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Trump and dominionists planning a Pogrom against the educated.Please include a summary of what the OP is about when creating a thread.
I see it as simple anti-intellectualism. Knowledge, diversity, inclusion, scientific advancement, etc., these things actually scare a lot of people I guess because it threatens their social status and identity. They can't envision themselves as anyone but themselves.Yet, conservatives glibly vote for politicians who are trying to dismantle the public educational system. And I think it's because they don't really understand what's going on, even though said politicians are making no real effort to hide their intent. Color it with emotional language, yes, blame it imaginary boogeymen like "social Marxists" and "CRT", yes. But they aren't actually making any effort to hide that the destruction and privatization of schooling is their end goal, even though that is a goal that would screw over a vast swath of the American public and that, regardless of political sympathies, is not something most of us would actually want.
And moreover, they know somewhere that when many people have what someone like @No Robots might consider "the power of God", that's going to scare a lot of people, too. It's moreso that there's some real and material advantage that education gives, that merely exercising the organ of understanding and knowledge gives an advantage in a number of social interactions.I see it as simple anti-intellectualism. Knowledge, diversity, inclusion, scientific advancement, etc., these things actually scare a lot of people I guess because it threatens their social status and identity. They can't envision themselves as anyone but themselves.Yet, conservatives glibly vote for politicians who are trying to dismantle the public educational system. And I think it's because they don't really understand what's going on, even though said politicians are making no real effort to hide their intent. Color it with emotional language, yes, blame it imaginary boogeymen like "social Marxists" and "CRT", yes. But they aren't actually making any effort to hide that the destruction and privatization of schooling is their end goal, even though that is a goal that would screw over a vast swath of the American public and that, regardless of political sympathies, is not something most of us would actually want.
This is more specifically aimed at the educators. They are actively trying to get these people to quit. Being a teacher was hard enough. These days they now need to deal with irrational Don Quixote parents verbally accosting them over things that don't exist in the curriculum.Trump and dominionists planning a Pogrom against the educated.Please include a summary of what the OP is about when creating a thread.
I think a boy might be safe, but I would not let him alone in a room with a adolescent girl for any length of time, and I say that with all honesty, not (just) as a political jab. I still fundamentally do not understand how that craven man has captured the support of the evangelical Christians I grew up around, who blanched at the very verbalization of words "sex" or "damn"...Would anyone who actually cares about their children let them near Mr. Trump for even a minute? The irony of the shitpost of a human being disparage teachers is overwhelming.
For the judges and SCOTUS, that was the argument by the intellectual right-wing in the fall of 2016. And they got Roe shredded. They sold their souls for that. And they won.I think a boy might be safe, but I would not let him alone in a room with a adolescent girl for any length of time, and I say that with all honesty, not as a political jab. I still fundamentally do not understand how that man has captured the support of the evangelical Christians I grew up around, who blanched at the very verbalization of words "sex" or "damn"...Would anyone who actually cares about their children let them near Mr. Trump for even a minute? The irony of the shitpost of a human being disparage teachers is overwhelming.
Very true. "Moral outrage" ain't a new thing.Alas, this problem of American anti-intellectual has much older and deeper roots in our national culture than do Trump or his followers. Margaret Mead was analyzing the root causes of anti-intellectual political mobilization as early as 1942, and it was already an "antique problem" to her by that time.
That is a bit much regarding "violent" demonstrations. Yes, there have been attempts to stop people like Ann Coulter from talking. But people like Richard Spencer have no right to use a college as their microphone.Over the last few decades suppression of intellectual freedom on campus has mostly been by the left. Violent demonstrions and threats against conservative speakers.
Funny, the right is forcing women to have babies, marching while chanting against the Jewish, and most recently, tried to pull a coup in DC. Yes, we get it, Seattle is experiencing a different trend in crime than most other areas.Here in Washington at Evergreen State College a day was dcelred when only blacks were to be on campus. A teacher exercised what he thought was his rights and went on campus. He got suspended and publicaly ripped as being racist..
I am actually more fearful of te left than the right.
So all those people yelling at teachers over CRT, something that doesn't even exist in curricula below college?If there is a pogrom it is one of enforcing a progressive political correct speech and condemning anyone contrary racist.
"Objective critique of black culture"... I'd probably want to make certain it was a bit more organic than being based on Hip Hop videos.Try going on campus in Ca and make an objective critique of black culture.
Is that really necessary 100% of the time? In this particular case, there are 25 seconds of words, not a 3 hour video, the thrust of the words in the 25 second video are spelled out, and the summary is the thread title.Please include a summary of what the OP is about when creating a thread.
Ridiculous. I am a California educator, and we discuss sociological and race issues in my courses all the time. I suspect what you really mean is that you aren't protected from the social consequences of saying racist things, but even there, if a student is staying within the confines of what is actually objectively true, why on earth would I try to stop them from doing so? An objective point of data is non-controversial in nature or at least demonstrably true whether or not there are objections, that's what makes it "objective". Nor have I myself ever faced any community backlash for discussing race in the classroom, not in eleven years of teaching. If a student says something factually inaccurate, I'm not embarassed to correct them. If they are struggling to distinguish between fact and opinion, we work through it. Even my conservative students have never lodged any sort of complaint, and despite what you say, they are far more likely to. Weinstein sued Evergreen for alleged racial discrimination, not the other way around. And that's a fact.Over the last few decades suppression of intellectual freedom on campus has mostly been by the left. Violent demonstrions and threats against conservative speakers.
Here in Washington at Evergreen State College a day was dcelred when only blacks were to be on campus. A teacher exercised what he thought was his rights and went on campus. He got suspended and publicaly ripped as being racist..
I am actually more fearful of te left than the right.
If there is a pogrom it is one of enforcing a progressive political correct speech and condemning anyone contrary racist.
Try going on campus in Ca and make an objective critique of black culture.
...an objective critique of black culture.
Elaborate rituals and ceremonies were a significant part of African-Americans' ancestral culture. Many West African societies traditionally believed that spirits dwelled in their surrounding nature. From this disposition, they treated their environment with mindful care. They also generally believed that a spiritual life source existed after death and that ancestors in this spiritual realm could then mediate between the supreme Creator and the living. Honor and prayer were displayed to these "ancient ones", the spirit of that past. West Africans also believed in spiritual possession.[5]
At the beginning of the 18th century, Christianity began to spread across North Africa; this shift in religion began displacing traditional spiritual practices from Africa. The enslaved Africans brought this complex religious dynamic within their culture to America. This fusion of traditional beliefs from Africa with Christianity provided a commonplace for those practicing religion in Africa and America.[5]
After emancipation, unique African-American traditions have continued to flourish, as distinctive traditions or radical innovations in music, art, literature, religion, cuisine, and other fields. 20th-century sociologists, such as Gunnar Myrdal, believed that African-Americans had lost most of their cultural ties with Africa.[6] But, anthropological field research by Melville Herskovits and others demonstrated that there has been a continuum of African traditions among Africans of the diaspora.[7] The greatest influence of African cultural practices on European culture is found below the Mason-Dixon line in the American South.[8][9]
For many years African-American culture developed separately from American culture, both because of slavery and the persistence of racial discrimination in America, as well as African-American slave descendants' desire to create and maintain their own traditions. Today, African-American culture has influenced American culture and yet still remains a distinct cultural body.[10]
African-American culture is influenced by the culture of the Southern United States. Their food and language is influenced by White Southerners who enslaved them on plantations in the South.[11]
A boy might be safe from sexual molestation, but no one would be safe from his overall emotional and intellectual depravity.I think a boy might be safe, but I would not let him alone in a room with a adolescent girl for any length of time, and I say that with all honesty, not (just) as a political jab. I still fundamentally do not understand how that craven man has captured the support of the evangelical Christians I grew up around, who blanched at the very verbalization of words "sex" or "damn"...
Are biblical metaphors off the table with you? Because there are several. Apparently this is common enough of a process that it gets documented and predicted.I think a boy might be safe, but I would not let him alone in a room with a adolescent girl for any length of time, and I say that with all honesty, not (just) as a political jab. I still fundamentally do not understand how that craven man has captured the support of the evangelical Christians I grew up around, who blanched at the very verbalization of words "sex" or "damn"...Would anyone who actually cares about their children let them near Mr. Trump for even a minute? The irony of the shitpost of a human being disparage teachers is overwhelming.
But alas, this problem of American anti-intellectualism and mass suspicion of public schoolteachers has much older and deeper roots in our national culture than do Trump or his followers. Margaret Mead was analyzing the root causes of anti-intellectual political mobilization as early as 1942, and it was already an "antique problem" to her by that time.
What I find funniest is the use of the word "objective". Because while I am absolutely certain Steve Bank's analysis would attempt to be objective, it would almost certainly be paternal, presumptive, and most of all grossly ignorant of what it means, how it feels, how it is to be black in America.
You're kidding, right? What do you think "antiracists" are talking about when they are talking about whiteness?What I find funniest is the use of the word "objective". Because while I am absolutely certain Steve Bank's analysis would attempt to be objective, it would almost certainly be paternal, presumptive, and most of all grossly ignorant of what it means, how it feels, how it is to be black in America.
I can just see Steve Bank trying to convince them that his critique is "objective", as he is being mocked and handwaved away, "But my critique is objective! It's objective!!!"
I mean heck, the term "black culture" itself is fucking insulting seeing the term should be "American Culture". Who is talking about "white culture" in the US? Is there even a "white culture"? I mean beyond eating large portions of meat? People only seem to want to discuss "culture" when belittling a group of people, even when objectively doing so.
So enlighten me on white culture.You're kidding, right? What do you think "antiracists" are talking about when they are talking about whiteness?What I find funniest is the use of the word "objective". Because while I am absolutely certain Steve Bank's analysis would attempt to be objective, it would almost certainly be paternal, presumptive, and most of all grossly ignorant of what it means, how it feels, how it is to be black in America.
I can just see Steve Bank trying to convince them that his critique is "objective", as he is being mocked and handwaved away, "But my critique is objective! It's objective!!!"
I mean heck, the term "black culture" itself is fucking insulting seeing the term should be "American Culture". Who is talking about "white culture" in the US? Is there even a "white culture"? I mean beyond eating large portions of meat? People only seem to want to discuss "culture" when belittling a group of people, even when objectively doing so.