An explicitly anti-Christian ethnic studies curriculum for public schools that encourages students to chant to Aztec gods in the name of social justice and advocates "countergenocide"?
The real face of "equity" is starting to be revealed. And it looks a lot like some very old, implacable and blood-stained stone faces from the human past.
Sane people need to starve these institutions by removing their children from them--or better yet, never enrolling them in the first place.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
[Update and Editor's Note, 3/15/2021]: sadly, there are insinuations that I post unverified propaganda. In response, I will note that the evidence is easily found and you can read the actual pages of the proposed curriculum here.]
... or better yet, starve the state by moving away and shrinking its tax base.
ReplyDeleteThis is the Democratic Party.
ReplyDeleteIt's like the Delirium in the White Wolf Werewolf game.
ReplyDeleteLooking directly at it causes normal people to go into denial of what's directly in front of their eyes and invent alternate explanations.
Great analogy!
DeleteWell, they are right about the roots of racism in the colonization of the Americas. Even non-Nordic Europeans experienced oppression on these shores. But human sacrifice and cannibalism--that sounds like the actions of the 1% perpetrated on the 99, no matter who sings the songs.
ReplyDeleteWell, they are right about the roots of racism in the colonization of the Americas.
DeleteI can never figure out if you're a brazen liar or you're completely steeped in the nonsense of your immediate social circle. If you fancy the Americas of the pre-Columbian era were free from inter-tribal antagonisms, I'm vending bridges.
We certainly know that natives on this continent weren't in some pre-Fall state of infant virtue. That's not the point. We do know that Europeans perpetrated crimes on the level of human sacrifice through ethnic cleansing, slavery, and other crimes against humanity. Here's how I stand: no human sacrifice chants and President Jackson off the $20 bill. Good enough?
DeleteWe certainly know that natives on this continent weren't in some pre-Fall state of infant virtue. That's not the point.
DeleteOh yes it is the point. And his statement makes no sense if it isn't.
We do know that Europeans perpetrated crimes on the level of human sacrifice through ethnic cleansing, slavery, and other crimes against humanity.
No it isn't on the level of human sacrifice. The Axtec's brutality was quite sanguinary and bizarre, one reason the Conquistadors had little trouble lining up allies.
"Ethnic cleansing"? Q: how did the Cherokee and the Sioux come by the land they were exploiting? A.: by ejecting the previous inhabitants.
Here's how I stand: no human sacrifice chants and President Jackson off the $20 bill. Good enough?
No deal. Pres. Jackson was a man of extraordinary accomplishment. The educational apparatchiks in LA are useless and vicious.
@Art he's just another NPC, one who has traded his own independence and free will to Big Brother to do all the thinking for him.
DeleteI forget now who said it but "they have to think the other side is evil - otherwise they themselves might not be as special."
Todd Flowerday has a history of commentary in the Catholic blogosphere which extends back to 2002 or thereabouts. The positions he takes are seldom surprising and his modes of argumentation are familiar as well. He used to have his own blog 'Catholic Sensibility' and sometimes uses that handle in fora like this. Wouldn't call him an NPC. He's 62 years old and been at this a long time. He is also, no surprise there, a parish employee (a precentor somewhere around Kansas City).
Delete@Art, some days I think you've missed your calling a private investigator. ;) And I mean that as a compliment.
DeleteSeems clear that when someone takes a discussion down a rabbit hole of poking at personal information and misinformation, they have acknowledged their commentary on the topic at hand is spent. I left KC 13 years ago. Update your tracker and get your private dick license updated, sir. Good luck.
DeleteSeems clear that when someone takes a discussion down a rabbit hole of poking at personal information and misinformation,
DeleteAnother red herring from you.
The source of each and every piece of 'personal information' was .... Todd Flowerday. I didn't add all the other things you said about yourself, e.g. that you used to work at WXXI, that you used to work at Colgate Rochester Divinity School, that you were in a discernment program ca. 1981, that you received a diploma from Bishop Kearney in 1976, and that your family lived in Irondequoit. (Your old nemesis Mr. Leonardi is a graduate of Aquinas and grew up in Gates (or was it North Chili?).
Thanks for the surrender on teaching history. I accept you have some ability to track public knowledge. Why you would want to do so isn't entirely clear to me.
DeleteThanks for the surrender on teaching history.
DeleteI gather your handlers at Correct-the-Record told you to keep trying this tactic.
You haven't as yet given evidence that you know any history you could teach anyone.
Sir, you are on the edge of creepy in this behavior. I comment for others reading Dale's blog to notice it. A pseudonymous person (who really could be anyone in the world with a facility in English) researches another person's history and, when failing to make meaningful progress in a discussion, resorts to personal comments. This is why she or he has lost the argument.
DeleteThis is the failure of the modern internet conservative: a person masked, and often a caricature of someone who aspires to a productive contributor to society.
To be sure, many honest conservatives experience this in the public sphere when they are outnumbered by liberals or even libertarians. Ask yourself: isn't this just a feature of the fallen human condition? No ideology, or even innocent point of view, has a monopoly on sin.
Sir, you are on the edge of creepy in this behavior. I comment for others reading Dale's blog to notice it. A pseudonymous person (who really could be anyone in the world with a facility in English) researches another person's history and, when failing to make meaningful progress in a discussion, resorts to personal comments. This is why she or he has lost the argument.
DeleteNo, it isn't 'creepy' that I remember what you've said about yourself over the years, Todd. The moderator and his wife maintained a domestic blog and I remember thing's he's said as well. I remember yours better because it has certain mnemonics associated with it. If you don't want people to know these things, don't write about them. Works for me.
We're not making 'progress' in the discussion for the same reasons discussions with you run aground routinely. And that would be your chronic inability to state a position and defend it without resort to diversions, rhetorical tricks, and general pomposity. Be better, and you'll have productive discussions. Be you, and you get what you get from exasperated people. You've had six decades to figure this out.
This is the failure of the modern internet conservative: a person masked, and often a caricature of someone who aspires to a productive contributor to society.
Todd, I'm not responsible for your problems in human relations, here or anywhere else.
To be sure, many honest conservatives experience this in the public sphere when they are outnumbered by liberals or even libertarians. Ask yourself: isn't this just a feature of the fallen human condition? No ideology, or even innocent point of view, has a monopoly on sin.
You know Todd, we often don't see ourselves as others do.
In any event, before I'd pass particular judgment on this plan, I'd want to see details for myself rather than rely on the word of opponents. It's like this: whom do you ask for a history of the NY Yankees? Sure you can get a good tale by asking someone from Boston. And sure, you're not going to ask a New Yorker to get the full story.
ReplyDeleteTo be sure, American brutality was cruel enough to give the Nazis an inspiration or two. Human sacrifices along the trail just to get at their gold.
To be sure, American brutality was cruel enough to give the Nazis an inspiration or two.
DeleteIn your imagination only. Did you ever ask yourself how the European continent was populated and repopulated during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages? There's no critical thinking going on between your ears.
In any event, before I'd pass particular judgment on this plan, I'd want to see details for myself rather than rely on the word of opponents.
DeleteYou don't need the details. The whole exercise is gratuitous and asinine.
Here's your detail, Todd. With copies of the pages proving it.
Deletehttps://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1369773388957327361
I'm legit curious - if you go like one whole day without bringing up or mentioning race will you like vanish in a puff of smoke or something? I've legit ran into actual redneck racists who could go longer talking about a topic without bringing race into it than you've ever demonstrated.
DeleteHave you like... tried being less obsessed about something? Art says you're Catholic or something. Maybe focus on God for a day? The Church? The Catechism? Can you even make it five minutes without bringing up someone's skin color?
Do some of "Art's" research. If you actually read what I write about, I promise you won't be captured by demons or anything.
DeleteDon't dismiss my argument like that again, Todd.
DeleteThanks in advance.
I haven't responded to Mr Rufo's twitter feed just yet. As I've already stated on this thread that I oppose the promotion of human sacrifice in song, commemoration on currency, or otherwise. I acknowledge that's often not enough in a majority conservative/libertarian cadre, but there we have it.
DeleteEven Mr Rufo is careful to draw a distinction between a song to a god who happens to favor human sacrifice and actually participating in what was once such a ritual.
As I looked over your contact's thread, "countergenocide" is certainly the most troubling thing I saw. That's certainly not a Christian attitude of which you or I would approve. Is the scholar engaging in a literal call to arms? I suppose I'd want to see a larger context.
Was there supposed to be a reply to me in there somewhere? Learn how to quote or @ someone, @Todd.
DeleteSo first you criticize someone for stalking you, now you encourage it. Way to demonstrate that for the left, they have double the standards of everybody else and will only go with whatever they need at the moment.
Nate, I'm not encouraging you to be creepy. I'm inviting you to read my public writing that has a "focus on God ... The Church ... The Catechism ..." and answer for yourself the question "Can you even make it five minutes without bringing up someone's skin color?" I don't mind people going to my website (the one "Art Deco" cited) and commenting publicly there. I will criticize the stalking and drawing public information as a way of trying to drive home a point. It adds nothing to the discussion here.
Delete@Todd - what website? Clicking your name goes to a dead end. Looks like I would need to do some "stalking" to try and figure out what possible website you're referring to.
DeleteBut then I've noticed that with liars. They'll always gesture towards some vague proof "over there" instead of bothering to provide a direct link or jump point. Considering you can't ever comment on Dale's blog without bringing race into it (even when race hasn't been mentioned) it seems the answer to my challenge is: no.
https://catholicsensibility.wordpress.com/page/2/
DeleteThis is it. I'm surprised he's still posting regularly. Most people run out of steam after a few years.
I see "Art" scrolled at least to post #11. Only 15,000 posts to go.
DeleteAnd Nate, good try there. Dale and I mutually link, you might want to know--at least 15 years now.
You are still invited to visit and comment if you wish. Lots of God there.
For a while, a good discussion. But when you make it personal about my ears, not to mention more about whataboutism, I recognize you have conceded my points. I accept your surrender.
ReplyDeleteThanks for yet another exercise in gamesmanship.
Deleteot to mention more about whataboutism,
Which is an invalid complaint on your part. Your whole complaint hinges on simply ignoring how political life was conducted in various places historically, in order to construct a brief against one particular participant. Be consistent or be gone.
It's sad that you would bring up whataboutism given that you deflected right to white people's crimes in the Americas, Todd.
DeleteIsn't the movement behind a revision of teaching American history about racism, and calling it like it is. Germane to the discussion, counsellor.
DeleteIt is nothing of the kind. It's about systematic denigration of the accomplishments of our ancestors. Our useless administrative class is not accomplished.
DeleteWTF does any school need an 'ethnic studies' curriculum? Schools already fritter away effort on unfocused curricula, leaving their students with insecure knowledge of much of anything. There is nothing foundational about 'ethnic studies', only one of the four segments they propose to study constitute an actual ethnic group, two of the four were of only local significance prior to 1965, one is and has long been a contextually tiny population, and the racial group who actually built the country is completely ignored. It's an exercise in vicious political propaganda.
That aside, Todd, you're rattling on as if slavery and the evolution of race relations were topics ignored in secondary school history, which of course they were not. They were not when I was in high school and they were not when my mother was in high school just after the war.
While we're at it 'racism' no longer has a fixed meaning in public discourse. It's a rhetorical thrust.
Your assessment of racism is incorrect. It is an institutional injustice, basically prejudice enthroned as practice to divert power to a small minority. White males are never the victim of racism, a fact that hurts whites outside the 1%, I am sure.
DeleteYou have partially diagnosed "ethnic studies" as a variation of "social studies," something I also remember that goes back to the 60s. Grade 4 social studies in upstate NY (a location you know) included a significant unit on the Iroquois Confederacy--history, culture, and even present considerations.
Many racial groups built this country. Natives did much of the agricultural groundwork here, taming maize, and giving the world a widened diet. Enslaved blacks certainly built the South, and yes, their contributions have been mostly dismissed. Immigrants of all races built railroads, worked in factories, and did the physical work of building. The notion that Northern European whites were alone responsible is ludicrous.
I recognize the phenomenon of social projection on the part of many white people. Conservatives accuse others of what they themselves practice.
White males are never the victim of racism,
DeleteLOL and there goes any credibility you had. Way to erase the victim of the 2017 chicago torture livestream you complete and total asshole. Sorry, I don't bother with people who excuse and deny torture of mentally disabled folk because of their skin color.
Your assessment of racism is incorrect.
DeleteNo it isn't, and that's obvious to anyone who looks at public statements with a critical eye.
It is an institutional injustice,
And what is an 'institutional' injustics as opposed to any other sort of injustice?
basically prejudice enthroned as practice to divert power to a small minority.
You fancy Howard Zinn was a historian.
White males are never the victim of racism, a fact that hurts whites outside the 1%, I am sure.
Todd, people generally handle the injuries they suffer without much contrived solicitude. I'm sure the parents of Christopher Newsom are well and duly instructed that their son was never the victim of 'racism'.
You have partially diagnosed "ethnic studies" as a variation of "social studies,"
I haven't. Read more carefully.
something I also remember that goes back to the 60s. Grade 4 social studies in upstate NY (a location you know) included a significant unit on the Iroquois Confederacy--history, culture, and even present considerations.
"Social studies" was a contrivance of school administrators who hired teachers who didn't know much history or geography. It was and remains a waste of time. The young need focus and fundamentals taught by teachers who know something. I didn't get that in elementary school and apparently neither did you. But, yes, we had to learn in snatches about the Iriquois. That's the local federation of tribes, so it's appropriate in the study of local history. The young don't get much local history and (in my day) what you did get was in workshops provided by the Rochester Museum and Science Center because our teachers didn't know squat.
Many racial groups built this country. Natives did much of the agricultural groundwork here, taming maize, and giving the world a widened diet. Enslaved blacks certainly built the South, and yes, their contributions have been mostly dismissed. Immigrants of all races built railroads, worked in factories, and did the physical work of building. The notion that Northern European whites were alone responsible is ludicrous.
Todd, the aboriginal population in this county is contextually tiny and has long been tiny. Historical demographers vary in their (largely speculative) estimates of pre-contact populations in North America and how they evolved over time. That population lived by slash-and-burn agriculture and animal husbandry. The largest pre-contact settlement had about 6,000 people resident. As for the black population, over four centuries, they've accounted for about 13% of the population on average and perhaps 7% of the human capital present. They've worked in subaltern situations, in artisanship, and in intramural businesses. It was during the early 20th century this began to change in the entertainment sector and in the latter 20th century when blacks in significant numbers began to occupy positions of significance in the larger society. As for 'other races', as of 1930, they amounted to 1.6% of the population of the continental United States (and of these about 70% were classified as 'Mexican' and 10% as Chinese or Japanese).
I recognize the phenomenon of social projection on the part of many white people. Conservatives accuse others of what they themselves practice.
What you don't recognize is that you overestimate your insight and perspicacity.
Your data is simply wrong. If you have links similar to what Dale provided, I'll look them over.
DeleteAs for the notion that black-on-white crime is racist--it's certainly a horrific and violent event. But it lacks the backing of societal institutions, and the context of law and order in the US as widespread racist. Those murderers were brought to justice. White-on-black crimes are not punished as severely.
Your data is simply wrong.
DeleteTodd, the Statistical Abstract of the United States has been digitized by the Census Bureau and is online. You can bloody check it yourself. There were 122 million people in the continental United States in 1930, of whom 2 million were classified as neither black nor white. The aboriginal population at the time was a few hundred thousand.
As for the notion that black-on-white crime is racist--
I neither stated nor implied that. You just cannot help yourself.
What I actually did was to a prominent example of a bizarre crime that has no other explanation than that.
But it lacks the backing of societal institutions,
So what? And where did you get the idea in your not-very-pretty little head that 'societal institutions' give 'backing' to white-on-black crime? (Which is, while we're at it, quite unusual). What does that even mean?
and the context of law and order in the US as widespread racist.
Those murderers were brought to justice.
Actually, the process was astonishingly distended and costly and suffused with demonstrations of incompetence by the courts and the prosecutor alike. It took six years for the first batch of defendants to be processed to a verdict and another six years for the last defendant to be processed. Not one of them received a capital sentence or even life-without-parole.
White-on-black crimes are not punished as severely.
Put up or shut up.
But it lacks the backing of societal institutions, and the context of law and order in the US as widespread racist.
DeleteLOL that you can say this with a straight face in an era where the hoaxes of hate crimes now outnumber the actual ones shows just how deep into the cult you are. Not to mention that repeated comparative studies of black immigrants do not show dramatic racial disparity.
Heck it can proved just by the fact that the democrats advocate for open borders. If America was such a racist nation, what kind of monsters are the Left then for trying to bring in so many minorities into a trap where they can be victimized? It would be far more moral to restrict immigration until the racism threat was ended.
The open border comment is fake news.
DeleteAnd what, pray tell, is fake about it? The calls to abolish ICE? Keith Ellison, the #2 person in the party wearing a shirt with "I don't believe in borders"? The repeated chants of "no human is illegal"?
DeleteYou can declare it fake all you want, but I have eyes and ears. Your lies carry no weight.
You wrote, "The democrats advocate for open borders." That's not part of the party platform. And clearly, the most high-profile Dem today does not. I think you can write "some Americans advocate for open borders." Open movement across a border strikes me as a very libertarian thing: freedom of the individual, as long as he or she can provide for their own well-being and sustenance.
DeleteLies? Prove it. Or take a seat and shush.
The people who hand the pen and the cue cards to the 'highest profile Democrat' have manufactured a crisis on the southern border. Oh Happy Day.
DeleteI think the crisis goes back to American adventurism with dictators and corruption in Latin America since almost President Monroe. Funny how we get so few refugees from Costa Rica
DeleteWell the system ate my reply I guess because it had too many links. So we'll just go with the list of Biden's executive orders.
Delete• Expands the United States Refugee Admissions Program and rescinds Trump policies that limited refugee admissions and required additional vetting
• Rescinds Trump’s memo requiring immigrants to repay the government if they receive public benefits. Elevates the role of the executive branch in promoting immigrant integration and inclusion, including reestablishing a Task Force on New Americans. Requires agencies to review immigration regulations and policies
• Fortifies DACA after Trump’s efforts to undo protections for undocumented people brought into the country as children
• Undoes Trump’s expansion of immigration enforcement within the United States
• Halts construction of the border wall by terminating the national emergency declaration used to fund it
So they "do not support open borders" they just... don't want the immigration laws enforced or any kind of wall that might hinder it. In other words: a distinction without a difference. (see also: most recent actual immigration bill introduced into Congress)
Did you link the 2020 Dem platform? Because if you didn't, your list of exec orders are largely wack when it comes to "proving" open borders. Refugee standards were fine before 2017. I do think a review of immigrant regulations and policies is in order. The US is stronger when we draw people in to our way of life. Fortifying DACA is certainly a good thing. The border wall was a shell game for 2017-21.
DeleteGetting back to Dale's original post above, the effort of that revision of ethnic studies was, in part, to combat racism. I applaud that and make no apologies for supporting the principle that history is often presented in a biased and certainly incomplete manner.
So open borders? Fake news. Propaganda. Get nuanced, or, as I said, take a seat. Or better yet, roll up your sleeves and make the US a better place, not a dump for white supremacists.
Did you link the 2020 Dem platform?
DeleteOf course he didn't. He's observing what they're actually doing. The only thing the platform tells you is the poses they want to strike in a given year. This isn't that difficult.
He didn't prove his premise. Fake news on open borders. I think we all realize the country is weaker for having the immigrant issue unresolved and batted back and forth like a tennis ball for decades. It's past time to eject the extremists, including both Dems and R's and come to a long-term solution in immigration. Everybody signs off on some solution that will satisfy nobody and we move on to another issue. That way, we move past the discussion about open borders and national security. For those not on board, you're just part of the problem.
DeleteDid you link the 2020 Dem platform?
DeleteI actually did before the internet gremlins ate my original comment.
Especially because it was becoming an exercise in hilarity to see how much of it they had violated in just 3 months of being in charge.
So open borders? Fake news. Propaganda. Get nuanced, or, as I said, take a seat. Or better yet, roll up your sleeves and make the US a better place, not a dump for white supremacists.
DeleteOh yeah, another one of Biden's executive orders?
"Requires non-citizens to be included in the Census and apportionment of congressional representatives"
You can deny the duck as much as you want, but it still quacks.
And there's the racism thing again - were you starting to go too long without bringing it up again, Todd?
It makes sense to include foreign students, guest workers, and others. They pay taxes. They contribute to various levels of culture and make some demands on things like utilities, public buildings, roads, and whatnot.
DeleteIf a theoretical university were to set up shop in, say Mississippi, and brought in a million students, why shouldn't Mississippi get an extra representative in Congress?
And yes, racism continues to be a problem. Hasn't gone away yet.
So you would honestly be fine if say... Russia just shipped in millions of its citizens into say... Mississippi just long enough to give the state a huge increase of representatives - and then had them all go back home?
DeleteYou really can't see the issue with giving non-citizens input on government?
Then what's the point of citizenship?
Russia has no millions to spare. I may question the competence of government, but I think one country shipping people into the US on the scale of millions, it would get noticed.
DeleteIf a people live with us, go to our churches and concerts, pay taxes, and contribute to the public good, I don't have a problem with them being counted. They can't vote. They can't run for office. Those are human political constructs.
In human terms, people live with us. If they see a pothole or their kid gets bullied or if they see my kid getting bullied, I sure would want their input.
but I think one country shipping people into the US on the scale of millions, it would get noticed.
DeleteWhat like... THE IMMIGRATION DEBATE???
How are you this dumb?
If a people live with us, go to our churches and concerts, pay taxes, and contribute to the public good, I don't have a problem with them being counted. They can't vote. They can't run for office. Those are human political constructs.
They can't be in office? Must be news to Lizbeth Mateo.
And can't vote? Well HOW DO YOU KNOW? HR1 is aiming to allow "same day voter registration" and to restrict the purging of voter rolls. So any non-citizen can show up, register to vote, and then you can't get them off the rolls if at any point you learn about it.
I'd say "that's like declaring robbery illegal but then never having any cops in town to enforce it" but I suspect you believe that would actually work and nobody would break the rules because... reasons.
Amazing too how the more you argue against it, the more you prove the democrats are for open borders.
And how non-racist this country is - because otherwise you're an awful person for all the victims you're dragging into this torture land.
Nate, don't sink your side of the discussion by descending to the level of stupidity. One person, a first, gets appointed to a committee. That's not running for office. If the person has useful input, why wouldn't we want to listen to it?
DeleteAnd can't vote? I happen to know. I've served as an election official in two states for 13 years. I know how same-day voter registration works. I don't think you do. Non-citizens don't vote, but on the level of one here or there.
And yes, the sun rose this morning and racism still exists in the US. I know it's a tough thing to take, but there it is.
FROM THE LINK that I posted. At the very top of the page in italics:
DeleteUPDATE: Senate officials acknowledged Friday that Mateo was not the first undocumented resident appointed to a statewide post.
I knew you didn't read or listen to anything. You are not only consistently dishonest, but a bad liar too.
You offered "god" at your blog. No thanks, I follow Jesus and He is the truth. When you want to abandon the father of lies, I suggest you turn to Jesus as well.
Why the personal attack, Nate? I don't see the problem with a lawyer and supposed expert being appointed to serve on a committee. I don't think she can run for public office. She can't vote. What if she has something to contribute besides tuition or taxes?
DeleteProve that I'm a liar.
Also prove than a non-Republican or non-reactionary political view is associated with the father of lies.
You are unfortunate for promoting silly and unfounded untruths about a person you don't know.
Also prove than a non-Republican or non-reactionary political view is associated with the father of lies.
DeleteEasy. I'll just quote what you said elsewhere on this page:
"White males are never the victim of racism,
You are dishonest, and a liar. You lie to yourself first, then spread it out from there. Even now you shift your position with acknowledgement, proving how much of your principles are built on sand.
I have been around the internet enough to learn not to bother with post-modernists who only believe in "truth" that serves their power. I can only hope you kept the receipt for whomever you sold your soul to.
I hardly ignore it. I'm just honest in seeing it perpetrated by white one-percenters. Not going away any time soon, dude.
ReplyDeleteYou've spent the entire thread ignoring it. And adding silly red-herrings ("white one percenters")
DeleteFake news. I certainly acknowledge that human sacrifice, either to fake gods or economics or racism takes place in many places. If inhumanity invalidated the teaching of history or culture, I suspect quite a bit of what passes for Western Civilization would have been long-forgotten.
DeleteLOL oh yeah, remember all those times the president would get on TV every night at 7 and cut open a man's chest in honor of "economics" or "racism"?
DeleteDo you even listen to yourself sometimes or is absurdity part of the sketch?
If inhumanity invalidated the teaching of history or culture, I suspect quite a bit of what passes for Western Civilization would have been long-forgotten.
DeleteThis is a puzzling non sequitur.
your PI license has expired. Maybe you need some remedial work, Art.
Deletehttps://legalinsurrection.com/2021/03/california-ethnic-studies-curriculum-proposal-gets-worse-heavy-on-critical-race-theory-and-anti-israel-activism/
ReplyDeleteHere's a precis of the development of the program. In essence, there's a nest of gruesome characters employed in the state department of public instruction who are pushing this. The Superintendent of Public Instruction is a Democratic pols whose previous career was...social worker. No surprise there.
by the way, thanks very much Nate for the wp-admin tip. Might keep me in blogging for another few months yet
ReplyDeleteNP. I hate to see people suffer because of faulty user interface. (and boy are those getting worse of late)
DeleteAnd yet more evidence that the American Association of University Professors is a collecting pool of intellectual and moral frauds:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/03/silenced-by-the-sheep-academias-new-censorship/
Racial discrimination (by and large) hasn't been a problem for quite awhile (quite frankly, I put the expiration date on that at noon on January 20, 2009).
ReplyDeleteSo racism isn't a problem, because if it doesn't express itself as discriminatory behavior, who cares, unless you're trying to be thought police.
voter suppression is still a problem. Police brutality too. The remnants of redlining are still hampering people of color. I think white people would like to think racism is no longer a problem--and some liberal whites have boarded that bus. I think you need to ask people of color for the truth on this. I wouldn't ask a white person to assess racism any more than I'd go to a Michigan State person to tell me all about UM.
Deletevoter suppression is still a problem. Police brutality too. The remnants of redlining are still hampering people of color.
DeleteThree fictions strung together.