It's Always Darkest Before You Find The Light Switch

I had another link set up to make this point, but there are so many of them that one can be spendthrift with the content and pick them at random. I mean the stories that show the racialists are getting worse, not better. Here's a letter of resignation from a teacher at some tony prep school somewhere in Blueistan. The whole thing would be worth a read if you couldn't have written it yourself, given the basic setting and a few drinks. Here's a snippet that will make my point.

In my classroom, I see up close how this orthodoxy (Modern Nazi Race Theory) hinders students’ ability to read, write, and think. I teach students who recoil from a poem because it was written by a man. I teach students who approach texts in search of the oppressor. I teach students who see inequities in texts that have nothing to do with power. Students have internalized the message that this is the way we read and think about the world, and as a result, they fixate on power and group identity. This fixation has stunted their ability to observe and engage with the full fabric of human experience in our literature...

Since (the time I complained about it), the stifling conformity has only intensified. Last fall, two administrators informed faculty that certain viewpoints simply would not be tolerated during our new “race explicit” conversations with our new “anti-racist” work. They said that no one would be allowed to question the orthodoxy regarding “systemic racism.” The message was clear, and the faculty went silent in response. 

The reality is that fear pervades the faculty. On at least two separate occasions in 2017 and 2018, our Head of School, standing at the front of Hajjar Auditorium, told the entire faculty that he would fire us all if he could so that he could replace us all with people of color. This year, administrators continue to assert  D-E’s policy that we are hiring “for diversity.” D-E has become a workplace that is hostile toward educators based solely on their immutable traits.

During a recent faculty meeting, teachers were segregated by skin color. Teachers who had light skin were placed into a “white caucus” group and asked to “remember” that we are “White” and “to take responsibility for [our] power and privilege.” D-E’s racial segregation of educators, aimed at leading us to rethink of ourselves as oppressors, was regressive and demeaning to us as individuals with our own moral compass and human agency.

This is really simple. They're not tackling the real problem, which is the breakdown of the family. Instead, they're goose-stepping around the campus, looking for Jews whites. They find some, punish or reeducate them, promote and hire more Germans colored folk and then sit back and are horrified to see that nothing has improved.

Since nothing improved with difficult conversations and awareness-raising, clearly the solution is to double their efforts and segregate teachers, fire anyone who disagrees and forbid differing opinions. Since that won't help, things will get worse from there.

I wonder if this was how the Final Solution was born. Getting the Jews out of society was supposed to bring on a glorious, new future for the Germans. When segregating and then enslaving them didn't work, I suppose that extermination was the next logical step.

In any case, this is all perfectly predictable. We're trying solutions that can't possibly work and trying them even harder when they fail.

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