"Woke Equity" in Education (aka, STUPIDITY)

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Re: "Woke Equity" in Education (aka, STUPIDITY)

Postby mrfish » Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:17 am

panamint_patty wrote:Jim Acosta Admits "Post-Trump Stress Disorder"
Mostly I post this video here for the short clip of the teacher complaining about the bandaids. How could anyone be such a mindless twit? When you start worrying about the color of bandaids and whether they match someone's skin color you have truly run out of legitimate things to complain about and you are working way too hard to find evidence of imaginary racism. The thought that there are actually teachers so mindlessly stupid causes me real concern for the students they influence!

Worrying over the color of a bandaid is about as dumb as it gets. Only someone with a mental disorder would give it a second thought! However, as long as we're on the topic we should acknowledge that bandaids are darker in color than the skin of a significant portion of the population. The teacher in the video doesn't seem to be aware of that and it's not likely that she would feel the same sense of urgency over the feelings of children with skin lighter than the color of the bandaids. Being overly emotional about something as trivial as whether or not a bandaid matches a child's skin color is definitely a problem, but looking at her emotional reaction in a logical manner helps people to realize that not all emotional reactions are legitimate and probably most aren't!
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Postby MojaveMike » Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:52 am

I recall a discussion about "empathy" which seems relevant here from quite awhile back. It's very easy to take "empathy" too far as we see with this teacher who is overly concerned about the color of bandaids. It's also very easy to be overly eager to empathize with people who are crazy as suggested in the following quotes:
shadylady from the June 04, 2020 Board Meeting thread wrote:Cult of Empathy
I found this post made by BoraxBill in "The Pit (Trona Football)" thread. It sums things up very nicely. The discussion was about an article in which the football coach had made erroneous claims about PTSD as a result of the twin quakes last year. This quote illustrates how people who are overly pampered can have their lives derailed by small events. Dysfunctional individuals cling to cheap excuses. They over-dramatize non-extraordinary events. Their lives are like perpetual soap operas. What has been said about the low-IQ-high-emotion crowd applies here.
BoraxBill from The Pit (Trona Football) thread wrote:wildrose: Keeping things in proper perspective requires intelligence and emotional maturity. Most people are lacking in one or the other or both. Children get a pass, but children are blessed with natural resilience unless they are surrounded by dysfunctional adults. Even then, kids with lots of intelligence generally tend to find their way despite bad circumstances. The important thing is not to buy into what I like to call the "Cult of Empathy." Never allow yourself to accept as normal behaviors which are inferior or dysfunctional. As soon as you do that you fall into the libtard and SJW rabbit hole. And you don't want to go there.
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Postby wildrose » Mon Apr 12, 2021 11:24 am

Why San Francisco Schools Are REVERSING Their Decision to Change School Names
When objecting to something, it is a good idea to actually understand what it is you are objecting to. That just seems obvious!
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Postby mrgreen » Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:41 pm

Trans Activist Lovingly Forces Everyone To Agree... Or Else
You will be cancelled if you disagree!
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Postby mrgreen » Thu Apr 15, 2021 7:47 pm

Paw Patrol Replaces Chase The Cop With Karl The Antifa Rioter
This would be funny if it wasn't so close to the truth. Just think of all the special messages textbook companies are slipping into their textbooks in order to brainwash your child into accepting all this social justice warrior garbage and they're paying for it with taxpayer money! Isn't this a great time to be alive?
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Postby twister » Sat Apr 17, 2021 11:18 am

Black Students Create FAKE Racist Messages
Teachers are being told that they must teach the "new curriculum" in order to awaken students to the far left's ideology. The "new curriculum" is not designed to teach reading, writing, or arithmetic. It's all about ideology and that should be a major concern to all parents.
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Postby shadylady » Sun Apr 18, 2021 7:58 am

twister: The only parents who are okay with this woke new curriculum are woke parents. They firmly believe that reading, writing, and arithmetic are racist and that all children need to be brainwashed to believe the new woke ideology or else they'll have a temper tantrum and burn down everything!
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Postby ruskyed » Tue Apr 20, 2021 7:43 am

Jordan Peterson Debunks Leftist Gender Ideology in 8 Minutes
I have an ongoing discussion with a bunch of friends in Russia. They have noted that much of what we are seeing in the USA currently is beyond merely insane. I shared this video with my friends in Russia and it occurred to me that it fits into this thread quite well. There are dozens of important points made in this video and at five minutes into the video the following question is discussed: Why is it that so many folks on the left who purport to be all about reason and science and objective fact are so willing to throw those out the window the minute it becomes politically inconvenient for them? [Today we see college professors pushing causes which defy reason and logic. WHY? I think they answer this question in part, but there's more to it IMHO.]
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Re: "Woke Equity" in Education (aka, STUPIDITY)

Postby mrfish » Tue Apr 27, 2021 7:31 am

Idaho State Senate Passes Bill Banning Teaching Of Critical Race Theory In Schools
Most of the politicians from Idaho seem to live in reality. There were a couple who live in a fantasy world where racism against blacks is an important issue. Those days are long gone. There may be racism nowadays against whites, but blacks are a privileged race at this point. Society has bent over backwards to give them a ridiculous number of advantages and yet most have failed to thrive due to their own lack of intelligence, talent, and willingness to do hard work. Thank goodness this bill was passed. If only we could see something like this in California.
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Postby CrustyOldFart » Wed Apr 28, 2021 9:03 am

Biden's race-related curriculum attempts to 'change history': Douglas Murray
A bunch of out-spoken, uneducated, unintelligent idiots have made up a bunch of bullshit about systemic racism and a whole bunch of people are bowing down and kissing their tootsies. This lunacy has got to stop and intelligent people have got to stand up and say enough already and call this bullshit for what it is!
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