Today became Frightening Mainstream Media Bias Saturday without my intention, so I’m going to shift gears to the other site of the massive Leftist societal and cultural manipulation, our conquered educational system. This Comment of the Day from one of EA’s resident authorities on the topic, will do quite nicely. Incidentally, I am a bit behind in my Comment of the Day posting. I’ll catch up, I promise.
In the meantime, here is Michael R.’s Comment of the Day on the post, “Banning Thoughts, Positions and Ideas in Higher Education Is Unethical and Unconstitutional….But Is Cultural and Values Surrender the Only Alternative?”…
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There is a solution, but it cannot be implemented because of the corruption of the judiciary. The state schools are clearly in violation of numerous discrimination laws and they should be held to account.
Boys are being discriminated in schools. Look at the current performance of boys vs. girls in GPA and test scores below.
Now compare this to the 1975 – 1995 figures here. This is clearly a Title IX violation.
It is claimed that 20% of elementary school teachers are male, but I haven’t seen that and I doubt you have either. The real number is probably closer to 95% female. I am pretty sure this is clear evidence of sex discrimination by the schools and needs to be remedied. The 4 elementary schools my son went to had no, zero, male employees. Not even a janitor was male. This is clearly sex discrimination and should be remedied immediately.
Surveys show that at least 65% of public schoolteachers are Democrats. In the universities, it is MUCH higher. This type of viewpoint discrimination should not be allowed in public schools and the states need to outlaw it. The problem is, if you allow Democrats to be hired and they are allowed to determine hiring, the place becomes all Democrat eventually because Democrats are a cult that puts cult loyalty before merit. The concept of merit is considered evil to them. A solution would be to exempt Republicans from the taxes that support the schools (“Here is my Republican Card. This entitles me to a 60% property tax discount and a 3% sales tax discount”) or state-paid tuition at the private school of their choice. Since the schools are partisan, only that party should be required to support the schools.
The college population has been majority female since 1973 or 1974 (depending on if you define it as 50/50 or percentage of the population. Women are currently 61% of college students. The number in many surveys is below 60%, but it has been above 60% for some time in my experience. This is a massive Title IX violation.
The schools are teaching state religion, which should not be allowed. If you see the word gender and it doesn’t refer to language, it is state religion. There is no empirical evidence for this ‘gender’ concept. It is an artificial construct, the astrology of the 21st century. You can tell it is a religion, because fields like anthropology are changing centuries-old protocols and findings to bring them in-line with the new ‘gender’ ideology. Answer me this: if you find a dead body with no markings or identification, what ‘gender’ was the person? Now, what sex was the person?
Another example is schools are now making students use ‘meditation apps’ to track their ‘mental health’ and guide them. As another example, I believe Communism is also a religion. It has prophets, sacred texts, its propositions have been falsified every time they have been tried and its believers still have faith that they work, it is adherents are rabidly evangelical, it has competing denominations, and it requires a suspension of rational thought far greater than that of Scientology. I mean, I can’t prove that Xenu DIDN’T exist and I don’t have body Thetans, but I can show that Communism was disastrous every time it was tried and things don’t happen they way Communism says things will happen, as, for example, here or here.
The courts need to ban the teaching of these secular religions in schools just like they ban the teaching of traditional religions. Either that, or the states need to go back to having official religions and teaching those in the schools, just for transparency’s sake (remember, we had official, taxpayer supported, state religions until 1845 and they were never ruled unconstitutional).
I haven’t even touched on the completely illegal racial discrimination perpetuated by these institutions. The deforestation of America would be required to put that to paper. The 1964 Civil Rights Act still exists, right? The Supreme Court even allowed it to be implemented a mere 60 years after it became law, didn’t they?
For all this blatantly illegal discrimination, shouldn’t the schools be held accountable for this by the firing of ALL implicated? That would mean every college Trustee, President, Provost, Vice-President, and Dean at the very least.
These wouldn’t completely fix the problem, but it would definitely help. Of course, none of this can be done because it would require the unanimous consent of all 600+ members of the federal judiciary. If just one objects, say a federal judge in Rhode Island, then the entire country will be barred from such reforms. So, step 1 would be to impeach the entire federal judiciary below the Supreme Court. This won’t happen, so unless executives are willing to start ignoring the blatantly unconstitutional rulings of these monarchical members of the federal judiciary, nothing can be done.
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So, step 1 would be to impeach the entire federal judiciary below the Supreme Court. This won’t happen, so unless executives are willing to start ignoring the blatantly unconstitutional rulings of these monarchical members of the federal judiciary, nothing can be done.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, the executive should ignore rulings of the lower federal courts, just to make a point and force changes. President Trump has proved that he is willing to use power, raw power, but I believe he is still too timid in handling and reigning in an imperious judiciary. If Trump is willing the call the federal courts’ bluff a number of things can happen, e.g. the Supreme Court has to deal with issues, and they may respond by limiting the scope of what the lower courts can do. Which is a win. The judiciary branch was traditionally regarded as the least powerful branch because the other branches commanded the purse strings and the weaponry, and it it time that the USA returns to that by ending de facto judicial supremacy.
For all this blatantly illegal discrimination, shouldn’t the schools be held accountable for this by the firing of ALL implicated? That would mean every college Trustee, President, Provost, Vice-President, and Dean at the very least.
Who is going to do the firing? How will firing be triggered? As Harvard has been showing lately is that institutions of education are very susceptible for financial pressure. So the Trump administration should yank the purse strings judiciously to make the educrats dance to its tune.
Personally I do not believe in government run or government sponsored education. All education should be private and supported by tuition and endowments without support of the taxpayer. You may argue that education is critical to the USA but so is food, and we do not have government run grocery stores either. Making education subject to the discipline of the free market will create competition between schools, and schools that do not provide education satisfying the needs of the stakeholders in the market will go out of business. This will solve the problem of the discrimination and indoctrination based on a prevailing ideology.
“The courts need to ban the teaching of these secular religions in schools just like they ban the teaching of traditional religions. Either that, or the states need to go back to having official religions and teaching those in the schools, just for transparency’s sake (remember, we had official, taxpayer supported, state religions until 1845 and they were never ruled unconstitutional).”
What I observe that most people who offer comments here do, is to attempt to define “What went wrong”.
“What went wrong in America?”
One of the first book I read (near to when I first wrote on this forum years ago now) was Slouching Toward Gomorrah (Robert Bork). I think I am going to read it again because it had a terribly strong influence. It is all about noticing the errors of the 1960s. Then I went on to read Richard Weaver (Ideas Have Consequences) and this book also I need to reread. But Weaver has more philosophical base. He points out that something went wrong 7 centuries ago! And his work is about pointing out how ‘error’ develops. (I read many other things but these stand out the most as influential).
I am going to have to start here with a pretty pessimistic comment: You are not going to be able to make America into anything of what it might once have been. Things have progressed to a point where, as in so many areas in life, they have to continue to advance to a critical point before the real issues can be addressed. Though that is true this does not mean that the individual cannot become exalted (whatever ‘becoming great’ might mean for the person). In fact, this might be the only area left.
I know that everyone is trying to point out ‘what went wrong’ so that that particular element might be addressed and things made better, and all over again one is back at the starting point (as I understand it) of ‘conservative thinking’ — as with Bork, as with Weaver — of trying to point out what went wrong and when.
I admit I am drawn to the question: Why cannot religious fundamentals be taught in school any longer? I understand that the State is not allowed to do this. But I mean something different. You think you cannot teach religious principles because religious principles are metaphysical to the material world and its operations. And to be able to understand what went wrong in America you would have to understand where the nation as a whole, or in any case in significant amounts and degree, no longer can believe in metaphysical principles. And then, if you could convince the student that this is the case, you would then have to reconstruct metaphysical concepts from the very starting points. And if you could do that then you turn to attempting to explain Christianity.
The nation has become infused with Marxian principles through and through, and ways of doing things and seeing things, because in the way of thinking of average people, life is materialistic. And in every department, in every discipline, in industry, in the ‘war department’, and certainly in corporations and all their doings, in ‘domination of markets’ and as well on geo-political levels, the guiding principles are absolutely not metaphysical, they are thoroughly materialist. Therefore, it is necessary to get rid of idealistic metaphysics. They only inhibit ‘the machinery’ of acquisition and games of power. But as I understand things — that is the Constitution, the ‘founding documents’, these are thoroughly metaphysical. They start with metaphysical definitions.
‘Wokeness’ is a mistaken term if only because it is not well enough defined. I realize that James Lindsay has made a career out of attempting definitions though. I do not think he is good (enough) at revealing where and why things went wrong though. I know that Donald Trump and many people wish to believe that America could be made great again. But the fact is that they are nowhere near to any of the concepts about a) what made America ‘great’ in the first place. And b) all their ideas are completely materialistic! Greatness, unless I have missed something, means economic greatness, or a strong military capable of bold conquest and military operations. Unfortunately, if Donald Trump is an example of a man’s ‘greatness’ he falls so far short of the proper identification of it, the embodiment of it, that he really is a bad sign for America.
But that is the essential meaning of the time! That someone so vulgar and so inept, and so unqualified to ‘cure’ America of the sickness that has infected the social body should become to prominent. It is that that has to be examined.
Greatness for these people, unless I have missed something, means economic greatness, or a strong military capable of bold conquest and military operations.