Posted on 12/22/2020 4:48:01 AM PST by MtnClimber
If today’s poisonous cancel culture is ever to be remedied, the cause must be understood.
When deliberating the origin, most just point to America’s universities and say, “they did it.” And, clearly, that’s where the programming occurs, but it doesn’t explain why.
Selwyn Duke recently noted that vanguard leftists have “indoctrinated the young in schools to transform them into foot soldiers in the leftist campaign of civilizational rape.” Those foot soldiers are today’s cancel culture warriors.
But why did old-time educators morph into purveyors of cancel culture hate? How did it happen?
The Vietnam War did it. Or, more precisely, the campus antiwar activities did.
Most are familiar with the undergraduate student deferments used to dodge the draft in the 1960s. Less well known were the ones for graduate school, in place until 1968. Those led to a 3-fold increase in Ph.D. degrees -- men only -- in the ‘60s compared to the previous decade. The increases prior to that were a couple percent per decade.
And where are most Ph.D. awardees employed? At universities.
Since their motivation was to avoid government service, it’s not surprising they would espouse principles not supportive of America. Their negative views undoubtedly spilled over into their teaching, thereby providing foundational cancel culture training -- Woke Philosophy 101; Introductory Victimology 202; Mobology 303: Advanced Bullying -- identified as such or not.
Perhaps even more concerning, though, was another draft dodging option -- K-12 teaching deferments. Guys lacking the academic credentials or financial resources for graduate school could add the education courses necessary to become teachers just to avoid the draft. Obviously, more students qualified for that dodge than the Ph.D. route.
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The rotting of the USA from the inside starts in universities and now has rotted everything from pre-school up. The school boards are in on it too.
Defund the universities.
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"The school boards are in on it too."
It was my experience that the state school boards are the authors and authorities over the progressive mindset that is so prevalent within public schools. When parental authority began to crumble, the student population was finally the "ward" of the state and it will remain so unless and until there is a "great awakening" amoung parents. I am not even going to pretend that I have a solution. I do know that amoung states considered most conservative, the school boards are anything but conservative. I thank God everyday that I no longer have to walk into a classroom.
Sorry about “amoung”. Obviously I was not an English teacher and age has not improved my spelling skills.
And here i thought you’d identified a rare Highland tribe
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...thinking of actually walking into a classroom...
It’s too early to start drinking.
The Birth of Cancel Culture and The Death of Education Coincides With The Birth of The Third Special Administrative District of The Peoples Republic of China and The Death of America.
I dunno...it’s 5 o’clock somewhere.
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Seriously though, thank you for your service (because responsible education has been a battlefront for decades). We need teachers like Sam Kinison's Professor Turgedson.
"Oh! Ohhhhhh!!!"
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Best laugh I have had since before the election! Oddly, never thought I’d find myself in agreement with Sam Kinison.
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