I mean, she does attract followers with scoobie snacks of bu@#$SI. I thought her insanity was worrisome. However, the first part of the story has me deeply bothered like the first day Orange God King was elected. My city remains heavily segregated by neighborhood. You could draw a line down it using one street as a demarcation line. Does the obvious reality of this reality-based information cause white guilt? My daughter is mixed race. Am I to be worried that she would look at her father in disappointment because she learned about "Bull" Connor? NO! ZERO! Would her left arm feel guilty of her right arm? It is important that American culture mixed with all its races understands, visualizes, discusses its missteps. How do you claim success over bigotry or injustice, like Steenman wants to do, without learning about the origins of its struggle and the hearts of those that struggled? Instead of teaching her child that there were white people that fought and died to erase racism and slavery too. She basically condoned the behavior in her own heart by abolishing its conversation from her mind.
Indeed, there is a difference between white children being taught that they themselves, in 2021, are complicit in sustaining so-called "white supremacy" by virtue of their existence (which is only a slight exaggeration of what is happening in some of the more egregious cases of woke-activism-as-education in certain, mostly upscale schools) and simply being taught the realities of our past and the way real white supremacy actually did shape our history. The law is written in a way that it seems to be targeting the former, but clearly renders itself open to interpretations as targeting the latter.
If they want more positive examples of our history - how about more highlighting of the contributions made by notable historical black Americans? Go more in-depth about the American abolition movement. The Civil Rights movement and the gains that have been made for black Americans since then. Granted there are some areas where this may stray into slight discomfort, but a proper treatment of these historical subjects would actually do much to counter the modern far-left's overly jaded narratives about the America of today.
The beginning of the story of the book banning is important. It has arisen out of challenges to remove false history (such as the Civil War was about "state's rights") and to add anti-racism to the curriculum. In response, we have this right-wing shit storm about feelings. The end result? A stalemate which is exactly what the right wants. Universities may have become liberal bastions but that is certainly not true with most secondary education. In fact, do conservatives ever consider that Universities are as liberal as they are in part because students learn that much of the conservative bullshit they learn in high school was false or at least misleading? I know that helped develop my politics.
People like Rush Limbaugh spent years trashing science and higher education, all while the Republican party became an unholy alliance between young-earth fundamentalist Christians and climate change deniers. Convinced that the mainstream media's biases justified the construction of a "world as we see it" parallel universe of thought and epistemology, American conservatism slowly surrendered its former status as the intellectual rock of political thought, as the Republican party increasingly relied upon a polity encased in "Conservapedia" reality to win elections. People of learned backgrounds inevitably began to be turned off by the right's antagonistic relationship with basic truth, and Republicans went from being the party of the educated to the party of the ill-informed.
Conservatives aren't wrong to say that modern universities have become infected with a dangerous strain of left-wing illiberalism. But they would be wrong to deny the part the Right played in this long, gradual transformation in which they voluntarily abandoned institutional learning to the American left.
the book banning will become burning soon. scary
Happy to see this Comments page start. The Dispatch is starting to sound too much like National Review.
I mean, she does attract followers with scoobie snacks of bu@#$SI. I thought her insanity was worrisome. However, the first part of the story has me deeply bothered like the first day Orange God King was elected. My city remains heavily segregated by neighborhood. You could draw a line down it using one street as a demarcation line. Does the obvious reality of this reality-based information cause white guilt? My daughter is mixed race. Am I to be worried that she would look at her father in disappointment because she learned about "Bull" Connor? NO! ZERO! Would her left arm feel guilty of her right arm? It is important that American culture mixed with all its races understands, visualizes, discusses its missteps. How do you claim success over bigotry or injustice, like Steenman wants to do, without learning about the origins of its struggle and the hearts of those that struggled? Instead of teaching her child that there were white people that fought and died to erase racism and slavery too. She basically condoned the behavior in her own heart by abolishing its conversation from her mind.
Indeed, there is a difference between white children being taught that they themselves, in 2021, are complicit in sustaining so-called "white supremacy" by virtue of their existence (which is only a slight exaggeration of what is happening in some of the more egregious cases of woke-activism-as-education in certain, mostly upscale schools) and simply being taught the realities of our past and the way real white supremacy actually did shape our history. The law is written in a way that it seems to be targeting the former, but clearly renders itself open to interpretations as targeting the latter.
If they want more positive examples of our history - how about more highlighting of the contributions made by notable historical black Americans? Go more in-depth about the American abolition movement. The Civil Rights movement and the gains that have been made for black Americans since then. Granted there are some areas where this may stray into slight discomfort, but a proper treatment of these historical subjects would actually do much to counter the modern far-left's overly jaded narratives about the America of today.
The beginning of the story of the book banning is important. It has arisen out of challenges to remove false history (such as the Civil War was about "state's rights") and to add anti-racism to the curriculum. In response, we have this right-wing shit storm about feelings. The end result? A stalemate which is exactly what the right wants. Universities may have become liberal bastions but that is certainly not true with most secondary education. In fact, do conservatives ever consider that Universities are as liberal as they are in part because students learn that much of the conservative bullshit they learn in high school was false or at least misleading? I know that helped develop my politics.
People like Rush Limbaugh spent years trashing science and higher education, all while the Republican party became an unholy alliance between young-earth fundamentalist Christians and climate change deniers. Convinced that the mainstream media's biases justified the construction of a "world as we see it" parallel universe of thought and epistemology, American conservatism slowly surrendered its former status as the intellectual rock of political thought, as the Republican party increasingly relied upon a polity encased in "Conservapedia" reality to win elections. People of learned backgrounds inevitably began to be turned off by the right's antagonistic relationship with basic truth, and Republicans went from being the party of the educated to the party of the ill-informed.
Conservatives aren't wrong to say that modern universities have become infected with a dangerous strain of left-wing illiberalism. But they would be wrong to deny the part the Right played in this long, gradual transformation in which they voluntarily abandoned institutional learning to the American left.
And to the blond, true American youth in the meme: The Hitler Youth wants their uniform back.
That guy is from Scooby Doo. Which makes it somehow stupider.
Why yes, yes it does.
That MTG meme is something else. We now have congressional staff creating this stuff?
What kind of young person do you have to be to apply to be on MTG's staff?
Impaired? Delusional? Not able to get any other type of job?
And being paid with out tax dollars!
tbf, it's not like she has any committee assignments to take up her time.
For which we should be grateful. She would be like Jim Jordan, without the charm or intellect.