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The Miseducation of America’s ElitesTl;td: elite $50,000-tuition prep schools teach their students that everything in life is explained by your skin color. Black multimillionaire students are taught that they are inherently oppressed because they are black, white students are taught that they are racists from birth etc.
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"All of this “has made me think about race more,” said one teen boy in Manhattan. The curriculum, he explained, was trying to teach him to feel obsessed with his whiteness, the opposite of what his parents had taught him to do. Making students separate out by race in affinity groups is racist, he said. “MLK would condemn my school.”Some students are rebelling, which, in this case, looks like becoming a Republican. But others go all-in on the ideology, which has created conflicts with parents who don’t. “The school has taken over as the moral guide, with me being the irritating person in the background who doesn’t really get it,” says one Harvard-Westlake mother.
So children learn how the new rules of woke work. The idea of lying in order to please a teacher seems like a phenomenon from the Soviet Union. But the high schoolers I spoke with said that they do versions of this, including parroting views they don’t believe in assignments so that their grades don’t suffer."
//==========One of the teachers at one of these schools has resigned her position:
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p…
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"What passes for “progressive” today at Smith and at so many other institutions is regressive. It taps into humanity’s worst instincts to break down into warring factions, and I fear this is rapidly leading us to a very twisted place. It terrifies me that others don’t seem to see that racial segregation and demonization are wrong and dangerous no matter what its victims look like. Being told that any disagreement or feelings of discomfort somehow upholds “white supremacy” is not just morally wrong. It is psychologically abusive.Equally troubling are the many others who understand and know full well how damaging this is, but do not speak out due to fear of professional retaliation, social censure, and loss of their livelihood and reputation. I fear that by the time people see it, or those who see it manage to screw up the moral courage to speak out, it will be too late."
//==========Soviet paralysis is when everyone says one thing, but thinks something else, and no one can break this evil circle in fear of being shamed, even if they know that other people think the same.
Soviet communism was a beautiful idea on paper, but essentially it was a 70 years long period of "pretending to be".You cannot blame the woke minority for how Americans got here, this is like saying that Nazism corrupted German people in 1930s. The masses are also to blame. In all humans there is an immanent base for corruption, consisting of several components:
desire for justice, two skills which we develop in childhood to avoid being punished by parents -- lying and self-deception, desire to build a hierarchy, desire to shame someone for violation of morality etc.
Because the goals of one individual's biology are stronger than the goals of society, ie. your own safety is more important than wellbeing of the society, and this is how this order reinforces itself.+
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/th…
The Sovietization of the American Press
The transformation from phony "objectivity" to open one-party orthodoxy hasn't been an improvement