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I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me.
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And these people feel qualified to teach history.
The follow-up paragraph is even more amazing, because (like all conservatives) she can't even say what "woke" is.
And that's the really insidious part. The teacher is too ignorant of what she is ignorant of. If Harriet Tubman "might be too woke" then how would this women teach the nuance of protests? Of sit ins? Letters from a Birmingham jail? Much less modern protests. Her daughter is going to grow confidently saying things like
And not even understand the tragic irony.
Or she’ll learn on her own later. It’s sad, but many do it. The line of thinking of “we used to treat black people in utterly horrific ways” -> “we freed them but took a long time to give them the same rights” -> “they’re still mad and saying that racism still is a systemic problem” -> “why” is a path that many white Americans with intellectual curiosity have tread. Some don’t like the answers because they come with expectations, responsibility, guilt, and shame. Others decide that it doesn’t matter and accept what is learned.
It’s a shame she has to start there, but we have to believe that these indoctrinated children aren’t doomed
Uhhhhh. Yes it is? My niece was going over all of that around 3rd grade. And that's about the same time I did, this was all in the PNW. I think your school district just had some major omissions.
I went through California school a little under a decade ago and can tell you that the letters from Birmingham Jail and an at least somewhat decent overview of sit-ins were absolutely part of my standard curriculum
Though I'd bet there are plenty of places in this country where that's not true
Grew up in Ohio. We touched on it. We definitely ignored the socialism and the condemnation of white moderates and the armed resistance (of that eta) aside from the black panthers who were portrayed with a mixed light much like Nat Turner was. But we were a Catholic school so we did condemn any violence.
I think the big thing is that it varies wildly. My area for example had a lot of focus on white resistance to chattel slavery, and acknowledgement of the reality of precolombian civilization. That’s not because we were woke but because those that was the local history of southern Ohio. We could go visit an Underground Railroad stop or one of the great mounds for a field trip.
Meanwhile in somewhere like Virginia, I would expect a lot more focus on the colonial period and early English settlement. And I think in somewhere like Birmingham or Memphis if they don’t focus on the civil rights era that’s on fucking purpose. And I assume texas is doing their own thing and pretending they didn’t secede from Mexico and the US over slavery.
It was in my school in NJ.
It is at the school I went to, the school my kids went to, and the schools that my wife teaches at.
I went to school in Kansas. This was all taught, even there
It's just "what Trump tells me to hate", there i defined it.
Fox news tells them as well. Either way, people too stupid to have a thought originate from themselves.
I equate it to "progressive"
Which conservatives don't like because that means they are against progress.
Yes it does. It means you don't trust politicians or the system, you reexamine your beliefs and look at it critically.
If you don't think there's a fascist threat in our country right now, there's people who are literally burning "woke" books and firing elected "woke" prosecutors. They're using the word "woke" fairly correctly without understanding what it means, ironically enough, because "non-woke" is whatever lies the party spreads and "woke" is anything that contradicts that
if defining words is that easy for you, can you tell me: "what is a woman?"
some words are more subjective then others and for many feelings and emotions are more important then objective facts to define anything.
Right, so give a vague definition then. Give a conditional definiton. Say "woke is when black people are treated like humans and stuff, you know, like when they say marital rape is bad". They won't though, because while that is exactly what it means, they also know they can't say it out loud.
"Woke" is the thing that opposes their horrible and reprehensible ideas, and they know it. Hell, when DeSantis' lawyer had to define it in court he went with "the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them." It's weird though, why haven't conservatives just grasped on to this definition? Because "woke" is a dogwhistle for "someone who isn't a trash human like me".
If you want to define "woman", I can do way better than a vague definition though. Of course, the question itself is in bad faith, but I don't give a shit. In terms of gender: "A woman is anyone who wants to call themselves a woman and wants to be called a woman by others."
Just as an aside, I'm of the opinion gender is a stupid concept anyway and we should get rid of it entirely.
There are words that are notoriously difficult to define in such a way that every edge case is covered. For those words we use criteria. Listing off essential attributes and marking the entire list as provisionally sufficient. The Greeks figured this out 25 centuries ago, just a fyi. I know it is hard for conservatives to keep up with modern ideas but 2 and a half millennium should be enough time.
A women is one of the sexes, usually identified by their genitals. It is biological.
Not to conflate with feminine, which is one of the genders at the end of the gender spectrum. Which is sociological.
It isn't so hard once you listen to the science and understand the difference between Biology and Sociology.
I never said i can. I wanted to show how difficult it is to define something like that.
You left out the best part.