Excerpts Family Therapy Textbook(AKA The Communist Manifesto meets DNC Talking Points)

[Ragnorak]

My mother is a teacher and has started working on her Masters Degree. One of her courses is on Family Therapy and she has to plot out her extended family as part of the course work. "Family Themes" was one of things she needed to write down so she asked me for ideas about some of our family themes. I started to look through her textbook to get a better idea of exactly what they wanted. Here is just some of what I found:

The Expanded Family Life Cycle Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives Third Edition Edited by Betty Carter Monica McGoldrick

Chapter 5 Social Class and the Family Cycle Jodie Kliman and William Madsen

In class-stratified society, social class shapes all families' lives, influencing the range, timing, and nature of their choices. Ideas about class and its impact on family life are often vague, contradictory, unexamined, and unspoken. Dominant U.S. discourse silences discussion of class, acknowledging only extrenes of wealth or poverty. Contradictory myths that our society is classless and that anyone can be upwardly mobile obscure and strengthen the shaping power of class. Therapists must listen for both dominant and marginalized ideas about class's influence on the life cycle, exploring how families make meaning of their experiences and relate class to paths they travel together.

As the income gap widens, the wealthy successfully lobby for huge tax breaks in personal and corporate income, capital gains, and estate taxes. In 1959, personal income over $400,000 per year was taxed at 91%, creating a de facto income-cap. By the 1990's, the top tax rate had declined to 31% (Bartlett & Steele, 1994). Yet from 1993 to 1997 alone, states erased 3 million people from the welfare rolls without tracking whether they were employed above the poverty line (Jackson, 1997) or at all. Popular views of a morally neutral continum (upper, upper-middle, middle, lower-middle, and lower socioeconomic status) overlook the relationship of one's class's poverty and oppression. The "upper" classes benefit from an exploitive relationship with those "below." Class stratification is a predictable structural outcome of freee-market, capitalist society, along with patriarchy, racism, and colonialism on which our society was founded.

The business-owning class (or capitalist class) owns the vast bulk of the nation's wealth and has more political power and influence than all other "interest groups" combined. The very top 1 to 2 percent (also called the ruling class) of this class are the wealthiest owners of big businesses. Almost exclusively Anglo American (British American) and almost exclusively Protestant, their "old money" and power go back many generations. .... They are predominantly White Protestants. Even the richest people of color and non-Protestants in the Fortune 1000 have less prestige and influence than monied Anglo-American Protestants, whose class roots go deep. The business owning class depends on the work of the classes below them for its income and personal maintenance.

In a racist and classist society, racew and class fundamentally organize family life. ... Recent attacks on affirmative action and welfare can be read as coded racism and sexism.

[Ragnorak]

Remember this is a course on Family Therapy. Can't you tell?

[bboop]

UCK!

[xcamel]

Sad and misguided, but because of the "academe" class, rendered "Truth", and author "Unimpeachable"

Now, for a real nightmare of "education cum indoctrination", remember that this starts in kindergarten

[Texas_Jarhead]

what, this isn't a text on classical marxist theory?

[Ragnorak]

Agreed.

I posted it because there are those (probably not here) who may agree that there is a liberal slant or bias among professors but they don't really believe its that bad. Now you have something to email them.

[xcamel]

Oh, it's a bullseye-and-a-half. If you make a stink about it though, the "academe" class acts just like "the men in black" (movie).

Everything is buried in plausible deniability - including feigned ignorance - "I didn't know it was in there..." (in a small innocent voice...)

[deepFR]

Psychology and social sciences have long been the weapons of the Marxists. One need not go back to far in history to see how Soviet Union used psychology as a tool to deal with ideological opponents.

[higgmeister]

she has to plot out her extended family as part of the course work.

This will be filed for to use later to determine if her class
group will be given seats at university or local planning
board or if they will be off to the reeducation commune
for the next 3 generations of progeny.

[aculeus]

How long before the education industry gets what it deserves?

[Hardastarboard]

I was born into a working class, eighth grade educated family. We always kept the house up, and we always had enough to eat. Both of my parents worked hard, and I bought into the American "myth" that if you work hard, you can get what you want.

And, what do you know, that "myth" is right. You can have what you want, if you work hard and use just a little of your brains. For that reason, America really is a classless society. There are social strata, without a question. The point is that you can move up or down as you choose, as long as you're willing to work to move up (funny how you don't have to work to move down).

[cake_crumb]

The excerpts contain a one-word clue which throws a ray of light on the reason the far left (those who fall for this crap) are so clueless. Hint: the word is used multiple times. Per sentence.

I'm betting the authoresses - or in this case WOMEN AUTHORS - of the text are into empowerment for women, Krishna, crystals & copper, self-help books and group therapy. At least one of them dabbles in Scientology.

I sincerely doubt they approve of the war on terror.

[cake_crumb]

"what, this isn't a text on classical marxist theory?"

It could be a text on the old European feudal system. Or if you replaced "class" with "caste", a treatise on Indian society.

I know what it isn't : it isn't a book about mainstream American society.

[ArmyBratproud]

You should see some of the course work that the folks have to take at the Univ. of North Texas and other Texas schools in order to get a teaching certificate.

It is such liberal crap it will make your head spin.

[Ken H]

Psychology and social sciences have long been the weapons of the Marxists. One need not go back to far in history to see how Soviet Union used psychology as a tool to deal with ideological opponents.

The job market looks promising for social scientists:

Your Kids Are in Danger {The "New Freedom" Commission on mental health}

Americans need to pay attention to what is happening to their children in school.

While you go about your business, trusting the school authorities not to invade your prerogative as to how your kids are raised and not to turn your offspring against values you are teaching them at home, plans are afoot that can result in manipulating them in the interest of what social engineers place under the ever-widening umbrella of "mental health.

"New Freedom" Commission on mental health}

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - Sociology - S&T -

[freespirited]

Class stratification is a predictable structural outcome of freee-market, capitalist society, along with patriarchy, racism, and colonialism on which our society was founded.

Someone should tell this hothead that stratification is found in *all* human societies. Not to mention among all sorts of nonhuman societies.

Why doesn't she rant and rave about the queen bee? What sinister white male set up that deal?

[SteveH]

This is standard multiculturalism and critical theory fare for education school courses. The "dominent power structure" consists primarily of White Christian heterosexual males. Anyone who is White, Christian, heterosexual, and/or male explicitly needs to recognized their unacknowledged racism, their unacknowledged sexism, and their "unearned White privelege." Sociologists have taken over the schools of education across the country (the field of sociology is basically Marxist studies). Use your imagination to visualize the typical professor for this course (think "N.O.W." if you need help). With NCLB, every teacher who wants to teach at a public school must have a teaching certificate from such a school of education, which means that every teacher candidate must pass through these courses which are designed to wash out any conservatives and libertarians, along with most White Christian heterosexual males. The NEA culls out even more through union activity at the school level. Reverse discrimination is rampant at ed schools since lawyers typically won't take such cases (no money in them); as a result, there is hardly even any case law on grade abuse. This is why the universities seem at times arrogant and shrill in their criticism of conservatism and libertarianism: in their ivory towers, which by design are isolated from the real world (although the real world is not isolated from them) they are safe to practice discrimination in their profession. The public school students and their parents lose out to a tidal wave of liberal credentialed public school teachers who have been taught by modeling from their professors how to be autocratic towards and discriminate against conservatives in their own classes. Three cheers for NCLB.

[FormerNavyBrat]

You should see some of the course work that the folks have to take at the Univ. of North Texas and other Texas schools in order to get a teaching certificate.

It is such liberal crap it will make your head spin.

I think this has pervaded all schools of education in this country. I had a social issues class for my graduate degree in special education that I called my "blood pressure class"--I swear my blood pressure shot up during that class with all of the liberal propaganda we were required to read and swallow as truth.