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ck4829's JournalIt's great, wonderful, to see the shoe on the other foot
There was a phase of my life when I was a young adult, I needed a job, any job. I worked on my resume all the time, I had volunteer experience, I lowered my standards, learned interviewing skills, I was going to school, I kept my nose clean, etc.
And you know what I got?
Nothing but “don’t call us, we’ll call you”s and the same email over and over again just with the job title changed I got telling me they were looking for someone else but “best of luck in your job search”.
I had a family I wanted to make - that wasn’t going to happen.
My family thought I was lazy - despite all the sacrifices and willingness I had
All because I wasn’t a magical unicorn to these people. So I’m enjoying every minute of employers begging people to work for them.
Task force on "indoctrination in schools" goes after successful programs for poor, immigrants
The co-chair of the task force looking into claims of “indoctrination” in Idaho schools submitted a public records request to the Boise School District that could cost tens of thousands of dollars, the district said Thursday.
The request asked for all Learning for Justice, English Learners and AVID materials, books, curriculum or other assignments that were used in K-12 classrooms or in teacher trainings over the past year, according to the district. It also asked for any materials, books, curriculum or assignments using Nikole Hannah Jones’ 1619 project or the 1776 project.
The school district said the request was made by Rep. Priscilla Giddings, who co-chairs the task force created by Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin looking into claims of indoctrination in Idaho schools. The task force met for the first time last month and has plans for three more meetings over the summer.
The records requests made, according to the school district, could involve thousands of hours, with costs ranging to more than $120,000, depending on the scope the representative wants.
Read more here: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/article252038743.html#storylink=cpy
At that time AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) had already been successfully supporting college enrollment among socio-economic and ethnic/racial groups underrepresented in colleges for 25 years with the data to prove it.
Thanks to our staff and district support, our first group of eighth-graders began their transformation from underachieving students, unsure of their futures, to proficient and confident students, who would proudly inform anyone who would listen, “I’m going to college.”
When they graduated from Capital High four years later with 70% of them going to college, we wept with joy.
When we read that Idaho’s indoctrination task force was targeting the AVID and ELL programs for investigation, we scratched our heads. Why would anyone be apprehensive of programs that brought so much success to students? The task force can’t even define critical race theory, or indoctrination for that matter, so what did it hope to find? And why were these two programs specifically targeted? Unfortunately, we suspect that our students’ success is exactly what the task force is afraid of. Do they want to end programs that support the success of children whom they fear will “replace them”?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/indoctrination-task-force-targets-successful-100000176.html
Hmm... Interesting.
I would like to make this image the face of googling "critical race theory"
There needs to be a free lesson in critical race theory, I think this would be a good one.
This, by the way, was the pinned tweet of a Twitter account that I was a part of, it was reported numerous times, I suspect, after tweeting a couple negative things about Michael Flynn.
Oh, THOSE 'different ideas' (6-29-21 edition)
“It used to be thought that a university campus was a place where you’d be exposed to a lot of different ideas,” DeSantis said during a bill signing ceremony. “Unfortunately, now the norm is, these are more intellectually repressive environments. You have orthodoxies that are promoted, and other viewpoints are shunned or even suppressed.”
Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/06/florida-students-faculty-will-declare-political-views-prevent-liberal-indoctrination
"Oh, so you mean like in sociology; you have functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theory; and now they're only teaching one of those things and not even talking about the other two at all?"
"No, not like that."
"Oh! So in studies of evolution, you mean they're only teaching gradualism OR punctuated equilibrium and not having discussions of both, while they both have merit?"
"Uh... no, we're not talking about that."
"OH! You mean they're stifling the "is the universe explained by quantum mechanics or general relativity" debate in physics and have come down on the side of one and are refusing to talk about the other at all? Those jerks!"
"... no, no."
"OK, so in the college restrooms, they have now cruelly decided to put all the toilet paper under instead of over? Those totalitarians!"
"No!"
"Oh... so by 'different ideas', you mean...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Calling AOC a ‘Little Communist’ and ‘Not an American’ at Trump Rally in Ohio. (Despite AOC being an American, not a communist, and taller than Marjorie Taylor Greene)
Rudy Giuliani claiming his law license was suspended to ‘shut (him) up’ because Trump is on verge of winning.
Greg Locke using his Sunday sermon to allege that there are child-trafficking “tunnels” under the U.S. Capitol and White House and accusing President Joe Biden, Oprah Winfrey, and Tom Hanks of being “a bunch of pedophiles.”
Josh Bernstein saying that Bill Gates is investing in farmland as part of a demonic plan to take away your meat, thereby keeping you weak and unable “to overcome their tyrannical governments.”
Nick Fuentes claiming that Making Juneteenth A Federal Holiday Is ‘About Furthering The Genocide Of White People.’
... right?"
Yes, they actually said these things:
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-round-up-unbanned/
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-a-bunch-of-pedophiles/
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-round-up-fear-of-a-white-genocide/
So with all this talk about "critical race theory", I decided to revisit my notes on critical theory
This is from 2015, between lectures about Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault (Also both great theorists), you will find few direct quotes here, this is all from me, when I saw or heard something interesting, I decided to jot it down in my own words. I will also add a few new notes here how I think it applies to the screaming we hear when it comes to critical race theory...
Critical race theory - Frankfurt school
* Society's not that great
* "Progress" can also be a source of domination and dehumanization
* Culture, science, and technology can be ideological forces distorting human progress
* "Critical" refers to critique, not having assumptions
There is no real scarcity anymore, so we go ahead and create new forms of scarcity, new needs, new lacks of things.
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Me in 2021: We have multi-billionaires and corporations approaching assets of a trillion dollars. So yes, scarcity does NOT have to be a thing. And yet some people are more concerned that they didn't get that minimum wage job and they think some immigrant refugee or affirmative action is responsible?
Critical theory has a concern for the loss of individuality.
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Me in 2021: How much individuality do we let get subsumed by race? Take a look at race vs individuality and one will see that is always, ALWAYS, restricted choice rather than expanding and enhancing it. Race has been used to exploit labor, tell you where you could sit on a bus, where you could live, if you go into town after sundown, who you could love and marry, etc. Or today, one can be "white" and "poor" but it seems like a lot of people would rather be a part of the "white" "us" and struggle against the "non-white" "them" rather than be part of the "poor" "us" and struggle against the "rich" "them".
Distinction between aspiration and false need. Culture has declared what we need now. (I jotted down "Black Friday" next to this, I remember thinking that this was a good manifestation of culture declaring we need "that thing" and right now)
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Me in 2021: You don't need to not hear "press 1 for English". You don't need to be told "Merry Christmas" at the cash registers, yet they have become needs for some people.
Eclipse of Reason - Horkheimer
* Decline of the individual
* Reason used to be an instrument of our selves, we used to use technology to further our interests, the machine has dropped the driver.
* More concerned we are with power over things, the more things dominate us and the more we lack genuine individuality.
* A desire for conformity has become openly proclaimed
Repression and the social order
* Happiness has been reduced to banality, leading a "normal life" is considered "happiness" today
* Idea of truth has been reduced to a useful tool alongside the control of "nature"
* If repression was truly abolished, people would turn against the social order and question the status quo
Technocrats and industrialization
* Our minds are closed to a different world, we will get upset when people violate the rules of the game, but we do not question those rules
* It is not really technology that destroys the individual but is social relations specific to industrialization
A way out
* Can escape repression, not linked to technology but to social relations
* Individuality can break free from industrial discipline state
* A better understanding of fascism and the totalitarian state can help with this escape
One-dimensional man - Marcuse
* Choices are not real
* Productivity and freedom are linked
* Contemporary society is totalitarian
* True freedom can only be expressed in negative terms now. Freedom "from" something? Hard to do. "Crazy" if one proposes something new altogether, like a whole new economic system in today's world.
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Me in 2021: We're told we should be colorblind, that "red, yellow, black, and white we are all precious in God's sight", and race is a social construct... yet if I, 9,999 other white people, 10,000 Asians, 10,000 black people, and 10,000 Hispanic people all got together and said "We no longer identify as our former race, starting today, we are all the some-shade-of-brown race", what would happen? How much would that choice truly be respected? Could we put it down in the census? Could we put it down if we wanted to adopt? Would the people screaming at schoolboard meetings be OK if their child suddenly identified as some-shade-of-brown? Or if they brought a some-shade-of-brown person home to meet the family for the holidays?
It's funny, going over these notes, I remember there was a lot of criticism, ironically, of critical theory. A lot of it is considered rumination and navel-gazing. Goffman worked in a mental health facility and ended up dissecting total institutions and concepts of stigma, honestly, I think if THAT was more widely disseminated and digested in popular culture, that would do far more damage to right-wing thought than any critical theory could.
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Oh, THOSE 'different ideas'
“It used to be thought that a university campus was a place where you’d be exposed to a lot of different ideas,” DeSantis said during a bill signing ceremony. “Unfortunately, now the norm is, these are more intellectually repressive environments. You have orthodoxies that are promoted, and other viewpoints are shunned or even suppressed.”
Read more: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/06/florida-students-faculty-will-declare-political-views-prevent-liberal-indoctrination
"Oh, so you mean like in sociology; you have functionalism, symbolic interactionism, and conflict theory; and now they're only teaching one of those things and not even talking about the other two at all?"
"No, not like that."
"Oh! So in studies of evolution, you mean they're only teaching gradualism OR punctuated equilibrium and not having discussions of both, while they both have merit?"
"Uh... no, we're not talking about that."
"OH! You mean they're stifling the "is the universe explained by quantum mechanics or general relativity" debate in physics and have come down on the side of one and are refusing to talk about the other at all? Those jerks!"
"... no, no."
"OK, so in the college restrooms, they have now cruelly decided to put all the toilet paper under instead of over? Those totalitarians!"
"No!"
"Oh... so by 'different ideas', you mean...
Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers promoting the sham election “audit” on an antisemitic network that warns of “seditious Jews.”
The American Family Association calling for a boycott of Kellogg’s because “each box of Kellogg’s sold affirms to the company Kellogg’s support for homosexuality.”
‘Prophet’ Robin Bullock saying Biden Has ‘Slotted Serpent’s Eyes,’ Which Is a "Sign of Demonic Possession"
Lauren Boebert suggesting her election was ordained by God.
Scott Lively claiming that support for transgender rights is designed “to destroy binary male/female human identity in preparation for transhumanism.”
... right?"
Yes, they actually said these things:
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-round-up-bakkers-costly-cure/
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-sliding-backwards/
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/prophet-robin-bullock-says-biden-has-slotted-serpents-eyes-which-is-a-sign-of-demonic-possession/
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-round-up-worst-bing-crosby-bob-hope-movie-ever/
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-thou-shall-kill/
(I'm thinking of making this a regular thing, who would like that?)
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Florida -- Those students are going to be your future teachers, lawyers, and doctors.
For anyone out there who might be complaining about "liberal indoctrination", and if you think the cure to "liberal indoctrination" means equal time for pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, factually incorrect history, outlandish things about people of differing races, religions, genders, sexual orientations, things which have no basis in medicine, sociology, psychology, and more...
That's not a "liberal" problem...
That's a *you* problem.
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Top 10 things nobody concerned about Critical Race Theory will ever say
10. "I noticed you talk about 'black thugs' and 'Islamic terrorists' a lot, but you seem to mentally check out when the subject is white people who shoot up malls, movie theaters, and churches. Why is that?"
9. "Race is a social construct, right? And that means what constitutes a race and who is in that race can change over time and has different meanings to different people, yes?"
8. "They REALLY do need to get over the fact they lost the Civil War."
7. "He shouldn't have called it kung-flu. Viruses don't have nationalities."
6. "Bamboo in the ballots? A little crazy for me."
5. "Donald Trump Jr. comparing Syrian refugees to skittles was nakedly dehumanizing and racist."
4. "I'm sorry, but throwing a hissy fit because the electronic voice on the phone told you to press 1 for English seems a little silly."
3. "Why do I have to put down my race and ethnicity on this form? On the Trump Administration-written census?"
2. "Hey, you said "All Lives Matter", so here are some refugees for you to help out!"
And...
1. *Someone else says "I'm not racist, but..."* "But you're gonna power through it?"
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So, we shouldn't use the 2020 census for redistrictring congressional districts, at all
You see, all this talk about "critical race theory" and it being racially divisive and what-have-you, and yet, these questions, 6 and 7, remain.
And this Talking-About-Race-At-ALL TAINTED census is going to be used to redistrict congressional districts?
No. I do not think that's right.
I think there's too much talk about race going on with the census to have it be used for congressional redistricting.
I think we need to wait until 2030 and have a census that omits all questions about race and ethnicity - to stave off racial division.
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