Western Civilization = White Supremacy
New York City school administrators have been taught that pillars of Western Civilization such as objectivity, individualism, and even belief in the written word all are examples of ⊠white supremacy, the New York Post reports.
A slide presentation obtained by the Post from the workshop âDismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Changeâ includes claims that a belief in an âultimate truthâ (objectivity) leads to a dismissal of âalternate viewpoints or emotionsâ as âbadâ (this is straight out of the critical race theory playbook), and that emphasis on the written word overlooks the âability to relate to othersâ and leads to âteaching that there is only âone right wayâ to do something.â
Other âhallmarksâ of white supremacy include a âsense of urgency,â âquantity over quality,â and âperfectionism.â Read more at The College Fix
The Civility Problem
Maybe a few courses on how to create a civil society would help America's so-called "social warriors" learn how to deal with their fellow men and women. Let's start with Amherst College in Massachusetts, where former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was scheduled to address the ongoing issue of free speech on campus. Campus Reform reports that Sessions got a dose of today's SJW tactics when a stinkbomb was set off before he went on stage. Then, a walkout was staged by a gay pride group punctuating the assault on the former A.G. Stinkbombs? What is this, 7th grade?
Studying 'Angry White Males'
The University of Kansas has approved a course called âangry white male studies,â open to all students willing to take a womenâs studies course first. The course on white males will explore recent changes in demographics since the 1950s. Republican Congressman Ron Estes took a dim view, arguing that âKU is offering a class that divides the student population and could pose a TitleIX violation by creating a hostile campus movement based on gender.â
The course will be taught by Christopher Forth, who focuses on gender, fat-shaming, and masculinity.
Erasing White Men from Politics
Believing that courses on American political thought are too fixated on white males, Professor Chad Shomura of the University of Colorado at Denver has solved the problem by banning discussion of white men in his course on the nationâs political thought. This means nothing from Washington, Jefferson, Tocqueville, Rousseau or any of the pre-Obama presidents. Discussion of the Hillary Clinton race for the presidency in 2016 is allowed, but how she managed to lose while apparently ârunning unopposedâ is unclear.
No Free Speech: Heckler Cancels Another Student Meeting
Last week, a group of at least 4 Portland State University police officers stood by and declined to intervene as a heckler with a cowbell single-handedly canceled a College Republicans meeting. This is the second time in 2019 that PSU allowed hecklers or would-be hecklers to shut down campus expression â and the second time the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has demanded the university adhere to its First Amendment obligations. FIRE first wrote to the university Feb. 18 after PSUâs law enforcement unilaterally canceled a meeting of a socialist student group after the founder of the group Patriot Prayer said he would show up.
Be Careful What You Wish For on Social Programs
Nathan Glazer, the last of a group of famous neocon social scientists, died at the age of 95 on January 19 at his home in Cambridge, Mass. (He resisted the label âneocon.â) Glazer consistently warned that vast government plans to improve the lives of the poor often come to grief or create new problems of their own. âThe evaluations of the specifics of the first ten years after the launching of (the War on Poverty) confirm that nothing worked and in particular, nothing in education worked.â He concluded that the family was the key institution to positive social change and that rights are inherent in individuals, not groups. The article here by Howard Husock of the Manhattan Institute ran in 2011 when President Obama planned an extension of the War on Poverty.
I leave a response each time I appreciate a article on a site or I have something to contribute to the conversation. It’s caused by the passion communicated in the post I looked at. And after this article Here Comes the Anti-Bullying Bureaucracy. I was actually excited enough to leave a thought đ
Our job as adults is to keep them as safe as possible. This doesnât mean that they will never get hurt, but we must do everything in our power to protect them. Which adults are responsible to protect them? ALL OF US! Itâs shameful that this is even a debate. The quote, âIt takes a villageâ, has never been more true. Itâs not that the kids are changing, the technology and adult response has. Thinking about movies like âThe Outsidersâ, bullying has always existed in some way. However, youth can no longer escape it. The most effective response weâve seen is complete climate change in schools which includes involved parents. Schools and parents must team together. This is one of the core component of the programs we develop with schools.
Here is the link to Bader’s article about the ever-expanding definition of bullying (and the onerous legal mandates aimed at “bullying” in states like New Jersey:
http://www.openmarket.org/2011/11/15/obama-administration-promotes-panic-over-bullying-to-incite-attacks-on-students-rights-and-well-being/
I know on the K-12 bullying issue, the solution is to implement a School Climate Framework where the most important element is that the school will push for social justice.
Bullying is the emotional issue that forces the door open for a remedy that’s designed for other purposes. We have to quit thinking of education as the public good it can be and appreciate that it has turned into a political and social weapon.