – one might say unhinged – and entails rather more than “tolerance” and “acceptance,” is not acknowledged, of course. Apparently, it’s all hugs and sparkles, and being nice.
That the same banners, the same rainbows, the same compelled groupthink, are invoked and deployed to sterilise and mutilate children, and to actively deceive parents, and to make a farce of women’s sports and women’s intimate spaces – for instance – remains unmentioned. And once you’ve demonstrated your acceptance of the flag and all that it entails, what could possibly go wrong?
Because it’s all just so nice.
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The video, made by other students who undoubtedly were graded A+ for the assignment, without any encouragement or involvement from teaching staff.
Sure Jan.
Until they come to take your kids away.
And speaking of deceiving parents.
Related (and very much worth the watching) – Douglas Murray and Julie Bindel discuss Pride:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YysgbnBohhc
Watching it now. We live in an age of strange bedfellows.
Somewhat related.
One for the Fuck That files.
Attention potential employers.
And yet my cousins, and I think this is true for most MotR and right-leaning people, especially women, may privately and somewhat privately complain about extremist leftism but then proudly put on their rainbow sneakers with rainbow shoelaces etc. when they attend the Pride parade. Also, one should not raise an eyebrow about furries either. I do notice that their husbands stay home. So at least there’s that.
For the last 40 years I have found it very annoying when people whom I don’t know, or whom I am not on somewhat close familiar relations, and especially small children address me by my first name rather than “Mr.” Now we’re supposed to address f****g mental cases by however “they prefer to be addressed. Because it’s just polite”. And conservatives…”conservatives”, and especially even the more conservative-y of conservative…”conservatives” don’t just say this but tell me to do this? Yeah. Fuck that. Fuck that nine ways to Sunday.
Well, it seems to me that rewarding insufferable narcissism and pretension – or affirming the fantasies of the mentally unwell – is not the kind of thing one should be doing, really. Even assuming one had the time and inclination.
Damn near as bad as blowing up the Bamiyan Buddhas.
There is no place for hate in Waterloo.
The pious burbling by the City Of Waterloo Twitter account is extraordinary. It doesn’t sound like a person was involved in anything it churns out. It sounds like a programme running. The more it burbles its inanities, the more I can understand people who feel a need to waste tyre rubber on defacing a silly crossing paintjob.
One for the Fuck That files.
Appears that this concept is becoming A New Thing™, and also belongs in the GFY Files – if you get to use “your” pronouns for yourself, I get to use mine for you, it is equitable, after all.
If it was just rainbows and cringe, that’d be one thing. But it’s not.
It’s the fact that every second of the day that a teacher spends on rainbows and cringe is a second that they aren’t teaching the subject they were hired to teach. Which disproportionately leads to learning loss among the student demographic that is least likely to have resources to recover form that loss.
If there was *ANY* evidence that spending time on rainbows and cringe helped the alphabet kids do better in school it might be worth evaluating it and figuring our why that is….but there isn’t.
Even if there was evidence that it helped the alphabet kids, there’s ALSO evidence that this kind of indoctrination damages non-alphabet kids through distraction, social contagion, etc. THAT alone would be enough to relegate this garbage to an optional after-school class.
But we all know that’s bunk.
This is all about fomenting a social and political revolution.
Why do they want a revolution? They don’t have a reason. They haven’t thought through the ramifications, other than they think it’d be cool and they’re rich, foolish, and bored.
There is also no place to reply to their tweets for us normies.
“I’m not letting you film children”
Odd way to say “We don’t want you to show what we are really showing them“, but OK, I guess.
Negligent really isn’t the word. This is being done with malice aforethought.
But that’s the very definition of a “sane revolution”. D. H. Lawrence explained this in one of his pens. It was even featured in a Mott the Hoople (band name) album. If you question this you’re just a stupid philistine who should not be listened to about anything else. Ask me how I know. Go ahead. The Cancel Culture Club (band name) is nothing new.
Shouting “There’s children everywhere” is probably not the W she thinks it is.
Shouting “There’s children everywhere”…
Meanwhile, at the Tate Museum…
Mott walked the tightrope between brilliant and ridiculous to perfection. They had a great time, never took themselves too seriously if at all and made records that still sound good 50 years later. As a teenager I loved them.
Tate Museum.
Something has gone horribly wrong in Stamford Hill.
Not your fathers Yeshiva.
Nothing to see here, it identifies as a mongoose.
And I as well. Which was why it stuck with me. It’s just so bloody stupid. Back then it seemed like right about the time I started liking a band, someone important in it would die or they would break up or they would show something about themselves that was undeniably stupid. After a while I tried hard to not pay attention to such things which was very difficult given the music focused crowd that I ran with. Getting a real job helped, I must say.
Music was a huge deal when I started at my all-male secondary school. The need to “fit in” was every bit as important then as now.
On one hand there was the Yes, ELP, Genesis, Pink Floyd faction with their polar opposites being into Black Sabbath, Led Zep, Deep Purple and Ten Years After. A very hip sub-sect had even discovered Poco and the Allman Brothers. Everybody liked Bowie.,
Bands like Mott and Thin Lizzy provided enormous fun to those of us in the middle while retaining a degree of respect from both extremes who were probably secret fans anyway.
The problems with rainbow etc presentations in schools:
1) It is explicitly sexual and presented to children.
2) It wastes school time (as someone noted)
3) It is overt political brainwashing–only representing one view of the world. Where is the presentation on abstinence and going to church?
Mott walked the tightrope between brilliant and ridiculous to perfection.
Ian Hunter had a lot to do with that. I followed him for a while when he went solo. His back-to-basics musical style was a great relief from the over-the-top prog-rock of the time. He played at my University when I was in first year. Great show.
Speaking of open thread…
Amazon cancelled a guy’s house, because his doorbell was racist.
I fucking kid you not.
I hear that leftists’ favorite band is Motte the Bailey.
And a deranged, fantastic, view it is.
I’m still trying to work out how someone could hear “racist remarks” from “Excuse me, can I help you?”
I’ve lately been very suspicious of how many “celebrities” have *transkids*.
Suspicions confirmed.
Thing is, it wasn’t.
Corporations are not your friends.
Sounds white supremacist to me. What sort of privilege does that exude? Honky bastards.
Is of course the culturally approved greeting.
Probably the same way people are oppressed by others not using their pronouns.
Economy sized narcissism.
Corporations are not your friends.
And it is just another reason why our house will never be “smart”.
I even look suspiciously at the printer when it makes noises on its own.
Amazon cancelled a guy’s house, because his doorbell was racist.
Talk about setting yourself up for failure – three strikes, and yer out.
Racist doorbell.
Damn. I was so hoping it played “I wish I was in Dixie”.
“while retaining a degree of respect from both extremes who were probably secret fans anyway.”
I remember members of XTC, when they were starting out as a punk band, having to keep secret their love for music outside their genre (like classical), because their punk fans would have hated them for it.
Good musicians follow a wide variety of music to learn and grow, which is one reason why they’re good.
Economy sized narcissism.
More like Giant Family Size.
Note that in the photo of her overflowing seats she is using as an arm rest a portable oxygen generator and her nasal cannula tubes are clearly visible, which just screams “positivity” and so Pickwickian she can’t tolerate 6000 foot cabin pressure pO2.
“Healthy at any size!”
Another Brobdingnagian chimes in. Horseshit. Being 6’2″ is not a choice, being 5’2″ and 400 lbs is.
I think I first read about the Tate’s descent into trendy “woke” lunacy around 20 years ago. Probably in The New Criterion or a column by Theodore Dalrymple.
But, but, I thought punk was all about rejecting the imposition of categories and mandatory ideas. /sarcasm
The climate change made them cold so they had to keep warm somehow, I guess.
Heh…yes, similar here. I have a broad range of interests in music so it was sometimes a when-worlds-collide challenge to keep the Yes/ELP/Genesis/Pink Floyd guys away from the Black Sab/Led Zep/Deep Purple/Van Halen/Cheap Trick guys. The latter of whom could find some common ground with the George Thorogood/Muddy Waters/Johnny Lee Hooker crowd. Then when you throw in the B52/Talking Heads/ABC/TearsForFears(God help me) it gets real dicey. And then there were the Reggae/Ska guys to really mix things up. It got rather complicated at times.
My college roommate was of the Led Zep/Kiss/Yes/Guitar Gods variety with a touch of Rockabilliy thrown in. He was the sound guy for a band that I used to hang out with. The guitarist of this band (Jack Sizemore) went on to be guitarist for Jason Aldean’s band. Which kinda surprised me and kinda not. They played pretty much the Led Zep/Van Halen/Rolling Stones/Black Sabbath stuff with one or two of their own thrown in.
Corpor not your friend: about 10 yrs ago I tried google ad words for my side gig consulting. I tried a couple of word combos, all innocuous, and then was banned for life from using ad words for a crime they would not explain. I am guessing it looked like spam but when I called and tried to explain they just said the decision was final. Remember when their slogan was “don’t be evil”? hahaha
XTC were very good musicians, didn’t spit and didn’t have spiky hair. More New Wave than Punk. This was about as edgy as they ever got. Catchy tune though.
https://youtu.be/9_Zg_ZWfYkg
WTP
Have you seen the YouTube videos of Cheap Trick playing alongside one of their heroes Roy Wood of Move/Wizzard/early ELO fame. All of them having the time of their lives. Absolute magic.
Yes and no. I was a fan for a while. I can’t recall the specifics but I remember some interview they did where they espoused some sort of commie dogma and from that point I couldn’t ignore the posturing in some of their lyrics. Specifically I recall “Working for paper and for iron/Working for my right to keep my tie on”. Yes. Yes. Having a bloody job is slavery. Yes. As I may have been saying above, the less you know…
We live in an age of strange bedfellows.
Indeed. Murray AND Bindel agreeing? T’is surely the end times.
I had to look up that poem by D. H. Lawrence. Talk about fatuous!
God Save Us from intellectuals. So many of them lack wisdom and even human decency.
But speaking of D. H. Lawrence, I was just recently listening to an interview with Theodore Dalrymple in which he commented on the intellectuals who spoke in defense of Lady Chatterly’s Lover, even lying on the witness stand because they didn’t want it to be banned. (It wasn’t great art; it was very bad art.) But we already know that those same intellectuals were Strangely Silent all their lives when the left set out to destroy careers and reputations and lives.
especially women, may privately and somewhat privately complain about extremist leftism but then proudly put on their rainbow sneakers with rainbow shoelaces etc. when they attend the Pride parade
It is always, always, always about seeking elevated social status in the herd, regardless of the consequences.
There is no place for hate in Waterloo.
Sadly there’s not much place for sanity there any more either. Lived most of my life there, and the city is 100% beholden to the economic activity of the two universities. Once upon a time the city set fairly strict boundaries on how much left-wing douchebaggery they were going to accept – the occasional attempts at Critical Mass traffic disruptions never made it out of the WLU parking lot – but over the last decade university hangers-on have managed to get themselves into local city politics and the bureaucracy.
It’s ironic to recall that twenty years ago Waterloo ended up taking over the municipal functions of its neighbour, Kitchener, because Kitchener was a dysfunctional, corrupt shithole.
Re XTC. That’s so often the way. Joe Strummer was an absolute prick but a seminal musician. Tom Robinson made a mint out of singing protest songs like Right on Sister and Glad to be Gay, then once his career had died down woke up one morning to realise he’d been straight all along and shortly afterwards had a wife and family to prove it. In those more innocent days you could be cutting edge without actually cutting anything off. Even Bowie while pretending to fellate Mick Ronson on stage was in reality banging the cute Scottish songstress Lulu at home (as any musicologist should know this is why she recorded Man who Sold the World). Which indirectly brings us full circle back to Mott the Hoople although I’m pretty sure no banging was involved in All the Young Dudes.
The thing about ambitious mediocrities is the ambition grows – as does the mediocrity.
Which indirectly brings us full circle back to Mott the Hoople although I’m pretty sure no banging was involved in All the Young Dudes.
And no “wham, bam, thank you ma’am” either. Mott turned down the opportunity to record Suffragette City.
Something reminded me of the book “Intellectuals” by Paul Johnson. Excellent dissection of some big name brains of the past 200 yrs who were truly awful people and whose ideas killed millions but who academics loved loved loved.