by Patrick ➕follow (58) 💰tip ignore
« First « Previous Comments 123 - 162 of 202 Next » Last » Search these comments
Loudon County suspended a Christian gym teacher for saying he won't teach modern gender theory: "I love all of my students but I will never lie to them."
‘We Are Going to Expose You’: Crenshaw, Cotton Create Military Whistleblower Site to Combat ‘Woke Ideology’
BY JACK PHILLIPS May 30, 2021
Two Republican lawmakers have begun a campaign that calls on whistleblowers in the military to come forward with their experiences in training programs that promote critical race theory or “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
“We won’t let our military fall to woke ideology,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), a former Navy SEAL, wrote in a tweet on May 28, linking to a website where informants can submit their accounts. “With written permission, we will anonymously publish egregious complaints on social media and tell the country what’s happening in our military. ...
The web page was posted in conjunction with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), a former Army captain. They hope that service members “will anonymously publish egregious complaints on social media” in order to “tell the country what’s happening in our military,” Crenshaw said.
“Spineless military commanders have let it happen. Now we are going to expose you.”
Earlier this month, the U.S. Space Force confirmed it relieved Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier of his duties after he alleged that Marxism and critical race theory—which draws inspiration heavily from Marxist critical theory—are both being spread in the military via training courses that are required by Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other high-level officials. ...
Lohmeier last week met with Cotton, who wrote on Twitter after their meeting, “I was concerned by what I heard and will be pressing senior military leaders for answers.”
Critical race theory denounces U.S. and Western culture as a systematic form of oppression that negatively affects minority groups. Critics of the ideology—which is sometimes referred to as being “woke”—have said its proponents apply the Marxist tactic of “class struggle” to divide people along lines of race, gender, and ethnicity to label them “oppressors” and “oppressed.”
At the state level, legislatures and governors have taken action against critical race theory as well as The New York Times’ “1619 Project,” by barring them from being taught or promoted in schools and in government institutions.
The governors of Tennessee, Idaho, Arkansas, and Oklahoma have already signed bans of critical race theory in public schools. In Texas, Arizona, and Iowa, similar measures have been proposed, according to an analysis.
Now, Kendi is far from the only person to ever publicly flub a response to an easy question. But what remains inexplicable is that he may be the only one who gets paid millions of dollars to produce this kind of claptrap consistently. ...
But for some reason, Kendi's tongue-tied, "racism is the thing that racists do" definition continually gets applauded as a sort of penetrating insight.
It is staggeringly poor scholarship, but for a man who has become exceedingly wealthy through an elaborate capitalist grift alone, it's galling. If ever a man should be grateful for the excesses of capitalism, it's Kendi. Where else can you make millions by declaring the equivalent of, "Water is a liquid that has the characteristics of water?"
But in the end, my main objection isn't to Kendi himself. He's just financially striking while the cultural iron is hot. ...
... an imprecise, nebulous definition allows for the necessary addition of further offense under the umbrella of "racism" when the victimhood well begins to run dry.
And that's Kendi's main concern. It's why nameless, faceless, systemic racism is the game, rather than specific examples that can be addressed and corrected. The goal of Kendi's anti-racism is not to create fewer victims of racism, it's to create more. And that's exactly what will happen until those being fleeced catch on.
Pennsylvania lawmakers are introducing a new bill to ban schools from teaching the controversial critical race theory. The bill’s author told NTD what he finds problematic with the theory.
DeSantis Vows to Oppose Republican School Board Members Who Support "Critical Race Theory"
BY GQ PAN June 7, 2021
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over the weekend vowed to turn the Republican political apparatus of his state against school board candidates who support teaching Critical Race Theory.
“We’re not going to support any Republican candidate for school board who supports Critical Race Theory in all 67 counties or who supports mandatory masking of schoolchildren,” DeSantis told Fox News host Dan Bongino. ...
“Local elections matter. We are going to get the Florida political apparatus involved so we can make sure there’s not a single school board member who supports Critical Race Theory,” DeSantis added.
The governor’s comments come as the State Board of Education is scheduled to meet on June 10 and weigh a proposal that would ban teaching the founding of the United States as anything “other than the creation of a new nation based largely on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence.” ...
If passed, the proposed education rule would make Florida one of the handful of states that prohibit the teaching of the New York Times’s 1619 Project, which portrays the United States as an inherently racist nation founded on slavery. The Pulitzer Prize-winning project consists of a collection of essays that argue, among many other controversial claims, that the primary reason for the American Revolution was to preserve slavery, and that slavery was the primary driver of American capitalism during the 19th century.
“Next week, I have my Commissioner of Education going to the Board of Education, banning any departure from accurate history and following our standards,” DeSantis told Bongino. “This is something we’ve got to stay on the forefront of.”
Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, who proposed the rule, calls the effort to push back against indoctrination in public school classrooms a “constant, vigilant fight.”
“We’re passing a rule this coming month that says, for the 185,000 teachers, you can’t indoctrinate students on stuff that’s not based on our standards,” Corcoran said at a May 14 event on the Hillsdale, Michigan, campus of Hillsdale College. “But you have to police them on a daily basis. It’s 185,000 teachers in a classroom with anywhere from 18 to 25 kids.”
Judge Orders Virginia School to Reinstate Teacher Who Refused to Use Transgender Pronouns
BY MARK TAPSCOTT June 8, 2021
A Virginia state court judge on Tuesday directed Loudoun County School System officials to withdraw their suspension and other disciplinary measures against a teacher who declined to use students’ preferred pronouns.
Elementary school teacher Byron Tanner Cross was suspended May 27 after briefly speaking against a proposal to require teachers in the Northern Virginia public school system to address students by their preferred pronouns, rather than only by those indicating male and female gender.
Cross was also barred from being on the grounds of any of the school system’s facilities without prior permission and to be available on request to discuss the official investigation of whether his comments were disruptive.
Represented by attorneys from the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), an Arizona-based public interest law firm that specializes in civil and religious liberties litigation, Cross asked the Virginia Circuit Court for the County of Loudoun on June 1 to force the school system to withdraw its disciplinary actions via a Temporary Restraining Order while the case proceeds.
Cross claimed the suspension and related penalties were retaliation for his comments, which were protected by the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech.
Judge James E. Plowman of Virginia’s Twentieth Judicial Circuit, agreed, saying “here, it is clear the plaintiff was speaking as a citizen, not in his official capacity. His speech was not conducted at his usual place of employment, occurred during non-working hours and at a forum where public comment was invited. ...
Plowman agreed that the weight of the evidence suggests Cross is likely to prevail, as well as that he suffered “irreparable harm” in the violation of his First Amendment rights, and that he was suspended “due to his speech, barred from further speech, and similarly situated employees have been chilled from speech because of Defendants’ actions.”
As a result, the judge ruled that “the plaintiff’s request for a temporary injunction against the defendants is hereby granted. Defendants shall immediately reinstate the plaintiff to his position as it was prior to the issuance of his suspension and remove the ban that was placed upon him from all buildings and grounds of Loudoun County Public Schools.”
Unless an out-of-court settlement is reached between the parties, the case will be heard later this year.
Mike Farris, ADF’s president, hailed the decision, saying in a statement Tuesday that, “nobody should be punished for expressing concern about a proposed government policy, especially when the government invites comment on that policy. For that reason, we are pleased at the court’s decision to halt Loudoun County Public Schools’ retaliation against Tanner Cross while his lawsuit continues.”
Farris, himself a long-time resident of Loudoun County and former president of Patrick Henry College located there, added that, “educators are just like everybody else — they have ideas and opinions that they should be free to express. Advocating for solutions they believe in should not cost them their jobs.
“School officials singled out his speech, offered in his private capacity at a public meeting, as ‘disruptive’ and then suspended him for speaking his mind. That’s neither legal nor constitutional. Dozens of other teachers have shared their beliefs on various policies without retaliation; Tanner deserves to be treated with the same respect.”
The ADF has won a dozen decisions in the U.S. Supreme Court in recent years, including the landmark Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission in 2018 that upheld decorator Jack Phillips’ right to decline to include messages on cakes that violate his religious convictions.
Judge Orders Virginia School to Reinstate Teacher Who Refused to Use Transgender Pronouns
Parents also lambasted board members over their controversial push for critical race theory. Recently, Loudoun public schools have shifted their curriculum to include rhetoric about systemic racism and bias — Loudoun has paid approximately $500,000 to a racial consulting firm. District employees are also required to undergo racial ‘equity’ training.
‘We will not yield. We will not let you have the souls of our children,’ said Monica Gill, a self-described Christian parent, to the board. ‘We will not let you have our souls.’
Another parent concluded, ‘I will fight to the bitter end…if you teach my children that they are racist just because they’re white,’ according to PBS reporter Amna Nawaz.
Further, the moral code upon which the multiculturalists base their condemnations of Western society is decidedly Western. Though they pretend to reject as illegitimate all thought that originates from a "colonialist" (meaning Western) mindset, they accuse Columbus, John Winthrop, and James Madison of violating moral precepts taught almost exclusively in Western, enlightened thought.
The case against conquest and colonization is built around the principle of private property rights – a Western thought.
The case for reparations is built around the principle of equal justice – a Western thought.
The case against slavery and human trafficking is built around the principle of natural rights – a Western thought.
The case for dismantling patriarchal themes and the subjugation of women is built around the principle of women's liberation – a Western thought.
The case for religious and cultural pluralism is built around the principles of skepticism and tolerance – both Western thoughts.
The case for bodily autonomy and self-determination is built around the principles of individualism and humanism – both Western thoughts.
In other words, in their furious case against Western imperialism and colonialism, the neo-racist activists populating colleges and universities and spearheading the anti-Western cultural movements surrounding us today are embarrassingly forced to intellectually and morally borrow from the very philosophy they are condemning as intellectually and morally inferior.
The British footballers were booed over the weekend by some of their own fans for taking a knee before their match against Romania.
The team virtue-signaled -- I mean, announced their plan to kneel before the game, even though they were booed when they tried this stupid fake activism in their previous match.
America is fighting back: Black mom eviscerates CRT, calls it "racist" garbage that will destroy the nation
Joel Abbott
Jun 11th, 2021 3:17 pm
This black mom in Florida knows exactly what Critical Race Theory is, and she's not buying it for one second.
Watch:
https://twitter.com/Not_the_Bee/status/1403297459992944642
Kill shot:
I don't know about you, but telling my child or any child that they are in a permanent oppressed status in America because they are black is racist, and saying that white people are automatically above me, my children or any child is racist as well.
The end of her speech though really hit me in the feels:
Our ancestors, white, black, and others hung, bled, and died right alongside each other to push America towards that more perfect union. If this continues, we will look back and be responsible for the dismantling of the greatest country in the world by reverting to teaching hate and that race is a determining factor on where your destiny lies.
The outcry against CRT is rising across the nation, and the front lines are school board meetings, where parents are calling out this toxic ideology.
This is why the family must be destroyed before any good Marxist revolution can succeed. They did it particularly well in countries like Russia and China, where children were told to rat out their parents and taught that their real "mother" was the government.
What we're seeing here at these meetings is 'Murica fighting back!
Critical Race Theory Opponents Win Board Elections at Nation’s Top High School
Candidates opposed woke curriculum and eliminating merit-based admissions tests
National Parent Group Emerges to Fight ‘Woke’ Education, Says It Harms Children
Petition Calls for Resignation of New Jersey School Board Members After Holiday Names Replaced With Generic ‘Day Off’
The ban on CRT in Florida just passed.
And from CNN to Politfact, REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
« First « Previous Comments 123 - 162 of 202 Next » Last » Search these comments
patrick.net
An Antidote to Corporate Media
1,196,377 comments by 14,064 users - richwicks, WookieMan online now