Your Children, Their Politics (2)

Further to this and this, Max Eden reveals what “prioritising equity” actually looks like:

[T]he Ohio Department of Education kicked off this school year by promoting… its recommended “Anti-Racist Allyship Starter Pack,” a resource for social studies teachers… It’s not clear whether anyone from the ODE reviewed these articles in full before recommending them. But surely someone at least took a cursory glance at them. The ODE recommended that teachers read “How White Womens’ [sic] Tears Threaten Black Existence,” “When Feminism is White Supremacy in Heels,” and “White People Have No Culture.” Teachers were also urged to read “In Defence of Looting” and “Forget ‘Looting,’ Capitalism is the Real Robbery.” More recommended reading: “The Case for Delegitimising the Police,” “Abolish the Police?”, and “Yes, We Literally Mean Abolish the Police.” 

Ohio social studies teachers - and by extension, their students – will learn that having brown skin is some kind of accomplishment, a basis for applause and favours, unlike being white, which is apparently the opposite, a basis for atonement. In order to achieve “absolution” – and yes, that term is used in the recommended literature, with all that it implies – the “stone idol” of “whiteness” must be “smashed to pieces.” Students and educators are also informed that insofar as “white people” have any culture at all, it is merely one “of colonisation, of genocide, of taking,” in which “envy and fear” are defining features. It is, we’re assured, “the culture of death.” 

If the above suggests the outpourings of monomaniacal bedlamites with dubious intentions, the kind of people you really shouldn’t entrust with influence over your children, then you may be on to something.

Somewhat related. 

Comments

[JuliaM]

Which is why, to a certain extent, it doesn’t really matter who gets to sit in the Big Chair for the next four years next week. The damage is done, and there seems no way of eradicating the Progressive Virus, even if we manage to eradicate COVID...

[Mike]

If the above suggests the outpourings of monomaniacal bedlamites with dubious intentions,

If?

[David]

If?

Well, I’m assuming that parents won’t generally appreciate their children being encouraged to believe that being white is proof of some innate depravity, that bourgeois values are something to “smash,” and that looting and rioting are, like, totally groovy.

[TDK]

"I’m assuming that parents won’t generally appreciate their children"

I'm not convinced that most parents would disapprove. Most people I talk to about this remain ignorant of the detail and tend to think of this in terms of the activists are inheriting the movements of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. At worst they perceive youthful excesses which they balance off against mythical white supremacists which they read about in their newspapers and watch on TV.

I once thought the bald fact of them reversing Martin Luther King's injunction to judge on the content of character not the colour of skin, would make anyone decent pause for thought, but it's not enough.

[Joan]

"There is a profound level of fear inherent in white people"

If they have kids in an Ohio public school they *should* be afraid.

[Sam]

If you keep in mind that these talentless bigots can only project their failings then reading this claptrap is all the more terrifying.

[Sort-Of-Mad Max]

“White People Have No Culture.” Special guest host for this segment will be famous rapper/activist DJ Schmuzy D'GangBangus performing his hit 'Yo Mo Fo Mama's Big Hairy Whoopcake Makes Muh Eyeballz Bleed!'

No culture. White people. Always gets a snort from me.

[David]

The author of the article White People Have No Culture is Lorena Jasis-Wallace. When not writing articles that appear to be the result of a serious mental health issue, Ms Jasis-Wallace is a “co-facilitator of ‘Interrupting Oppression’ workshops.” Inevitably, she “tends towards a social justice lens in all areas of her work.” Also inevitably, she lives in Portland, Oregon.

[Sam]

Also inevitably, she lives in Portland, Oregon.

This is why I’m against Trump’s Wall. What’s the point when the biggest threat already resides within our borders?

[Mike]

"Call out the bullshit when you see it, in yourself and in others." From the "CULTURE OF DEATH"

I think I'll take your advice, Bullshit, lady.

[John Chittick]

With History, Civics and Geography now non existent, sure, why not skip directly to cultural Marxism in the curriculum. The foundation for nihilism is already well "constructed". And yet, conservatives still support the fallacy of centrally planned public education ignoring the fact that control of it is always just an election away.

[Dr Evil]

If these looters continue I expect in some cities the National Guard or the Army will be drafted in with orders to shoot looters. Perhaps next week after President Trump is re-elected?

[aelfheld]

Woke racism is as repellent as the non- (un-? pre-? ante-?) woke version.

[aelfheld]

This is why I’m against Trump’s Wall. What’s the point when the biggest threat already resides within our borders?

It gives us something to put them on the other side of.

[Darleen]

Moar Oregon

It's like Oregon has taken the peak stupidity in California as a personal challenge.

[Captain Nemo]

I foresee no problems with this brilliant* idea:

https://twitter.com/komonews/status/1321113424965758977

*Sarcasm

[David]

I foresee no problems with this brilliant* idea

You’re going to need more walls.

[Darleen]

I foresee no problems with this brilliant* idea

Holy frijoles ... what? They looked at California's steep rise in crime and places San Francisco and said "Brilliant! Let's do what they're doing!"

[Captain Nemo]

You’re going to need more walls.

I'm British, but yes. Our cousins across the pond are going to need some very high walls indeed.

[Clazy]

I'm tempted to regard the race peddlers as parasites inhabiting a body politic gone soft, but the metaphor seems a bit Hitlerian.

[NTSOG]

Aelfheld: "It gives us something to put them on the other side of."

I beg to differ: walls are also made for the standing of people against so the bullets don't hurt innocent bystanders.

[As the year has progressed I am feeling less and less tolerant about the rise of the idiots and what 'medicine' they need.]

[John]

https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/10/28/no-racism-is-not-to-blame-for-the-virus/

While we laugh about the idiocy over the pond let’s not lose sight of the relatively subtle (two words being pushed right to their limits these days) attacks on our own country like this report by our tireless Olympic flag-bearer.

[David]

Clazy, it’s been a while.

[David]

Which reminds me, has anyone seen Dicentra lately?

[Farnsworth M Muldoon]

This is why I’m against Trump’s Wall. What’s the point when the biggest threat already resides within our borders?

Nothing says it can't be extended north along I-5 to separate the mostly normal CA, OR, WA to the east from the stark raving bonkers loons to the west. While we are at it we can do the same with I-95 north from Norfolk to keep out the eejits to the east, and while we are at it, straight across Florida somewhere just south of Apalachicola.

[Deus Vulture]

When I see this and when I then read about the Girls Scouts of America taking down a tweet that congratulated ACB on her elevation to the Supreme Court because transwomen were offended by it, I do believe that White women are more at risk to becoming “unpeople “ than White men. I mean, the patriarchy still needs to be smashed and all, but at least they get to keep their gender.

[pst314]

Which reminds me, has anyone seen Dicentra lately?

All I know is that her Twitter feed has gone protected. :-(

[Squires]

...insofar as “white people” have any culture at all, it is merely one “of colonisation, of genocide, of taking,” in which “envy and fear” are defining features.

To state the obvious, “Narcissists project.”

[Clazy]

;-)

[David]

;-)

[ Rummages in pocket, rolls three complimentary peanuts along bar. ]

[Adam]

A STARTER pack? What is to follow?

Perhaps a lesson plan on "Delegitimizing classroom indoctrination".

[David]

A STARTER pack?

Oh, once you’ve touched the stuff, you’re always on the mailing list. And there is no ‘unsubscribe’ button.

[aelfheld]

NTSOG:

I beg to differ: walls are also made for the standing of people against so the bullets don't hurt innocent bystanders.

Dirt berms are better. Fewer ricochets.

[Darleen]

All I know is that her Twitter feed has gone protected. :-(

We follow each other (I've sent a DM, let's see if she's monitoring her account) ... I see her last activity on it was in June. Her flicker account has no new images since last December.

[Darleen]

When I see this and when I then read about the Girls Scouts of America taking down a tweet that congratulated ACB on her elevation to the Supreme Court because transwomen were offended by it,

Huh? AFAIK the shrieking WE ARE OFFENDED group was about daring to honor Amy Coney Barrett who the left consider little more than a creature yanked out of The Handmaid's Tale and illegitimately put on the Supreme Court by not-their-president OrangeManBad.

What did I miss?

[Darleen]

Ruh roh ...

[David]

The spam filter’s being capricious again. If anyone has trouble with comments not appearing, email me (top left) and I’ll rattle the damn thing.

[Darleen]

I heard from dicentra - she's taking a break from social media cuz of all the cray cray. Maybe back next year.

[David]

I heard from dicentra

Thanks, Darleen.

[pst314]

I heard from dicentra - she's taking a break from social media cuz of all the cray cray. Maybe back next year.

Please convey best wishes from all who miss her.

[David]

Please convey best wishes from all who miss her.

That.

[Darleen]

Please convey best wishes from all who miss her.

Have done so and she appreciates it. :)