What are you getting for your new student loan debt?

What happened to all the academic talk about "equity"?

This looks like a perfect issue for Kamala Harris to tackle.

Or maybe not.

The student loans you will be paying off financed "education" like this:

One of the challenges of critical dogmas and pedagogies is that the reality of what they believe is so insane that accurately describing it can make the person describing it sound insane

Wesley Yang

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I tried describing spirit murder to a normie Dem friend once and they looked at me like I was Alex Jones.

Prager on Maher being laughed down after mentioning menstruating men is an example of this.

There's a bit of genius in this, credit where credit is due.

The effect is even worse when arguing against it.

And regular interfacing with the belief system puts you in danger of going from merely sounding insane to actually becoming slightly insane yourself

The Nazis actually relied on this. Do something so unreasonably awful that no one will believe it when told. And, interestingly, Stalin alluded to this same phenomenon in his quote "Ten deaths is a tragedy, ten million deaths are a statistic."

From WSJ, a piece (behind a paywall, but you can listen to an annoying version of it) entitled Education Schools Have Long Been Mediocre. Now They're Woke Too. Plus a Wonderland video on how liberal elites folded when confronted with leftist radicals, "Smiley Face Liberalism".

From the article:

I studied for a master's degree in education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. My program was batty. We made Black Lives Matter friendship bracelets. We passed around a popsicle stick to designate whose turn it was to talk while professors compelled us to discuss our life's traumas. We read poems through the "lenses" of Marxism and critical race theory in preparation for our students doing the same. Our final projects were acrostic poems or ironic rap videos.

At the time, I figured my experience was unique . . .

The "Wonderland" video at the WSJ link is not behind the paywall. I didn't know that Seattle had a "Summer of Love" way back in 1967. I thought 1969 was the big year. The disorder of those early years led to disaster in our schools and other institutions today. Brings some perspective to the current trashing Seattle during its more recent "Summer of Love".

You are paying for these programs with your new student loan debt.

The experience of the author in the WSJ article above is not unique. Larry Correia describes son's honors English class in small town Morgan, Utah, complete with a "Critical Approaches to Note Taking" handout, by which they were forced to analyze "The Great Gatsby" for a full trimester. Instead of, you know, learning English literature or writing. How many of those kids do you think would ever want to read a novel after that experience? In one nearby school district, the word "critical" is now forbidden to teachers, and they don't understand why. Seems arbitrary, but there may be a reason . . .

This is what you are paying for with your new student loan debt.

Just in case you wanted to see what a full-on, lower-level academic paper in "Whiteness Studies" looks like, here's 'White Innocence and Mexican Americans as Perpetrators in the School-to-Prison Pipeline'.

There is some helpful background on how "whiteness studies" evolved from other grievance studies. The thesis of the paper seems to be that there has not been enough research into the efforts of teachers to protect "white innocence" in the disproportionate disciple of Mexican-American students. I hope I am getting this right: The goal of "Whiteness studies" is to get white people and others who "enact whiteness" to become "race traitors" and "eliminate the concept of race". Maybe that's not exactly it. But I am trying to understand. Maybe I am not trying hard enough. I have not "done the work".

We certainly cannot discuss things like this in "Whiteness Studies":

Whenever you see the work "equity" just think of this graph and then realize what a junk word it is. pic.twitter.com/qnDm7fDlLJ

— Brent A. Williams, MD (@BrentAWilliams2) August 24, 2022

Do Asians need to stop "enacting whiteness" to lower their incomes to match those of other minority groups? I am waiting for Whiteness Studies scholars to do a study of how the CCP is "enacting whiteness" in their schools.

NEWS

Gender dysphoria is covered by disability law, federal court rules

RICHMOND, Va. -- A federal ruling that gender dysphoria is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act could help block conservative political efforts to restrict access to gender-affirming care, advocates and experts say.

A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week became the first federal appellate court in the country to find that the 1990 landmark federal law protects transgender people who experience anguish and other symptoms as a result of the disparity between their assigned sex and their gender identity.

Great.

UK: The police removing lesbians from a pride parade.

The pride movement no longer supports gay people.

This may be my most important information I've ever shared.

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Memes

California High School Ethnic Studies Lesson

General Critical Pedagogy

Is this where all this is leading?

Music and Dance

Random Dance Partners

Don't try this at home.

Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

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