Posted on 01/03/2020 7:45:58 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Although slavery has been a part of history since the dawn of man, Progressives have convinced themselves that it existed only in America and only as to blacks. Combining this historic blindness with excessive deference to student sensibilities reached peak wokeness in a Washington, D.C. elementary school.
Fifth-grade teachers at Lafayette Elementary School, as part of teaching about the Civil War and Reconstruction, asked students to show their understanding of the material by creating "living pictures," podcasts, or dramatic readings. Problems arose, though, when some students asked others to... Well, let's quote from CNN to grasp the full horror: Some students of color were asked by their peers to play roles that are "inappropriate and harmful," including "a person of color drinking from a segregated water fountain and an enslaved person," the team wrote. During classroom circles and small group discussions, [Principal Carrie] Broquard said, some students said they were uncomfortable with the roles their peers had asked them to play.
Others, she said, had been unsure how to respond or stand up for their peers who were uncomfortable.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Since so few leftists has ever read the Bible (and those that may have count on the fact most have not) they are unaware of the fact that Slavery has been around since the beginning of civilization.
Most of these morons are unaware that Slavery Continues to this day in Northern African countries dominated by Islamists.
And, of course they are unaware that it is Northern African Islamist Countries that perpetuate the Slavery Trade to this day.
The big cave men made the little cave men their bitches.
For hundreds of years, the blacks knew all about Jews being slaves and felt a kinship with them. Then, in the 20th century, the NOI and the idiotic Black Hebrew whatever were madeup/formed, with some really horrible, untrue, CRAZY crap and both virulently anti-Semetic. For a while, these two ( maybe there were others, I don't know ) were the fringe of the fringe, but sadly, they grew and grew and more and more blacks were exposed to the codswallop they were/are peddling.
Interesting video that someone posted earlier today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELoCMEkqes
(And why do ostensibly educated journalists have to use artificial terms like ‘woke’ and ‘wokeness’, instead of using good, straightforward, standard English terms like ‘aware’ or ‘awareness’???)
The evil most fundamental to the decadence of Western Civilization is contempt for truth.
Given the opportunity for school choice 95% of parents of DC school children would have them educated in Maryland or Virginia. (The remaining 5% are too doped up to care)
Because common sense words aren’t cool. Lack of any common sense anymore is just.....i don’t even have words. (On the plus side, our cat is on my chest, purring as I type on my phone ; )
This is beyond ridiculous.
Slavery in North America ended over 150 years ago, with a HUGE loss of life in the USA.
My Junior Secondary school {(grades 7 through 9) before the teachers changed everything} used to have “slave auction day” as a fund raising ploy. The “slaves” were senior class volunteers, and the worst thing that happened to the “slaves” was they had to carry the books of their junior classmen “owners” For one day!
Even in the mid 80’s, this was a common way for charitable donation by folks working for such diverse organizations as SEARS!.
Remember that the root word for *slave* is SLAV, the group of south CAUCASUS mountain folk that were impressed into servitude by many invaders.
Well, basic stuff - like a cat purring on your chest - is good, and very ‘grounding’.
(I wonder about the value of all this ‘multi-tasking’, though...it seems like we wind up doing everything part-way, instead of doing anything *whole*.)
“When you wuz slaves, you sang like birds.” (of course, that was before rap and hip-hop)
Let's ask George Orwell...
To meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism (Ingsoc) in Oceania, the ruling Party created Newspeak, a controlled language of restricted grammar and limited vocabulary, meant to limit the freedom of thought — personal identity, self-expression, free will — that threatens the ideology of the régime of Big Brother and the Party, who have criminalized such concepts into thoughtcrime, as contradictions of Ingsoc orthodoxy.These are people who read 1984 as an INSTRUCTION MANUAL. It is no accident they are re-tooling the English language. The leftists are on track to have wiped out Oldspeak by 2050.The political purpose of Newspeak is to eliminate the expression of the shades of meaning inherent to ambiguity and nuance from Oldspeak (Standard English) in order to reduce the language's function of communication, by way of simplistic concepts of simple construction — pleasure and pain, happiness and sadness, goodthink and crimethink — which linguistically reinforce the State's totalitarian dominance of the people of Oceania.
As a controlled language, Newspeak limits the user's communications (thought, spoken, and written) with a vocabulary that diminishes the intellectual range allowed by Oldspeak (Standard English), which is realised by using words that function both as nouns and as verbs; thus, the word crimethink denotes two things: (i) A thoughtcrime (noun), and (ii) the action "to commit thoughtcrime" (verb)
The intellectual purpose of Newspeak is two-fold: (i) the expression of the Ingsoc worldview, and (ii) to make impossible all unorthodox political thought. As constructed, the Newspeak vocabulary communicates the exact expression of sense and meaning that a member of the Party could wish to express, whilst excluding secondary denotations and connotations, which eliminates the ways of indirect thinking that allow a word to have second and third meanings. The linguistic simplification of Oldspeak into Newspeak was realised with neologisms, the elimination of ideologically undesirable words, and the elimination of the politically unorthodox meanings of words.
...the lexicologist character Syme discusses his editorial work on the latest edition of the Newspeak Dictionary:
By 2050 — earlier, probably — all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron — they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of The Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like Freedom is Slavery when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
[[Progressives have convinced themselves that it existed only in America and only as to blacks.]]
And they pretend that there were no black or indian slave owners- some of which were very large slave holders-
“The leftists are on track to have wiped out Oldspeak by 2050.”
Well, they may be able to do that with regard to the unintelligent ‘intelligentsia’. But we may have a home-grown weapon to counter that.
I’ll repeat my link to my man Jamal, who has an excellent command of the English language - and a lot of good Common Sense:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELoCMEkqes
you, sir, are correct.
Pre-Columbian slavery and savagery in Africa, the Middle and Far East as well as South America has been well documented but only whispered about, silenced by political correctness. Also silenced and not so well known is that slavery was cultural to pre-Columbian indians in North America and Canada, too. Studying slavery is a good thing when it’s taught truthfully: in context of slavery being a cultural trait around the world, in the past and in current times, preserved by the cave men who spread anarchy, and eradicated only within western nations.
https://accessgenealogy.com/native/indian-slavery-and-slaves.htm
Or that it was gun toting blacks and muslims in Africa that captured the people that were then sold into CHATTEL slavery: a muslim invention. Prior to that, all slaves were either prisoners captured in battle, voluntary, or economic. All of these categories gave some freedoms and rights, and were highly valued members of their respective cultures.
Slavery has been around since the beginning of civilization.
But not CHATTEL slavery which is a recent Islamic invention. This is slavey were the slave is of low value and has no rights or freedoms other than those permitted by the owner and which privileges are not recognised by the rest of the culture.
Everyone ethnic culture was a slave at one time in history. Get over it
We are responsible for our own actions and decisions, no one else's. I certainly do not accept responsibility for the misdeeds of my ancestors or anyone else, nor to I accept the glory for their good deeds.
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