Bill Ayers and Social Injustice

religion.Rentrave.com ^ | August 12, 2015 | Bruce Deitrick Price

[BruceDeitrickPrice]

From John Dewey circa 1915 to Bill Ayers a century later, we hear the same progressive spiel. There must be drastic change, and perhaps much destruction and death, in order to create a more just society. A dubious trade if you stop and think about it. Lenin gave the same deal to the hapless Russians.

Dewey was a professor of education; Ayers, once a famous terrorist, is now also a professor of education. So what will be the impact of their philosophy on the classrooms of America? The short answer is that children will get a lot more indoctrination, and a lot less knowledge. That's for starters.

Neither professor of education is primarily interested in academic education, that's the weird endgame. Both professors see themselves as social engineers; they think their job is to create a new socialist human in order to build a new socialist society. If education (or anything else) must be kicked to the curb, that's not important for Dewey and Ayers.

The first key to understanding both men is to understand that the word "education" is code for socialism. Similarly, the word "democracy" is code for socialism. Nowadays, Bill Ayers mainly uses the phrase "social justice," which is also code for socialism. It is the be-all and end-all. As a practical matter, all of this code means that social engineers like Bill Ayers make all the decisions, so people like you can be herded and manipulated for your own good.

The second key, especially to understanding Bill Ayers, is that he is, in his own words a radical and a communist. There's not much he wouldn't walk on, including this country, to bring about his vision.

He wants to infuse students and their parents "with a radical political commitment. He wants to downplay achievement tests in favor of activism." Ayers wants teachers to act as community organizers with the aim of provoking resistance to American racism and oppression. In short, education will become even more of an afterthought than it is now.

And all of this he wants whether you, or anyone else, agrees or not. Ayers is an angry man. He and his group are credited with killing seven Americans. He is widely credited with saying: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at."

Here we arrive at the central paradox of our far-left zealots. They are not going to ask your permission for the New World they want to give you. Specifically in education, they are not going to ask permission for what they want to do to your child. Even more offensive, they're not going to ask your child's permission. In effect, your child is going to be kidnapped, locked up, and put in a reeducation camp.

This is the totalitarian contradiction. The likelihood of evil is huge; in the classroom, the likelihood of dumbing down is certain.

Memo to Bill Ayers: what you're calling for involves a lot of dumbing down and enforced conformity. You're hoping to keep a lot of people below their potential. How do you dare to do such a thing?

All of Ayers' socialist ideas have flowed into Common Core. The president and all the education professors casually announce that children will now be college-ready and career-ready. Presto. Just by saying so.

A practical person might wonder, what sort of college? What sort of career? But that's not the main problem. Common Core is not primarily concerned with readiness for college and career. It is concerned with making children socialism-ready.

What the public schools are trying to do here is provide an inferior form of education, claiming it is superior, even as the whole project is clearly about trying to give Bill Ayers and his comrades the control they seek. We see here the unfolding of George Orwell's second law, Ignorance is Strength, where the people in the middle will do anything to be on top. To gain power, they promise to take better care of the poor and the weak. Once the middle vault up to the top, they punish those formerly on top. As for the poor and weak, they can drop dead. This has been the pattern since the beginning of history, according to George Orwell.

What if we made everything transparent for a change? What if Bill Ayers described what he was willing to do to you personally in order to achieve his dreams? What if we encourage teenagers to look at the deal that people like Bill Ayers are presenting: give us what we want and even then you'll probably be destroyed.

What if the Common Core crowd, including Bill Gates and Obama, have to announce publicly in honest language exactly what it is they hope to do to you.

There is a contract in education, explicit or at least implied. The school will try to educate children, presumably to the maximum level each child is capable of. Let's insist on this contract.

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Roots of Common Core lie in Association between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers --- http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2013/12/04/roots-of-common-core-lie-in-association-between-barack-obama-and-bill-ayers/

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Bruce Deitrick Price/Improve-Education.org

[TalBlack]

As far as I’m concerned Ayres is a killer who now has an opportunity to take out the 25 million or so whom he so despises. He ain’t retired...yet. He will do it or try it at any rate. He has proved his murderousness.

[GenXteacher]

Screw Ayers. Socialism is just watered-down temporary communism, and inevitably leads to despotism on the Stalin model. In a just country he would have been hanged for his treason years ago.

[ETL]

From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://web.archive.org/web/20090131022531/http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845
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REVOLUTION: Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
[Revolution] Interview with Bill Ayers, Revolution #63, October 1, 2006:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://web.archive.org/web/20110727113745/http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs [ie, rich people/Capitalists], then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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"In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. ..."

“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html
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"They're certainly friendly" -quote from 'Obama's chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago's political tribes), David Axelrod,' on the Bill Ayers, Obama relationship.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Ax_on_Ayers.html