In short, yes. It's been cancelled. I worked as a Social Emotional Learning Specialist in Austin from 2014-2021. Somewhere around 2017 I encounted the idea that "Character education promotes white supremacy culture". The overarching idea I encountered from 2017-2021 was that everything that promoted "the individual" (i.e Character Ed), capitalism and Classical Liberalism promote "white supremacy culture". I never subscribed for this thinking and constantly tried to get my colleagues to discuss it but they refused. Guess what they called me? Yep, a white supremacist.
The left has captured the mechanism of public education and have promoted the concept that the values that we used to consider part of "character" are relative, simply "value judgments." To assess values is, in their mind, racist (White supremacy)--thus we get the nonsense such as being on time is a White supremacist concept. It's part of their intentional deconstruction of society.
You are 100% correct. If We The People of this moment in time don't purge these ideals from our institutions and the hearts and minds of people in those institutions, the Classical Liberal era of human history will be over.
Here's my idea on how to do so and my experience working in the "social justice sphere"
From your choice of words (primary, secondary, tertiary) you sound like you might be British though you mention “American education”. I’m neither white nor western nor live there, and a bit younger, but I totally concur with your values. I’m also not Christian but my parents send me and my siblings to Catholic schools where we studied religious knowledge and attended mass. They had no issue with this (as long as we didn’t come home saying we wanted to convert) as they say it as inculcating positive human values albeit with the name of Jesus in the background.
Imagine if, instead of the kind of LBGT+ whatever curriculum I’ve read about in some US states, shared human values were taught from all cultures including indigenous. Then people would be able to see how we share values across all cultures and races. That may be an antidote to all the DEI and other corrupting nonsense. But then the ones who push that unnoble education may not want to be subverted by shared humanity.
Most Americans are ok with abortion in at least some circumstances - in cases of rape or incest, if the fetus is non-viable, if the pregnancy is ectopic, or if the life of the mother is in danger. I know I am.
You're right in some regard; however, the cases of incest and rape are small and why add another trauma to another traumatic situation. Non-viable, maybe, but I recently read a story where a baby born really early was just celebrating it's 1st birthday, so we shouldn't be too quick to pull the trigger there. If the mom's life is in danger. That seems to be a very open ended statement. I can't think of any examples however I agree if the mom is going to die if she gives birth then something needs to be done, just not sure what. IMO ending an ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion and may fall under the situation concerning the mother's life being in danger. In this situation, if not corrected neither the baby or the mother will survive, if the pregnancy is allowed to continue. The fetus will explode the fallopian tube ( the baby is not in the uterus) which will kill the mother and the fetus. What most Americans are not in favor of is using abortion as birth control, or if you're having another girl but want a boy, having an abortion and trying again until you get what you want. Not trying to argue just wanted to provide my opinion.
Hi Cecil, thank you for sharing your thoughts. The term traumatic situation to describe rape and incest is right on the money, and I doubt that there’s any way for a victim to completely escape it including abortion. As a matter of fact the only way I can imagine a woman not having an abortion in those cases is with prayer and grace (which I never underestimate). As far as the medical emergencies go I would say the terms intentional, and unintentional, become very important.
In short, yes. It's been cancelled. I worked as a Social Emotional Learning Specialist in Austin from 2014-2021. Somewhere around 2017 I encounted the idea that "Character education promotes white supremacy culture". The overarching idea I encountered from 2017-2021 was that everything that promoted "the individual" (i.e Character Ed), capitalism and Classical Liberalism promote "white supremacy culture". I never subscribed for this thinking and constantly tried to get my colleagues to discuss it but they refused. Guess what they called me? Yep, a white supremacist.
The left has captured the mechanism of public education and have promoted the concept that the values that we used to consider part of "character" are relative, simply "value judgments." To assess values is, in their mind, racist (White supremacy)--thus we get the nonsense such as being on time is a White supremacist concept. It's part of their intentional deconstruction of society.
You are 100% correct. If We The People of this moment in time don't purge these ideals from our institutions and the hearts and minds of people in those institutions, the Classical Liberal era of human history will be over.
Here's my idea on how to do so and my experience working in the "social justice sphere"
https://jasonlittlefield.substack.com/p/revolutionizing-critical-social-justice
From your choice of words (primary, secondary, tertiary) you sound like you might be British though you mention “American education”. I’m neither white nor western nor live there, and a bit younger, but I totally concur with your values. I’m also not Christian but my parents send me and my siblings to Catholic schools where we studied religious knowledge and attended mass. They had no issue with this (as long as we didn’t come home saying we wanted to convert) as they say it as inculcating positive human values albeit with the name of Jesus in the background.
Imagine if, instead of the kind of LBGT+ whatever curriculum I’ve read about in some US states, shared human values were taught from all cultures including indigenous. Then people would be able to see how we share values across all cultures and races. That may be an antidote to all the DEI and other corrupting nonsense. But then the ones who push that unnoble education may not want to be subverted by shared humanity.
Most Americans are ok with abortion in at least some circumstances - in cases of rape or incest, if the fetus is non-viable, if the pregnancy is ectopic, or if the life of the mother is in danger. I know I am.
You're right in some regard; however, the cases of incest and rape are small and why add another trauma to another traumatic situation. Non-viable, maybe, but I recently read a story where a baby born really early was just celebrating it's 1st birthday, so we shouldn't be too quick to pull the trigger there. If the mom's life is in danger. That seems to be a very open ended statement. I can't think of any examples however I agree if the mom is going to die if she gives birth then something needs to be done, just not sure what. IMO ending an ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion and may fall under the situation concerning the mother's life being in danger. In this situation, if not corrected neither the baby or the mother will survive, if the pregnancy is allowed to continue. The fetus will explode the fallopian tube ( the baby is not in the uterus) which will kill the mother and the fetus. What most Americans are not in favor of is using abortion as birth control, or if you're having another girl but want a boy, having an abortion and trying again until you get what you want. Not trying to argue just wanted to provide my opinion.
Hi Cecil, thank you for sharing your thoughts. The term traumatic situation to describe rape and incest is right on the money, and I doubt that there’s any way for a victim to completely escape it including abortion. As a matter of fact the only way I can imagine a woman not having an abortion in those cases is with prayer and grace (which I never underestimate). As far as the medical emergencies go I would say the terms intentional, and unintentional, become very important.