Schools are going crazy with woke politics.

Andrew Cuomo refuses to just go away.

And CANCELLED!

 

Teaching Woke

Grace Church School published a 12-page memo that encourages people to stop using certain terms that it considers to be outdated and to replace those terms with “inclusive” terminology.

Just an FYI: that school costs $57K a year.

The memo states the following:

• Instead of saying, “boys and girls,” “guys,” “ladies,” and “gentleman,” say, “people,” “folks,” “friends,” “readers,” “mathematicians…”
• Instead of “assuming gender based on stereotypes,” people should “respectfully ask how they identify if familiar establishing a culture of sharing affirming pronouns in class.”
• Instead of saying, “mom and dad,” say, “grown-ups,” “folks,” “or family.”
• Instead of saying, “parents,” say, “grown-ups,” “folks,” “family,” “and guardians.”

 

There are dozens of other examples of changing the language.

There are also terms that must not be used anymore. Those include:

• Colorblind—No one is color blind as it pertains to race. We see the skin tones of people and assumptions are made about how someone identifies racially.
• Caucasian—The correct term is White. White is a more accurate description of light-skinned people of European descent.
• Diverse person/student—referencing a person of color. A person is not diverse. A group of people can be diverse.
• Traditional Family—we actively try to undo notions of a “typical” or “normal” family structure, each family is unique
• “Real” parents—a preferred term is birth parents

 

The purpose of the policy, according to the school guide:

“The goal of this guide is to provide the community with more inclusive language that is aligned with the mission of Grace Church School. While we recognize hateful language that promotes racism, misogyny, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination are already addressed in our school handbooks, we also recognize that we can do more than ban hateful language; we can use language to create welcoming and inclusive spaces. This guide addresses ways we can remove harmful assumptions from the way we interact with each other.”

“Families are formed and structured in many ways. At Grace Church School, we use inclusive language that reflects this diversity. It’s important to refrain from making assumptions about who kids live with, who cares for them, whether they sleep in the same place every night, whether they see their parents, etc.”

Of course, this is suppose to be a Christian School. At least that’s what they say in the title of the school’s name! But Merry Christmas is way out of bunds too. The school says:

“At Grace Church School, we work to be mindful of the language we use in order to avoid making assumptions about people as we engage in conversation that touches on religion.”

That’s awesome. SO one can get into trouble with saying Merry Christmas at a Christian school.

You know, one can sort of expect to see this type of thing in public schools especially with the political climate we have today. But when this type of poison begins to make its way in private schools that can be a really bad thing. At least with our private schools we can expect some kids to grow up, I don’t know, knowing things and loving this country.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/now-the-woke-cancelers-are-even-coming-after-mom-and-dad
https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-school-pushes-students-to-stop-saying-mom-dad-parents-referring-to-people-by-gender

 

Is This Really Something Colleges Need?

Next week, the California Department of Education will vote on a new statewide ethnic studies curriculum that advocates for the “decolonization” of American society and elevates Aztec religious symbolism—all in the service of a left-wing political ideology.

The new program, called the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, seeks to extend the Left’s cultural dominance of California’s public university system, 50 years in the making, to the state’s entire primary and secondary education system, which consists of 10,000 public schools serving a total of 6 million students.

According to the City Journal:

In theoretical terms, the new ethnic studies curriculum is based on the “pedagogy of the oppressed,” developed by Marxist theoretician Paolo Freire, who argued that students must be educated about their oppression in order to attain “critical consciousness” and, consequently, develop the capacity to overthrow their oppressors. Following this dialectic, the model curriculum instructs teachers to help students “challenge racist, bigoted, discriminatory, imperialist/colonial beliefs” and critique “white supremacy, racism and other forms of power and oppression.” This approach, in turn, enables teachers to inspire their pupils to participate in “social movements that struggle for social justice” and “build new possibilities for a post-racist, post-systemic racism society.”

Notice the whole idology was created by a Marxist. You know what would be nice? If schools decided to teach the evils of Marxism, socialism and communism. All used social justice as the launching boards but all ended in poverty, suffering and death.

The City Journal continues:

R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, the original co-chair of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, developed much of the material regarding early American history. In his book Rethinking Ethnic Studies, which is cited throughout the curriculum, Cuauhtin argues that the United States was founded on a “Eurocentric, white supremacist (racist, anti-Black, anti-Indigenous), capitalist (classist), patriarchal (sexist and misogynistic), heteropatriarchal (homophobic), and anthropocentric paradigm brought from Europe.” The document claims that whites began “grabbing the land,” “hatching hierarchies,” and “developing for Europe/whiteness,” which created “excess wealth” that “became the basis for the capitalist economy.” Whites established a “hegemony” that continues to the present day, in which minorities are subjected to “socialization, domestication, and ‘zombification.’”

If these communists want to see “zombification” they should go to China or North Korea or Venezuela or Cuba. These are countries that turn their citizens into slaves. Another thing no one talking too much about. The communist countries really aren’t that racially sensitive.

• The Soviet Union threw Ukrainians, blacks and Jews in the gulags. Heck, they threw anyone who knew anyone mentioned in the gulags.
• The Chinese have put Buddhists and Uyigers into their concentration camps.
• Cuba used to put homosexuals and blacks into their work camps.
• We already know what Hitler did.

 

I don’t want to hear about the empathy of the communists and Marxists.

The City Journal continues:

The religious narrative is even more disturbing. Cuauhtin developed a related “mandala” claiming that white Christians committed “theocide” against indigenous tribes, killing their gods and replacing them with Christianity. White settlers thus established a regime of “coloniality, dehumanization, and genocide,” characterized by the “explicit erasure and replacement of holistic Indigeneity and humanity.” The solution, according to Cuauhtin and the ethnic studies curriculum, is to “name, speak to, resist, and transform the hegemonic Eurocentric neocolonial condition” in a posture of “transformational resistance.” The ultimate goal is to “decolonize” American society and establish a new regime of “countergenocide” and “counterhegemony,” which will displace white Christian culture and lead to the “regeneration of indigenous epistemic and cultural futurity.”

There are a few things that really bother me about this stuff from our educated college elites.

The first thing is the language that these guys use. This is why I like to read these articles. It shows how saint-on-top-of-the-hill they are. Half these words are just made up and really mean nothing but sound really scholarly when they are slapped together.

Another issue is there is going to have to be a rewriting of American history for any of this shit to have a choice to ring true. History is going to have to be rewritten to show that there was some sort of genocide against the Indians. Guess what, there wasn’t. Most of the Indians were killed through disease. The next killer was war. The Spanish, the puritans and other religious groups took a dim view of doing anything with the Indians. They even traded with them. Most of the conflicts didn’t have anything to do with the color of one’s skin but on land rights.

The Indians sold Manhattan to the Europeans. Ten years later, the Indians wanted the land back because they thought they leased the land not sold it. This is because the Indians did not have an understanding of land ownership. By the way, the Europeans gave the Indians resources and money. They didn’t just give them four goats and shiny beads. This is where the term “Indian-giver” came from. This started a war.

Finally, this is something I was expecting and has been happening kind of quietly for a while. Now it is in the open. The demonization of religion, particularly the Judeo Christian religion. Don’t forget the Judeo Christian religion is the basis for the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. This is what the Left must do. They must make evil anything that can destroy their philosophy. The Judeo Christian religion is one of those things. Don’t kids yourself: all religion will be on the chopping block. That includes the Muslims and even the Indian religions. They just need to destroy the most powerful first.

The article continues:

This religious concept is fleshed out in the model curriculum’s official “ethnic studies community chant.” The curriculum recommends that teachers lead their students in a series of indigenous songs, chants, and affirmations, including the “In Lak Ech Affirmation,” which appeals directly to the Aztec gods. Students first clap and chant to the god Tezkatlipoka—whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism—asking him for the power to be “warriors” for “social justice.” Next, the students chant to the gods Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli, and Xipe Totek, seeking “healing epistemologies” and “a revolutionary spirit.” Huitzilopochtli, in particular, is the Aztec deity of war and inspired hundreds of thousands of human sacrifices during Aztec rule. Finally, the chant comes to a climax with a request for “liberation, transformation, [and] decolonization,” after which students shout “Panche beh! Panche beh!” in pursuit of ultimate “critical consciousness.”

The chants have a clear implication: the displacement of the Christian god, which is said to be an extension of white supremacist oppression, and the restoration of the indigenous gods to their rightful place in the social justice cosmology. It is, in a philosophical sense, a revenge of the gods.

So they want to replace the peace and love that Christianity promotes (that’s not saying Christianity doesn’t have its skeletons) for the chants of a civilization that murdered millions. In a four day stretch, the Aztecs killed through sacrifice 800,000 indigenous people, most slaves from other tribes.

The Aztecs were not just defeated by the Spanish but also by other Indian tribes in the region because the Aztecs would systemically raid other villages; enslave, rape and murder the inhabitants. This was a bad civilization that other tribes wanted ended.

https://www.city-journal.org/calif-ethnic-studies-curriculum-accuses-christianity-of-theocide

 

Dude, You’re Done

The Andrew Cuomo drama continues. I don’t talk too much about him because I just don’t care about him and I think we have completely missed the boat on why he should be out of office.

First, he killed about 16,000 old folks with his policy of putting COVID patients back into retirement homes. Then, he lied about it and covered up the data. This is being investigated by all the sharks, specifically Leticia James, who are eyeing his Governor’s seat. This little bug-a-boo is spreading. Governor Gretchen Whitmer is now being investigated for doing the same thing.

He is not being accused of sexually harassing seven different women including one where he is being investigated for sexual assault by Albany PD.

He has been encouraged to resign by most Democrats including Jerry Nadler, AOC, Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand. That may not matter. The New York state legislature is looking to impeach him and they have the numbers to do so.

Joe Biden finally commented saying,  “I think the investigation is underway and we should see what it brings us.” This is not a strong stance either way but it is definitely not very supportive. At least he was able to say something without falling asleep.

This guy is done he just doesn’t know it yet. He’s not going to make it to the election. I would bet anything he will resign before the end of the month, especially as this impeachment thing begins to build steam. There is also the question of whether or not he can do his job as governor with all this crap swirling around him.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-breaks-his-silence-on-cuomo-sexual-harassment-scandal-declines-to-call-for-his-resignation
https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-refuses-to-call-for-governor-andrew-cuomo-to-resign-after-being-pressed-by-reporter

 

What’s Gong to Happen a Year from Now

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Sunday blamed former President Trump for the current crisis at the U.S. southern border, saying that President Biden inherited a “broken system” from the previous administration.

Pelosi said:

“This is a humanitarian challenge to all of us. What the administration has inherited is a broken system at the border, and they are working to correct that in the children’s interest,” she said, adding that the Biden administration is effecting “a transition from what was wrong before to what is right.”

Before Biden got elected, there were few illegal crossings. In October, before the election, there was about 34,000 arrests. When Biden got elected, that average doubled. When he got into office, crossings tripled.

Though they refuse to call this a crisis, they are now running at close to 100% capacity and the illegal border crossings of unaccompanied minors has already reached the total for all of last year. Folks, it’s March.

FEMA has been called in by Biden to try to help with the border patrol with the housing of illegals.

The gaslighting is incredible.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pelosi-blames-donald-trump-for-humanitarian-challenge-at-border-inheritance-of-broken-system
https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-blames-trump-for-border-crisis-says-biden-inherited-broken-system

 

Cancelled

Winston Marshall, the lead guitarist for Mumford and Sons, was kicked off the band because he tweeted that he liked Andy Ngo’s book on antifa called Unmasked. He apologized which was a mistake.

Unilever, which owns brands like Dove and Sunsilk, said a study had found that the word “normal” makes most people feel excluded. A spokeswoman said it would remove it from more than 200 products.

Disney Plus has made it that kids under the age of seven can see the classic movies Dumbo, The Aristocats and Peter Pan. I thought all those movies sucked.

Speedy Gonzales, the mouse from the Warner Bros. cartoons is no longer being used because it is a stereotype of Mexicans. Me Mexican fiancé is pissed.

Pepe Le Pew will not appear in the next in the second Space Jam movie because people believe the cartoon skunk promotes sexism and rape culture.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/mumford-sons-guitarist-steps-away-from-band-for-promoting-book-from-conservative-reporter
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/disney-plus-removes-access-to-classics-like-dumbo-peter-pan-for-kids-under-7-over-racist-stereotypes
https://www.distractify.com/p/why-is-speedy-gonzales-canceled

Pepe Le Pew Won’t Be Appearing In Warner Bros’ ‘Space Jam’ Sequel

https://www.foxnews.com/media/whoopi-goldberg-cancel-culture-pepe-le-pew