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Note to Black Lives Matter: Literacy Made Civilization
American Thinker ^ | 16 Mar, 2024 | Jocelynn Cordes

Posted on 03/15/2024 4:47:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Reading is white supremacy now. Good luck getting ahead.

Over the past several decades, many of us who were associated with the humanities noticed, within the ranks of its academic practitioners, an incipient displeasure with Western civilization taking hold and gradually developing into outright hostility.

This attitude was at first manifested by a growing reluctance to engage with the vast literary output of Western man, whose creative strivings were summed up dismissively as the work of “dead white males” and consequently deemed irrelevant to the late twentieth century and beyond. If “educators” had their way, those geniuses would be silenced, for as white men, they have nothing to contribute, and therefore they had no reason to continue their conversation with the world.

Eventually, the literary achievements of the entire West were under assault (as well as the attainments in most other fields of creative endeavor), which meant that the prodigious accomplishments of European women were now included in the body of work that had become anathema to modern “scholars” ensnared by the fashionable allure of the current zeitgeist. The position women held on the intersectional totem pole was not enough to offset their inescapable association with the European colonizer.

This trajectory of shifting values is something the general public became cognizant of only gradually and with varying degrees of alarm. But it has been analyzed in depth by intellectual giants as far back as 1987, when Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind. Roger Kimball of New Criterion has canvassed the development of this antipathy to the Western tradition in both the latter publication and his own books. But despite the erudition that these and other great thinkers have brought to bear on this subject, the dismantling proceeds apace.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: literacy; marxism
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To: MtnClimber

Good catch. An excellent article.


21 posted on 03/15/2024 5:32:57 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: MtnClimber

If math and reading are examples of white supremacy, maybe whites are better. What is the problem? Do your best. Stay in your lane.


22 posted on 03/15/2024 5:34:49 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: metmom; SaveFerris
This is a major reason that I think the end times is upon us. We have the technological capacity to destroy the human race as never before. And because of that, it’s happening at a rate never seen before.

Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every 12 Hours

"A transition from the linear growth of human knowledge to the exponential growth of human knowledge has taken place. According to researchers dealing with this information will necessitate the development of vastly more complex software, shareability, and artificial intelligence."

Even so come quickly, Lord Jesus.

AMEN and AMEN
23 posted on 03/15/2024 5:41:41 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: FreedomPoster

Good article; thanks for posting.


24 posted on 03/15/2024 5:43:55 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Carriage Hill

Yes, that one is a keeper.

If anyone gets loud about white supremacy around me, it isn’t going to be pretty. I will demand they quite appropriating MY culture, if they don’t like whites, and give up their cars, air conditioning, cell phones, computers, running water, flush toilets, and many other products of “white supremacy”.


25 posted on 03/15/2024 5:48:02 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber
Am I to assume that every 'race' developed the tools for industry, achievement and governance (written language and math) save for one?

Now that's racist!

26 posted on 03/15/2024 5:54:57 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The SOTU speech sounded like a Eulogy.)
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To: MtnClimber

Dis article be raciss.


27 posted on 03/15/2024 5:59:13 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (A person who seeks the truth with a closed mind will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
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To: Red Badger
<>"Apparently they believe that blacks should stay and live in their ignorance and squalor"<>

That life does provide for physical superiority but not mental (see American sports).

28 posted on 03/15/2024 6:00:25 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Biden: I'll take a couple of ques..... )
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To: Nervous Tick

(The “man behind the curtain” of the evil worldview(s) isn’t a man, but rather “that old serpent, who is called the devil and satan, who deceives the whole world”

Yep


29 posted on 03/15/2024 6:11:42 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

“ There seems to be a push to re-enter the Dark Ages.”

Socialism only makes sense to the ignorant and subservient, like serfs.


30 posted on 03/15/2024 6:15:48 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (There will be a celebration in January 2025, either with champagne or with “hardware)
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To: MtnClimber

Communists has seized control of education. There’s no way to take back control. The only option left is to defund public education. We have to burn the village to save it.


31 posted on 03/15/2024 6:27:08 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: nonliberal

Good point if the can’t ware it smoke it eat it or sell it it’s of no use to them.


32 posted on 03/15/2024 6:40:44 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Nervous Tick
Daniel 12:4 But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
33 posted on 03/15/2024 7:14:27 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: metmom

Wow. Thank you for pointing that out!


34 posted on 03/15/2024 7:25:57 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: z3n
"Math created civilization, but to be fair, it was the recording of numbers in written or hardcopy form that started it, so you could call that literacy if you wanted...."

And agriculture created math.

In about 8000 BC the chance hybridization of wild wheats with goat grasses (around the Jericho oasis) produced the first two (fertile) cereal grains, emmer wheat and barley. Civilization sprang up around the cultivation of these two crops, and mathematics was created both as a means of documenting the ownership of crop lands and for quantifying the volume of grains sold.

It was agriculture created civilization. In fact no great civilization has ever existed without a cereal grain and domesticated (meat) livestock.

35 posted on 03/15/2024 10:19:59 AM PDT by threefinger
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To: MtnClimber
Wow! How are you going to buy your airplane ticket if you are a member of BLM and cant spell "Wakanda" because its racist! :)
36 posted on 03/15/2024 6:50:54 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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