[metmom]

“In an educational model built upon the idea of teaching tolerance, where tolerance is an acceptable, even ideal, endpoint, the trope of witnessing for the purpose of understanding violence or ‘hate’ in a universal humanizing sense, not as a manifestation of structure of power and deprivations, hesitates to meaningfully engage students/viewers/experiencers in their own relationship to those structures,” Agid and Rand explain, in a way.

It reminds me of something mr. mm came across once, and sadly can't find again.

Someone had made a computer program that was programmed with all the words in the English language and all the rules of grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc. and had it place the words in at random according to what part of speech they were. IOW, where ever a verb belonged, it put in a verb, where ever a noun, it put in a noun, all completely at random. They then printed out a paper that was all gibberish. They submitted it to an organization, and it actually placed for an award of some kind.

I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't read it myself. And it sounded just like this.

[dervish]

Thank you.

It is gibberish but it is being used to indoctrinate our kids. They are taught that there is a “dominant culture” ie gays, women, transexuals and “people of color” are oppressed by values that have sustained us since biblical times. Sick.

[metmom]

I found the information. It was done by some MIT students. Here are a few links to the fraudulent paper articles:

Bogus Paper Accepted for Publication
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,154080,00.html

Computer conference welcomes gobbledegook paper
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7036/full/nature03653.html

Here’s a link to the actual paper:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/rooter.pdf