Posted on 04/12/2021 4:02:58 PM PDT by tbw2
The path to progress is definitely not paved by destroying the epistemological framework bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment. Yet it is important to understand why many young people are more attracted to social justice-based decolonization demands than to Enlightenment era intellectual advancements. Social justice ideology appeals to young adults’ desire to establish their identity, independent from their parents, and an ideology that represents itself as subversive is compelling. Also, as young people become aware of injustices, they are understandably captivated by a movement that represents itself as the most righteous way to advocate for justice.
For these reasons, it is necessary to make Enlightenment ideas not merely palatable, but inspiring. Educators must respond to decolonization activists’ arguments, then explain why Enlightenment ideas are a better foundation for improving people’s lives all over the world. Philanthropists are needed to fund a movement that popularizes an informed understanding of Enlightenment era scientific and political advancements. This movement should use online platforms and its curricula should have students read influential Enlightenment thinkers, in their own words, not only misleading representations promulgated by Critical Theory scholar-activists, as they do now.
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By making more of them?
Colonization was a net plus for the entire world.
Civilization was brought to places where the populations were already involved in war, slavery, and genocide.
If there was any downside to colonization, it is that it was terminated prematurely in too many places.
Decolonizing the curriculum is a progressive initiative that will help poor students and in particular, those of color to understand their position in the current world, how they got there and why they must remain there. It will clarify why they must serve their masters in the Democratic party and teach them to use verbal communications that were almost lost in the educational system but are being taught again to make their educational experience more meaningful. Phrases like, “burn, baby burn”, “the honorable Elijah Muhammud”, and (newer), “it takes a village.”
Yet it is important to understand why many young people are more attracted to social justice-based decolonization demands... because BLM Co-Founder owns a Million Dollar Home.
Would they be removing leftism, which originated in the West, from the curriculum?
I’ve personally seen where they’re denying and erasing the European liberal origin of these ideas, namely, Jacques Derrida.
It’s not about helping anyone. It’s about liberals feeling good about themselves, which means feeling morally superior without doing anything of any substance.
Bkmk
It's also about avoiding the hard work of actually studying problems and devising solutions. Liberals just want simplistic, one-size-fits-all answers that cannot possibly solve anything.
Whether we are all rich or poor is irrelevant. We will be equal.
Except of course for the management. They will be quite wealthy and unequal.
It’s the Victim Culture! And the kids deserve better.
It won’t. It will just entrench the White Liberals pushing this crap deeper into power.
It's about freedom vs slavery.
The elites (the Ruling Establishment) believe that we non-elites are not worthy of freedom. We need to be managed.
If we are managed properly, we can be productive (producing for the Elite that is).
We will be provided what we need and nothing more.
And we'll be happy. They have drugs for that.
The same way that blowing up highways will end racism.
“All that intellectual stuff is like, HARD, dude!” /s;)
Think Participation Trophy, and expand from there.
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