May172022

Episode 539 – They Are Learning Their Lesson

It looks like some of those woke corporations are learning their lessons.

Kids can now get in trouble for using proper English.

And everything is racist.

 

Not a Good First Day

The new White House Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, had her first solo press conference since Jen Psaki left. It was a rough one. But her introduction made clear that she’s proud of herself being the first black, gay and immigrant press secretary.

OK, yay! But is she going to be a good press secretary? Well, we got some answers thanks to that racist Peter Doocy from the racist news network Fox News.

Considering Jean-Pierre has called Fox News racist, you know Peter Doocy isn’t going to get any softball questions on her first day. Here he’s asking her about how raising taxes on corporations is going to lower inflation:

Comforting to know that she has no way of knowing what the President is saying on Twitter. The “what specific tweet” thing is a deflection to get her more time to think of an answer.

Then she comes up with a word salad that doesn’t answer the question. Doocy is having none of it.

She’s actually reading the answer for this question. That’s why she fumbling for words. By the way. I can condense the 300 words she used not to answer the question to 2 words: climate change.

But Doocy wasn’t finished with her. Here he is asking her why Joe Biden didn’t go to Waukesha during the black supremacist attack in a Christmas parade but he is going to Buffalo to address the white supremacist attack.

But why didn’t he go to Waukesha? No answer.

Yeah, the press conference didn’t go well. Maybe Biden shouldn’t have hired someone because she was black, gay and an immigrant and should have hired someone who was competent.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/hes-visited-many-communities-white-house-press-secretary-excuses-biden-visiting-buffalo-but-not-waukesha
https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-white-house-press-secretary-spends-first-day-spinning-bidens-claim-that-higher-taxes-will-help-inflation

 

They Got the Message

The bid entertainment companies might be getting the message after the Disney debacle. Well, wait a minute. In this case, it involves Netflix and their stock has tanked in the last year, so maybe the 500,000 subscribers that gave up their subscriptions had something to do with it.

Variety reports:

Netflix loves to tout its culture of avoiding rules and minimizing corporate red tape. But of course, the company does have operating guidelines, famously detailed in the Netflix Culture document posted on its website. Co-founder Reed Hastings even wrote a 2020 book elaborating on the principles, titled “No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention.”

Now Netflix is publishing an update to its corporate culture memo for the first time in nearly five years, a copy of which Variety obtained exclusively ahead of its release Thursday. The last major update was in 2017, when it distilled Hastings’ original 125-slide presentation from 2009 (which has been viewed more than 21 million times).

How woke of them.

The core principles of the Netflix Culture memo, including empowering employee decision-making, requiring candid feedback and terminating staffers who aren’t up to “dream team” snuff, remain intact. But there are some key changes. For starters, the document has a new title: “Netflix Culture — Seeking Excellence” (previously it was simply called “Netflix Culture”).

More significantly, the document adds a new directive for employees to act with fiscal responsibility — a change that comes as Netflix in Q1 saw its first decline in subscribers in more than a decade. The updated Netflix Culture memo also includes a new section called “Artistic Expression,” explaining that the streamer will not “censor specific artists or voices” even if employees consider the content “harmful,” and bluntly states, “If you’d find it hard to support our content breadth, Netflix may not be the best place for you.”

This is a big deal. Don’t forget, this a streaming platform that has Susan Rice on the board and gave a multi-million dollar contract to the Obamas. They are also making a series about a “pregnant man”.

But woke politics has killed them. They’ve lost tons of subscribers and their stock is tanking (over 40%). What’s worse, people have options. I dropped Netflix and haven’t missed it.

That’s what is great about this. It shows that the people and the market have the ultimate power. It also shows that stakeholder capitalism isn’t what’s going to keep a company successful. It’s shareholder capitalism. The shareholders, who invest in Netflix, are the ones who hold the power over the company. In other words, money talks and BS walks.

I can’t wait to see what is going to happen to Disney. They are getting the same crap.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/netflix-fires-major-warning-shot-at-its-woke-employees-with-new-culture-memo
https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-culture-memo-update-censorship-spending-1235264904/

 

They Actually Used the Right Pronouns

According to Fox News:

Three Wisconsin boys are facing sexual harassment charges from their middle school over accusations that they used incorrect gender pronouns on a fellow student.

Yep, that’s a thing right now.

The mother of one of the kids, Rosemary Rabidoux, said:

“I received a phone call from the principal over at the elementary school, forewarning me; letting me know that I was going to be receiving an email with sexual harassment allegations against my son. I immediately went into shock. I’m thinking, sexual harassment? That’s rape, that’s inappropriate touching, that’s incest. What has my son done?”

But it wasn’t any of that. By the way, the kid is a straight A student and an introvert. I saw him on television and he looks like a typical nerd. Also, what Rabidoux described is what Title IX defines of harassment. This school is trying to cancel these kids at the age of 13 because they didn’t use some kid’s pronouns that he defined a month before.

Brad Ebert, the school district’s superintendent, told ABC 2 News:

“The KASD prohibits all forms of bullying and harassment in accordance with all laws, including Title IX, and will continue to support ALL students regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, creed, pregnancy, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, sex (including transgender status, change of sex or gender identity), or physical, mental, emotional or learning disability (“Protected Classes”) in any of its student programs and activities; this is consistent with school board policy. We do not comment on any student matters.”

Here’s the problem with this statement: They weren’t bullying anyone. They just used the proper pronouns for this kid.

That’s another thing. This kid’s pronoun were “they” and “them”. Those are plural pronouns that do not describe an individual. These kids are being condemned for using correct English. Think of that. You still think homeschooling is a bad idea?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/middle-schoolers-sexual-harassment-gender-pronouns

 

Well, It Is a Bad Idea

Wait, before you homeschool your kids, you must understand that homeschooling is racist (what a great transition, huh?)

MSNBC released an op-ed that says that homeschooling is racist. It is called How the Conservative Christian Right is Hijacking Homeschooling by Anthea Butler.

Let’s go through it:

“Public education has become public enemy No. 1,” the actor Kirk Cameron opines in a promotion for “The Homeschool Awakening,” his documentary scheduled to hit theaters in June. The documentary, funded by the Trinity Broadcasting Network and Cameron’s own Camfam Studios, argues that parents should be homeschooling their children in the wake of the pandemic. However, as Cameron’s quote indicates, this latest project of conservative evangelical education is another salvo in the ongoing evangelical war against public schools.

Pay attention to the language. Notice that she talks about the “attack” on public schools? This opening paragraph, to be a real work of journalism, should also talk about this conflict being fought from both sides.

It should come as no surprise that evangelicals, fundamentalists and other religious conservatives have fought against public education since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The prospect of integrated schools led to the creation of many “segregation academies,” private schools designed to keep African American children and undesirable immigrant groups away from white children. But there was another, more insidious way to circumvent integration: homeschooling.

That’s right, religious conservatives are racist!

By the way, who fought against the ruling and want to continue Jim Crow laws? That’s right, southern Democrats. Joe Biden worked with a bunch of them.

One of the main purveyors of homeschooling was a fundamentalist, Rousas Rushdoony, whose work beginning in the 1960s in establishing Christian day schools grew into the homeschooling movement. He saw homeschooling as a way to cut the government out of educating Christian children and to prepare them to take their place in a theocratic government. Julie Ingersoll, author of “Building God’s Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction,” says Rushdoony “was one of the intellectual godfathers of the Religious Right, but he is often treated like a crazy uncle.”

Crazy or not, homeschooling materials inspired by Rushdoony’s theology are on sale today to parents who homeschool in America, and many of those materials reached parents during the pandemic. Cameron’s documentary promoting homeschooling is not an aberration; it is part of a larger project about dismantling the public education system in the United States.

Wow, what a conspiracy! Christian children should learn about Christianity in their education instead of getting the secular garbage that they get in public school.

I know they hate that Rushdoony’s haven’t been banned and this gets Leftists very upset. Maybe if Rushdoony but reference the male girls and dildos, it would be more acceptable to the Left. books like that are in public libraries and are part of the curriculum.

This dismantling has taken shape over the years in various ways: in segregation academies, in school vouchers, in attempts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education and even with former President Donald Trump’s appointment of Betsy DeVos to lead that department. Now that her time in government is done, DeVos is speaking at homeschooling conventions, to promote homeschooling and to disparage critical race theory and other “detriments to education.”

School vouchers? Don’t those allow parents to choose what school their kids can go to. Doesn’t that give parents a choice and control the directions of their children’s education? Isn’t the freedom to choose by parents a good thing? Not to the teacher’s unions.

And I thought the schools weren’t teaching critical race theory? Have the public schools been lying to us?

Cameron’s documentary furthers the long-term goal of America’s religious conservatives to dismantle the public school system by promoting homeschooling, an idea that grew in popularity during the pandemic among parents who wanted to make sure their children kept up academically and avoided the coronavirus. According to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau in the fall of 2020, 11.1 percent of parents said their children were homeschooled, compared to 5.4 percent that spring.

Some of that increase may be attributed to Black parents and other diverse groups who are now finding homeschooling as an attractive alternative. Yet some parents have expressed frustration with conservative Christian materials for homeschooling, which drive the current marketplace. And other professional educators have issued dire warnings about homeschooling, including issues regarding a lack of oversight and the increased potential for child abuse.

Here’s the thing, I want to dismantle the school system too. I want the system to become far more privatized and funded by communities. I don’t want government running schools because the government sucks at everything and they have a tendency to teach children what they want children to know (indoctrination). I want parents and communities to control education. But this is not what Cameron’s documentary does. He’s just showing the problems and secularism in the schools and encourages parents to go in a different direction.

The second thing I want to point out is the doubling of children being homeschooled. She does not mention why. Could it be because their kids have been stuck at home for two years and the teachers never want to go back to school? Because it looks like the schools look like they don’t care about their kids? Could it be that the parents have seen what their kids are being taught and not taught and decided they could do it better?

Notice she just skips over the fact that blacks are also leaving the school system?

Cameron’s homeschooling documentary comes at a time of contentious debate about critical race theory, LGBTQ issues, transgender children and Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. Like the documentary itself, those new laws are designed to weaken already debilitated public school systems that are dealing with limited funding, staffing and violence issues. Attempts by religious conservatives to prohibit certain subjects deemed dangerous or inappropriate are not new, but they are now coming in multiple waves across the country.

Why is there debate about all this? I thought the schools weren’t teaching any critical race theory, gender theory and weren’t trans-ing the kids? That’s what we’ve been told.

Could it be that they are teaching this crap and parents don’t want this?

By the way, it’s called the Parental Rights in Education bill.

Homeschooling may have greater appeal now because of these debates and the desire for parents to play a big part in their children’s educational life. It may also arise out of pandemic concerns, but parents unfamiliar with the existing networks of homeschooling run the danger of being drawn into Christian conservative networks and theocratic teaching. Cameron’s says that people choosing homeschooling are having an awakening, but the public needs to awaken to the reality that public schools may disappear if people with his extreme beliefs have their way.

Some things about this article:

  • It does nothing but condemns the religious right and does not defend the public schools at all.
  • The article implies racism but doesn’t explain why black parents are homeschooling their kids.
  • It doesn’t bring up any of the debate points like what is wrong with Critical Race Theory or Critical Gender Theory.
  • It assumes the kids are actually learning what is important in public schools and doesn’t present stats that would prove it.
  • It doesn’t mention any of the benefits of homeschooling.
  • It doesn’t mention any of the negatives of standardized school. They waste a lot of time.
  • She assumes that homeschooling requires religious education. It doesn’t.
  • Finally, it demonizes religion.

Public schools are not about teaching math and reading anymore. They are about indoctrinating kids into some of the most perverse philosophies on planet Earth. Philosophies that not only pervert the kids but are made to destroy the nuclear family. Need proof? Just subscribe to Libs of TikTok and look at what teacher are actually telling you on social media.

Parents are getting it that’s why homeschooling has doubled in the last two years and 1 in 10 kids are being homeschooled now. As time goes by, I expect that this is going to go up.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/add-homeschooling-to-list-of-things-the-left-says-is-racist
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/schools-are-under-attack-america-s-religious-right-n1295340?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma