Posted on 03/09/2021 6:49:01 PM PST by DeweyCA
Bari Weiss has written an outstanding piece for City Journal about the ways in which wokeness has moved from universities to some of the country’s most exclusive prep schools. After speaking with parents and teachers at schools on both the east and west coast, Weiss concludes the woke revolution is already over. In fact, parents at these schools, aware their kids could be kicked out for any reason, are afraid to be identified as skeptics of critical race theory. This fear of being accused (or worse having your children blacklisted) is already so great that not a single person Weiss spoke to was willing to have their name appear in print.
The piece opens with Weiss sitting in with a group of concerned parents in LA whose kids attend a $40,000-a-year prep school. They meet in private because of fear of being discovered.
“They are making my son feel like a racist because of the pigmentation of his skin,” one mother says. Another poses a question to the group: “How does focusing a spotlight on race fix how kids talk to one another? Why can’t they just all be Wolverines?” (Harvard-Westlake has declined to comment.)…
“The school can ask you to leave for any reason,” said one mother at Brentwood, another Los Angeles prep school. “Then you’ll be blacklisted from all the private schools and you’ll be known as a racist, which is worse than being called a murderer.”
One private school parent, born in a Communist nation, tells me: “I came to this country escaping the very same fear of retaliation that now my own child feels.” Another joked: “We need to feed our families. Oh, and pay $50,000 a year to have our children get indoctrinated.” A teacher in New York City put it most concisely: “To speak against this is to put all of your moral capital at risk.”
One student who learned his mother was going to speak to Bari Weiss for this story begged her not to. He told his mom that “one bad statement” would “ruin us.” Again, it doesn’t appear that any of these parents are conservatives. They’re all wealthy people from LA and New York. But that doesn’t matter. Questioning the dogma is a huge personal risk, so they mostly don’t do it. But there are some people even within the institution that make some effort to resist the tide of wokeness because they see what it is doing to kids.
“I am in a cult. Well, that’s not exactly right. It’s that the cult is all around me and I am trying to save kids from becoming members.” He sounds like a Scientology defector, but he is a math teacher at one of the most elite high schools in New York City. He is not politically conservative. “I studied critical theory; I saw Derrida speak when I was in college,” he says, “so when this ideology arrived at our school over the past few years, I recognized the language and I knew what it was. But it was in a mutated form.”
This teacher is talking with me because he is alarmed by the toll this ideology is taking on his students. “I started seeing what was happening to the kids. And that’s what I couldn’t take. They are being educated in resentment and fear. It’s extremely dangerous.”
Three thousand miles away, in Los Angeles, another prep-school teacher says something similar. “It teaches people who have so much to see themselves as victims. They think they are suffering oppression at one of the poshest schools in the country.”…
All of this “has made me think about race more,” said one teen boy in Manhattan. The curriculum, he explained, was trying to teach him to feel obsessed with his whiteness, the opposite of what his parents had taught him to do. Making students separate out by race in affinity groups is racist, he said. “MLK would condemn my school.”
There’s a lot more to the piece but you get the idea. This has taken over top prep schools the same way it has universities. Public schools are next on the list. If you have a student heading to elementary school they could be like a little girl described in the story who came home one day and told her stunned father, “All people with lighter skin don’t like people with darker skin and are mean to them.” God help us all when this becomes the only acceptable view anyone can speak in public. That day may be coming a lot faster than you think.
It is especially to read about the fear of the students and their parents to say anything. The left has already put into motion their censorship and intimidation tactics. This truly is scary stuff to see the indoctrination and intimidation that is happening in our public schools.
Catholic school
It’s called fascism. The Left is the New Nazi Party that has been raised from the ashes of World War II. Soon we will have to wear a Star of David on our clothing to be identified
wtf is critical race theory?
From what I see in my alumni magazine, it’s completely overtaken my alma mater, one of the oldest boarding schools in New England, founded before the Revolution. That’s the American Revolution, not the Bolshevik one, but you’d never know it.
How will the Hispanic and Asian individuals react to critical race theory? I don’t see them as going along. The Asians are already unhappy about being discriminated against to help the African Americans in college admissions. There is no love between the Hispanics and African Americans. You can’t be 13% of the population and expect everyone else to bow down to you.
Just as bad as public schools if Jesuits are running them.
See post #7 for a fast primer.
Two short haired dykes and one fag male in the audience
Yep, Hispanics despise blacks.
My. Kids go to public school and.
Can’t stand Karens
Think liberals suck ass
Think their super conservative dad is the best !
We’re taking over this generation
My 20 year old had to be deprogrammed after growing up in LA
BUT KNOWS LEFT WING ACTIVISM IS TOTAL CRAP !
Sound like the children growing up in Communism and Nazism.
Parents were afraid to even talk truth to the children, because they could say something and all family would go to gulag!
The destruction of the US and West. Whites are like deer in the headlights.
“The school can ask you to leave for any reason,” said one mother at Brentwood, another Los Angeles prep school. “Then you’ll be blacklisted from all the private schools and you’ll be known as a racist, which is worse than being called a murderer.”
They are being educated in resentment and fear. It’s extremely dangerous.
The neo-Marxists have taken over education. They are everywhere from public to private prep to catholic. What’s amazing is that parents just let it happen.
Critical theory is literally a manner of behavior in which relentless, overwhelming, brain-numbing, unfair criticism, i.e., being “critical”, is used to wear down a reasonable social and intellectual norm over time until its adherents, who are ordinary and reasonable people, grow fearful of continuING to advocate for it, thereby eliminating the norm and allowing it to be replaced by whatever the Critical Theory wrongdoers wish to implement. Critical Race Theory is literally that manner of behavior applied to exacerbate whatever race-based differences may exist in society in order to drive a wedge between the races and ensure they never find a way to integrate with eachother within society but instead remain at eachother’s throats.
Bkmk
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