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‘Who should survive?’: Common Core assignment mixes race, religion and lifeboats
Twitchy ^ | 10/19/2013 | Twitchy

Posted on 10/19/2013 7:35:16 AM PDT by Rusty0604

Here’s another bizarre school assignment to add to the pile, courtesy of Wisconsin-based talk show host Vicki McKenna. Students are asked to work in groups to choose seven people to save from a shipwreck. To help in their decision, they are given some rudimentary information about each passenger, such as race and religious views.

Mr. Blake, for example, is a Mormon who “sympathizes with anti-black views,” while Mr. Newton is a “black power advocated” [sic] who is “suspected of homosexual activity.” You can see the educational value, especially when you take into account Father Frans, a priest who is “often criticized for liberal views.”

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To: Rusty0604

Throw the person overboard that knows these things.


21 posted on 10/19/2013 8:36:16 AM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: Black Agnes

“This is all about indoctrinating the kiddies in the ‘morality’ of rationing.”

Everyone else can stop commenting because we have the answer right there.

That is exactly what it’s about.

If this was 1930’s and Germany it would be a little more straight forward.

Who would you choose to be exterminated to create the perfect race?

Now it’s not so straight forward and it’s not just to create the perfect race but “Who would you choose to exterminate to create the perfect society”.


22 posted on 10/19/2013 8:39:40 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: Rusty0604
Back when I did the Kidney Machine problem, (over 30 years ago) it was irrelevant.

There have been quite a few protected victim groups added since then, including just about everyone but heterosexual Caucasian (non-Hispanic) men.

I presume that now the choices a person makes will be analyzed through the fun-house mirror lens of those allegedly victimized groups, not the potential benefit that the survivors would have to society, or even compassion.

23 posted on 10/19/2013 8:42:00 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: GSWarrior
"Not this tired “values clarification” exercise again!? Who ever designed this should be the first to die."

I agree. One of the options should be: "Mr. X designs psychology tests in which participants are forced to decide which of a group of people have the least right to remain alive." I would quickly push Mr. X overboard.
24 posted on 10/19/2013 8:48:25 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Rusty0604

This is absolutely evil. Children are being taught the idea that some people deserve to die because of their beliefs, and they are given a predictably stereotypical view of belief systems, and we KNOW which of those belief systems will render the person unworthy to live.


25 posted on 10/19/2013 8:53:33 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Rusty0604

The little Red schoolhouse. Children are being indoctrinated in hate.


26 posted on 10/19/2013 9:15:40 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Rusty0604

The teachers will be examining the students answers carefully for indications of racism, sexism, and homophobia. This is not an academic test, this is a psychological examination.


27 posted on 10/19/2013 9:18:19 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Rusty0604; GeronL
So the Black Nationlist (a separatist movement) and the Zero Population Growth eco-weenie are to be celebrated?

Only by militant leftists.


28 posted on 10/19/2013 9:19:48 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Rusty0604

So it is “okay” to make judgment calls on whether or not to “save” an obese diabetic Jewish woman?

Obama’s death panels writ large.


29 posted on 10/19/2013 9:21:25 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Rusty0604

In the old days, when there was valor, it would be “women and children first”.

But now your survival depends on your loyalty and usefulness to The Party.


30 posted on 10/19/2013 9:22:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: CodeToad; Revolting cat!; GeronL
Throw the person overboard that knows these things.

It's a criminal act to throw an IRS agent overboard.

31 posted on 10/19/2013 9:26:09 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: PapaBear3625
I've been given psychological tests at prospective employers before. Didn't get the jobs. One of them, I clearly dodged a bullet by not working there; I later learned two other people I know who worked there (software company) who told such horror stories about the controlling environment (a degreed accountant was turned into a programmer because that was his “psychological profile match”, employees couldn't smoke tobacco even in their off hours yet management flaunted their own violation of this rule, etc. etc.). The other firm that I had one of these at seemed almost cultish with their encouragement of employee comradery.
32 posted on 10/19/2013 9:31:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: a fool in paradise

lol


33 posted on 10/19/2013 9:46:28 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: a fool in paradise

It is? Thanks for the warning.


34 posted on 10/19/2013 10:10:04 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: upchuck

I’m thinking that they are going to require this shit be taught to home schoolers also. So if you are going to stop it, you better stop it now. I said the same thing about when obamacare was in its infancy, and no one gave a damn then, so why should they get their panties in a wad over this? It only effects your life.


35 posted on 10/19/2013 10:19:10 AM PDT by sport
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To: Rusty0604

I have always found these kinds of questionnaires offensive, and I refuse to go along with them. My stock answer is, “Throw overboard the person who devised this questionnaire.”


36 posted on 10/19/2013 10:41:28 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: a fool in paradise

It is weird that they would include ethnicity and religious belief among the criteria for who should live and who should die. It used to be limited to things like age, health, and utility (knowledge/skills).


37 posted on 10/19/2013 10:46:04 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Rusty0604

We had this this in second grade, in 1966. The choices had to do with occupations, though. Each kid had to justify why they should not be thrown overboard based on the value of their job.


38 posted on 10/19/2013 10:49:39 AM PDT by quietly desperate
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To: quietly desperate

That would make sense, or based on skills or health. But race and religion shouldn’t matter, and it’s teaching kids the wrong thing.


39 posted on 10/19/2013 11:01:43 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

“Liferaft” is a bad example, period.

If you were “setting off to establish a new colony in space”, then health, life expectancy, track record of f***ing up, etc. should come into play “for the sake of the mission”.

With lifeboats, it’s “women and children first” or else “every man for himself”.

Determining your “socially just” place on the boat is poppycock.


40 posted on 10/19/2013 11:32:25 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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