Under pressure from parents, the head of the Dalton school, home of the “diversity manifesto” -- has stepped down.
What does systemic racism mean? “Systemic” means of or relating to a system, especially when affecting the entirety of a thing. Reasonable minds will disagree. What matters is how the radical racialists, some would …
Under pressure from parents, the head of the Dalton school, home of the “diversity manifesto” -- has stepped down.
What does systemic racism mean? “Systemic” means of or relating to a system, especially when affecting the entirety of a thing. Reasonable minds will disagree. What matters is how the radical racialists, some would say racket, overtaking schools and media interpret “systemic” racism. Broadly is an understatement. The answer is Western society, every square inch of it. Ad of course, entire groups of people in it guilty by birth. I included a partial listing in my original post. I’m reposting rather than re-listing.
First, a few commenters tried to redirect the discussion away from the fanaticism and attendant abuses abroad in education back to the omnipresent obsession with “race." Andrew Gutmann didn’t deny racism, he called out obsession and abuse. There’s a difference. We of all races will continue to work together, as one, to fix bigotry, all types, without upending the guarantor of the free world, turning the U.S. into a dumpster fire and our children into cultists.
Second, it is Homerically disingenuous for the head of Brearley, which with great fervor points the finger at pre-pubescent and parent “oppressors," to claim that some of its students are “intimidated” by "at home" receipt of what is, and will be ever thus, “The Guttman Letter.”
Let’s do keep the focus on the kids and adults, the human beings, on the receiving end of “anti-racist” indoctrination, shaming, censorship, and discrimination. Where is Tom Wolfe when we need him? It’s uncanny --heads of schools who summer in Nantucket or Italy -surely realize that “private property” itself is “systemic racism.” That's right. Property, it is, it seems, evanescent, depending on “equity,” which is “paramount.” Maybe they've a second home in New Zealand.
Here's an excerpt from Steve Jobs’ graduation speech in 2005:
” Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Our kids are being cheated of this.
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No one is denying racism; Andrew Gutmann has stepped away from bullied crowd to challenge the misuse of the term “structural” or “systemic” racism, and claims that American blacks have no agency. The CRT grift has broadened racism to encompass and condemn every aspect of Western society. Language. Grammar. Math. Whiteness. Tests. Grades. Merit. Gifted students. Government. Capitalism. Reason. Law enforcement. Actions have consequences. Objectivity. Dolls. Standards. Manners. Science. History. Rule of law. Checks and balances. Hair. Punctuality. Voter ID. Animal charities. Clothes. Cartoons. Mothers. Fathers. Families. Heterosexuality. The word, "citizen." Toys. Books—lots of books. Lincoln. Grant. Churchill. Plato. Seneca. Old movies. Shakespeare. Seuss. Mr. Potato Head. It must all come crashing down in a cloud of white supremacy dust. Speaking of “re-imagining,” imagine the hell on earth that would replace it. Orwell used FREEDOM IS SLAVERY to demonstrate how the indoctrinated can be railroaded into denying reality. Absent a scintilla of awareness or irony, “speech is oppression” is a core tenet of CRT. Children and adults are to instantly parrot jargon imposed by poseurs and tricksters who do not, as evidenced by the black writers and intellectuals battling CRT, represent all blacks. Teaching children, or adults, that “positive discrimination” against whites, bullying, intimidation, and snitching are virtues; that white children or adults are oppressors who must remain silent and “listen”; that they and their parents have arrived at their station in life through iniquity is, in fact, a rock solid example of “systemic” racism, a "structural" violation of human rights, the exact stuff of which ethnic cleansing is made. CRT is a very big, steaming pile of hooey. Liberal democracy cannot survive it.
Love the Tom Wolfe shout-out. Bonfire of the Vanities is quite possibly more relevant now than when it was written, as with I Am Charlotte Simmons. And of course all of his non-fiction work...
Other authors whose voices I miss terribly during these times: Christopher Hitchens, David Foster Wallace, even Norman Mailer.
Karl Popper says - We should not be tolerant of intolerance that is threatening liberal democracy. And he has a good point. Liberalism should grow some teeth and deal with these purveyors of intolerance with proportional and legal force.
You will then see how overnight they shall love free speech and the right not to be cancelled. And will fall back on liberal tenets to defend their putrid anti-liberal ideology.
I surely hope liberal democracy can survive CRT, but am skeptical too. Too many young folks who don't have a proper education and have been made to believe that liberal democracy is the natural state of any human society from times immemorial - and now it should be subject to improvement. Neither do they see the relationship between LD and freedom and liberties.
Then there are the 'liberal Left' whose eyes have been transfixed on CRT like deer in a headlight, believing (or being bullied) that CRT carries the same liberal principles as LD. This class are loath to criticize the radicals and go along with the flow.
Toqueville warned of conformity in America. "Too many minds come to rest on opinions without examination," or something close. Education, the real thing, went down the tubes inversely with unions' power.Today, children would likely receive a much better education in a good school in India.
Under pressure from parents, the head of the Dalton school, home of the “diversity manifesto” -- has stepped down.
What does systemic racism mean? “Systemic” means of or relating to a system, especially when affecting the entirety of a thing. Reasonable minds will disagree. What matters is how the radical racialists, some would say racket, overtaking schools and media interpret “systemic” racism. Broadly is an understatement. The answer is Western society, every square inch of it. Ad of course, entire groups of people in it guilty by birth. I included a partial listing in my original post. I’m reposting rather than re-listing.
First, a few commenters tried to redirect the discussion away from the fanaticism and attendant abuses abroad in education back to the omnipresent obsession with “race." Andrew Gutmann didn’t deny racism, he called out obsession and abuse. There’s a difference. We of all races will continue to work together, as one, to fix bigotry, all types, without upending the guarantor of the free world, turning the U.S. into a dumpster fire and our children into cultists.
Second, it is Homerically disingenuous for the head of Brearley, which with great fervor points the finger at pre-pubescent and parent “oppressors," to claim that some of its students are “intimidated” by "at home" receipt of what is, and will be ever thus, “The Guttman Letter.”
Let’s do keep the focus on the kids and adults, the human beings, on the receiving end of “anti-racist” indoctrination, shaming, censorship, and discrimination. Where is Tom Wolfe when we need him? It’s uncanny --heads of schools who summer in Nantucket or Italy -surely realize that “private property” itself is “systemic racism.” That's right. Property, it is, it seems, evanescent, depending on “equity,” which is “paramount.” Maybe they've a second home in New Zealand.
Here's an excerpt from Steve Jobs’ graduation speech in 2005:
” Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Our kids are being cheated of this.
First post list
No one is denying racism; Andrew Gutmann has stepped away from bullied crowd to challenge the misuse of the term “structural” or “systemic” racism, and claims that American blacks have no agency. The CRT grift has broadened racism to encompass and condemn every aspect of Western society. Language. Grammar. Math. Whiteness. Tests. Grades. Merit. Gifted students. Government. Capitalism. Reason. Law enforcement. Actions have consequences. Objectivity. Dolls. Standards. Manners. Science. History. Rule of law. Checks and balances. Hair. Punctuality. Voter ID. Animal charities. Clothes. Cartoons. Mothers. Fathers. Families. Heterosexuality. The word, "citizen." Toys. Books—lots of books. Lincoln. Grant. Churchill. Plato. Seneca. Old movies. Shakespeare. Seuss. Mr. Potato Head. It must all come crashing down in a cloud of white supremacy dust. Speaking of “re-imagining,” imagine the hell on earth that would replace it. Orwell used FREEDOM IS SLAVERY to demonstrate how the indoctrinated can be railroaded into denying reality. Absent a scintilla of awareness or irony, “speech is oppression” is a core tenet of CRT. Children and adults are to instantly parrot jargon imposed by poseurs and tricksters who do not, as evidenced by the black writers and intellectuals battling CRT, represent all blacks. Teaching children, or adults, that “positive discrimination” against whites, bullying, intimidation, and snitching are virtues; that white children or adults are oppressors who must remain silent and “listen”; that they and their parents have arrived at their station in life through iniquity is, in fact, a rock solid example of “systemic” racism, a "structural" violation of human rights, the exact stuff of which ethnic cleansing is made. CRT is a very big, steaming pile of hooey. Liberal democracy cannot survive it.
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Love the Tom Wolfe shout-out. Bonfire of the Vanities is quite possibly more relevant now than when it was written, as with I Am Charlotte Simmons. And of course all of his non-fiction work...
Other authors whose voices I miss terribly during these times: Christopher Hitchens, David Foster Wallace, even Norman Mailer.
But Bari brings it home!
Thank you, Bari!
Not to mention George Carlin...
I miss him deeply. He was the father who taught me to question everything and not to take sacred cows so seriously. My favorite iconoclast by far.
Karl Popper says - We should not be tolerant of intolerance that is threatening liberal democracy. And he has a good point. Liberalism should grow some teeth and deal with these purveyors of intolerance with proportional and legal force.
You will then see how overnight they shall love free speech and the right not to be cancelled. And will fall back on liberal tenets to defend their putrid anti-liberal ideology.
I surely hope liberal democracy can survive CRT, but am skeptical too. Too many young folks who don't have a proper education and have been made to believe that liberal democracy is the natural state of any human society from times immemorial - and now it should be subject to improvement. Neither do they see the relationship between LD and freedom and liberties.
Then there are the 'liberal Left' whose eyes have been transfixed on CRT like deer in a headlight, believing (or being bullied) that CRT carries the same liberal principles as LD. This class are loath to criticize the radicals and go along with the flow.
Toqueville warned of conformity in America. "Too many minds come to rest on opinions without examination," or something close. Education, the real thing, went down the tubes inversely with unions' power.Today, children would likely receive a much better education in a good school in India.