If someone appears to be repeatedly personal, lean towards patience as they might not mean offense. If you are sure, however, then do not deepen the problem by being negative; instead, simply place them on ignore by clicking the unhappy yellow face to the right of their name.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 1
Public School Lunacy. Lots of examples, here is a current one'.
Insects are coming to a school near you
A teacher at Spring Canyon middle school Utah gave students an assignment to write a paper on why eating bugs is better for the environment than eating meat.
A student asks, 'How come we can't state our opinion on why we shouldn't eat bugs?'
The woke teacher responds,
'Because we don't have any evidence to support it. But should we be eating bugs? Yeah, because we're killing the world by raising cows and animals. There is only one right answer for this essay and it's that Americans should be eating bugs. Everyone else in the world is eating. It's healthy for the environment. And there's just only one right answer.
The bolded parts are exact quotes, I rewound the DVR a few times to transcribe the video.
It's not so much the ickiness of eating bugs, it is the teacher indoctrinating a young mind that there is only one answer, and questioning it is not permitted. Nothing will happen to this loony teacher. We need school vouchers so parents have a choice.
No. of Recommendations: 12
bighairymike: ...it is the teacher indoctrinating a young mind...
There are approximately 4,007,908 teachers in the United States. Congratulations on finding the one example that allows you to paint with such a broad brush and demand vouchers to allow parents a way out of 'Public School Lunacy'.
Bonus points for working in the word 'woke'.
No. of Recommendations: 1
"the one example" - commonone
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LOL. There are plenty more. For more Giant example, google up a picture of Canadian teacher Kayla Lemieux.
I, of course, agree that in the pool of 4 million plus teachers, all of them together may only be 1% loon.
There problem is if your kid happens to have one of them as a teacher, you have little recourse.
The second problem is there is no sanction on the loons to cease their spreading of loony doctrine in the classroom.
Parents deserve a choice. If government schools are all so great, every one of them, they will stand up to some competition. However to many progressives, merit in individuals as well as schools performance, is no longer an acceptable way to allocate resources. If you have winners, then there will be loses. Best to not have winners, huh?
No. of Recommendations: 5
"However to many progressives, merit in individuals as well as schools performance, is no longer an acceptable way to allocate resources. If you have winners, then there will be loses. Best to not have winners, huh?"
Do you really think that is your opponents argument? Seriously?
No. of Recommendations: 1
Do you really think that is your opponents argument? Seriously? - Umm
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Not opponents but fellow countrymen.
And Yes I do. Not all of them, but many of them promote programs, hiring, quota's, etc based on appearance and not merit. Really, do you think Mayor Pete obtained a cabinet position based on his vast experience, insights, and successes into Transportation issues? Or did he simply check the "need a gay" box.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Or did he simply check the "need a gay" box.
I'd appreciate it if you could tell me what Nikki Haley's vast international experience was before she was appointed to the United Nations. Or did she just, you know, 'check a box'.,
Thanks.
No. of Recommendations: 1
I'd appreciate it if you could tell me what Nikki Haley's vast international experience was before she was appointed to the United Nations. Or did she just, you know, 'check a box'.,
Thanks. - Goofy
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None that I know of so there was a bit of box checking with her too. She was six year governor of an entire state vs an eight year mayor of a city so she compares favorably to Buttigieg on that metric. They both had pretty high approval percentage in their Senate conformations.
Box checking versus genuine merit lives on both sides of the isle but in general I think it is pretty clear that liberals are more influenced by that tendency than conservatives.
No. of Recommendations: 5
Do you really think that is your opponents argument? Seriously?
Rush Limbaugh's schtick was misrepresenting the views and arguments of
others.
"I'll tell you what libs/feminazis/treehuggers think..."
The big fat liar got away with it because he could screen callers who would call BS on his specious lies.
He got a Medal from the obese orange combover dude for that malignant schtick.
No. of Recommendations: 3
"Not opponents but fellow countrymen.
And Yes I do. Not all of them, but many of them promote programs, hiring, quota's, etc based on appearance and not merit."
Do you think they do it on appearance and not merit, or appearance and merit?
I.E. to them, both appearance and merit matter.
"Really, do you think Mayor Pete obtained a cabinet position based on his vast experience, insights, and successes into Transportation issues? Or did he simply check the "need a gay" box."
That is a false choice and a severe misunderstanding of what cabinet secretaries are and what they do. Their jobs are far more political and administerial than technical.
No. of Recommendations: 9
"Box checking versus genuine merit lives on both sides of the isle but in general I think it is pretty clear that liberals are more influenced by that tendency than conservatives."
Do you have data to support that assertion or is it just one of those things that you "know" is true (i.e. you blindly believe it and your information sources just reinforce that view)?
I mean look at the last administration. Other than a couple of generals (who Trump later attacked as incompetent and pushed out of their positions), very few cabinet appointees were appointed on merit. Most of them were appointed because they were wealthy CEOs (Tillerson, Ross, Mnuchin, Purdue, DeVos, McMahon etc.) and that appealed to Trump or they were political appointees (Meadows, Mulvaney, Pompeo, Chao, Zinke, Pruitt) or they "checked boxes" as you like to say (Carson, Haley, DeVos).
No. of Recommendations: 10
Box checking versus genuine merit lives on both sides of the isle but in general I think it is pretty clear that liberals are more influenced by that tendency than conservatives.
I'm sure you believe this, but if you examine the last several Republican administrations (as one example) I think you'll find it's not true. Then again, those are highly visible, so they take greater pains that elsewhere. Like Corporate boardrooms and CEO jobs, which are still overwhelmingly white and male - and would be near 100% if societal trends hadn't forced them to examine their prejudices and make a few wee adjustments.
I will say this: Conservatives are nearly always late to the party. They were against integration, they were (and are) against making efforts to bring other races into opportunities like education and business, they were against interference with practices such as redlining which kept minorities shut out of middle class housing.
Conservatives are still 'not sure' about global warming, even when they word-shift to 'climate change'. They're willing to wait until it's too late to do anything, and then Jesus, apparently. Conservatives hate the idea of government, until they suddenly turn around and find it necessary, as on 9/11, rescuing the economy in 2008, etc. Always looking backwards, never anticipating.
You know who decided business should stop using child labor? Who pushed for the 40 hour week? Who got weekends and holidays? Health care? Worker protections? Clear air? Social Security? Medicare? It wasn't conservatives, I'll tell you.
I will give you this: you've been terrific at coarsening the political language, thanks to Newt, Rush, and Frank Luntz, who counseled Republicans:
he helped Gingrich produce a GOPAC memo that encouraged Republicans to "speak like Newt" by describing Democrats and Democratic policies using words such as "corrupt," "devour," "greed," "hypocrisy," "liberal," "sick," and "traitors."[25][26] [Frank Luntz bio; Wikipedia]
So: very forward thinking on propaganda, on society and people, not so much.
No. of Recommendations: 0
Luckily, in the highest levels of government, corporate C- suites - the rule of the whites is slowly in decline.
But more needs to be done especially at the professional and academic levels.
Need many more high-tech immigrants into America, fast and consistently. Weird, those who champion the cause for immigrants south of the border - I don't see them loudly asking for the equal amount of high tech visa issuance....I wonder whyyyyyyyy ;)
Need more diversity in all college faculties, especially elite ones.
Need more unionization - from Starbucks to Google to Amazon to Apple - where shareholders who have long enjoyed tax deferred benefits - have to share more.
Who knows, maybe an excise tax on professionals with advanced degrees is a start. Maybe longer retirement ages for that demographic too. Monies can be used towards scholarships for People of Color. Perhaps limit the dollars that white professionals can put into retirement accounts, to whatever the national average for that mode of retirement planning is for people of color.
So many things still need to be done.
It's not just the 1%. It's time to come for the 20%'ers. And slowly - too slowly, in some corners, that has started.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Mike, some teachers are eccentric and some are more than eccentric. I had an eccentric Civics teacher that based 20% of the final exam on company logos. Company logos. Was me young impressionable mind scarred for life? Yes. I was scarred into understanding that "bosses" can be eccentric and you have to cater to them. What a terrible thing to learn at 16.
No. of Recommendations: 1
It's madrassas.....and its so much of academia.
