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Title: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 22, 2020, 12:38:22 am
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We have a degree program!

home.dominican.edu/news/2019/07/social-justice/

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In response to a growing number of students interested in careers focused on social justice and civic engagement, Dominican University of California is adding a new degree program social justice this fall.

The Social Justice major will examine the links between well-being, social justice, and diverse worldviews and teach students to analyze social injustices and work toward positive social change. The major will integrate coursework, faculty expertise, and practical experience and exposure gained through engagement with community partners.

I would like to see some course content.

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Some good news:

www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-49435041

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Glasgow University has agreed to raise and spend £20m in reparations after discovering it benefited by millions of pounds from the slave trade.

It is believed to be the first institution in the UK to implement such a "programme of restorative justice".

The money will be raised and spent over the next 20 years on setting up and running the Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for Development Research.

It will be managed in partnership with the University of the West Indies.

The centre, to be co-located in Glasgow and the Caribbean, will sponsor research work and raise awareness of the history of slavery and its impact around the world.

Prof Sir Hilary Beckles, vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, said the university's decision was a "bold, moral, historic step" in recognising the slavery aspect of its past.

The move comes almost a year after a study by the university looked at thousands of donations it received in the 18th and 19th Centuries.

It found many were from people whose wealth came from slavery.

University bosses said that although it never owned enslaved people or traded in the goods they produced, it was clear it had received significant financial support.

In total, the money it received is estimated as having a present day value of between £16.7m and £198m.Dr Mullen said the research was the first report of its type in British history and Glasgow was the first university to acknowledge financial income from slavery on such a scale.

Consider that if colonial-era slavery had never existed, none of these donations to universities would have been made, the rate of empirical knowledge expansion would have been slower due to less funding, and surely we would be living in a less complex world today. In reality, however, although slavery has since been abolished, we are still stuck with all that empirical knowledge which should never have been discovered. Even giving back the money now (while a nice gesture) won't erase the knowledge already discovered. Only the total death of Western civilization can perhaps achieve this.

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However, Glasgow's decision to begin a programme of reparations has not been universally welcomed.

Author and academic Joanna Williams said: "For me, the number one problem with this is that it suggests people who are alive today bear some historical responsibility for what their ancestors did in the past.

"[These were] truly barbaric and criminal acts, but to suggest that people alive today are responsible for the sins of their ancestors is a step too far."

She added: "It also suggests that other people who are alive today are victims of what happened to their ancestors. There comes a point we all need to move on from that and say that the past is the past."

Yes. That point will come when:

1) all descendants of colonialists have either voluntarily refrained or been prohibited from reproducing (currently not yet the case)

2) all identitarian concepts (e.g. "whiteness") from the colonial era have been discarded (currently not yet the case)

3) all symbols associated with colonialism (e.g. British Empire flag) have been discarded (currently not yet the case)

Until that occurs, the past evidently continues into the present, and to claim that "the past is the past" is intellectually dishonest.

No individual alive today bears responsibility for what their ancestors did in the past. On the other hand, every individual alive today has a duty to not transmit any further forward the bloodlines of those ancestors, and therein that very blood which caused those ancestors to behave as they historically did. To reproduce despite knowing your ancestors were colonialists is to increase the chances of colonialism happening again.

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yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/01/24/art-history-department-to-scrap-survey-course/

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Yale will stop teaching a storied introductory survey course in art history, citing the impossibility of adequately covering the entire field — and its varied cultural backgrounds — in one course.

Decades old and once taught by famous Yale professors like Vincent Scully, “Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to the Present” was once touted to be one of Yale College’s quintessential classes. But this change is the latest response to student uneasiness over an idealized Western “canon” — a product of an overwhelmingly white, straight, European and male cadre of artists.

This spring, the final rendition of the course will seek to question the idea of Western art itself — a marked difference from the course’s focus at its inception. Art history department chair and the course’s instructor Tim Barringer told the News that he plans to demonstrate that a class about the history of art does not just mean Western art. Rather, when there are so many other regions, genres and traditions — all “equally deserving of study” — putting European art on a pedestal is “problematic,” he said.

Absolutely. An American university, in particular, should primarily focus on New World art history. And when secondarily covering Old World art history, it should certainly cover all of the Old World rather than ignore the parts which did not colonize the New World!

I do encourage studying Western art, but through non-Western eyes able to perceive its ugliness:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/

This is infinitely more helpful than studying art around the world through Western eyes (which will consider Western art superior).

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The decision to get rid of this survey art history course resembles the English Department’s move to “decolonize” its degree requirements in 2017. At the time, the department made a sequence titled “Major English Poets” optional for majors.

For years, the Directed Studies program — a six-credit sequence for first-year students focusing on philosophy, literature and political philosophy — has also fielded criticisms about its exclusive focus on the Western canon.

We have plenty of work awaiting.....

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It used to be commonplace during counterculture times to mock Ivy League Universities as being elitist havens for Westerners.....
We would even make fun of their antiquated renaissance era architecture, which they insisted on not changing due to "heritage"!
Yet look at what has happened now, Gentiles, most of whom are younger, fashionably proclaiming that monuments to Western icons explicitly be preserved due to precisely that reason: "heritage".

Oh how times have changed.

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Ignorance and Indoctrination of Westerners Kills Millions

Our Planet Earth is heading straight towards the most dangerous collision in its history. It is not a collision with some foreign body, with an asteroid or a comet, but with the most brutal and selfish chunk of its own inhabitants: with people who proudly call themselves “members of the Western civilization.”

Again and again it is clearly demonstrated that Western culture, which the paramount psychologist Carl Jung used to call “pathology”, couldn’t be trusted.

www.globalresearch.ca/ignorance-and-indoctrination-of-westerners-kills-millions/5489648
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: rp on November 23, 2020, 01:10:18 am
Do you know who the author of this post was?:
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It used to be commonplace during counterculture times to mock Ivy League Universities as being elitist havens for Westerners.....
We would even make fun of their antiquated renaissance era architecture, which they insisted on not changing due to "heritage"!
Yet look at what has happened now, Gentiles, most of whom are younger, fashionably proclaiming that monuments to Western icons explicitly be preserved due to precisely that reason: "heritage".

Oh how times have changed.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 23, 2020, 02:16:52 am
You!
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 18, 2020, 10:58:11 pm
https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-scholar-receives-prize-revolutionizing-how-we-look-aztec-society

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When Camilla Townsend set out to tell the story of the Aztecs, the Indigenous population of central Mexico whose government was wiped out following the arrival of Spanish explorers, she began a project that challenged previous beliefs about their lives.

For 500 years, understanding of the Aztec people was based on accounts written by their conquerors, or sometimes by Indigenous people answering leading questions put to them by Spanish historians. These accounts contained misinterpretations, now widely taught in schools as “facts,” including that the Aztecs were obsessed with death, and that they thought the Spanish conquistadors were gods.

But Townsend, a Distinguished Professor of History in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers-New Brunswick, realized that to gain an accurate understanding of native populations, research should focus on what the people said about themselves in their own language when they were in the privacy of their own homes, addressing themselves to their own descendants.
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“Camilla Townsend revolutionizes how we should look at Aztec society before, during and after the arrival of Europeans in Central America,” said Peter Francopan, the prize’s 2020 jury chair. “After more than 500 years, we are finally able to see history through the eyes of the Indigenous people themselves rather than those of their conquerors. Not many books completely transform how we look at the past. This is one of those that does.”

This is what we need more of.

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“I found some surprises in what they wrote. For instance, there is absolutely no evidence that anyone thought Cortés, or any other Spaniard, was a god returning from the east. That story, as it turns out, comes initially from Spanish comments made later in the century,” she said.

I suspected as much.

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The Nahuatl sources portray Cortéz and the Spanish as powerful men who ****, burned and killed with impunity and whose metal weapons, gunpowder and smallpox overwhelmed Moctezuma’s efforts to fight them off or trade gold for peace, Townsend says.

In other words, Nahuatl sources portray Cortez & Co. as Westerners. Which is what they were. (Cortez was also Jewish. In fact he was Pizarro's cousin!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hern%C3%A1n_Cort%C3%A9s

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Through his mother, Hernán was second cousin once removed of Francisco Pizarro, who later conquered the Inca Empire of modern-day Peru, and not to be confused with another Francisco Pizarro, who joined Cortés to conquer the Aztecs.

Colonialism runs in their family! This is it is so important to exterminate colonialist bloodlines.

Back to the article:

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Townsend is currently studying the traditions of the Lenape, or Delaware, people who were indigenous to New Jersey but who in the 18th century were pushed out by European colonists and now live in Oklahoma.

Keep up the good work!

But although we have finally cleared up that the Aztecs did not think Cortez was a god, it unfortunately remains reality that too many of their present-day descendants think present-day "whites" are gods:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/psychological-decolonization/

and want to reproduce with them:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/reproductive-decolonization/

We are here to change this.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 21, 2020, 10:45:49 pm
https://nypost.com/2020/12/19/faculty-at-nycs-dalton-school-issues-8-page-anti-racism-manifesto/

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Abolishing high-level academic courses by 2023 if the performance of black students is not on par with non-blacks.

This is basically what I advocated for years ago, in opposition to the False Leftists (actually neocons) who wanted ways to 'improve' (according to Western standards) "black" student performance in Western subjects. As I said back then, the "black" student underperformance is not the problem; the problem is the Western standards and the Western subjects themselves. If anything, "black" underperformance in Western subjects is a healthy reaction. Contrast with Jewish overperformance:

http://aryanism.net/blog/other/racial-jewishness-archive-from-true-left-forum/

Imagine if the above policy had been implemented worldwide by 1823 instead of 2023. Almost all of the following could have been avoided:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-sustainable-evil/

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-does-not-die-soon/

This is what academic decolonization truly means. Many of the academic subjects studied today were never meant to exist in the world and would never have existed if not for post-Renaissance Western civilization bringing them into existence. But with the above measure applied worldwide we could end their existence within one generational cycle and begin to heal the world.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 09, 2021, 11:15:26 pm
https://barenakedislam.com/2021/01/09/muslim-teaching-assiatant-at-johns-hopkins-university-threatens-to-fail-pro-israel-students/

(https://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/135313517_1110657252778798_6453914618832752942_o.jpg)

Do it!
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 17, 2021, 12:50:49 am
https://www.wnd.com/2021/01/state-school-standards-banish-lessons-world-war-ii-holocaust-civil-war/

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State school standards banish lessons about World War I, II, Holocaust, Civil War
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The new standards call for students to describe "the tactics used by the United States government to claim indigenous and Mexican land, including but not limited to an analysis of the ideology of Manifest Destiny and its relationship to whiteness, Christianity, and capitalism; and analyze the strategies used by Native Americans and Mexicans to respond to U.S. settler colonialism."

Not a bad start at all. Which is not to say that WWII is not an important topic, but by removing it from the school syllabus (which has taught it with bias against Hitler) hopefully it will become easier for people to approach the topic later without prejudice. (Perhaps one day the reaction by students to the term "Holocaust" will simply be "What's that?")
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on January 29, 2021, 10:49:07 pm
Our enemy Glenn Beck acknowledges the success of our Demographic Blueshift strategy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML5m8Z0TtWI
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 03, 2021, 11:04:46 pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/magazine/classics-greece-rome-whiteness.html

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They have noted that in fifth-century-B.C. Athens, which has been celebrated as the birthplace of democracy, participation in politics was restricted to male citizens; thousands of enslaved people worked and died in silver mines south of the city, and custom dictated that upper-class women could not leave the house unless they were veiled and accompanied by a male relative. They have shown that the concept of Western civilization emerged as a euphemism for “white civilization” in the writing of men like Lothrop Stoddard, a Klansman and eugenicist. Some classicists have come around to the idea that their discipline forms part of the scaffold of white supremacy — a traumatic process one described to me as “reverse red-pilling” — but they are also starting to see an opportunity in their position. Because classics played a role in constructing whiteness, they believed, perhaps the field also had a role to play in its dismantling.
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Padilla’s vision of classics’ complicity in systemic injustice is uncompromising, even by the standards of some of his allies. He has condemned the field as “equal parts vampire and cannibal” — a dangerous force that has been used to murder, enslave and subjugate. “He’s on record as saying that he’s not sure the discipline deserves a future,” Denis Feeney, a Latinist at Princeton, told me. Padilla believes that classics is so entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it. “Far from being extrinsic to the study of Greco-Roman antiquity,” he has written, “the production of whiteness turns on closer examination to reside in the very marrows of classics.”

When Padilla ended his talk, the audience was invited to ask questions. Williams, an independent scholar from California, was one of the first to speak. She rose from her seat in the front row and adjusted a standing microphone that had been placed in the center of the room. “I’ll probably offend all of you,” she began. Rather than kowtowing to criticism, Williams said, “maybe we should start defending our discipline.” She protested that it was imperative to stand up for the classics as the political, literary and philosophical foundation of European and American culture: “It’s Western civilization. It matters because it’s the West.” Hadn’t classics given us the concepts of liberty, equality and democracy?

At this point, if only Padilla had responded that America is not the West, he could have taken the discussion to the level we are already at and waiting for the rest of the world to catch up to. But of course he did not.

False Leftists have to confront their internal contradiction sooner or later. You cannot love democracy and hate Western civilization. Either you love both or you hate both. But until False Leftists make this choice, they will remain rhetorically impaired.

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Like their counterparts in the United States, slavers in the Dominican Republic sometimes bestowed classical names on their charges as a mark of their civilizing mission, so the legacy of slavery — and its entanglement with classics — remains legible in the names of many Dominicans today. “Why are there Dominicans named Temístocles?” Padilla used to wonder as a kid. “Why is Manny Ramirez’s middle name Aristides?” Trujillo’s own middle name was Leónidas, after the Spartan king who martyred himself with 300 of his soldiers at Thermopylae, and who has become an icon of the far right.

This should be considered embarassing.

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Now he watched as alt-right figures like Richard Spencer, who had fantasized about creating a “white ethno-state on the North American continent” that would be “a reconstitution of the Roman Empire,” rose to national prominence. In response to rising anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and the United States, Mary Beard, perhaps the most famous classicist alive, wrote in The Wall Street Journal that the Romans “would have been puzzled by our modern problems with migration and asylum,” because the empire was founded on the “principles of incorporation and of the free movement of people.”

Beard is actually correct (though I would add that the Roman Empire also ended democracy). But look at Padilla's idiotic response:

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Padilla found himself frustrated by the manner in which scholars were trying to combat Trumpian rhetoric. In November 2015, he wrote an essay for Eidolon, an online classics journal, clarifying that in Rome, as in the United States, paeans to multiculturalism coexisted with hatred of foreigners. Defending a client in court, Cicero argued that “denying foreigners access to our city is patently inhumane,” but ancient authors also recount the expulsions of whole “suspect” populations, including a roundup of Jews in 139 B.C., who were not considered “suitable enough to live alongside Romans.”

Jews were not considered suitable to live alongside Romans not because they were foreigners, but because they were Jews and therefore racists. As we keep on repeating, hostility towards Jews is anti-racism.

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Enlightenment thinkers created a hierarchy with Greece and Rome, coded as white, on top, and everything else below. “That exclusion was at the heart of classics as a project,” Paul Kosmin, a professor of ancient history at Harvard, told me. Among those Enlightenment thinkers were many of America’s founding fathers. Aristotle’s belief that some people were “slaves by nature” was welcomed with special zeal in the American South before the Civil War, which sought to defend slavery in the face of abolitionist critique. In “Notes on the State of Virginia,” Thomas Jefferson wrote that despite their condition in life, Rome’s enslaved showed themselves to be the “rarest artists” who “excelled too at science, insomuch as to be usually employed as tutors to their master’s children.” The fact that Africans had not done the same, he argued, proved that the problem was their race.

I am thankful they had not done the same, or else the world would be in an even worse situation by today.

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Jefferson, along with most wealthy young men of his time, studied classics at college, where students often spent half their time reading and translating Greek and Roman texts. “Next to Christianity,” writes Caroline Winterer, a historian at Stanford, “the central intellectual project in America before the late 19th century was classicism.”

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While the founding fathers chose to emulate the Roman republic, fearful of the tyranny of the majority, later generations of Americans drew inspiration from Athenian democracy, particularly after the franchise was extended to nearly all white men regardless of property ownership in the early decades of the 1800s.

And look where that led. The US should have transitioned from republic to dictatorship like Rome did.

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Joshua Katz, a prominent Princeton classicist, published an op-ed in the online magazine Quillette in which he referred to the Black Justice League, a student group, as a “terrorist organization”

Katz is a Jewish surname. Jews are racist. The US should have excluded Jews like Rome did.
Title: Re: Psychological decolonization
Post by: Zea_mays on March 14, 2021, 05:47:56 pm
Music Theory and White Supremacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA

As explained in the later part of the video, the basis of the academic study of "music theory" consisting of the study of only post-Renaissance Western styles can most strongly be traced back to the Jewish music theorist Heinrich Schenker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Schenker
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 20, 2021, 10:25:47 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rights-dead-living-clash-scientists-145833951.html

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Rights of the dead and the living clash when scientists extract DNA from human remains
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Authorities in Chile have denounced the research. They believe a looter plundered the girl from her grave and illegally took her from the country. The Chilean Society of Biological Anthropology issued a damning statement. It asked, “Could you imagine the same study carried out using the corpse of someone’s miscarried baby in Europe or America?”

I cannot. But the reason it happens to everyone else is because it's OK to be a "white" archaeologist:

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Plundering skulls for science

We have seen a rush for human remains before. More than a century ago, anthropologists were eager to assemble collections of skeletons. They were building a science of humanity and needed samples of skulls and bones to determine evolutionary history and define the characteristics of human races.

Researchers emptied cemeteries and excavated ancient tombs. They took skulls from massacre sites. “It is most unpleasant work to steal bones from a grave,” the father of anthropology, Franz Boas, once grumbled, “but what is the use, someone has to do it.”

The case of Qisuk, an Inuit man, provides an especially egregious example. In 1897, the explorer Robert Peary brought Qisuk and five others to New York from Greenland, so anthropologists could more easily study their culture. Four of them, including Qisuk, soon died of tuberculosis.

Anthropologists and doctors conspired to fake Qisuk’s burial to trick his surviving 8-year-old son, then dissected the body and defleshed the bones. Qisuk’s skeleton was mounted and hung at the American Museum of Natural History. (It is still disputed today whether Qisuk was only stored at the museum or put on public display.)

By the end of the 20th century, U.S. museums held the remains of some 200,000 Native American skeletons.

These skeletons helped write the American continent’s history and foster an appreciation for Native cultures. Yet the insights gleaned from these gathered remains came at a steep price: Native Americans’ religious freedoms and human rights were systematically violated. Many Native Americans believe their ancestors’ spirits have been left to wander. Others insist that all ancestors should be afforded honor and their graves should be protected.

Today, a U.S. federal law provides for the return of stolen skeletons. Still, the legacy of these collections will haunt us for generations. Many Native Americans are profoundly distrustful of archaeologists. And even after nearly 30 years of active repatriation of human remains, there are still more than 100,000 skeletons in U.S. museums. By my estimation, it will take 238 years to return these remains at this rate – if they are ever even returned at all.

Seeking consent

For too long scientists failed to ask basic ethical questions: Who should control collections of human remains? What are the positive and negative consequences of studies based on skeletons? And how can scientists work to enhance, rather than undermine, the rights of the people they study?

One place to look for answers is the Belmont Report. Published in 1979, this was the scientific community’s response to the Tuskegee Study. Over the course of 40 years, the U.S. government denied medical treatment to more than 400 black men infected with syphilis, to watch the disease’s evolution. In the aftermath of the resulting scandal, the Belmont Report insisted that biomedical researchers must have respect for people, try to do good as well as avoid harm, and fairly distribute the burdens and benefits of research.

Although these guidelines were intended for living subjects, they provide a framework to consider research on the dead. After all, research on the dead ultimately affects the living. One way to ensure these protections is to seek informed consent from individuals, kin, communities or legal authorities before conducting studies.

Western academics think nothing of initiating any type or quantity of violence so long as they get research done out of it. (This is even more obvious when we look at their history of experimenting on non-humans.) It is this entire value system which must be toppled. No knowledge is worth any initiated violence. Anyone who thinks otherwise is already a Westerner.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 17, 2021, 12:30:47 am
We need more of this:

https://www.city-journal.org/california-ethnic-studies-programs-merchants-of-revolution

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California public schools are embarking on a new experiment: education as social justice. Earlier this year, the state Department of Education approved an ethnic studies model curriculum, and individual school districts have begun to implement programs that advocate “decolonizing” the United States and “liberating” students from capitalism, patriarchy, and settler colonialism.
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According to slides and contemporaneous notes from the session, the Santa Clara Office of Education began the presentation with a “land acknowledgement,” claiming that Santa Clara County and the public school system “occupy the unceded territory of the Muwekma Ohlone Nation, the sovereign nation and original people of the skies, land, and waters.” The premise of this ritual, which has become common in progressive organizations, is that the American government, founded by white settlers, is an illegitimate colonial power that should return the land to the Native American tribes.
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Pacheco then argued that the United States is a political regime based on “settler colonialism,” which he describes as a “system of oppression” that “occupies and usurps land/labor/resources from one group of people for the benefit of another.” The settler colonialist regime, Pacheco continues, is “not just a vicious thing of the past, but [one that] exists as long as settlers are living on appropriated land.” The white colonialist regime of the United States is a “parasitic system” responsible for domestic violence, drug overdoses, and other social problems. In a related PowerPoint slide, Pacheco presented examples of this oppression, including “men exploiting women,” “white people exploiting people of color,” and “rich people exploiting poor people.”

What is the solution? Pacheco argues that teachers must “awaken [students] to the oppression” and lead them to “decodify” and eventually “destroy” the dominant political regime. The first step in this process is to help students “get into the mind of a white man” such as Christopher Columbus and analyze “what ideology led these white male settlers to be power and land hungry and justify stealing indigenous land through genocide.” Pacheco describes this process as transforming students into “activist intellectuals” who “decodify systems of oppression” into their component parts, including “white supremacy, patriarchy, classism, genocide, private property, and God.”

Teachers must be careful, though: Pacheco and the other panelists suggested that local educators hide this revolutionary pedagogy from administrators and families. “District guidelines and expectations are barriers,” said one panelist. “[We] have to be extra careful about what is being said, since we can’t just say something controversial now that we’re in people’s homes [because of remote learning].” In addition, teachers must acknowledge that they, too, can become oppressors in the classroom. “Inherently, [it is the] oppressor who sets the rules.” Teachers must “recognize [their] own privilege and [their] own bias” in order to align themselves with the oppressed and work toward dismantling systems of oppression.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 30, 2021, 10:40:06 pm
How bad things are:

https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2021/04/16/teaching-issues-can-be-among-biggest-obstacles-retaining-bipoc-women-faculty

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BIPOC women are often assigned more new course preparations and more service courses with larger enrollments. This informal or invisible teaching overload means that the “same” teaching load is experienced quite differently.

Imagine the teaching load of one instructor assigned all new course preparations or introductory service courses with enrollments of 150 students each. Then compare that to the teaching load of a person assigned only previously taught courses or elective courses on their own research topics with enrollments of just 15 students of fewer. If both these individuals have the “same” 2-2 (or 5-5) teaching assignment, is that really the same load? Absolutely not.

How are BIPOC faculty women supposed to publish with heavy teaching loads? The truth is that they often cannot. This unfair diversion of their time and energy away from publishing contributes to lowered productivity -- compared to white male peers -- related to the grants and publications that are the institutional currency for tenure and promotion.

Student and Colleague Resistance

Students behaving aggressively in the classroom also play a role in derailing tenure. White students disproportionately challenge the authority of BIPOC women and are twice as likely to inappropriately question them when being taught about social justice issues (e.g., systemic racism). Eric Grollman notes that “There are scholars who’ve been attacked for what they teach in the classroom” and that these experiences are not “anecdotal” or “isolated” incidents. They are unfortunately common features for these women, as evidenced by the research on their raced and gendered classroom experiences. Unfortunately, as Saida Grundy elaborates in her article “A history of white violence tells us attacks on black academics are not ending (I know because it happened to me),” BIPOC women are alert to the fact they could be next to be attacked.

Colleagues can also behave aggressively toward and interfere with the tenure of BIPOC women when it comes to teaching. These women’s transformative teaching is often in conflict with their white male colleagues’ more traditional (e.g., lecture) approaches to pedagogy. When BIPOC faculty teach about inclusive topics like race, white colleagues can antagonistically label it as marginal and illegitimate knowledge. Many BIPOC women faculty have told me of white colleagues, chairs and deans who constantly and intensely pressure them to revert to lecture-only teaching that focuses on the white male “classics.”

In a public letter, Michelle Gibbs describes such unchecked hostilities as reasons she left her institution: “There are not enough white faculty and administrators willing to publicly teach white students how to hold themselves accountable for their racist behavior in the classroom. This unpaid emotional labor is often left to Black and Brown faculty who recognize it, feel it, and (all alone) are left to call it out. It is exhausting work and doesn’t win us any favors with colleagues and administrators.” She isn’t alone. Undue stress results in other BIPOC women exiting higher education institutions, too. And for those who stay, such discrimination wreaks havoc on their publication productivity.

Unsound Tenure and Promotion Practices

Student and colleague resistance to BIPOC women’s classroom authority, pedagogy and content is not without consequence. It can significantly impact tenure and promotion reviews through practices that are common but not methodologically sound. Let’s focus on two of those practices: the incorrect use of student evaluations and flawed teaching observation processes.

Colleges and universities often contribute to the demise of BIPOC faculty retention by using student evaluations in incredibly incorrect ways in reviews. For starters, many misuse the student evaluation data by using the mean score, focusing on outlier comments and comparing faculty to one another. Additionally, many improperly use the student evaluations as the primary or only measurement of teaching quality. Those practices don’t adhere to the general guidance about interpreting such data and evaluating teaching, and they result in inaccurate conclusions about teaching quality in reviews.

Arriving at unfounded conclusions about teaching quality is problematic for “normal” contexts. Yet it is even more problematic when reviewing the teaching of BIPOC women. Instead of presenting a sound view of teaching quality, these practices amplify the raced and gendered biases frequently found in student evaluations. And then colleagues, chairs and deans turn around and use these inaccurate and unsupported claims of poor teaching quality to deny the tenure and promotion of BIPOC women.

The flawed teaching observations of many colleges and universities also have a direct impact on tenure and promotion decisions. Does the following sound familiar? A faculty member is “informed” that “someone” will be observing their teaching, and it happens with no/minimal discussion about the nature or focus of the observation. None of these features aligns with appropriate teaching observation practices.

Here’s why it matters. A Black woman faculty member recounted to me the damage that was done to her tenure review because of a teaching observation. In her colleague’s written observation report, he accused her of teaching controversial content, going so far as to say that he (a white male) would feel unwelcome as a student in her classroom. What was she teaching? Her scholarly expertise on structural racism. Let’s be clear: the observer did not report witnessing actual student discomfort. In fact, the Black woman faculty member won a teaching award shortly afterward for which she was nominated and voted to win by the students. Instead, the colleague wrote negatively about her teaching in her tenure review because he equated his offense about the course content with an assessment of its quality. Over and over again I have heard eerily similar versions of this experience from other BIPOC faculty.

Meanwhile, it's OK to be a "white" teacher:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jersey-teacher-curses-black-students-224500985.html

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Dickinson High School teacher Howard Zlotkin targeted his Black students and used profanity as he complained about his ‘privilege’

A New Jersey teacher has been removed from the virtual classroom after going a profanity-laced rant against his students about race, Black Lives Matter and George Floyd.
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“If you think I’m privileged then f— you, because my daughter thinks I’m privileged and I don’t speak to her,” he said on Zoom, which was recorded by a student.
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Williams and her mother, Margie Nieves, said they contacted school officials but did not hear back from them until they contacted the news station.

“Who does that? Who would curse, I don’t even curse at my own daughter,” said Nieves.

The mother and daughter said they were shocked to see that Zlotkin had returned to class and yet again cursed at students. He also called out Williams who had refused to complete the essay he asked her and the other Black students to write.

“I don’t think you can make a case. You know what Timmia? You’re full of s–t too,” Zlotkin said during another recording of his remarks.
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When contacted by NBC New York, Dickinson High School officials said that Zlotkin was temporarily removed from the classroom and school as they look into the incident, but did not indicate if there would be any further discipline.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 02, 2021, 04:43:04 am
I always hated Newton when I was in school:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/24/isaac-newton-latest-historical-figure-swept-decolonisation-drive/

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Sir Isaac Newton has been labelled as a potential beneficiary of “colonial-era activity” in draft plans to “decolonise” the engineering curriculum at Sheffield University.
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Newton, who lived until 1727, laid the foundations of modern science with his theory of gravity, in the seminal Principia, and theories on light, time, colour and calculus.
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it is known that he held shares in the South Sea Company that traded in slaves.

Newton had another area of interest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_Jewish_Temple

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Notes on the Jewish Temple is a manuscript by Isaac Newton, written in Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, which holds notes on the Jewish Temple and its rituals.

Today the manuscript is found in the collections of the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.
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The book contains Hebrew and Aramaic phrases which were copied to Hebrew letters by Newton, such as the phrase: "ברוך שם כבוד מלכותו לעולם ועד" (English: Blessed be the name of His glorious kingdom for all eternity).
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The manuscript contains references to a variety of sources, including the Old Testament, the Midrash (interpreting biblical stories) of the sophos Hillel and Shammai, the Talmud, the Zohar, and Targum Jonathan.

It is all linked. Western empirical science and Western colonialism (including slavery) are both at their roots products of fundamental gratitude to Yahweh for creating the material world in the first place. Newton embodies this attitude in a consistent way.

Imagine how much simpler the world would be if Newton had never existed! How much of this could have been avoided:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-does-not-die-soon/
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: rp on May 02, 2021, 10:41:28 am
"I always hated Newton when I was in school:"
You and me both. Guess that makes two of us. I've always viewed him as some mentally sick bastard who purposefully wanted to overcomplicate and overthink things out of his "curiosity".

At least he didn't leave any offspring. But you could argue the amount of knowledge he discovered has been far more damaging to the rest of the world even though he did not reproduce.

Here is a false leftist meme ridiculing him for this:
(https://preview.redd.it/0s0bh07mkhzz.jpg?auto=webp&s=7e4bac0485b3b02b163bd4fd9f77d4b39ee8abd7)
First of all, dying without reproducing is noble. However, Newton does not fit into this category because he had already done so much damage while he was alive that it was inconsequential. Therefore, it is incorrect to state that this was some kind of "loss" for Newton.

On the other hand, those who actually die without reproducing because of their lack of interest in the material world are those who we should be praising.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: guest5 on May 02, 2021, 06:45:34 pm
Just keep in mind losing ones virginity does not necessarily equate to a person not reproducing. My aunt on my mothers side has plenty of sex with her partner, yet neither of them have ever reproduced any offspring, as an example. With equating sexual experience to mere reproduction you may get into a pickle debating someone who argues that sex is a spiritual experience more than a physical one. Just a thought....
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 02, 2021, 10:38:07 pm
"At least he didn't leave any offspring. But you could argue the amount of knowledge he discovered has been far more damaging to the rest of the world even though he did not reproduce."

In particular, the ways in which the Industrial Revolution (many processes of which required calculus to design) raised total population carrying capacity could be called "Newtonian fecundity" if we want to stress the point.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 05, 2021, 11:27:38 pm
Previously:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/academic-decolonization/msg3000/#msg3000

Now more along similar lines:

https://reason.com/2021/05/04/california-math-framework-woke-equity-calculus/

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California's Department of Education is working on a new framework for K-12 mathematics that discourages gifted students from enrolling in accelerated classes that study advanced concepts like calculus.
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In fact, the framework concludes that calculus is overvalued, even for gifted students.

"The push to calculus in grade twelve is itself misguided," says the framework.

As evidence for this claim, the framework cites the fact that many students who take calculus end up having to retake it in college anyway. Of course, de-prioritizing instruction in high school calculus would not really solve this problem—and in fact would likely make it worse—but the department does not seem overly worried. The framework's overriding perspective is that teaching the tough stuff is college's problem: The K-12 system should concern itself with making every kid fall in love with math.

Of course we disagree with this superficial reasoning that tries to make it a mere administrative tweak to benefit larger numbers of students. Most leftists still do not have the courage to come out and say outright that calculus was never meant to have been invented, and therefore we have a positive ethical duty to terminate knowledge of it ASAP. However, they will not hold this position until they abandon progressivism and adopt regressivism:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/leftists-against-progressivism/
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 08, 2021, 01:20:11 am
And more:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-accelerated-math-courses-equity

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Virginia moving to eliminate all accelerated math courses before 11th grade as part of equity-focused plan
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 24, 2021, 10:58:31 pm
You know how far we have come when Jews have trouble getting published:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9583887/Acclaimed-British-author-Richard-Cohens-new-book-historians-cancelled-US.html

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A new history book by an acclaimed British author has reportedly been dropped by its US publisher over concerns it was 'too white'.

Richard Cohen was asked to produce more for work for his upcoming book 'The History Makers' because publishers were concerned the 780-page book failed to feature enough black historians, academics and writers.

Mr Cohen, 75, who wrote the acclaimed Chasing The Sun, is said to have written 18,000 extra words covering the work of black historians.

Academics such such as Frederick Douglass and Booker T Washington are said to have been covered in the additional work.

But US publisher Random House has still decided to drop the book, according to the Guardian.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 02, 2021, 10:14:43 pm
Well spotted!

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/handel/royal-academy-of-music-decolonise-collection-slave-trade/

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Royal Academy of Music to ‘decolonise' collection as composer linked to slave trade
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The review could give wider context to the Academy’s displayed portraits and sculptures of Baroque composer George Frideric Handel, who we now know repeatedly invested in the transatlantic slave trade.

Other items ripe for reevaluation in the on-site museum include rare 18th-century pianos and violins, whose keys and fingerboards were made with colonial ivory and ebony.

All of them must be destroyed!

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In 2015 Dr David Hunter, lecturer at the Butler School of Music in Texas, found Handel repeatedly invested in the Royal African Company. “It was quite by chance that I came across Handel’s name in the investors of the Royal Africa Company – the main slave traders in the 1710s,” he said.

Hunter said many members of the 18th-century wealthy elite would have profited from slavery, and what’s crucial now is to provide contextual focus of such historical figures and objects.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 03, 2021, 01:47:44 pm
This teacher gets it:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/twitter-outraged-over-teacher-telling-educators-to-embrace-anti-racist-thinking-or-be-fired/ar-AAKuGXa

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Eighth grade humanities teacher Katherine Watkins made her comments during the district's virtual equity summit published to YouTube by Parents Defending Education (PDE) in late April and clips of her comments were shared to social media Thursday, garnering many reactions.

"If you're being resistant, I understand that, but you're going to have to eventually come to the light because if you're going to keep up those old views of colonialism, it's going to lead to being fired because you're going to be doing damage to our children...trauma," Watkins said during the Zoom call.

"So as we fire the teachers who sexually abuse our children, we will be firing the teachers who do racist things to our children and traumatize them," she added before saying "you either evolve or dissolve."

Inflicting trauma is precisely what the colonial system was deliberately designed to do in order to promote Eurocentrism. It was immensely successful.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 04, 2021, 11:56:28 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/tom-hanks-tulsa-racism-174252824.html

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Self-described armchair historian Tom Hanks sounded off on what gets taught about race in American schools in a New York Times opinion piece that argues every child should have to learn about the 1921 destruction of “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

With his essay, published Friday, the actor parachuted into a culture war currently being waged by conservatives over critical race theory, an academic term referring to the ways racism has influenced history that has become a right-wing boogeyman. Just this week, former Vice President Mike Pence said it was a “left-wing myth” that systemic racism exists in America.

“How different would perspectives be had we all been taught about Tulsa in 1921, even as early as the fifth grade? Today, I find the omission tragic, an opportunity missed, a teachable moment squandered,” Hanks wrote.

Schools, Hanks said, “should also stop the battle to whitewash curriculums to avoid discomfort for students.”

“America’s history is messy but knowing that makes us a wiser and stronger people,” he wrote.

The Tulsa riot just passed its 100th anniversary. Over the course of two days in late May and early June, 1921, white Americans stormed Greenwood, an economically booming Black neighborhood of the prairie city, and burned it to the ground, killing an unknown number of Black Americans in the process. Estimates range from dozens of Black victims to 300 dead, while thousands were left homeless. In congressional testimony last month, survivors of the attack said that some of the dead were simply dumped into a river; 107-year-old Viola Fletcher said she still can see “Black bodies lying in the street.” Excavators are currently unearthing a mass grave in Tulsa believed to be the resting place of some of the victims.

Recent television shows ― HBO’s “Watchmen” and “Lovecraft Country” ― that touched on the Tulsa attack have highlighted how few Americans recall learning about it in school.

In his essay, Hanks marveled at the fact that he only learned about it by way of a New York Times article last year, writing that failing to teach about Tulsa and patterns of extreme violence against Black Americans had the effect of “placing white feelings over Black experience — literally Black lives in this case.”

“The truth about Tulsa, and the repeated violence by some white Americans against Black Americans, was systematically ignored, perhaps because it was regarded as too honest, too painful a lesson for our young white ears,” Hanks wrote. “So, our predominantly white schools didn’t teach it, our mass appeal works of historical fiction didn’t enlighten us, and my chosen industry didn’t take on the subject in films and shows until recently.”

“Today, I think historically based fiction entertainment must portray the burden of racism in our nation for the sake of the art form’s claims to verisimilitude and authenticity,” he said.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 14, 2021, 12:32:41 am
Resistance to Red pressure at last:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/teachers-across-u-protest-laws-050523891.html

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Thousands of teachers and other educators held protests across the U.S. Saturday against the actions of "at least 15 Republican-led states" that aim to restrict teaching about racism in class, the Washington Post reports.
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    Organizers of the Zinn Education Project initiative say they want to send a message that they won't lie to students about past and present racism in the U.S.

    Thousands of teachers have also signed a pledge declaring that the educators "refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events — regardless of the law."

https://twitter.com/BeckyPringle/status/1403721759816359946

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Educators deserve support, and our students deserve to be taught the truth. Some politicians would have us lie in the classroom to whitewash our history—not on my watch. Today, I join with @BLMAtSchool, @ZinnEdProject, and educators across the nation in pledging to #TeachTruth.

It is not "CRT"; it is simply teaching truthful Western history. If truthful Western history is disgusting to learn about, it is because Western civilization is disgusting.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 15, 2021, 10:28:38 pm
Essentially what I have been saying:

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/critical-race-theory-debate-whitewashing-120000936.html

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The Republicans’ current crusade against teaching race and racism in schools is part of the same tradition of erasing truth and amplifying fiction. Perhaps more importantly, it mirrors the type of dangerous, disturbing behavior of those history-makers that the modern GOP fears discussing. If today we talk about the racists and white supremacists of yesterday, then years from now, we’ll be talking about the racists and white supremacists of today, many of whom are the very same leaders trying to rewrite history.

This year alone, 21 states have either banned critical race theory (CRT) or introduced legislation that moves in that direction. CRT is described as being a framework that considers race to be a social, institutional construct that’s intended to keep Black and brown people in the lower rungs of society — i.e., an accurate description of the past few centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, redlining, and myriad other forms of discrimination.
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the problem is the fact that, to many Republicans, discussing slavery and systemic racism seems to be more “highly contentious and highly controversial” than the acts themselves.
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The proof is there, and in many cases, it’s in black and white. There’s the explicitly racist language in the Federal Housing Authority’s Underwriting Manual that laid the groundwork for redlining; the government-funded Kerner Commission’s documented findings on the racial uprisings from 1965 to 1968; and the reality that Black Americans were considered to be three-fifths of a person. There’s also the obvious impacts that the genocide of Native Americans and the enslavement of African Americans has had on their descendants.

The fear of teaching American students how to think critically about race is alarming. If merely thinking about the construct of race is so dangerous, the practice of enforcing political and systemic divisions based on that same construct is even more dangerous. Consider what these whitewashed, often false, historical narratives have done to the psyches of nonwhite students. Some textbooks refer to enslaved people as “immigrants” or “workers,” many of whom were not “unhappy” with their place within the “peculiar institution” of slavery. Others teach students that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America, totally disregarding the millions of Indigenous people who inhabited this land before him (a concept that truly baffled me as an elementary school student). Where’s the outrage about the ways those false teachings hurt nonwhite kids?

I was baffled in the same way! But now I understand: it is because "non-whites" do not count. What should be taught to history students today is how previous generations of history students (such as the author and myself) used to be taught.

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The U.S. that we live in today, with all its flaws and beauty, wouldn’t be what it is without race. James Baldwin, writer and activist, once said, “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

This proves what rightists love is not America, but Western civilization.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5OczxHYofk
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 20, 2021, 10:46:04 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW0vAPFbLsc
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 27, 2021, 01:06:55 am
Finally!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9727255/The-word-caucasian-banned-say-Cambridge-UCL-scientists.html

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The word 'caucasian' should be banned because it is 'associated with a racist classification of humans', according to five Cambridge and UCL scientists.

Researchers said scientists should only use the term when absolutely unavoidable but refrain from 'usage where possible'.

Authors of the article titled 'The language of race, ethnicity, and ancestry in human genetic research' said the term Caucasian was an 'old term associated with racist and pseudo-scientific classifications of humans'.
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The paper said scientists should add quotation marks around the word when used in research, the Telegraph reported.

We are always ahead of mainstream academia.

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Authors Dr Ewan Birney, Michael Inouye, Dr Jennifer Raff, Dr Adam Rutherford, and Aylwyn Scally said their is intended 'to stimulate a much-needed discussion about the language of genetics'.

Adding they hoped it would help 'begin a process to clarify existing terminology, and in some cases adopt a new lexicon that both serves scientific insight, and cuts us loose from various aspects of a pernicious past.'

Indeed!

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/

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Dr Ewan Birney, deputy director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire, has added terms such as 'Native American', 'Hispanic', 'White Irish', and 'European', should also be avoided.

Yes! (Except Hispanic, which refers to Spanish language and thus does not require "". )

Unfortunately, mainstream academia is extremely slow-witted:

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Instead, he says, researchers should use more scientific language derived from a two-step genetic analysis.

'European', for example, would instead be 'the European-associated PCA [principal component analysis] cluster, which aims to minimise variation in non-genetic factors and genetic factors'.

That is not an improvement FFS. Use common selective pressure, not common geographical habitat! Those (Joetnar) who lived through the Ice Age have little in common with those (Aesir etc.) who arrived after the Ice Age was over. What about this is so hard to understand?
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 03, 2021, 10:36:14 pm
The same as what I was saying earlier:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/true-left-breakthrough-anti-whiteness-476/msg7038/#msg7038

about rejecting the term "CRT":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsfX-Mjio0E

What our enemies call "CRT" is simply honest teaching of history.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 10, 2021, 04:01:48 am
First we say it over and over. Then Hartmann says it over and over. And now Psaki is saying it:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pressed-teachers-unions-stance-critical-181300825.html

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Pressed on teachers union's stance on critical race theory, Psaki says Biden believes children 'should learn our history'
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She added, "So as the spouse of an educator and as somebody who continues to believe that children should learn not just the good but also the challenging in our history, and that's part of what we're talking about here, even as it's become politically charged."

There is no such thing as "CRT". This is simply about honest teaching of history vs dishonest teaching of history.
Title: Let's talk about Boebert and Republicans suggesting CRT is true....
Post by: guest55 on July 10, 2021, 09:48:03 pm
Let's talk about Boebert and Republicans suggesting CRT is true....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9RrZ56O1Pg

Would add that anti-racists are superior ethically and morally compared to racists. This is an elitist stance, which happens to be true and easily proven as such. If holding a civilization together requires unity and racists are divisive simply because of their racism, we can easily argue that racists do not have what it takes to hold a civilization together, only anti-racists do. Therefore racists are inferior to anti-racists. This fact should not require a massive amount of intellect to understand....

Don't believe me? Then take it from the people who held together one of the largest and longest lasting empires the world has ever known for over a thousand years:
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/ancient-world/what-did-the-romans-think-about-race/

See also: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/superiority-cannot-be-taught/
Title: Re: State subverters
Post by: guest55 on July 21, 2021, 10:59:56 pm
Black Teacher Accused Of Bias For Teaching The Reality Of Slavery
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The critical race theory controversy which is really a rejection of anti-racism teachings has teachers like Rodney Pierce caught in the crossfire. Pierce is a social studies teacher at Red Oak Middle School in Battleboro, North Carolina and was social studies teacher of the year in 2019. Now, Pierce is facing resistance from parents saying that his teaching of history and race is biased.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxu1iXLFl5o
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 04, 2021, 10:09:19 pm
Rightist media complains about woke WWII historians being increasingly pro-Axis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYSff9VRITs

as we many years ago promised that they one day would be.

See also:

http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/blm-sides-with-third-reich/

http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/when-history-is-written-by-leftists-contd/

http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/when-history-is-written-by-leftists/
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 07, 2021, 11:47:08 pm
More people getting it:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02288-x

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Too many scientists still say Caucasian
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Of the ten clinical genetics labs in the United States that share the most data with the research community, seven include ‘Caucasian’ as a multiple-choice category for patients’ racial or ethnic identity, despite the term having no scientific basis. Nearly 5,000 biomedical papers since 2010 have used ‘Caucasian’ to describe European populations. This suggests that too many scientists apply the term, either unbothered by or unaware of its roots in racist taxonomies used to justify slavery — or worse, adding to pseudoscientific claims of white biological superiority.

Thank you for using '' around "Caucasian". But you forget to do the same with "European".

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Many working in genomics do have a nuanced understanding of the issues and want to get things right. Still, I have been dismayed by how often the academics and clinicians I’ve encountered shy away from examining, or even acknowledging, how racism warps science.
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In the United States, people with ancestry from the world’s two most populous countries, India and China, along with every other country on the continent, are collapsed into a single racial category called ‘Asian’. Similarly, the term ‘Hispanic’ erases a multitude of cultural and ancestral identities, especially among Indigenous peoples of the Americas.

In reality, the vast majority of Indians have "Caucasoid"-type skulls (ie. ones which cannot be placed face down on a flat surface without tipping to one side). However, they are rarely labelled as "Caucasian".

Still, thank you for at least putting "Asian" in ''. (No '' is needed around Hispanic, however; Spanish is a language.)

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Erroneous ideas about genetic ‘races’ live on in the broad, ambiguous ‘continental ancestry’ groups such as ‘Black, African’ or ‘African American’, that are used in the US Census and are ubiquitous in biomedical research. These collapse incredible amounts of diversity and erase cultural and ancestral identities. Study participants deemed not to fit within such crude buckets are often excluded from analyses, despite the fact that fewer and fewer individuals identify with a single population of origin.

On the other hand, people from countries such as Libya are rarely called "African" despite Libya being part of the "continent" of  "Africa" (and indeed the only true Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(Roman_province) ). Because the real point is neither to consistently stick to "continental" ancestry nor to consistently stick to skull taxonomy, but to switch between the two as necessary in accordance with Eurocentrism.

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Approaches to genetic ancestry based on known reference populations are inadequate, in part because so much global diversity is missing from our data. I am working with the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, which aims to generate a more accurate and inclusive resource for global genomic diversity. It will include communities, especially Indigenous peoples, in developing protocols for data collection, storage and use. This respects Indigenous data sovereignty, and makes for more accurate and inclusive studies.

The more precisely we can measure genetic and non-genetic contributors to health and disease, the less researchers will rely on biologically meaningless designations that reinforce faulty assumptions and cause harm. The use of sequence data in clinical care could, for instance, facilitate recommendations for drug dosage that are genotype-based, rather than race-based.

Simply picking another word to replace ‘Caucasian’ won’t be enough to root out racism in research and medicine. But all should be aware of the harms the word represents.

Indeed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race#The_Caucasus_as_the_origin_of_humanity_and_the_peak_of_beauty

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In the eighteenth century, the prevalent view among European scholars was that the human species had its origin in the region of the Caucasus Mountains.[22] This view was based upon the Caucasus being the location for the purported landing point of Noah's Ark – from whom the Bible states that humanity is descended – and the location for the suffering of Prometheus, who in Hesiod's myth had crafted humankind from clay.[22]

In addition, the most beautiful humans were reputed to be the stereotypical "Circassian beauties" and the Georgian people; both Georgia and Circassia are in the Caucasus region.[23][22]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_beauty

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Here the majority of the women were Circassian, who without any doubt are much more distinguished in appearance. ... This natural superiority was the cause of a good deal of ill-will and envy. One Circassian woman, favoured with an aristocratic appearance, was avoided and even hated by the chocolate-coloured African women through no fault of hers, but simply because she looked majestic.
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By the early nineteenth century, Circassians were associated with theories of racial hierarchy, which elevated the Caucasus region as the source of the purest examples of the "white race", which was named the Caucasian race after the area by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Blumenbach theorised that the Circassians were the closest to God's original model of humanity, and thus "the purest and most beautiful whites were the Circassians".[27]
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Bella Kukan, "Miss Circassia", 2013
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Bella_Kukan.jpg)

(https://image.shutterstock.com/image-vector/emoticon-laughing-wiping-tears-away-260nw-564985714.jpg)

More laughter material:

https://twitter.com/sausruqo/status/1059225433353412613

https://twitter.com/sausruqo/status/1060686262347141121

https://twitter.com/lucinapshegubj/status/452035208251211776

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/homo-hubris/
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 08, 2021, 10:54:43 pm
https://www.ajc.com/news/emory-apologizes-for-campuses-displacing-native-americans/AEZPSYGPMZC5PDFYN5BXUFZSVY/

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On Monday, the Emory board of trustees approved an official “Land Acknowledgment for Emory University” that “acknowledges the Muscogee (Creek) people who lived, worked, produced knowledge on, and nurtured the land where Emory’s Oxford and Atlanta campuses are now located.”

In a statement issued by President Gregory L. Fenves, the acknowledgment “sheds light on a tragic chapter in the Emory story.”

“It also reminds us of the important work that lies ahead to create a university community that is more inclusive of Native and Indigenous perspectives, learning, and scholarship,” Fenves said.

More importantly, the university should increasingly exclude Western perspectives, learning and scholarship. It is excluding Western learning, not including non-Western learning, which we need if we are to stop:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-does-not-die-soon/

Note:

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Emory’s announcement came 10 years after the board of trustees adopted a formal statement of regret over the school’s historic involvement with African-American slavery.

It also came ahead of the university’s “In the Wake of Slavery and Dispossession” symposium starting Wednesday. The three-day event will explore the school’s history with slavery and Native American land dispossession and examine through panels, performances and art installations how that history affects the present.
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“This is a moment in which scholars, activists and artists of color have compelled a national conversation surrounding enduring legacies of anti-Black racism and, increasingly, colonialism, including overlaps between Indigenous dispossession and the enslavement of Black people in this country,” said Alix L. Olson, an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Oxford College.

The overlap is that both groups of victims were Americans while their common oppressors were Westerners.

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Fenves said the school will continue to recognize Indigenous Peoples’ Day and take steps to establish a stronger connection with the Muscogee Nation.

But will it take steps to weaken its connection with Western civilization?
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 14, 2021, 11:19:29 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/news/texas-school-administrator-told-teachers-005600802.html

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Texas school administrator told teachers to use books with 'opposing' views of Holocaust
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"Make sure that if, if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives,"

Yes, it is fortunately legal do this in the US, unlike in numerous more Zionist countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_Holocaust_denial

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Holocaust_Denial_Laws_.svg/1024px-Holocaust_Denial_Laws_.svg.png)
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: Zea_mays on October 17, 2021, 08:55:29 pm
There are not just laws against mere "denial", but there are also laws mandating that the sacred narrative is taught:

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As of April of 2021, laws mandating education about the Holocaust were on the books in Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, as well as in the U.S. states of Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas. In total, 16 states have mandatory Holocaust education.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_requiring_teaching_of_the_Holocaust

I doubt that the teaching of the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans, US concentration camps for American citizens of Japanese heritage during WWII, etc. are mandated by law in most of those US states!!!
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 23, 2021, 10:41:23 pm
Good takedown:

https://news.yahoo.com/condoleezza-rice-crt-stance-proves-222000707.html

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Condoleezza Rice’s recent appearance on The View was offensive and disgusting for many reasons but she was who we thought she was: a soldier for white supremacy. Her thoughts on Critical Race Theory are completely white centric, as in, they revolve around the thoughts and needs of white people.

Her primary argument against Critical Race Theory is that history should not be taught in a way that makes white kids feel bad. What? We should whitewash U.S. history to protect the feelings of white children? Excuse me, I misspoke — we should whitewash U.S. history even more than we already do in order to protect the feelings of white children?


First of all, what about the feelings of Black children? What would their feelings be if they knew they were being taught a version of American history that was distorted to protect white kids? What message does that send to them? And what about the feelings they have when learning about the real American history?

Also this — white children and adults should absolutely feel bad about the past atrocities committed by white Americans. They should feel guilty. They should cringe at what their ancestors did. They should also understand that modern white power is directly related to those atrocities. White people gained economic and institutional advantages from slavery and segregation and the long-term subjugation of Black people that continue to help them to this day.

White people should know that American history is rated X and their relatives are the one who Black people had to fear. They didn’t arrive and have a nice dinner with the natives and buy Manhattan for a few trinkets.

The Europeans who settled early America made treaties with American Indians and then violated those treaties and slaughtered the natives as rapidly as possible. They didn’t merely own slaves and treat them kindly. They had a cruel and peculiar institution that kidnapped and human trafficked and then beat and **** and subjugated humans for generations.

Slavery was far more cruel and frightening than most people even know unless you read diaries written by former slaves. And the past is not done with us — slavery created the economy and the wealth that led to America becoming a global economic power. You didn’t have to own slaves in order to participate in that wealth-building but all of the wealth derived from it went to white people and was thus stolen from Black people.

American history is a series of cycles where white people grow more powerful because of the legalized oppression of Black people. American history is a series of stories where white people knock us down and stand on our necks and then ask why we’re on the ground. If we don’t know history we don’t understand reality and how it was constructed. I really don’t care if learning this makes white kids feel bad — and if it doesn’t then they are too heartless.
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Our classrooms should not be another example of white privilege, they should reflect the ugly reality of American history. But really the whole discussion is bizarre — we are debating about whether we should teach our children real American history or if we should lie to them and protect their fragile white hearts.

I cannot accept a country that contorts itself to avoid causing white pain. I’m not here to help comfort white people. And Lord knows I am never, ever going to center them.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 26, 2021, 09:28:41 pm
https://www.timesofisrael.com/swedish-agency-suggests-exercise-in-which-students-argue-holocaust-didnt-happen/

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JTA — Sweden’s National Agency for Education recommended that teachers should make students try to prove that the Holocaust never happened, as part of a push to help them understand conspiracy theories.

The recommendation came in a recently published handbook for high school teachers that the government’s institution in charge of scholastic issues had created, the Aftonbladet daily reported earlier this month.

“Group 1 must find at least three arguments for the case that the Holocaust never happened, using facts and information from the internet. They can also ask others what they believe and why,” the suggested exercise read.

Only one argument is necessary: why do there exist laws criminalizing investigation about whether or not any "Holocaust" happened, if it really did happen? Trump claims he won the 2020 election but had it stolen from him by election fraud. We, despite hating Trump, do not call for criminalizing investigation into the 2020 election, because we know the more audits are done, the more it will be proven beyond any doubt that no fraud occurred, and that he lost! So, if the alleged "Holocaust" really did happen, Jews should want us to investigate it as much as possible, since the more we investigate it, the more we will prove it did happen! So, given that in reality Jews don't want us to investigate it, what can we deduce about it?

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Sweden’s Jewish Central Council and other critics said asking students to consume and engage in Holocaust denial is offensive to victims and has questionable pedagogical value.

“Even if it is well-intentioned, there is a danger in calling the Holocaust controversial,” Aron Verständig, chairman of Sweden’s Jewish Central Council, told Aftonbladet. He called the exercise “bizarre.”

Yes, the danger is that the truth will come out.

Who else is against this idea?

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Björn Söder, a member of the Sweden Democrats party, a populist right-wing movement, queried Education Minister Anna Ekström on the subject, asking her to explain how the exercise fits into the government’s policy of opposing antisemitism.

Of course!

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/sd/

Want more? Then support:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/operation-gaddafi/
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: guest55 on October 27, 2021, 12:50:05 pm
And it's as simple as that isn't it. If it really did happen as Jews claim it did then why fear investigation? "The truth does not fear investigation" at all, ever! On another note, treachery and deception has been taking place since the dawn of civilization but Jews are completely incapable of it of course because the "chosen people" are perfect, this is why they're so pretty on the outside and on the inside and all non-Jewish women want to sleep with them! (Even though those women are often prostitutes!)

(https://media.newyorker.com/photos/59e0e6b8bfe09a1382f8848e/master/pass/Fry-Lindsay-Lohan-sides-with-Harvey-Weinstein.jpg)
(https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/14BD5/production/_107794948_gettyimages-681946576.jpg)
(https://c8.alamy.com/comp/dm7bf0/ron-jeremy-and-guest-rock-the-mansion-at-the-playboy-mansion-los-angeles-dm7bf0.jpg)
(When's the last time Ron washed those pants and T-shirt I cannot help but wonder?)
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 02, 2021, 09:24:59 pm
A small passive defensive victory:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/westminster-school-pulls-china-communist-203326340.html

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Westminster School is to pull the plug on its China operation after a new Communist Party ruling stipulated that all lesson plans must be approved by Beijing.

The school unveiled its plans in 2017 to set up a sister institution bearing its name in Chengdu in China’s Sichuan province.

But on Tuesday, Westminster’s chairman of governors told parents that this project has now been axed following “recent changes in Chinese education policy”.

Earlier this year it emerged that British-branded private schools in China will be forced to abandon their curricula and teach only lessons approved by Beijing as part of a broader push led by president Xi Jinping to ensure the “right” thinking.

The new regulations mean that international schools must now teach the same lessons as China’s state-run public schools from kindergarten to grade nine.
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Stephen Spriggs, the managing director at the consultancy firm William Clarence Education, said: “There was always a risk with schools viewing China as the land paved with gold. You are liable to a change in their government’s policy.”

He said he suspects more British schools will pull out of China and instead target more “politically stable” countries.

"Politically stable" = academically colonized. Why should any country formerly colonized by Britain (or any other Western colonial power) tolerate British (or any other Western) schools, which were first introduced as a consequence of colonization?

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Some of the country’s leading private schools have set up campuses in the Far East over the past decade.

The £42,630-a-year Wellington College has five schools in China and one in Thailand. It set up its first overseas school – Wellington College International Tianjin – a decade ago.

Meanwhile, Harrow School runs 11 schools in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Indonesia and Thailand. North London Collegiate School has a satellite campus in South Korea, Dubai and Singapore.

Genuinely decolonized peoples would burn them all down. (I understand we are still far from reaching this point.) Beyond this, the local curricula themselves need to remove their own Western content (of which there is plenty). Above all, compulsory schooling itself (also a Western institution introduced during colonization) must end.

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Most private schools use a “franchise” model, where an investor or management company pays the school a fixed amount each year – similar to a royalty – in order to use their name, brand or expertise.

Under this model, the British “mothership” school is often paid a percentage of the school fees each year, on top of the franchise fee.

Burning them all down would save far more money than it costs to keep them around!

The mothership schools ultimately need the same treatment also. For this we depend on:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/operation-gaddafi/
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: Zea_mays on November 08, 2021, 02:17:22 pm
WNs who complain about ethnic bias in college acceptance rates never bring up stuff like this. 1/3 of the "white" applicants to Harvard would have been rejected based on merit alone.

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We use public documents from the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University lawsuit to examine admissions preferences for recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean’s interest list, and children of faculty and staff (ALDCs). More than 43% of white admits are ALDC; the share for African American, Asian American, and Hispanics is less than 16%. Our model of admissions shows that roughly three-quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected absent their ALDC status. Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students away from whites.
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/713744
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 11, 2021, 09:28:05 pm
Do not fall for paleocon tricks:

https://www.amren.com/commentary/2021/11/racial-separation-fred-reed/

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Many object that the study of mathematics constitutes racism, or is a means of oppressing blacks. Why force math on blacks or, more importantly, prevent white kids from learning them?

I am against forcing math on anyone! But our enemies obviously actually think math is a good thing to learn, which is why they don't want "blacks" learning it but do want "whites" learning it (as is evident from the very wording of their rhetorical question). The reason why they think math is a good thing to learn is because it can be applied to inventing new machines that enable their users to gain a military advantage over those who do not possess them. To put it in our enemies' way, "whites" learning math (even voluntarily) in effect forces "blacks" to also learn math (despite originally not wanting to) just to avoid being militarily outclassed!

As a general rule, being the first to learn anything that can increase the worldly power of the learner's tribe is initiated violence, as it forces everyone else to learn the same thing and apply it the same way just in order to defend themselves.

This is why it is an ethical duty to restrict math learning for everyone (regardless of ethnic background). Those who want to study advanced math for spiritual reasons should be allowed to do so, but only inside a concentration camp (in which they will have to stay for the rest of their lives) with no resources available for building machines and no communication with the outside world, so that whatever they learn will never be applied for power. Furthermore, they should be prohibited from reproducing.

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Forcing kids of IQ 140 or better to agonize in classes at the level of “Mommy Beaver had two sticks and Daddy Beaver had two, how many did they have in all” is child abuse.

No kids (regardless of IQ test scores) should be forced to attend any classes! But that's not what our enemies want. They want "white" budding machinists learning as much as they can so they can build as many machines as possible to aid "white" domination over "non-whites".

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I don’t want my children wearing their pants below their knees and saying “muggafugga” every second word. These practices do no actual harm, but are extremely disagreeable to most whites.

This sounds conciliatory (and thanks for acknowledging the harmlessness of these practices), but now watch for the paleocon trick:

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While I do not want to dictate the culture of blacks — it isn’t my business — neither do I want them transgressing mine.

The difference is that Western civilization does A LOT OF actual harm, including to those who do not practice it:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-sustainable-evil/

So we have an ethical duty to transgress your culture. Western civilization must die.

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Would not separation be the comfortable solution?

No. Living among you, we at least have a chance of slowing you down by demographic friction. Separate, and you will soon be doing even more harm than you already are, and we will have even less chance of stopping you (short of being forced to copy your methods to defeat you and thus adding more harm still).

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-does-not-die-soon/
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on December 19, 2021, 08:46:09 pm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10301209/New-Zealand-academic-got-CANCELLED-condemned-plan-teach-Maori-beliefs-science-classes.html

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Fury has erupted after academics in New Zealand were threatened with expulsion from the Royal Society for criticising plans that would see Maori knowledge added to the school curriculum.

Current and former professors at the University of Auckland wrote a letter to the editor of the New Zealand Listener criticising a government working group's plans to give the same weight to Maori mythology as they do to science in the classroom.

The letter was signed by seven professors, including Garth Cooper, a professor of biochemistry and clinical biochemistry at the University of Auckland.

Did Maori mythology lead to this?

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/

No, Western science did. So, if anything, a better question should be why Western science should continue to be taught compulsorily at all!

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After the letter was published in July, the Royal Society of New Zealand received complaints from five members demanding disciplinary action against three society fellows: Professor Cooper, philosopher Robert Nola, and psychologist Michael Corballis. Mr Corballis died suddenly last month.

One down, six to go! Bullets can speed up the process!

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The authors of the letter argued they were exercising their rights under New Zealand’s Education Act, which allows academics and students freedom to 'state controversial or unpopular opinions' as well as 'question and test received wisdom'.

I fully support the letter being published. I am merely saying it is not the concern of the state to shield the authors from consequences enacted by other private entities after the letter is published.

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Columnist Rod Liddle, writing in today's Sunday Times, called the reaction to the professor's letter 'madness and stupidity'.

No, this is madness and stupidity:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/progressive-yahwism/

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Commentator Toby Young argued the government working group's plans would give Maori schoolchildren 'even greater disadvantage if their teachers patronise them by saying there’s no need to learn the rudiments of scientific knowledge'.

The only reason why we do need to learn Western science for now is to be on equal footing with our enemies who also learn Western science (but with the aim of perpetuating it). Once our enemies are destroyed, we should immediately cease learning Western science, or else we become Westerners ourselves.

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Writing in the Spectator, he added: 'The moment this letter was published all hell broke loose.

'The views of the authors, who were all professors at Auckland, were denounced by the Royal Society, the New Zealand Association of Scientists, and the Tertiary Education Union — as well as their own Vice-Chancellor, Dawn Freshwater. In a hand-wringing, cry-bullying email to all staff at the university, she said the letter had ‘caused considerable hurt and dismay among our staff, students and alumni’.

The hurt caused by the letter is nothing compared to the hurt caused by Western science itself over the last several centuries, which itself it nothing compared to the hurt that will be caused by Western science in the future if not stopped:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-does-not-die-soon/
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 21, 2022, 11:18:23 pm
The more our enemies complain, the more they make our case for us:

https://www.unz.com/freed/blackness-fatigue-enough-is-too-much/

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Consider: Math curricula are being dumbed down because blacks do poorly at math, English grammar instruction eliminated because blacks can’t or won’t learn it, entrance exams for the elite and demanding high schools eliminated because blacks don’t pass them, SATs dropped because blacks score poorly on them, promotion exams in police departments eliminated because blacks don’t pass them. Entrance requirements at medical school are lowered because not enough blacks pass them, AP courses in high school eliminated because too few blacks get into them.

If only all this had happened before the Industrial Revolution. How much better a place would the world be today!

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Dangerously, the government forbids white parents to have schools teaching what they regard as desirable material at what they regard as acceptable academic levels while requiring what they regard as civilized behavior.

This was allowed for centuries, and look what happened as a result:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/canada-residential-schools/

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White parents are forced to see their children subjected to what they regard as obscene, semiliterate, violent, stupid, a culture dominated by what seems to them, (and would to any First World country) the opposite of cultivation.

Why should we trust the judgement of First World countries?

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/da/ef/8a/daef8a5c732a1a746497e255e0622698.jpg)

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When parents whose daughter wants to go into electronic engineering see her forced into pseudo math taught by teachers who couldn’t recognize a partial derivative if it spoke to them in tongues, when she ought to be in AP calculus, they are not happy.

Calculus was never supposed to have been invented. We lived simple lives for millennia without calculus. Just a few centuries on from the invention of calculus, the whole world has been transformed beyond recognition into a machine dump.

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blacks have provided the throw-weight for the promulgation of peasantry.

"Peasantry" is not a negative term.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: rp on March 30, 2022, 09:31:15 pm
https://twitter.com/KelleyAshbyPaul/status/1509213285840740356?s=20&t=yKTjsNfyxSFNg0MpYGnNoA
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Chinese third graders are learning multi-variable calculus.  Our third graders are being taught that “men can have babies.”  This will not end well.

Which is more dangerous? More importantly, which one strengthens Western Civilization the most.

Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 01, 2022, 11:20:04 pm
Our enemies accurately remind us who is to blame (not the US and not National Socialist Germany!) for compulsory schooling in general and machinism-focused curricula in particular:

https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/04/01/why-hire-from-harvard-will-harvard-be-to-the-2020s-what-general-motors-was-to-the-1980s/

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As long ago as 150 years ago, European countries, packed together in a hostile national security environment (think Hungary not far from Germany or the Austro-Hungarian Empire smack up against France, Prussia, and not far from the borders of the Russian Empire) realized that technological advance was necessary in order that they not be leap-frogged — perhaps fatally — by one of their all-too-nearby adversaries in terms of armament capacity and quality.  About 3 seconds later, each realized that they needed a pipeline from grades K through 12 to produce students with sufficient background in mathematics and the sciences such that they could progress rapidly through first-class engineering programs.  The result was a K-through university mathematics and science pipeline unrivalled by anything ever seen, to this day, in the fat and happy United States, whose main interest was in producing potential aspiring clerks in John Hancock’s counting house. (Although the USSR’s launch of Sputnik in 1957 led to what has turned out to be a temporary emphasis on science and technology education in the U.S.) This has produced some anomalous results, including the outstanding performance in mathematics competitions of the top math school in the tiny country of Rumania.  The result that, notwithstanding a number of commercially inventive product roll-outs from places like the Edison labs, the U.S. had, until after World War II, very little “big league” scientific establishment compared to, say, Germany or Russia or even the rest of Europe.  The geniuses and well-trained minds that did the most difficult science that allowed the US to leapfrog the rest of the world during and after World War II were, in the main, imported from Europe and had been trained in Europe, due in part to Hitler’s driving out a number of his best scientists on religious or ethnic grounds.

While we want to eventually abolish compulsory K through 12 schooling altogether, in the time before that can be done, anything that makes the curricula less machinism-focused is welcome.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 06, 2022, 09:11:54 pm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10748375/Taxpayers-cash-Arts-Council-England-spent-decolonising-museums.html

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First it was statues, then it was street names and books by white authors. Now left-wing radicals have cricket and knitting in their woke sights as they aim to decolonise Britain — and they've used millions in taxpayers' money to do it.

My objection to cricket is that it, like so many other Western sports:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/misinformation-about-racial-origins/msg7335/#msg7335

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/olympics/msg7795/#msg7795

is played on a grass lawn:

(https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alex-Kountouris/publication/258337412/figure/fig4/AS:668504936157190@1536395405911/A-A-cricket-pitch-early-in-a-match-with-visible-grass-blades-and-roots-still-seen-B-A.jpg)

I in theory would not mind cricket played on empty ground, though of course I would still prefer former victims of Western colonialism to elevate pre-colonial sports over cricket (and other Western sports introduced during colonization) in national prestige.

Knitting is ancient, and I have no problem with it. I merely aesthetically despise post-Renaissance Western knitting styles:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_knitting

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Many elaborate designs were developed, such as the cable stitch

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Knitcable.jpg/600px-Knitcable.jpg)

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Fair Isle techniques were used to create elaborate colourful patterns

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Prince_of_Wales%2C_painting_by_Lander.jpg/457px-Prince_of_Wales%2C_painting_by_Lander.jpg)

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The city of Nottingham, particularly the district known as Lace Market, was a major producer of machine-knitted lace.

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/msg6283/?topicseen#msg6283

Back to first link:

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Last year the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew even announced its intention to 'decolonise' plants as it acknowledged its own 'exploitative and racist legacies'.

Its director, Richard Deverell, said: 'We are at a fork-in- the-road moment.'

It suggested the outpouring of feeling around the world at the death of George Floyd meant that long-standing injustices had to be faced up to.

'Parts of Kew's history are shamefully drawn from a legacy that has deep roots in colonialism and racism,' he said.
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'We were beacons of discovery and science, but also beacons of privilege and exploitation.'

This makes it sound like we should feel happy that the discovery itself happened, but sad that it came at the cost of the exploitation, and that the alternate universe we should prefer is one with the discovery but without the exploitation. No, the discovery should never have happened. It was Western civilization which, via its disregard for exploitation, made happen what should never have happened. We resent no only the exploitation, but also the discovery itself. How could we not, considering that we are living through its side-effects every day?

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/

And we are already the lucky ones compared to most?

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-sustainable-evil/

Plus we have to worry about where it is leading next?

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-does-not-die-soon/

Back to first link:

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One of Deverell's plans was to change display boards and descriptions so that, for example, any mention of sugar and rubber plants would reflect their links to slavery and colonialism.

He also wanted to stop plants being described as having been 'discovered' at certain times because they were known to indigenous communities long before Western botanists and explorers came across them.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 11, 2022, 08:34:46 pm
Why did something so obvious take so long?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/07/decolonise-ears-mozarts-works-may-instrument-empire-students/

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Cambridge music students are being instructed to “decolonise the ear” and consider the classical canon as “an imperial phenomenon”.

The works of composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giuseppe Verdi are being taught in relation to topics including European imperialism and Orientalism, as the music faculty pursues work on “curricular decolonisation”.

Undergraduates studying for the course, titled Decolonising the Ear, are taught to consider listening to sound in a “postcolonial” way, while a “music, power, empire” module explores how the classical repertoire is a middle-class and imperial phenomenon.
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According to a course guide for Decolonising the Ear, undergraduates will examine topics including how musical repertoires could be “complicit… in projects of Empire and neoliberal systems of power”.

Students also learn how “Empire… affected our understanding of what constitutes ‘music’” and how “genres like opera seem particularly susceptible to racialised representations”.

The imperial leitmotif appears in a Western music history course dedicated to studies of “music, power, empire”, which urges students to consider the classical canon as an “imperial phenomenon”.
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A 2021-22 undergraduate handbook stated that students learn how 19th-century “concepts of middle-class musical value resulted in the creation of a canon of European masterworks”.

The course overview added that this canon was played, enjoyed and patronised by a “musical establishment that was leveraged in the service of patriarchy, class aspiration, and imperial expansion”.
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The University of Cambridge’s approach followed a reappraisal of music across institutions in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, with the Royal College of Music pledging to examine instruments made from “colonialism” materials and to make its classical curriculum more diverse.

A professor at the University of Oxford also suggested that musical notation is “colonialist”, amidst internal discussion over the question of the curriculum’s “complicity in white supremacy”.

Our enemies are also discussing this:

https://www.amren.com/news/2022/05/decolonise-your-ears-as-mozarts-works-may-be-an-instrument-of-empire-students-told/

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"the Royal College of Music pledging to examine instruments made from “colonialism” materials".
Piano keys, for example, are made with ebony and ivory. Are they going to smash up all pianos?

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Used to be made - nowadays they are mostly made of wood and plastic, not wood and ivory... I remember practicing on a 1905 Bluthner baby grand with ivory keys... An absolute delight!

Comments like these just prove the point of the article!
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on May 27, 2022, 09:24:05 pm
Our enemies find another "non-white" Eurocentrist to write for them:

https://www.amren.com/features/2022/05/my-life-as-a-black-teacher-in-black-schools-is-hell/

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I’m writing to give you a bit of insight into the life of a black teacher who does not subscribe to the victim mentality that is rampant within the black community. My life as a black teacher in black schools is hell. Because I believe in personal responsibility and accountability, I’m not a “sistah.” According to other black people, I’m a coon, sellout, Uncle Tom, etc. I no longer care.

It is possible to both believe in accountability and subscribe to victim mentality. If you know you have been victimized, it is your duty to do everything in your power to hold your oppressor accountable. And to fail in this duty makes yourself accountable for your victimization also.

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I told her, “The students won’t do their work. I give them class time and even offer to stay after school for extra help. I’ve also offered extensions. They don’t do anything.” She replied, “I understand you’re struggling as a new teacher. You haven’t realized yet that these students come from difficult homes. You can’t expect them to do homework. In fact, when I was a teacher, I never gave homework. We did everything in class. You have to meet our ‘babies’ where they are.”

In a world which cared about not initiating violence, class would not be compulsory either. But students are absolutely justified in not doing homework that they do not want to do. This has nothing to do with difficult homes - bringing this in is False Leftism. True Leftism would expect no students to do any homework they do not want to do. Why should they?

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I asked: “I get that their lives might be difficult, but why are we allowing them to use this as a crutch? Won’t this continue the cycle? Aren’t we crippling them by coddling them? Shouldn’t we prepare them so they can get out of their current situations? How are we getting them ‘college and career ready’ if we tell them they don’t have to do homework, or any work for that matter, because they’ve had a hard life?”

Again, even students with easy lives have no reason to do any homework they do not want to do. No, it is you who are continuing the cycle of Western civilization by getting them 'college and career ready' by overriding their own original wishes. No, what you call "coddling" them is simply not initiating violence against them. Anyone who believes that absence of initiated violence causes "crippling" should not be a teacher. Yes, perhaps not being 'college and career ready' puts them at a competitive disadvantage compared to those who are, but being competitively disadvantaged is not the same thing as being "crippled". This is what a good teacher should be teaching students: there should never have been such a competition going on in the first place (and indeed there was not prior to Western incursion), and we should be trying to end the competition ASAP!

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/national-socialism-is-revolutionary-not-reactionary/msg10981/#msg10981

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True Leftism still believes in superiority and inferiority; the difference is that we believe the superior can be (and in reality are more often than not) defeated by the inferior in worldly competition (the colonial era being one example). In other words, True Leftism is divergence of the moral hierarchy from the natural hierarchy.

Socialism is then the attempt, given awareness of the above, to set things up in practice so as to help the superior (but less competitive) defeat the inferior (but more competitive).

Back to enemy article:

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That day, I had an epiphany: How is this the white man’s fault? You are literally telling me to teach my students to underachieve.

It is the "white" man's fault because he was the one who spread Western civilization (including compulsory schooling) and hence Western standards of achievement during the colonial era. Your students as you describe them are underachieving only by Western standards. We should be killing Western civilization to suit your students, not crushing your students' spirits to suit Western standards.

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How is this going to help them? They’re going to be stupid, entitled victims . . . but will no doubt blame the white man and systemic racism for their failures.

How would them blaming the "white" man be incorrect? Was it not the "white" man who introduced compulsory schooling all over the world where previously such a thing never existed?

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I resigned and took the job at my current school district. It was the only job I could find. It’s very hard to get into the better school districts. There are more white students at my current school, and having more diversity has been something of a saving grace

**** you.

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The children aren’t completely stupid. They can figure out that there are no consequences for bad behavior.

Indeed. But what if I told you bad behaviour is adding more and more machines into the world? Yet Western civilization not only does not punish machinists, it positively rewards them! We should be thankful that at least some children (e.g. the students you complain about) have no interest in becoming machinists despite the rewards that await machinists! These children are the ones we should be adjusting civilization to meet! Instead you want to adjust them against their will until they become Westerners.

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Standards are going away in favor of feelings.

What is the problem? Finally some people are able to feel that Western civilization is evil. And your response is to say that such people do not meet Western standards? Should we not instead see if we can use these feelings to establish a different set of standards?

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most of these Title I schools don’t support no-nonsense black teachers who promote accountability. They don’t support black teachers who refuse to perpetuate the myth of black victimization in a “systemically racist” society. They don’t support black teachers who encourage black students to shake off this slave mentality.

Who is the slave: the one who still remembers that compulsory schooling is initiated violence, or the one who has forgotten this?

Did "blacks" introduce compulsory schooling into the world? Yet they are subjected to it. How then are "blacks" not victimized in a systemically racist society?

As for promoting accountability, no one born from the beginning of the colonial era onwards who disagrees that WESTERN CIVILIZATION MUST DIE can claim seriously to care about promoting accountability.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: SirGalahad on May 28, 2022, 10:33:29 am
I still maintain that compulsory schooling is one of the most traumatic experiences of early childhood for people like me, who didn't want to go to school and just wanted to stay home. When I first started going to school I remember basically crying all morning in the playground, and I did that pretty much on a regular basis for a while until I slowly accepted that this was how it was going to be now
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: guest55 on May 28, 2022, 10:39:32 am
I still maintain that compulsory schooling is one of the most traumatic experiences of early childhood for people like me, who didn't want to go to school and just wanted to stay home. When I first started going to school I remember basically crying all morning in the playground, and I did that pretty much on a regular basis for a while until I slowly accepted that this was how it was going to be now

My sister used to cry every morning for a long time too. I used to try and escape as much as possible. My senior year I was forced to attend night school just to graduate, lol!
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: Zea_mays on May 29, 2022, 11:45:11 pm
Not just early childhood--I felt the misery of compulsory school got worse each year.

Then we have university to continue destroying the psyche of young people. The brain keeps developing until the mid-20s, and probably by no coincidence, that is how long it would take someone to get a PhD if they went to university straight after high school.

Westerners have perfectly honed things so young people's entire brain development cycles are riddled with nothing but stress and violence.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 17, 2022, 08:30:38 pm
Victory!

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2022%2F07%2F16%2Fwoke-dance-school-drops-ballet-auditions-white-elitist%2F

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Woke dance school drops ballet from auditions as it is ‘white’ and ‘elitist’
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Ballet has been ditched as a requirement for school-entry auditions because of its “contentious nature”, with teaching staff explaining that the traditional mode of dance comes with the baggage of “white European ideas”.
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The changes come after the conservatoire undertook work to “decolonise the curriculum” and take advice from LGBT societies.

Information from the NSCD, based in Leeds, said: “We review content and have removed ballet from our audition day due to its potentially contentious nature.”
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An issue of vocabulary

The issue of vocabulary hinges on ballet’s traditional terminology – which has led to gender distinctions such as “ballerina” for women and “danseur” for men – and the everyday use of “men and women” or “girls and boys” in dance classes.

The split of roles along gender lines, with female dancers tending towards pointe work and men customarily performing leaps and lifts
, has also been cited as an issue, and the NSCD is seeking to become more inclusive by tackling distinctions.

Ms McCarthy said: “Ballet has strongly gendered roots in terms of the movement vocabulary.

“Most of our ballet staff were trained at a time where divisions in the teaching of ballet were clear and men lifted women. There was a shift to ladies and gentleman over time but this is still problematic in relation to inclusion of non-binary and trans dancers.”

I always despised ballet for its (characteristically Western) emphasis on sexual dimorphism.

(https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/07/17/10/60361589-11021715-NSCD_is_encouraging_staff_to_use_gender_neutral_words_such_as_da-m-22_1658051923348.jpg)

Anyone who still thinks Russia is not a Western country needs to watch some Russian ballet. And Russia certainly will not be dropping ballet any time soon. This is evidence that Britain is less Western than Russia.

For reference:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/msg43/#msg43

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ballet

   
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Ballet is a formalized form of dance with its origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of 15th and 16th centuries. Ballet spread from Italy to France with the help of Catherine de' Medici, where ballet developed even further under her aristocratic influence. An early example of Catherine's development of ballet is through 'Le Paradis d' Amour', a piece of work presented at her daughter's wedding, Marguerite de Valois to Henry of Navarre. Aristocratic money was responsible for the initial stages of development in 'court ballet', as it was royal money that dictated the ideas, literature and music used in ballets that were created to primarily entertain the aristocrats of the time. The first formal 'court ballet' ever recognized was staged in 1573, 'Ballet des Polonais'. In true form of royal entertainment, 'Ballet des Polonais' was commissioned by Catherine de' Medici to honor the Polish ambassadors who were visiting Paris upon the accession of Henry of Anjou to the throne of Poland. In 1581, Catherine de' Medici commissioned another court ballet, Ballet Comique de la Reine, however it was her compatriot, Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, who organized the ballet. Catherine de' Medici and Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx were responsible for presenting the first court ballet ever to apply the principles of Baif's Academie, by integrating poetry, dance, music and set design to convey a unified dramatic storyline. Moreover, the early organization and development of 'court ballet' was funded by, influenced by and produced by the aristocrats of the time, fulfilling both their personal entertainment and political propaganda needs.

    In the late 17th century Louis XIV founded the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) within which emerged the first professional theatrical ballet company, the Paris Opera Ballet. The predominance of French in the vocabulary of ballet reflects this history. Theatrical ballet soon became an independent form of art, although still frequently maintaining a close association with opera, and spread from the heart of Europe to other nations. The Royal Danish Ballet and the Imperial Ballet of the Russian Empire were founded in the 1740s and began to flourish, especially after about 1850. In 1907 the Russian ballet in turn moved back to France, where the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev and its successors were particularly influential.

Western, check.

prezi.com/2llvv_y0vyvw/negative-effects-of-ballet-dancing-on-anatomy-physiology/

www.balletforadults.com/4-common-health-conditions-that-affect-dancers/

www.healthline.com/health/ballerina-feet

Health hazard, check.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on August 28, 2022, 06:05:42 pm
Mainstream academia catches up to what we have been pointing out for a long time:

https://archive.ph/hH6tn#selection-1333.1-1607.111

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Golf balls were the product of colonial exploitation, according to the University of St Andrews - with the game “imposed” around the world by the British Empire.

The Fife town of St Andrews is known as the “home of golf” for its 600-year playing history, but the prestigious local university has now examined the sport’s contentious links in a new exhibition.

Golf is connected to imperial “exploitation”, according to display information, because balls were once made using rubber harvested from colonial territories.

The game itself was also “imposed” across the Empire, the St Andrews exhibition claims, as British enthusiasts established clubs from South Africa to Hong Kong.

Cricket - similarly carried across the globe by amateurs from the UK - was also an imposition, according to display information that states: “By recreating and imposing British sports in colonised countries, golf and cricket were spread around the world.
“Natural resources from colonised countries were exploited to make sporting equipment.


“Gutta percha, a natural rubber material found in trees native to south-east Asia, was harvested to make golf balls for the European market.”

The information is displayed next to the Karahi Golf Club Cup, the prize given by one of the many British-founded clubs in India during the day of Empire. Clubs were also established in other imperial possessions including Canada, Egypt, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

Gutta rubber grew most abundantly in Malaysia, which was formerly held by the British. Some experts have said that harvesting the rubber for Western markets caused ecological damage. Victorian scientists discovered that the rubber was a perfect and profitable material for covering burgeoning telegraph wires.
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The Re-collecting Empire exhibition, running at St Andrews affiliated Wardlaw Museum until October, also includes displays arguing that European textile mills created wares inspired by styles “that originated overseas” in the colonies - and therefore “exploited the originating culture”.

The Re-Collecting Empire exhibition, which runs until Oct 22, is part of St Andrews pledge to continue “examining the legacies of Empire in our collections and exploring how we can build a more equitable future”. It is part of a broader trend of academic “decolonisation” accelerated by Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/anti-western-resistance-from-the-counterculture-to-21st-century/msg10946/#msg10946

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/misinformation-about-racial-origins/msg7335/#msg7335
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 27, 2022, 03:44:03 am
Wokeness vs Eurocentrism (you can tell which is which by their clothes; if you need an additional clue compare the face shapes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEQGqZwZ0aw

Woke comments:

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It's nothing wrong with what she is saying. She is Somali and that's a fact. In America everything is segregated by race and she's just resistant to that thought process. It's okay to fight against diseased Western narratives.

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Indians don't say i am a brown man  Chinese don't say I am a yellow man so I now what she saying Somali don't use colour just somali

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it's an act of rebellion against white classifications. I get that.

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I agree 💯 percent with her. Why call yourself black as a race whn black is a color that white ppl gave us as a derogatory slur

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They gave it to you as a legislative term for a slave caste (class).

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RIGHT SHE IS EXACTLY RIGHT WHEN IS THE REST OF THE WORLD GONE WAKEUP

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You have no obligation to embody society's role for you, though that won't protect you and you'd need to still prepare for how society would treat you. And society's expectations do deserve to be challenged; imagine for example if you were born in or visited a country with a caste system where you have less human rights by default just because of the color of your skin? You have no obligation to accept such a reality if you are ready and willing to help change it. Just because society believes you are something doesn't impart that same obligation onto you.

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A lot of people don’t want to use black just because that’s what the white folk gave us that name. It’s not that she trying to be closer to whiteness she just doesn’t want to accept the term that European has given us. I don’t see nothing wrong with it.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: christianbethel on September 27, 2022, 11:38:55 am
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(Perhaps one day the reaction by students to the term "Holocaust" will simply be "What's that?")
That's already happened with zoomers.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: rp on September 27, 2022, 11:26:41 pm
U.S. "blacks" have Stockholm syndrome with Western Civilization
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: christianbethel on September 28, 2022, 12:46:39 pm
I don't. I just don't have the means to live in an anti-Western country yet.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on September 28, 2022, 03:39:39 pm
You should be trying to turn the US into an anti-Western country.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: christianbethel on September 28, 2022, 06:45:36 pm
Hey man, easier said than done. People are ássholes and beyond help. They're brainwashed/indoctrinated in Eurocentrism.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: antihellenistic on September 28, 2022, 06:56:26 pm
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You should be trying to turn the US into an anti-Western country.

Even though the "United States" are culturally influenced by "woke" people today, their foreign policies still "Manifest Destiny" and "Western" in nature. They not stop to threaten us with sanctions if we change our current "western" economic system into a new one, which more less-oppressing or even more solving the problem than it.

That's why the Africans today more side with China rather than the "tolerant" West. The China give us "infrastructure economic cooperation" whereas "The West" give us debt and deceptive economic cooperation.

We hardly to trust the "leftism" of the West right now. Even they through online media try to do anything to support regime change in Iran after their authorities murder a woman who release her hijab on Iranian's public. Which means support Iran to change their Islamic ideology into a new one which possibly absorb the Western's pervert Freemason leftism (liberalism)
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: guest19 on September 29, 2022, 03:46:03 pm
Westerners are the biggest hypocrites, they think that because they use nice sounding phrases and buzzwords that there actually good people. I'm not sure if they actually believe the B.S that there spewing or there just in love with the sound of there own voices. Anyway actions speak louder then words, and based on your actions you westerners have been exposed as the demons that you are.
Title: Re: "Royal" Family hate thread
Post by: antihellenistic on October 06, 2022, 07:59:46 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpgGlPIdk94

But, it will more better if Kwame Nkrumah use the name of his international solidarity proposal with name which not originated from westerners's name-calling. Like "Pan-Igbo International" for example. Which name was to honor Igbo united empire on the past hudreds of years ago before European colonialism
Title: Re: Re: "Royal" Family hate thread
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 06, 2022, 08:59:38 pm
https://trueleft.createaforum.com/volunteer/black-hammer/msg6656/#msg6656

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/autism/msg9474/#msg9474

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/diplomatic-decolonization/msg2761/#msg2761
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 08, 2022, 03:50:08 pm
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/opinion/nyu-professor-fired-maitland-jones.html

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New York University fired Prof. Maitland Jones Jr. this summer after 82 of the 350 students in his organic chemistry class signed a petition expressing concern about the effectiveness of his teaching. Large numbers of students were receiving low scores on exams, and some had withdrawn from the course.

The stakes were high. Organic chemistry is typically taught as a weed-out class, an introductory-level class that is designed to be so difficult or so intensive that only the most serious students can advance — in this case, to medical school.
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Instead, universities should focus on the broader goal of teaching for equity and with empathy, which means ensuring that students get the support they need to learn and succeed, without petitions and even without having to ask.

Our enemies are defending Jones:

(https://vdare.com/public_upload/publication/featured_image/58586/VDARE-sailer-organic-chemistry.jpg)

If you ask me, it's not an issue of whether organic chemistry should or should not be a pre-med requirement, but that the uniquely Western subject of organic chemistry should not be taught at all. Imagine how many of the problems in:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/

would not exist if only organic chemistry had never existed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_chemistry#History

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A crucial breakthrough for organic chemistry was the concept of chemical structure, developed independently in 1858 by both Friedrich August Kekulé and Archibald Scott Couper.[7] Both researchers suggested that tetravalent carbon atoms could link to each other to form a carbon lattice, and that the detailed patterns of atomic bonding could be discerned by skillful interpretations of appropriate chemical reactions.[8]
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The discovery of petroleum and the development of the petrochemical industry spurred the development of organic chemistry. Converting individual petroleum compounds into types of compounds by various chemical processes led to organic reactions enabling a broad range of industrial and commercial products including, among (many) others: plastics, synthetic rubber, organic adhesives, and various property-modifying petroleum additives and catalysts.

This is what Western civilization looks like on the molecular scale:

(https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/66ca5e10-9d9f-4a63-9f34-6843e2c4e67f/rspa20130690f04.jpg)

(https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/142c31f0-bc6b-4fd1-bcbb-bf2074b836ad/rspa20130690f05.jpg)

(https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/292034ef-04c1-42e2-80d6-4f8a31d95fc5/rspa20130690f03.jpg)

(https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/95fb3f0c-3ebb-4813-bc71-e4b2cc72955c/rspa20130690f01.jpg)

(https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/06d7f252-6052-4a5c-a3b2-7220a7b92f35/rspa20130690f02.jpg)

(https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/07585f81-df65-4fe1-8972-eb1f0b75340e/rspa20130690f06.jpg)

Indeed, all organic chemists should be prohibited from reproducing.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 12, 2022, 08:02:07 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKzOYqDkkkU
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: rp on October 18, 2022, 08:49:34 pm
@90sRetroFan
"Shapiro coupling"
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 21, 2022, 03:06:21 am
One of the best headlines of the year:

https://www.renews.co.nz/thou-art-boring-as-****-is-shakespeare-relevant-to-nz-in-2022/

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Every year in high school, Sasha Hutchinson had to read William Shakespeare’s plays - and she never understood why.

It just didn’t seem relevant, she said.

“Now I’m prioritising reading Māori authors more often as we never got to study any NZ literature at school.”

There’s no requirement for schools to teach Shakespeare but when Re:News asked its followers about whether they learnt Shakespeare at school, almost everyone replied that it was part of their English course at high school.

But is learning about Shakespeare relevant in Aotearoa in 2022?

After 10 years of providing funding to the New Zealand secondary school Shakespeare Festival commonly known as Sheilah Winn, Creative New Zealand (CNZ) has decided not to fund the festival in their 2023 to 2025 Kahikatea funding round.

A CNZ advisory board member wrote in a statement that the festival didn’t receive funding because it focuses on “a canon of imperialism”.

Another funding assessor wrote: “I question whether a singular focus on an Elizabethan playwright is most relevant for a decolonising Aotearoa in the 2020s and beyond.”
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“We basically did one of his plays every year at high school. His work is important but that level of revisiting is overkill,” one person wrote.

Others thought the focus on Shakespeare was at the sake of work that highlighted the culture, issues and history of Aotearoa.

“I love Shakespeare, but the fact that it is held as the epitome of literary intellectuality in New Zealand is coloniality at its finest,” one person told Re:News.

Decolonising art
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Shakespeare and colonisation are “bedfellows” and British colonisers used it as an example of how people should act and what they should think of as high art, Hyland said.

“It would be a massive, awesome act of decolonisation if we discovered our own stories first and discovered Shakespeare afterwards,” Hyland said.

“Wouldn't it be great if young people could come home and say, ‘Hey, Mum, Dad, I just found this story and it's really similar to Hinemoana and Tūtānekai. It's Romeo and Juliet’.”

Not only should Aotearoa discover its own stories first, but it should also discover the stories of nearby fellow victims of Western colonialism.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: antihellenistic on October 21, 2022, 09:32:52 am
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Not only should Aotearoa discover its own stories first, but it should also discover the stories of nearby fellow victims of Western colonialism.

And also discover the evilness of Western philosophy, art, and way of life so they no need to preserve it but burn all of it. Only the liberals who still need to preserve all kinds of teachings and worldview for the sake of pluralism. Even though there's  a worldview which bad for all of us
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 21, 2022, 06:07:41 pm
No. We need to show it so that people can study how it is evil. This is why we have topics like this one:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-ugly-48/

Also we need to keep finding out who in each generation likes this stuff so that they can be prohibited from reproducing.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 07, 2022, 04:17:56 pm
In response to this article:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rishi-sunak-volodymyr-zelensky-why-110945034.html

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at 5ft 7in, two inches smaller than the average man, Rishi Sunak is physically diminutive.

the following woke comment is a simple decolonizing action that we should repeat more often:

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This author seems to be thinking in European standard only, most other people in the world are not tall. Especially Indians.
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Really inappropriate article from somebody who thinks that only kinds of humans that exist are the kind of people that exist in western Europe.

This Eurocentric bias appears frequently, therefore needs to be challenged every time we come across it:

https://thebonescience.com/blogs/journal/average-height-around-the-world

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According to the World Health Organization's (WHO) growth reference standards, the expected average height of a woman should be 163 cm (5 ft 4.3 in) and the average height of a man 176.5 cm (5 ft 9.5 in).

However, the actual global average height of a woman is only 159.5 cm (5 ft 2.8 in) and the average height of a man is 171 cm (5 ft 7.3 in).
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: guest63 on December 23, 2022, 06:16:02 am
"Then we have university to continue destroying the psyche of young people. The brain keeps developing until the mid-20s, and probably by no coincidence, that is how long it would take someone to get a PhD if they went to university straight after high school."

Thankfully I moved out as soon as I graduated high school (at the age of 18). Never going back again.

"Westerners have perfectly honed things so young people's entire brain development cycles are riddled with nothing but stress and violence."

And we wonder why we have so many losers and are in increasingly depressed and drugged world. Yet Transhumanists like Zoltan Istvan (Gentile) advocate extending education to college/university. Alhamdulillah, it seems like that is thankfully only a minority, since almost everyone (apart from a small group of false leftists) doesn't take that seriously, let alone extending it.

How do we advocate people running away from their families, let alone make it mainstream?
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: antihellenistic on December 23, 2022, 04:33:31 pm
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How do we advocate people running away from their families, let alone make it mainstream?

Make a small non-profit community which goal is to have a rest place for oppressed young and child. It needs farms and healthy sanitations on the first stage, so when we are got boycott from the people or groups who dislike us, we still can eat and drink. And use ethical law based on Sharia and Schopenhauerism to make a good empathic ethical rule. When a hopeless people escape from oppressive community, try to help them to find our base. Make power and movement from that early work.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: guest63 on December 25, 2022, 03:06:52 am
"Make a small non-profit community which goal is to have a rest place for oppressed young and child. It needs farms and healthy sanitations on the first stage, so when we are got boycott from the people or groups who dislike us, we still can eat and drink. And use ethical law based on Sharia and Schopenhauerism to make a good empathic ethical rule. When a hopeless people escape from oppressive community, try to help them to find our base. Make power and movement from that early work."

I see, will relay to my friend.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 16, 2023, 08:40:40 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/equity-builder-racial-barrier-debate-121500234.html

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Equity Builder or Racial Barrier: Debate Rages Over Role of 8th-Grade Algebra
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While some say schools should double down on the course and offer it to all children starting in the eighth grade, others say it’s time to drop higher-level algebra as a graduation requirement

Neither of these is the correct answer.

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“The relationship between math and science is very strong,” said Talia Milgrom-Elcott, executive director and founder of Beyond100K, a group which aspires to prepare and retain 150,000 new STEM teachers, especially for schools serving majority Black, Hispanic and Native American students, by 2032. “A whole set of careers would be closed off to them — all of which happened to be some of the fastest growing and highest paying. From an equity perspective, it’s almost untenable.”

We should be trying to end these career fields altogether (True Leftism), not make them more inclusive (False Leftism)! These career fields should never have existed in the first place! Yes, leaving STEM "white"-dominated is extremely dangerous to everyone else, but the correct way to end "white" domination of STEM is to phase out STEM completely, not to keep violently pushing "non-whites" into STEM whether they like it or not in order to perpetually compete with "whites" in STEM.

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“The problem is that sometimes people try to solve the gap by claiming that the issue is with math itself,” he said. “Then you have counterproductive and harmful policies that try to fix equity by trying to lower the ceiling and remove advanced math options for everyone, or replace them with superficial areas like ‘data science.’”

The part in bold is the True Left solution. Of course False Leftists would describe it as "counterproductive and harmful" because they are progressives.

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He recognizes the importance of the subject for a calculus-based pathway in math at the high school and college level — and its relevance to STEM.

Imagine how much better the world would be today if calculus had never been invented.....

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/truth-knowledge/msg1113/#msg1113

Title: Re: Islamic Golden Age - Philosophy and Humanities
Post by: antihellenistic on March 14, 2023, 10:43:42 am
Self-Reflection, and Correct way for the muslims on seeing Western Civilization

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Now, everyone must realize that this is an acute problem that is endemic in the Muslim intellectual world. This attitude of adoption without adaptation is shown by Thaha Husain, an expert on Arabic literature from Egypt (1889-1976). In his book, Mustaqbal ats-Tsaqafah fi Mishr, he says, "We must imitate the Europeans in order to be equal to them in civilization; whether it is good or bad, sweet or bitter, and what is liked or what is hated from them." No less extreme than Thaha Husain's statement, is what Abdullah Cevdet, a leader of the Young Turks Movement, has emphasized, "There is only one civilization, and that is European civilization. Therefore, we must borrow Western Civilization, both its roses and its thorns. at a time."

Applicatively, such statements have actually animates Muslim students who study in the West equally. Without saying such extreme words, they now seem to be very fond of picking up Western scientific discourses, concepts, and methodologies, to then apply them in dissecting the concepts, teachings, and understandings that exist in Islam, by using the Western perspective (framework).

This irony actually departs from an attitude of exaggerated awe towards the West, giving rise to feelings of inferiority and blunting of critical power towards the West. So it is not surprising, if they are generally of the view that the West is superior to Islam in many ways, including in the field of religion. From here, they then adopted Western sciences, concepts and methodologies as well as their point of view, so that they did not leave room for the Islamic point of view to participate in making selections, comments and criticisms in their study methodology. Ultimately, West would go on to win, from the first round all the way to the end.

Liberalization of Islam in Islamic Boarding Schools by Mohammad Achyat Ahmad pages 265 to 267

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We have to admit that the West is indeed more advanced in technology and science, and we have a lot to learn about it from them. However, we must also realize that the West is very ignorant in terms of morality. Therefore, in the context of thought, divine philosophy and moral philosophy, we must not be talkative towards the West. In this respect, they are far behind and below us. ...

d. Nawawy Sadoellah
Title: Re: Re: Islamic Golden Age - Philosophy and Humanities
Post by: antihellenistic on March 14, 2023, 11:12:51 am
Result from Muslims's Ignorance

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So just like in the economic and political fields, the Judeo-Christian West is actually also very interested in getting its claws in the field of religion. Thomas Stamford Raffles in his famous book, The History of Java, wrote very clearly about efforts to spread and hegemony of religion. He said: "The Dutch had a goal, as the main policy, to spread Christianity in the eastern archipelago. The Portuguese had succeeded in carrying out the same goal before..." (Thomas Stamford Raffles, The History of Java, p. 143).

Missionary efforts connected with Orientalists and colonialists in launching this program of thought and religious destruction can also be proven through the recognition of Alb C. Kruyt (a figure of the Nederlands bijbelgenootschap) and OJH Graaf van Limburg Stirum, as quoted by Dr. Aqib Suminto follows: Christianization was an important factor in the colonization process and Christian zending was an ally for the colonial government, so that the government would help face any obstacles that hindered the expansion of zending.

While the prominent missionary program is changing the minds of Muslims. This strategy has long been proclaimed by Samuel Zwemmer, an Orientalist who serves as director of missionary organizations and who is also the founder of The Muslim World journal. In 1935 at the Christian Missionary Conference in the City of Jerusalem, Zwemmer said that:

Our main mission as Christians is not to destroy Muslims, but to make a Muslim being apostate from Islam, so that he becomes an immoral Muslim. This will open the door for imperialist victory in Islamic countries. Your goal is to create a new generation that is far from Islam. Generations of Muslims who conform to the will of the colonialists, generations who are lazy and only pursue the satisfaction of their desires.

Within the chain of Western culture, the mission movement has two tasks: destroying the opposing civilization (Islam) and rebuilding it in the form of Western civilization. This needs to be done so that Muslims can stand in the ranks of Western culture, in the end a generation of Muslims who are hostile to their own religion emerge.

Liberalization of Islam in Islamic Boarding Schools by Mohammad Achyat Ahmad pages 196 to 202
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: antihellenistic on March 15, 2023, 09:48:38 am
How the Former Colonized Nations today keep easily being Manipulated by their Western Colonizers

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"...Create scholars and intellectuals, as well as economists and politicians in various countries, in American and European universities with a Jewish curriculum to be pro-Jewish, that's a fact...

Our intellectuals, our economists studied at Harvard University, studied at Boston, Sorbonne, Cambridge University, they eventually returned to become experts in capitalist economics. And they support the capitalist economic system all out... They recruit, teach all... Again they support America and European policies (Minute 50: 59 to 51: 41)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrYHU5p3p28

Correct way to see Western Civilization part 2

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So far, the Democratic System has only produced world dictators, and produced big-class corruptors, and even created greedy and greedy international capitalists. The democratic system is a source of problems that has spawned many mobs of mafiosos and generations of opportunists, as well as a place where the dogs of the sycophants of power reside. This is because the democratic system is the entry point for the capitalists to gain power.

One man one vote in a democratic system has provided an opportunity for the bourgeoisie to buy people's votes, so that when they are in power they compete to make wealth to return the capital to buy votes, as well as earn the maximum profit. Democratic system is a source of havoc and destruction.

The democratic system is full of intrigue and deception, because this system is always masked by humanity, equality, justice, deliberation and consensus. In fact, this system is the most inhumane, just look at how the allied countries in the name of democracy have ravaged Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, this system at least respects equality, the proof is that people of color are still second-class citizens in Western countries that adhere to democracy. Precisely this system is the most unfair, the proof is that they blatantly prohibit Muslim women in their country from wearing the headscarf.

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in the Islamic system the standard of truth is common sense which is based on Shari'a, while in a democratic system the standard of truth is pain which is based on the desires of the majority group. Therefore, in the Islamic System, the good and bad of something is determined by the Shari'a, and must be accepted by common sense. While in a democratic system, whether something is good or bad depends on the desires of the people, even though it is not in accordance with the Shari'a or does not make sense.

in the Islamic System, the voice of the Ulama is not the same as the voice of the Layman, between the voice of the Sholeh and the voice of the bad person. While in a Democratic System everyone's voice is the same: Clerics and Corruptors, Teachers and Prostitutes, Santri and Criminals, Warriors and Losers, Heroes and Bastards, there is no difference in the value of their votes. Therefore, in the Islamic System, only good people are asked for their opinions and their voices are assessed, and even then their voices are still referred to as human voices. While in a Democratic System all good and bad people are equated, even their voices are all referred to as the voice of God.

Source :

1. https://books.google.co.id/books/about/Hancurkan_liberalisme_tegakkan_syariat_I.html?hl=id&id=f_ySpwAACAAJ&redir_esc=y

2. https://123dok.com/document/z1324ldq-hancurkan-liberalisme-tegakkan-syariat-islam.html 

Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on March 15, 2023, 05:50:50 pm
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democratic system is the entry point for the capitalists to gain power.

This is not the correct argument against democracy, because it assumes majority rule is good, and then only argues that democracy is bad because it does not truly produce majority rule but instead leads to minority (capitalist) rule. Thus it only motivates democrats to build a system of democracy that is immune to capitalist manipulation. The only correct way to argue against democracy is to argue that majority rule itself is bad and minority rule is what we want. (But the minority we prefer to rule is of course not the capitalist minority.)
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: antihellenistic on March 15, 2023, 08:33:56 pm
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This is not the correct argument against democracy, because it assumes majority rule is good, and then only argues that democracy is bad because it does not truly produce majority rule but instead leads to minority (capitalist) rule. Thus it only motivates democrats to build a system of democracy that is immune to capitalist manipulation. The only correct way to argue against democracy is to argue that majority rule itself is bad and minority rule is what we want. (But the minority we prefer to rule is of course not the capitalist minority.)

I'm already added the arguments from that book which I'm shown to this forum. Before your correction, I think criticizing democracy because its vulnerability to the capitalism, racism, and westernization is enough to showing the fatal flaws of democracy. Because I also try to give short important arguments too which hopefully easily usable by the members while on debate and doing their political activity
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 06, 2023, 07:21:13 pm
Darwin the Aristotelian:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/racist-sexist-depictions-human-evolution-122451653.html

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Early Western scientists, such as Aristotle in ancient Greece, were indoctrinated with the ethnocentric and misogynistic narratives that permeated their society. More than 2,000 years after Aristotle’s writings, English naturalist Charles Darwin also extrapolated the sexist and racist narratives he heard and read in his youth to the natural world.

Darwin presented his biased views as scientific facts, such as in his 1871 book “The Descent of Man,” where he described his belief that men are evolutionarily superior to women, Europeans superior to non-Europeans
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“The Descent of Man” was published during a moment of societal turmoil in continental Europe. In France, the working class Paris Commune took to the streets asking for radical social change, including the overturning of societal hierarchies. Darwin’s claims that the subjugation of the poor, non-Europeans and women was the natural result of evolutionary progress were music to the ears of the elites and those in power within academia. Science historian Janet Browne wrote that Darwin’s meteoric rise within Victorian society did not occur despite his racist and sexist writings but in great part because of them.

It is not coincidence that Darwin had a state funeral in Westminster Abbey, an honor emblematic of English power, and was publicly commemorated as a symbol of “English success in conquering nature and civilizing the globe during Victoria’s long reign.”

Unfortunately, Darwin's biases are still perpetuated in present-day textbooks:

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One example of how biased narratives are still present in science today is the numerous depictions of human evolution as a linear trend from darker and more “primitive” human beings to more “evolved” ones with a lighter skin tone. Natural history museums, websites and UNESCO heritage sites have all shown this trend.

The fact that such depictions are not scientifically accurate does not discourage their continued circulation. Roughly 11% of people living today are “white,” or European descendants. Images showing a linear progression to whiteness do not accurately represent either human evolution or what living humans look like today, as a whole.
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the 2017 edition of “Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy,” commonly used by medical students and clinical professionals, includes about 180 figures that show skin color. Of those, the vast majority show male individuals with white skin, and only two show individuals with “darker” skin. This perpetuates the depiction of white men as the anatomical prototype of the human species and fails to display the full anatomical diversity of people.

Authors of teaching materials for children also replicate the biases in scientific publications, museums and textbooks. For example, the cover of a 2016 coloring book entitled “The Evolution of Living Things”“ shows human evolution as a linear trend from darker "primitive” creatures to a “civilized” Western man. Indoctrination comes full circle when the children using such books become scientists, journalists, museum curators, politicians, authors or illustrators.

One of the key characteristics of systemic racism and sexism is that it is unconsciously perpetuated by people who often don’t realize that the narratives and choices they make are biased. Academics can address long-standing racist, sexist and Western-centric biases by being both more alert and proactive in detecting and correcting these influences in their work. Allowing inaccurate narratives to continue to circulate in science, medicine, education and the media perpetuates not only these narratives in future generations, but also the discrimination, oppression and atrocities that have been justified by them in the past.

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Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: antihellenistic on April 06, 2023, 08:57:19 pm
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Darwin the Aristotelian:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/racist-sexist-depictions-human-evolution-122451653.html

Early Western scientists, such as Aristotle in ancient Greece, were indoctrinated with the ethnocentric and misogynistic narratives that permeated their society. More than 2,000 years after Aristotle’s writings, English naturalist Charles Darwin also extrapolated the sexist and racist narratives he heard and read in his youth to the natural world.

Darwin presented his biased views as scientific facts, such as in his 1871 book “The Descent of Man,” where he described his belief that men are evolutionarily superior to women, Europeans superior to non-Europeans
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“The Descent of Man” was published during a moment of societal turmoil in continental Europe. In France, the working class Paris Commune took to the streets asking for radical social change, including the overturning of societal hierarchies. Darwin’s claims that the subjugation of the poor, non-Europeans and women was the natural result of evolutionary progress were music to the ears of the elites and those in power within academia. Science historian Janet Browne wrote that Darwin’s meteoric rise within Victorian society did not occur despite his racist and sexist writings but in great part because of them.

It is not coincidence that Darwin had a state funeral in Westminster Abbey, an honor emblematic of English power, and was publicly commemorated as a symbol of “English success in conquering nature and civilizing the globe during Victoria’s long reign.”


Therefore, this girl is not Hitlerist

(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81XJg5Xue3L._SY600_.jpg)

But Darwinist with Aristotelian Worldview. She is compatible with Judaism
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on April 30, 2023, 07:48:45 pm
Our enemies report on our message spreading in schools:

https://www.amren.com/news/2023/04/what-its-like-to-be-a-white-teacher-in-los-angeles/

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murals, including some on the walls of elementary schools, call for the removal of “illegal white people” and “European colonial squatters” who have “caused the destruction of our land and people.”

Outside Roosevelt High School in East Los Angeles there is a 400-foot mural called Anahuac, which is a Nahuatl (Aztec) word that is supposed to mean Mexico and Central America. Students entering the school walk by panels depicting Europeans hanging and burning Mexicans, smashing their babies’ heads against rocks, and feeding the flesh of Mexicans to their “war dogs.”

(https://www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/War-Dogs.jpg)

(https://www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Babies.jpg)

At one point on the mural, a Spanish conquistador stands on top of a mountain of skulls, wielding a torch in one hand and a sword run through three indigenous heads in the other. A plaque over the conquistador says:
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(https://www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/23-Million.jpg)

The mural also includes a note to Europeans proclaiming: “Your people are . . . inferior to us in your morals, ethics, and humanity — by your collective actions of the last 500 years.”

Another blood-stained note says, in full capitals:

    In the midst of the genocide our people were ****!!! Laws were implemented to keep us ignorant of our language, past, our great accomplishments and who we really are!!

A third message, also in full caps, proclaims:

    1492 – marks the beginning of the destruction of more than 100 million human lives in this Wesern Hemisphere alone. 23 million of those were destroyed in Anahuac what is now Mexico and Central America by European invaders.
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After the mural was completed in 2007, the Los Angeles Times correctly reported that it “presents a colorful depiction of the ****, slaughter and enslavement of North America’s indigenous people by genocidal Europeans.”
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(https://www.amren.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Posters.jpg)
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 12, 2023, 05:15:19 pm
Little by little, it is happening:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01750-2

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Why is India dropping evolution and the periodic table from school science?
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A series of changes to school science teaching have resulted in the deletion of the periodic table, explanations of evolution and electromagnetism, and discussions about the sustainable use of natural resources from the textbooks used by children aged 14–16.
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NCERT also wants “a rootedness and pride in India, and its rich, diverse, ancient and modern culture and knowledge systems and traditions”. Some people interpret this as a motivation to remove the likes of Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday, and instead use the time to learn more about India’s precolonial history of science.

India is not the only postcolonial country grappling with the question of how to honour and recognize older or Indigenous forms of knowledge in its school curricula. New Zealand is trialling the teaching of Māori ‘ways of knowing’ — mātauranga Māori — in a selection of schools across the country.

Of course, we must know the enemy in order to defeat it, thus until Western civilization is dead, we unfortunately have a duty to keep studying Western knowledge. But those who go on to study Western knowledge need a firm grounding in non-Western knowledge first, to help prevent their later study of Western knowledge from turning them into Westerners. This grounding is what I believe the above changes will help lead to.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 13, 2023, 02:28:36 pm
Eurocentric Egypt disavows Kemet:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/egypt-angered-afrocentric-approach-falsifying-155955530.html

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Egypt has forbidden archaeologists from excavating at a grave site after becoming enraged by their “Afrocentric” approach “falsifying history.”

The chief of the Egyptian Antiquities Service’s foreign missions recently sent an email to the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) in Leiden, Netherlands, following the debut of its “Kemet: Egypt in Hip-Hop, Jazz, Soul & Funk” exhibition, according to CNN.
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The ancient area of Nubia is situated in northeastern Africa and stretches from the valley of the Nile in Egypt to Khartoum in contemporary Sudan. The Nubian Kingdom of Kush, or “Black Pharaohs,” was previously housed in the region.

The museum’s exhibition, which opened in April and will close on Sept. 3, is described on its website as a “journey through music history” that examines “the influence of ancient Egypt and Nubia
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Many recent comments on the museum’s social media posts have been from Egyptians who found the exhibition offensive.

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What are they so afraid of being found at the grave site? The following woke comment has the answer:

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Can any modern day Egyptian trace their lineage back to 2500 b.c Egypt? Absolutely can’t, but the Sundanese can. Look at that.

Other woke comments:

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Are the Egyptians racist and wanting to excise the Nubians from ancient history ???

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the under current suggests they are trying to avoid any association to the Black-Africa of today.

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/ancient-world/who-were-the-black-pharaohs-of-kush-mystery-of-the-african-pharaohs/
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on June 16, 2023, 10:27:16 pm
https://us.yahoo.com/news/inside-war-tearing-psychoanalysis-apart-100043625.html

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Lara Sheehi, a psychoanalytic therapist and psychology professor from Lebanon, is a charismatic, caring and deeply ethical mental health professional, according to her friends and allies, or part of something “toxic, aggressive and narcissistically delusional”, in the words of an email sent not long ago to more than a thousand colleagues.

Sheehi has never made a secret of her political commitments. Her influences include Che Guevara and the psychiatrist and anti-colonialist Frantz Fanon, and she sometimes sports a black-and-white keffiyeh, the checkered scarf associated with Palestinian resistance.
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Jewish students were distraught about a recent extracurricular event she had organized, where a Palestinian law professor had sharply chastised Israel, and had been waiting to raise their concerns. In a heated, tearful conversation, the students accused the law professor, and by implication Sheehi, of antisemitism; Sheehi rejected the accusation and suggested that the students were the ones suffering from unexamined racism.

Jewishness is racism. To be anti-racist requires being anti-Jewish. It is that simple.

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“The lines have been drawn,” Sheehi said from her home

Yes!

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/jews-have-nothing-in-common-with-us!/

http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/jewish-racism-vs-anti-jewish-anti-racism/

Continuing:

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Psychoanalysis was popularized in the US by Jewish refugees from Nazi-era Europe, and its practitioners today are often older, white and Jewish – a demographic that tends to be liberal on most issues except Israel. If that is the archetype, then Sheehi breaks the mold: she is 38, Arab and queer; a professional biography says she “works on race and white supremacy, decolonial struggles [and] power configurations in class and gender”, and practices “from a trans-inclusive feminist and liberation theory model”.

In an interview last year, she put it more bluntly: “Join the motherfucking struggle.”
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A new model of psychoanalysis has arisen, another psychoanalyst said, focused less on sifting the individual unconscious and “more on the notion that because of the society we live in we’re constantly influenced by various forms of systemic racism, and that the goal of analysis is a calling-out of prejudices and almost a kind of re-education”.
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Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s talk argued that Israel uses global mental health programs as a “cunning” way to prop up its military occupation, and called for psychologists to beware of co-optation by state projects.
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Jewish students felt unsettled, according to a legal complaint later filed by the pro-Israel group StandWithUs, and decided to raise the topic in Sheehi’s class the following Monday. According to the complaint, they said that Shalhoub-Kevorkian’s talk had been a “two-hour diatribe” against Israel that “felt like [an] excuse to bash Jews” and left students feeling “vulnerable and unsafe”. A student said that the talk “seemed to have little to do with being a stronger clinician”. (The complaint also alleged that Sheehi, earlier in the semester, had told a Jewish Israeli student: “It’s not your fault you were born in Israel,” implying her nationality to be shameful

It is your parents' fault! Just don't make the same mistake they make!

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old posts from Sheehi’s private Twitter page, BlackFlagHag, circulated. In her tweets – which Sheehi says were decontextualized expressions of anger about Palestinian and Lebanese suffering – she called Israeli soldiers “genocidal ****”; urged Palestinians to “throw rocks”; retweeted a picture of a Molotov cocktail; wrote, “Israelis are so **** racist” and “**** ZIONISM, ZIONISTS, AND SETTLER COLONIALISM”; and urged those who disagreed to “**** learn something”.

On the page, later deleted, Sheehi seemed to suggest that some humans are beyond redemption: “If you … STILL entertain for even a split second that Hamas is the terrorist entity, there is literally zero hope for you, your soul, or your general existence as an ethical human being in this world.”

I agree:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-false-left/superiority-cannot-be-taught/

Continuing:

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“Our division is being ripped apart, while its president-elect” – Sheehi – “watches passively to the bloodshed,” Michael Singer, a psychologist in New York, wrote. “This is turning out to be a pathetic end to a once-vibrant organization. Dr Sheehi, we owe you our final breath as the life drips out of Division 39.”

That's the idea!

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Sheehi resigned from APsA: it is “not hate speech to advocate for the rights of an oppressed and colonized people”, she wrote in a reply-all email, nor “to call an apartheid state what it is.” APsA is a “white supremacist institution” whose “false and defamatory categorization [stokes] actual hate speech against me, threats of forced deportation, **** and bodily harm to me and my family”.
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The former program committee responded with a letter casting its disbanding as a “sudden and reactionary” purge by forces “working, knowingly or not, to preserve the reign of whiteness within psychoanalysis”.

Again, glad to see Jewishness being accurately recognized as part of "whiteness".

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In early April, Sulkowicz stepped down. His resignation letter argued that an “illiberal, extreme left” had seized control of APsA
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He also suggested a patricidal impulse, with the new guard requiring “a scapegoat, ideally a white male representing authority and privilege”.

Except that is not a scapegoat.

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a truck paid for by Alums for Campus Fairness, a pro-Israel group, circled the venue with an electronic billboard with giant portraits of Lara and Stephen Sheehi and the question: “WHY IS THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION HOSTING ANTISEMITES?”

Because being anti-Jewish is part of being American?

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No one seems sure what will happen next. There is talk of forming a new, social-justice-oriented psychoanalytic organization – to be built from a clean slate and unapologetic in its activist stance. There are also rumors that the old guard might start its own. Michael Singer suspects the controversy will “die away at this point, because I think Dr Sheehi and her supporters have sort of won the day”.

WE WILL REPLACE YOU!


Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on July 02, 2023, 08:22:12 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/striking-down-affirmative-action-supreme-110000662.html

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By striking down affirmative action, the Supreme Court put forth a dangerous and false ideal of 'colorblindness'
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In her dissenting opinion, Justice Sotomayor lambasted the Court for cementing a "superficial rule of colorblindness."

By ignoring the realities of race, a colorblind approach can be harmful to communities of color.
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Colorblindness has become a prominent school of thought, especially in the educational sphere, sometimes used as a counterpoint to concepts like critical race theory, which teaches that systemic racism is a part of American history and society.

Advocates for colorblind rhetoric often argue that overlooking racial differences will lead to students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds growing up in symbiotic harmony. "I don't see color" is a common refrain among prominent white professionals and personalities — everyone from ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to conservative commentator Tomi Lahren have uttered a version of it.

But who does a colorblind approach really benefit?
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An educational system built for white Americans

In the US, around 79% of public school teachers are white. They are teaching a student body that is 53% non-white. According to Pew research from 2021, there is not a single state where a teacher is less likely to be white than their students. They are also teaching from a curriculum that is predominantly focused on white authors, and one that often tells a whitewashed version of history.
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From birth through every step of their educational journey to career advancement and retirement, the US is built primarily for white Americans to succeed. Given that, ignoring the realities of racism does not serve communities of color.

Colorblindness only benefits white people, saving them from the discomfort of having to grapple with the role their own racial identity played in their successes. It allows them to minimize or fully dismiss the extent of harm caused by discrimination. In a colorblind world, the onus of having to confront these daily realities is solely the burden of communities of color who are told they must suffer in silence.

To put it another way, there are those who claim to support merit-based admission. But whose standards of merit are we using? By Western standards, the most Faustian are the most meritorious:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/homo-hubris/msg14444/?topicseen#msg14444

Thus merit-based admission under Western standards promotes Faustianism. Is this what we should be promoting?
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 10, 2023, 08:04:00 pm
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 :)
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 11, 2023, 12:45:59 am
Even better:

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/columbia-student-group-celebrates-historic-hamas-counteroffensive-against-israeli-civilians/

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A Columbia University student group celebrated Hamas’s “historic” massacre of Israeli civilians, characterizing it as a long-overdue “counteroffensive” against Israel’s purported apartheid regime. It also urged the university to respond to the situation by cutting off its partnerships with higher-learning institutions in Israel and slammed university administrators’ messages condemning the terrorist attacks.

That statement comes amid the mobilization of Palestinian “resistance” groups in the U.S. in the wake of the attacks. By praising the Hamas massacres, it goes even further than a statement by Harvard students did, which blamed Israel for inviting the terrorist attacks.

“Yesterday was an unprecedented historic moment for the Palestinians of Gaza, who tore through the wall that has been suffocating them in one of the most densely-populated areas on Earth for the past 16 years — an open-air prison blockaded by Israeli soldiers via land, air and sea,” read the statement by Columbia’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which was published yesterday.

“Palestinians launched a counter-offensive against their settler-colonial oppressor — which receives billions of US dollars annually in military aid and possesses one of the world’s most robust surveillance and security apparatuses. Any omission of this context — any rhetoric of ‘an unprovoked Palestinian attack” — is shamefully misleading,” it added, urging readers to review reports by human-rights groups that characterized Israel as an apartheid state.
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In its statement praising the Hamas attack, SJP said that people calling for peace are overlooking what it characterized as previous abuses by Israel’s military: “You are not asking for peace. You are asking for quiet submission to systemic violence.”
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SJP also criticized Columbia for operating a dual-degree program with Tel Aviv University and for moving to open its own “Global Center” in the city.

In another statement, issued today, other Columbia student groups echoed SJP’s critiques of the school administration’s comments on the terrorist attacks and demanded that it cut all its institutional ties to Israel
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 11, 2023, 03:52:44 pm
More of the same:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-israel-statements-sweep-more-080050605.html

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Anti-Israel statements sweep more colleges
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Northwestern University Students for Justice in Palestine issued a similar statement on Monday, saying Israel is not "the aggrieved party."

"The events of October 7th are more than just isolated incidents; they're symptomatic of decades-long desperation stemming from subjugation and systemic oppression," the statement said.

"Israel's portrayal as the aggrieved party is not only historically inaccurate, but also contradicts the very dynamics they've established. A party that controls the resources, dictates movement, dominates military might, and infringes upon the rights of another, cannot, by any logical construct, claim victimhood," the statement says.
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University of Virginia (UVA) Students for Justice in Palestine said Sunday that following the brutality carried out by Hamas, it was "hopeful for the future."

"Over the past two days, many of us have been afraid, worried, and even hopeful for the future of Palestine," the group said.

"Students for Justice in Palestine at UVA unequivocally supports Palestinian liberation and the right of colonized people everywhere to resist the occupation of their land by whatever means they deem necessary.

"We mourn the loss of human life and hope for long-lasting peace which cannot be achieved without the firm establishment of equality and justice. In an unprecedented feat for the 21st century, resistance fighters in Gaza broke through the illegitimate border fence, took occupation soldiers hostage, and seized control of Israeli settlements that are illegal under international law."
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 13, 2023, 05:38:54 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stanford-suspends-lecturer-accused-making-124218096.html

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Stanford suspends lecturer accused of making his Jewish students stand in a corner and calling Israelis 'colonizers'
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Cohen and Mandelshtam told the Chronicle the lecturer delivered impromptu lessons in two classes, which he said would be focused on the topic of colonialism.

They also said students in one of the classes recounted the lecturer blaming the outbreak of violence between Israel and Hamas on Zionists and saying Hamas' actions were part of a resistance.

"He then asked Jewish students to raise their hands" and separated them from their belongings, explaining that he was simulating what Jews were doing to Palestinians

Thank you!

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They also said students recalled the lecturer separating people in both classes into different groups based on their identities and backgrounds and calling them "colonizers" and "colonized."

Woke commenter understands why this good lecturer has been suspended:

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Yup, can't upset a major cash flow source...

Other woke comments:

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Isn't this the same thing that Jane Elliot did to teach children about racism? Was she wrong when she did this?

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Give the professor a raise. He told the truth.

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He could have single out all students with European background and call them 'colonizers'.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 17, 2023, 03:03:44 pm
Continuing from:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/academic-decolonization/msg22698/#msg22698

good riddance:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-quits-harvard-board-student-154642254.html

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Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer announced that he and his wife are resigning from the Harvard Kennedy School's executive board because of the school president’s response to a student letter that blamed Israel for the terrorist attack on their country.

Ofer released a statement explaining that he and his wife, Batia, resigned "in protest of the shocking and insensitive response by the president of the university, who did not condemn the letter by student organizations who blamed Israel for the massacres," according to a report from the New York Post.

The decision comes after a letter, which was titled "Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine" and signed by 31 student groups, condemned Israel after the country faced a surprise attack from Hamas earlier this month.

Woke comments:

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You can take your blood money elsewhere.

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they needed to get him outa there . big yes boi

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That's good . Now the school can function as it should . Free to speak as they please . With out these Jewish traitors to the American freedom of speech !

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keeping going Harvard students! Batting a 1000👏👏

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Good. Let's get a little diversity on that Board. Too many hebs spoil the soup.

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quitting the board will just let it be filled up with more Hamas lovers

WE WILL REPLACE YOU!
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 24, 2023, 04:30:06 pm
More campus wokeness, particularly rejection of two-state-solution proposals:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/intifada-until-victory-declare-oxford-185653656.html

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‘Intifada until victory’ declare Oxford academics before meeting on Israel-Hamas war
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A motion shared with Oxford members of the University and College Union (UCU) states that the branch believes that the war is “a direct consequence of decades of violent oppression of the Palestinian people by the Israeli state”.

It states that “only a mass uprising on both sides of the green line and across the Middle East can free the Palestinian people”.

It goes on to say that “it is the duty of the international movement of workers and youth to support this struggle” and calls for “a Socialist Federation of the Middle East” and “intifada until victory”.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/israeli-mit-students-terrified-anti-080029984.html

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Israeli MIT students 'terrified' after anti-Israel rally chant calls for 'one solution, intifada'
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Israeli students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say they are "terrified" to be on campus after participants at a campus protest chanted "one solution, intifada, revolution" at a rally supporting the devastating Hamas terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of Israelis in Israel.
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Historically, what’s called as the First Intifada was a deadly series of attacks and protests carried out by Palestinians against Israelis during the 1980s. The Second Intifada occurred in the early 2000s as at least 1,000 Israelis were killed by terrorist attacks carried out by Palestinians using suicide bombers on busses and shooting civilians in the streets, bars and restaurants in cities like Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
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The recent protest rally at MIT was held by several student groups, including MIT Coalition Against Apartheid. That group issued a statement the day after the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, saying they "hold the Israeli regime responsible for all unfolding violence."

"We unequivocally denounce the Israeli occupation, its racist apartheid system, and its military rule. Colonization is inherently violent, aimed at erasing and replacing indigenous peoples. We affirm the right of all occupied peoples to resist oppression and colonization," the statement reads.

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Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on October 31, 2023, 05:41:01 pm
Our enemies report:

https://barenakedislam.com/2023/10/31/jewish-students-at-cornell-university-had-to-go-into-hiding-after-vile-anti-semitic-death-threats-posted-on-a-student-message-board/

(https://barenakedislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-31-at-2.05.30%E2%80%AFAM.png)

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 :)

I especially like the last post. By its (accurate) logic, all Jewish organizations can be considered apartheid organizations and thus deserving of elimination. Not so sure about "relocating" the settlers, though. Why not just follow the advice of the second post?
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 05, 2023, 02:48:52 pm
https://nypost.com/2023/11/04/metro/a-manhattan-pre-k-teacher-is-spreading-anti-israel-hate-to-the-citys-youngest-learners-and-offering-parents-and-teachers-tips-to-indoctrinate-kids-to-her-left-wing-agenda-educators-and-insiders-told/

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Siriana Abboud, 29, a city Department of Education teacher at PS 59 in Midtown, offers social-media guides on how to talk to 4-year-olds about “land theft, displacement and ethnic cleansing.”
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Abboud’s exclusive “teach-ins” for educators and activists cover Palestine, Zionism, and the “struggle against colonization.” She proselytized online that “teaching can never be radical or revolutionary, so long as you deny the ongoing and violent colonization of Palestine by Zionism” and that early education can be a “tool for liberation.”

“Justice-informed teaching means breaking down power imbalances I’ve been given as a classroom teacher,” she has said, and that “we aren’t teaching the truth if we’re silent on Palestine.”
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A guide on how to talk to kids about Palestine suggests equating it to European colonization, police brutality in the U.S., or how “some people wanted to build a wall in the U.S. to keep families away.”

It is not difficult.
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: rp on November 06, 2023, 06:57:06 pm
https://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1721553123108364460
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Arya - آریا 🇮🇷
@AryJeay
🔥 A physics teacher used the heroic act of al-Qassam destroying a tank as an exercise to teach physics.

What an amazing teacher. I’d love to attend her classes.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F-QvcNkWUAAs9jR?format=jpg&name=medium)
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Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 14, 2023, 08:27:37 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/northwestern-university-president-calls-students-022214004.html

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Illinois-based Northwestern University’s president, Michael Schill, in a statement on Monday called on students to reject statements or banners that can be interpreted as promoting murder or genocide, and in response, the school’s pro-Palestinian group rushed to post a picture that read, "From the River to the Sea."

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9nakL-XEAA-a0P.jpg)

 :)
Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: canada on November 21, 2023, 09:00:03 pm
https://montrealgazette.com/news/mcgill-students-vote-in-favour-of-pro-palestinian-policy

McGill students vote in favour of pro-Palestinian policy

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Despite the university warning it could cut ties with its student union over the issue, McGill students have voted in favour of adopting a contentious pro-Palestinian policy.

In a vote that ended Monday, 78 per cent of students who participated voted in favour of the policy, titled Policy Against Genocide in Palestine.

B’nai Brith Canada, a Jewish advocacy group, took legal action to try to stop the policy from being voted on. An open letter signed by Jewish students and alumni also called for the university to remove the question from the Students’ Society of McGill University’s 2023 fall referendum

McGill, however, has already stated that should the policy be adopted, the university could end its agreement with the student union that governs its funding and use of the McGill name.

“The proposed policy, if adopted, will sharpen divisions in our community





Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on November 26, 2023, 04:23:20 pm
Our enemies report on our success:

https://vdare.com/posts/black-dc-social-workers-have-lower-pass-rates-than-whites-solution-abolish-the-test

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The jobs here are for social workers in Washington, D.C. You have to be licensed to do social work in the capital, and to get a license you have to pass an exam. It's not a severely academic exam, only a series of  "multiple choice tests, which ask social workers what they'd do in hypothetical scenarios"
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between 2018 and 2021 76 percent of white test takers passed the bachelor's level exam the first time while the corresponding rate for black test-takers was only 33 percent.[ DC considers tossing social work exam over concerns it fails too many people of color , NBC Washington,  October 2, 2023]

D.C. has a solution, though. The District's City Council is considering dumping the test.

The False Left solution would have been to lower the "black" passing score in order to equalize outcomes. We have always been against this, as it perpetuates Western standards but then merely lowers those standards for ethnic groups which have trouble meeting them, which signals that those ethnic groups are inferior and hence promotes negative ethnic profiling against them later (during hiring, promotion, etc.).

The new solution is True Left, as it challenges the validity of Western standards themselves, as previously explained:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/academic-decolonization/msg3000/?topicseen#msg3000

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/academic-decolonization/msg16015/?topicseen#msg16015

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/academic-decolonization/msg17957/?topicseen#msg17957

Going back to the enemy article, what do our enemies think?

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Let's be thankful for small mercies. At least these aren't Air Traffic Controllers.

Air traffic itself should never have existed! That's the whole point!

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/msg39/#msg39
Title: Re: Demographic Blueshift
Post by: universities on December 08, 2023, 08:49:42 pm
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/12/05/exp-greenblatt-intv-antisemitism-hearing-120512pseg2-cnni-us.cnn

Anti-Defamation League CEO on college presidents testifying on antisemitism: "I would grade each of them with an F"



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Anti-Defamation League CEO speaks to CNN's Bianna Golodryga as university presidents testify before Congress about antisemitism on U.S. campuses.  

Title: Re: Academic decolonization
Post by: 90sRetroFan on February 25, 2024, 07:12:36 pm
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/tdsb-calls-education-a-colonial-structure-centred-on-whiteness

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“Schooling in North America is inherently designed for the benefit of the dominant culture (i.e., white, middle-upper class, male, Christian, cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied, neurotypical, etc.),” reads the latest document under a heading titled “Core Beliefs.”

“Education is a colonial structure that centres whiteness and Eurocentricity and therefore it must be actively decolonized,”
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“White Supremacy is a structural reality that impacts all students and must be discussed and dismantled in classrooms, schools, and communities.”

Exactly. Who disagrees?

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“Schools are a place for learning life and job skills, above all else.” Education Minister Stephen Lecce said in a statement to the Toronto Sun.

Life and job skills in which civilization?

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“Time after time, our government has brought in legislation to prepare our students for the real world,” he said.

The real world in which civilization?

(And note that even in non-Western countries, the school curriculum is almost entirely Western.....)