Saturday, February 3, 2018

Virtue signaling run amok

Katherine Kersten on “social justice” education and its pernicious, all-pervasive racial dogmatism: 
Like students, the district’s faculty and staff must submit to racial equity re-education. One such mandatory session for school bus drivers is illustrative… The training session was entitled “Edina School District Equity and Racial Justice Training: Moving from a Diversity to a Social Justice Lens.” In it, trainers instructed bus drivers that “dismantling white privilege” is “the core of our work as white folks,” and that working for the Edina schools requires “a major paradigm shift in the thinking of white people.” Drivers were exhorted to confess their racial guilt, and embrace the district’s “equity” ideology.
The result of all of this? Four years into the Edina schools’ equity crusade, black students’ test scores continue to disappoint… Math scores for black students in 11th grade at Edina Senior High dropped from 31 percent proficiency in 2014 to 14.6 percent in 2017. In reading, scores for black students in 10th grade at Edina Senior High dropped from 51.7 percent proficiency in 2014 to 40 percent in 2017.
And what parents want, obviously, is for their children to be taught how to become racially fixated leftwing activists, albeit illiterate ones who struggle with basic arithmetic, but who’ve learned the important things, such as how to confess or denounce “white privilege,” and “how to embrace ancestry, genetic code and melanin.” At some point, perhaps quite soon, the words foolish and dogmatic will seem an inadequate response, and the description that comes to mind may be something like evil.

In the comments:
I’m searching my maps of China and the USSR from the 1960s and 1970s. I can’t seem to find this place you refer to as “Edina”.

Edina is largely in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, the one that elected radical Muslim and radical leftist Keith Ellison to Congress. White liberals are jaw-droppingly stupid.

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  1. "Moving from a Diversity to a Social Justice Lens" must mean "moving from equal opportunity to equal outcomes", which in my opinion is where the social justice movement went completely off the rails.

    Which reminds me, "Sociology is what real science would look like it if had a train wreck."

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  2. Conditions are ripe for civil insurrection and racial genocide.

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    1. Note: this is an ideology sold primarily by white people, to white people. All we have to do is refuse to buy.

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  3. What needs to happen, and/or what will it take for White folks, as a group, to become united and sufficiently outraged to rise up as a unified body and fight back?

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  4. "Descendants of some of the most ferocious warriors the world has ever known have sadly been brought to their knees by a single word - - - , 'RACISM'."

    Anonymous

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  5. "Nationwide repeal of all firearms legislation, accompanied by a restoration of racial segregation, along with legalized implementation of Code Duello, would immediately resolve almost all contemporary social problems."

    John Robert Mallernee

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    1. Exactly. And as Robert A. Heinlein put it, "An armed society is a polite society."

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    2. Not only would your plan fail in its ostensible objectives, we would then have a host of new ones.

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  6. So...wait....let me get this straight!?!??! You mean all that self flagellation that SJW's want white folk to do....isn't helping the black folks test scores!?!?!?!?
    Who would'a seen that comin', eh!??!!?

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    1. i saw this coming when i had noticed that the school district failed to dumb down the tests questions so that the "students" test scores better reflected the roles they are about to play in our society.
      perhaps now is the time to have "students" all take tests based on their individual ethnic identities. what could be more fair????

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  7. Edina Grad mid 70's here, it was the premier high school in the five state area. I didn't make it to my 40th reunion but I'd be asking what the F happened of the classmates who still lived in town? This high school has over 150 State Titles in everything from Debate to Football. How did a town of overachievers get destroyed? Look to this as a small microcosm of what is happening to the country as a whole. The veil that is progressive is being pulled back as their failures are made public. I see a sea change coming as property values (that were underpinned by the excellence of the school system) go south. I was once proud to say I was from Edina, not so much today.

    Spin Drift

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