Reheated (108)
For newcomers, more items from the archives:
Embezzlement, magic blackness, and intersectional complications.
I know. You’re tempted to invest.
In the comments, Mags notes the claim that Mr Anderson committed “the perfect crime,” on account of those he robbed being much too busy fretting about “the way that police treat masculine-presenting black people.” She adds, not unfairly, a plausible definition of the perfect crime: “Suckering wokies?”
Well, it’s a nonprofit whose employees gratuitously announce their pronouns, and who regard as some kind of injustice the fact that criminal activity often results in arrest, or as they put it, “police terror.” And so, they’re “building a life-affirming world where police are obsolete.” I think it’s fair to assume there’s quite a bit of unrealism and credulity to exploit.
Culture for the implausibly delicate.
When cleverness is unfair, inegalitarian, something to be corrected.
The practised doublethink in play, in which precocious interest in advanced material is actively discouraged, and in which “access” is invoked while gleefully denying it, has been noted here before. Along with educators’ hostility to students and parents who dared to complain about the downgrade, and whose concerns were dismissed as perpetuating “systemic racism.”
As in California, where differences in “school experiences,” i.e., differences in ability and achievement, are something to be eliminated by holding back high-achieving students, with curriculum guidelines based on “social justice,” and educators who are visibly “committed to social justice work.”
And likewise, we have Jennifer Katz, a professor of education at the University of British Columbia, scolding parents who question the conceit that bright children will somehow flourish if taught more slowly and in less detail in a more disruptive environment. While implying, quite strongly, that any parents who complain must be racist.
And then there’s San Diego, another bastion of progress, where teachers are instructed that in order to be “anti-racist,” they must “confront practices” deemed inegalitarian and which result in “racial imbalance” – say, norms of classroom behaviour, a disapproval of tardiness and cheating, and oppressive expectations of “turning work in on time.”
There’s a through-the-looking-glass quality. A fun-house mirror malevolence.
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Did it work?
Why, it’s almost as if there’s some kind of moral to the story.
Can’t quite put my finger on it…
It’s like they live in a mirror universe. For them everything is backwards.
And exactly backwards. Not just some misalignment or partial deviation from practicality and moral coherence. They seem bent on pursuing the worst possible course of action, the one that would do most harm. In this case, to any remotely clever children.
Who are, presumably, regarded as enemies. Or at least as an irritation, a nuisance, and seemingly expendable.
A universe without police but with plenty of agonizers for wrongthinkers.
It’s disheartening to realize that I’ve been hearing that sort of bullshit all my life.
I’m trying to imagine what it must be like to be a gifted student at any of the educational institutions mentioned above, or any of the others just like them, and registering, quite vividly, the teachers’ and bureaucrats’ ideological disregard for students who excel, and whose ability is deemed troublesome, inegalitarian, and a basis for corrective measures.
Teachers and bureaucrats who continually invoke “social justice,” while doing everything they can to frustrate and impede those they deem too smart, thereby sabotaging their life chances.
As all good people do, of course.