‘Who should survive?’: Common Core assignment mixes race, religion and lifeboats

Twitchy ^ | 10/19/2013 | Twitchy

[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.”

[CodeToad]

Throw the person overboard that knows these things.

[IMR 4350]

“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”.

[Smokin' Joe]

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.

[Steve_Seattle]

"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.

[Steve_Seattle]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

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

[PapaBear3625]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

So the Black Nationlist (a separatist movement) and the Zero Population Growth eco-weenie are to be celebrated?

Only by militant leftists.

[a fool in paradise]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

Throw the person overboard that knows these things.

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

[a fool in paradise]

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.

[GeronL]

lol

[Rusty0604]

It is? Thanks for the warning.

[sport]

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.

[Steve_Seattle]

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.”

[Steve_Seattle]

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).

[quietly desperate]

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.

[Rusty0604]

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.

[a fool in paradise]

“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.