"Wokeness" gone crazy

[HedonistForever]

This is exactly the kind of thing I believe will push Americans away from this Democrat party.


https://www.city-journal.org/identit...mentary-school


Woke Elementary

An elementary school in Cupertino, California—a Silicon Valley community with a median home price of $2.3 million—recently forced a class of third-graders to deconstruct their racial identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.”


Based on whistleblower documents and parents familiar with the session, a third-grade teacher at R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School began the lesson on “social identities” during a math class. The teacher asked all students to create an “identity map,” listing their race, class, gender, religion, family structure, and other characteristics. The teacher explained that the students live in a “dominant culture” of “white, middle class, cisgender, educated, able-bodied, Christian, English speaker[s],” who, according to the lesson, “created and maintained” this culture in order “to hold power and stay in power.”


Next, reading from This Book Is Antiracist, the students learned that “those with privilege have power over others” and that “folx who do not benefit from their social identities, who are in the subordinate culture, have little to no privilege and power.” As an example, the reading states that “a white, cisgender man, who is able-bodied, heterosexual, considered handsome and speaks English has more privilege than a Black transgender woman.” In some cases, because of the principle of intersectionality, “there are parts of us that hold some power and other parts that are oppressed,” even within a single individual.


Following this discussion, the teacher had the students deconstruct their own intersectional identities and “circle the identities that hold power and privilege” on their identity maps, ranking their traits according to the hierarchy. In a related assignment, the students were asked to write short essays describing which aspects of their identities “hold power and privilege” and which do not. The students were expected to produce “at least one full page of writing.” As an example, the presentation included a short paragraph about transgenderism and nonbinary sexuality.


The lesson caused an immediate uproar among Meyerholz Elementary parents. “We were shocked,” said one parent, who agreed to speak with me on condition of anonymity. “They were basically teaching racism to my eight-year-old.” This parent, who is Asian-American, rallied a group of a half dozen families to protest the school’s intersectionality curriculum. The group met with the school principal and demanded an end to the racially divisive instruction. After a tense meeting, the administration agreed to suspend the program. (When reached for comment, Jenn Lashier, the principal of Meyerholz Elementary, said that the training was not part of the “formal curricula, but the process of daily learning facilitated by a certified teacher.”)


The irony is that, despite being 94 percent nonwhite, Meyerholz Elementary is one of the most privileged schools in America. The median household income in Cupertino is $172,000, and nearly 80 percent of residents have a bachelor’s degree or higher. At the school, where the majority of families are Asian-American, the students have exceptionally high rates of academic achievement and the school consistently ranks in the top 1 percent of all elementary schools statewide. In short, nobody at Meyerholz is oppressed, and the school’s high-achieving parents know that teaching intersectionality instead of math is a waste of time—and potentially dangerous.


One parent told me that critical race theory was reminiscent of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. “[It divides society between] the oppressor and the oppressed, and since these identities are inborn characteristics people cannot change, the only way to change it is via violent revolution,” the parent said. “Growing up in China, I had learned it many times. The outcome is the family will be ripped apart; husband hates wife, children hate parents. I think it is already happening here.”


The small fight at Meyerholz reflects a larger development: for the first time, Asian-Americans on the West Coast have become politically mobilized. In 2019, Asian-Americans ran a successful initiative campaign against affirmative action in Washington State; in 2020, Asian-Americans ran a similar campaign in California, winning by an astonishing 57 percent to 43 percent margin. In both cases, they defended the principles of meritocracy, individual rights, and equality under the law—and roundly defeated a super-coalition of the states’ progressive politicians, activists, universities, media, and corporations.


The stakes are high for the Asian-American community. For progressives insisting on the narrative of “white supremacy” and “systemic racism,” Asian-Americans are the “inconvenient minority”: they significantly outperform all other racial groups, including whites, in terms of academic achievement, college admissions, household income, family stability, and other key measures. Affirmative action and other critical race theory-based programs would devastate their admissions to universities and harm their futures.


At Meyerholz Elementary, the Asian-American families are on high alert for critical race theory in the classroom. Since their initial victory, they have begun to consider campaigning against the school board. “We think some of our school board members are [critical race theory] activists and they must go,” said one parent. The capture of our public institutions by progressives obsessed by race and privilege deserves opposition at every level. The parents of Cupertino have joined the fight.
This article is part of an ongoing series on critical race theory in American schools.

[Tsmokies]

Just wondering if you have another handle or 2 on here. There is a lot of ridiculous copying and pasting ob HERE.

I'm just glad I don't hang w the whaco truck stop servers

[Austin Ellen]

I'm sure the truck stop servers are saying a prayer tonight that you are not among their ranks. Thank you for NOT being on Team Trump.

Originally Posted by Tsmokies

Just wondering if you have another handle or 2 on here. There is a lot of ridiculous copying and pasting ob HERE.

I'm just glad I don't hang w the whaco truck stop servers

[Tsmokies]

I'm good not being in the trumpy cult and you don't really need to pray for me Ellen

[oeb11]

Originally Posted by Tsmokies

Just wondering if you have another handle or 2 on here. There is a lot of ridiculous copying and pasting ob HERE.

I'm just glad I don't hang w the whaco truck stop servers

Thank you for your concern, ts.

you are not 'forced' to read any post in teh forum.



unlike mao's 'Little red Book" in teh Chinese Cultural revolution, which Chinese were FORCED to read.

[oeb11]

HF - Thanks for a nice read - glad 'someOne" is taking a stand against the 'critical race theory activist ' nut cases.

They are welcome in Texas to fend off teh flow of kalifornians fleeing their state - yet bringing the same socialist narrative foolishness with them.


Perhaps we can ask biden/Harris to develop a vaccine for 'wokeness' - on teh same timetable Trump enabled with the Wuhan virus.

[GastonGlock]

Originally Posted by oeb11

Perhaps we can ask biden/Harris to develop a vaccine for 'wokeness' - on teh same timetable Trump enabled with the Wuhan virus.

The vaccine for wokeness is personal responsibility and spending time outside your bubble.

[Ripmany]

It you momma money not yours. So there for there all equal poor

[SpeedRacerXXX]

Originally Posted by Austin Ellen

I'm sure the truck stop servers are saying a prayer tonight that you are not among their ranks. Thank you for NOT being on Team Trump.

lol. There is no "Team Trump" any longer. With his recent actions of trying to overturn the vote of the people of this country, supporting of the rioting at the Capitol building, his refusal to attend the inauguration of his successor, and his plans for a grandiose departure from Washington on Wednesday have probably cemented his ranking as the worst POTUS in the history of this country.

IMHO, it will be in the best interests of the Republican party to leave Trump in the dust as soon as possible and move on, as many in the party are already doing.

[winn dixie]

Having tds and being woke seem to be hand in hand.

[nevergaveitathought]

the stark reality is, america is foked

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by oeb11

Thank you for your concern, ts.

you are not 'forced' to read any post in teh forum.



unlike mao's 'Little red Book" in teh Chinese Cultural revolution, which Chinese were FORCED to read.

Not exactly a denial.

[rexdutchman]

^^^^^^^^^^^YUPPER, unity forced of course

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by GastonGlock

The vaccine for wokeness is personal responsibility and spending time outside your bubble.

The cure for life is death, right?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by oeb11

HF - Thanks for a nice read - glad 'someOne" is taking a stand against the 'critical race theory activist ' nut cases.

They are welcome in Texas to fend off teh flow of kalifornians fleeing their state - yet bringing the same socialist narrative foolishness with them.


Perhaps we can ask biden/Harris to develop a vaccine for 'wokeness' - on teh same timetable Trump enabled with the Wuhan virus.

Hard to be cute and ugly at the same time.

But thanks for playing.