Note: Every one of them is a moron.
It is a breach of civic duty to be this ignorant of history and reality and to spout off on social media while cheering on the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel news media. In other words, unethical and inexcusable.
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I would not say they are all morons.
I was not aware of this propaganda but … I am not surprised by it.
one of them said they were naive. I think that is a fairer assessment. They just did not consider that people would inculcate such sentiments in children because, generally, we don’t do that in the U.S. to that degree.
-Jut
They have taken positions regarding the Israel-Palestinian conflict without doing due diligence to make sure they know the context of the problem. Is “foolish” a better word? “Lazy”? How about irresponsible?
Yes being this ignorant is a problem, but the big question anymore is where were they to learn this? Surely not in school. As an early millenial, we sort of covered the Muslims in the Crusades, where the Muslims were poor, abused peaceful people who were abused by those nasty Catholics, skipping the years upon decades upon centuries of aggression beforehand. I watched footage of the Twin Towers my senior year, as parts of it were happening, but was cautioned not to think that this was done by Muslims, but instead some ragtag extremists. The indoctrination has only gotten worse, I believe. And since it was already evil to think Muslims could be other than peaceful when I was in school, and the fact that several of my contemporaries who got pregnant right out of high school are already grandparents, that means we are multiple generations of indoctrination in. Other than my favorite option of razing the DOE to the ground, salting it, and going back to private tutors/mini-schools/homeschools, what can be done? If you are told the same thing by everyone, and it is common knowledge, why would you even think to look at another viewpoint. Only the old fogies, who are Islamaphobes say otherwise and we already know to ignore Boomers.
We have an education crisis, but rather than calling those who suffer from it morons and unethical, we should celebrate things like this that start to explain how the real world works to those who have been brainwashed into believing falsehoods.
It’s a critical thought problem. Before I start agreeing with someone’s position or claim, I set out to know the facts. Parents taught me that.
The issue is a critical thought problem, but I think it is exacerbated by the fact that critical thought is condemned in school now. In addition, the indoctrination starts young.
I teach my math students several ways to solve problems and I tell them I do not care which of the several ways they use, unless the point of the assignment is the method covered. They routinely come back to my tutoring classes telling me that while my methods get them the right answers, the math teachers condemn using the other methods because the teachers don’t understand why they work. Mathematics is, at its core, learning how to use logic, which is the basis of critical thinking. Today, so many math teachers that I have dealt with deny this, which hampers their students.
We also have the problem that kids who think outside the box in school are considered troubled students, and are put in detention, given bad grades, made fun of, and other negative reinforcement. The whole classroom setting works hard to deny children the ability to become critical thinkers. Why do kids go to Grok? It’s essentially what the majority of their education has taught them to become, just another polite, quite little cog who repeats the biases of the teacher back at them for a good grade and kudos.
Society also makes it harder for parents to teach critical thinking. This does not mean they shouldn’t, but it adds depth to the need of help. I don’t know what all you, Grace, or Grant/Samantha got involved in as kids, but when I was in the suburbs for a few years, I received a huge amount of condemnation because I did not have my kids in enough activities. In fact, my parents and in-laws still think my kids are not involved enough. The average family I was told to emulate had their kids in activities all the time. You had to have your kids in competitive sports (which took up all Saturday too), marital arts/self defense, dance/art/music, Sunday school, youth group, plays, and volunteering. Most people looked at me like I was crazy when I said that my kids bed time was at seven thirty, when they didn’t even pick their kids up most days from their last activity until nine on the average day. They had a snack on the way from chess club to track and ate fast food for supper in the car between track and dance. Dance ended at nine on every night. When do parents have time to teach their kids? If you decide not to be this parent, all the teachers talk about how you are ruining your kids’ lives and all the other parents don’t allow your kids to interact with theirs. Even in my small town, it is a tragedy if a kid is not in at least three sports and/or competitive dance by the time they are six. I am continually reminded that our dance studio allows travel teams at four and that soccer accepts kids at three.
I believe that stopping parents from interacting with their kids, stopping them from teaching them, is part of the plan. If we remove critical thinking, we can convince people that Islam is the ideal religion, communism is the necessary form of government, and Stone Age living is required to save us from ourselves. Heck, the vast majority of the Democratic Party Platform requires stopping critical thought at the door, and not only teachers and teachers unions, but Universities, the people who teach teachers how to teach all espouse the same anti-critical thought effort.
Critical thinking is important, but most kids don’t get that until they are in middle school or older, in part because of how brains typically learn. Young kids, such as elementary schoolers, do best with memorization of facts. Their brains memorize easily, and the parts of the brain most used for critical thinking and abstract reasoning don’t even begin to develop in the average brain until around 10. Even classical curricula do not emphasize critical thinking until late elementary or early middle school, and by then, according to my Common Core Social Studies (Thank GOD that I no longer have to teach this class next year due to legal changes) textbooks, the kids should have learned about the religion of Peace and the unjust creation of the state of Israel, as well as how we have to give them the benefit of the doubt because they are different from the rest of us. My first grader got the benefit of a little of this tripe, along with anthropogenic global warming, the beauty of solar and wind, and DDT. IN FIRST GRADE!!!! I worked pretty hard to skip some of these sections in her textbooks not to mention those of her older sisters. My fourth grader, whose brain may have started developing the capacity to analyze these things, but that ability is still nascent, especially in her, gets it in full force in her textbooks.
The issue is not simply that these people have not thought critically, it is that it is almost impossible to think critically about something that you have spent all your formative years learning. We spend these early years driving certain thoughts into the brain BECAUSE we want some things to not require critical thought. I don’t want my kids to have to think critically about the fact that 1+1=2. I don’t want my kids spending all their time having to decide if break rhymes with steak or beak. I don’t want critical analysis determining exactly how to use the “ough” phoneme. This is what those early years are for.
I hate to use the word indoctrination, because all education is to “inculcate doctrine” but when we have false doctrines, it is all the harder to combat them when they are taught at the ages that defy critical thought. If you have been told all your life that Muslims are good and peaceful and that only bad people think Muslims as a group can do terrible things, it is nearly impossible to overcome that without something to the level of this video. Just as those kids on the video are being taught horrible things, our kids are being taught to excuse horrible things.
Really, we live in a world where instead of teaching kids HOW to think, we spend so much time teaching them WHAT to think and condemning critical thought that we cannot be surprised that so many folk can’t think why to hold a position.
Excellent commentary.
jvb
Comment of the Day. Thanks.
Yeah, this was spectacularly good commentary. Thank you for sharing it!!
Self-deceiving self-lying and acute hypocrisy! (If the issue is Israel and Palestinians). I suggest you follow for a few months your own advice and actually look into the issues with honest and open eyes. Turn iff your TeleScreen.
Note that in the Milgram electric shock experiments, 91% continued to shock the subject after they became nonresponsive (at 300V). A full 65% continued up to the 450 V level that was listed as ‘lethal’ (they ‘shocked’ an unresponsive person at 315 V, 330 V, 345 V, 360 V, 375 V, 390 V, 405 V, 420 V, 435 V, and 450 V, listed as lethal) . In a similar experiment performed with a cute puppy instead of a person, only 50% of the male, but 100% of the female participants continued to the lethal level (perhaps this explains Kristi Noem).
In other, more mundane experiments it was found that 75% of people will lie about facts such as which line is longer if everyone else agrees. Only 25% of the people will consistently state that the shorter line is shorter if others claim it is actually longer.
Which line is shorter?
_____________ 25%
_____________________________ 75%
Very few people are actually capable of independent thought.
Very few people are actually capable of independent thought.
But you surely are, right?
In a similar experiment performed with a cute puppy instead of a person, only 50% of the male, but 100% of the female participants continued to the lethal level (perhaps this explains Kristi Noem).
It is always “them” over there who suffer these acute moral defects. The topic here is Israel and Palestine. And you-plural are incapable of seeing or telling the truth.
Ah but I get it! You have special critical powers, and a special ‘moral sense’ that others lack.
Hypocrisy is the ugliest demon if you think about it. And all-too-human …