Posted on 07/25/2019 9:21:15 AM PDT by aspasia
National Education Association—held its annual convention in Houston the beginning of July. Attended by thousands of delegates on behalf of teachers and educators across the country, the meeting includes a Representative Assembly where resolutions and new business items are proposed and voted on.
This year, 6,000 NEA delegates (a low attendance compared to previous years) approved teaching the concept of “White Fragility” in trainings and staff development, endorsed “the fundamental right to abortion under Roe v. Wade,” and called on the U.S. government to “accept responsibility for the destabilization of Central American countries… and that this destabilization is a root cause of the recent increase of asylum seekers in the United States,” to name a few.
But a proposal focused on, wait for it, student learning, was defeated.
New Business Item 2 proposed the NEA should “re-dedicate itself to the pursuit of increased student learning in every public school in America by putting a renewed emphasis on quality education.”
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Fewer and fewer people disagree with your contention.
Me, for instance. I don’t disagree.
Well, I’m getting to where I can tolerate racial stress just fine. You think I’m racist? Fine. Think it. Frankly, my dear...
I hate to say that I agree with you, but I do.
Your screen name seems to have been swiped from the Blessed Virgin.
I knew one who was going to save the poor, down, trodden by becoming a public defender.
Within three years of becoming a PD she wanted all of these people she idolized shot.
Real rude awakening for this dingbat. From a well do to family and not a very nice person to begin with.
The teaching profession in the public schools and the universities is in a shambles. It is infested with ignorant, bigoted, shortsighted people. Anti white bigotry is now all the rage among your precious teaching profession. They can claim the moral high ground all they want, but a growing number of aware and thoughtful individuals know that teachers have dug themselves into a pit of intolerance and academic incompetence based in intellectual dishonesty. You may be an exception as I know there are some out there.
Leftists are far too arrogant to consider their methods are incorrect.
They are never wrong, their methods are never wrong and usually they end up coming up with a reason for failure which has nothing to do with reality.
My sister is a teacher in Northern NE. She thinks she is a liberal but - she really isn’t.
She refused to join the teacher’s union. It’s a real racket where she works.
In context I suppose it is white people taking exception to things like intersectionality, not accepting to the infantile race ideology employed by the Left and the race grievance pimps respectively.
It’s may be a way of calling us Snowflakes if we aren’t taking part in / accepting the communal guilt the Left asserts belongs to whites.
Especially since the "educators" don't seem to learn from it.
As for South America, Simon Bolivar attempted to establish American, er, USA-style democracies, but was stymied by the cultures, and defaulted to authoritarianism.
As with all aspects of critical theory it involves the simultaneous acts of ripping out one’s brain while sticking your head up your ass.
Things like it inspired me to write this back in the day:
“New, from DemCo: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Hate Crime!
“We’ve all been there, something bad happens and mean Republicans, pro-lifers, the NRA gun nuts or homophobic haters point out that it was perpetrated by minorities, homosexuals, transgender persons, or one of those wonderful Muslims.
“What is a progressive to do?
“Why, with new I Can’t Believe It’s Not Hate Crime you can push their tiresome, boring rants far, far away!
“Just apply I Can’t Believe It’s Not Hate Crime to your rectum like so and it’s patented politically correct recipe strongly attracts the skin of you scalp ...” (Voice now muffled) “... and now you’ll have no problem realizing who is really responsible for whatever goes wrong!”
(fast speaking voice)
“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Hate Crime has no known side effects that you cannot blame on the bad people. If you start to feel uncomfortable simply apply more I Can’t Believe It’s Not Hate Crime and discomfort will fade. Reports of users disappearing up their own asses are muckraking rumors spread by crypto-fascists, who are you going to believe anyway?”
(muffled announcer voice again)
“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Hate Crime, available on school campuses and from druggist nation wide!”
“Argumentation” or “silence” ...
Basically if you don’t bend over and take it in the shorts whenever they demand without being thankful for the abuse and condemnation you’ve got white fragility.
... and of course it shows that the Left is completely impervious to any attempt to refute or ignore its brainlessness. It hates you if you try the former. Despises you if the latter.
I wonder what they would call laughing in their faces for being such ignoramouses?
Because every intersectional twit is just that and they deserve to be offended even more.
In fact, they spend so much time being offended, wanting to be offended, looking for opportunities to be offended ... they must enjoy it.
So maybe say “Ah, I see I’ve helped make you even more ideologically miserable today ... you’re welcome!” instead of laughing?
Anyone who's read my various posts here knows that I am no liberal and harbor zero white guilt. So darn right, I am an exception. And, it seems to be the ADMINISTRATORS shoving this "white toxicity" and "white guilt" garbage down teachers' throats, them having gotten the good word to do so by radical commie minded idiot politicians who find it their duty somehow to promote ridiculous stupid ideas like that.
I've believed for some time that such an element does exists among the non-white (and even among some guilt-ridden, self-loathing whites) populations in the US and elsewhere. It's a question of how large that element is. I don't have a good guess about that at present.
Fascists kill comedy because they can’t stand to be mocked. Liberal bullies do it today. Thou shalt not question, mock or doubt the sacred liberal dogma of social justice.
I don’t know if you’ve seen the two versions of To Be or Not To Be — the first with Benny and Lombard and the second with Brooks and Bancroft — I recommend both, btw.
In the 1942 version we find genuinely fearless movie making and while there is comedy it is actually quite serious.
Brooks’ version by contrast is considered comedy ... but that doesn’t really do it justice and it is because of how it turns pure drama for a bit I would point to it to talk about so-called “progressivism” and comedy.
While it is simply obvious, too plain for words, yes, Brooks owed a lot to Benny but not everything. Not only was the outcome of WW2 a known but, very important from movie making, The Producers had happened.
The two great early 40s drama comedies, The Great Dictator and To Be of Not To Be, both had to contend with not mocking the Nazis enough (being serious) on one hand and being seen as inappropriately mocking the Nazis on the other (not being serious enough) ... something Brooks really didn’t have to worry about.
But he still, I think, references that with the Naughty Nazis skit (really the Springtime for Hitler moment in TBoNTB) and how the Polish government shuts it down.
Here I’ll point out one of the big differences between the movies, which will be important for what I’m to say: in Benney’s version Benny’s Bronski did NOT dress as Hitler but a second character did.
The scene in TBoNTB is completely different than Springtime for Hitler.
With Springtime the in movie audience is shown in their slack jawed horror before they figure out that it’s viscoiusly mocking the Nazis.
But there is a scene in TBoNTB where they are sneaking people they’ve been hiding out of the theater right in front of the Nazis in clown makeup and this one elderly couple seized by terror friezes, causing the laughing Nazis to stop and gawk. This is resolved by a clown in Nazi uniform proclaiming them Jews and marching them off before a roariously laughing room of Nazis.
At that moment Brooks’ version of TBoNTB almost entirely transitions to drama, with only Brooks’ Bronski hamming it up as Hitler and Colonel Airhart getting totally comically skewered ... and it remains that way till Brooks, again still dressed as Hitler, barges into a Limey pub and demands to know if he’s in England.
This part of the movie is where Brooks really shows his range as a director and why I say his TBoNTB is underrated.
So look at the difference between the in movie audiences and how they are received by the real world audience.
With The Producers the audience is in on the joke and it’s pure screwball comedy as they know more than the in movie audience. The in movie audience’s initial horror turns to laughter once they THINK they know what is happening.
But with TBoNTB the in movie audience thinks that they understand the joke, when it isn’t a joke at all ... and as a result their laughter tears away, lays bare who they really really are ... and yes the real world audience is in on it ... there’s nothing funny when the one character say “Juden! Juden!” and no one was laughing with the in movie audience.
Not being evil is why the audience in The Producers is in stitches ... being evil is why the audience in TBoNTB is in stitches.
So here Brooks used comedy, or rather the appearance of comedy, to tear away the mask.
Now, I’m not saying “progressives are Nazis”, but what I’m trying to get to is how what progressive, politically correct comedy has become likewise tears away the mask to true outsiders and can reveal what so-called “progressives” are.
At stake is what scandalizes, what tittilates, the audience.
In the 70s and 80s you could just about carry off a comedy routine on being crude, on cussing and vulgarities ... these were the tittilating things, the nervious laughter causing things, that right or wrong were deemed funny because they weren’t safe.
By the 90s being crude couldn’t carry you. That ship had sailed. And as it sailed the society itself was cruder and more vulgar so it took ever more outrageous vulgarity.
So what is not safe to progressives what they are willing to laugh at? I ask it that way becausethe Left is defined by its demanding so much isn’t safe and you can’t laugh at them, they’re for crying, for handwringing, for feeling guilty or oppressed ... but what tittilates the Left is being a prude, being old fashioned, being Christian ... things like these. And also they can laugh at things meant to be offensive to such persons, though not because they’re offensive to Leftists (like vagina dialogues).
Everything they hate may be Nazis, just ask them, but it is because we are the bad people that they can laugh at us or what they think we would be offended by (and they’re still laughing at us, not what they think we should be offended by) just as the audience in The Producers could laugh as Springtime for Hitler.
This produces a kind of comedy that spends a great deal of effort proverbially patting itself on the back ... but it too tears away their masks. It is the comedy of those without innocence.
Small wonder they no longer get much of the comedy of days gone by, for that often required a bit of innocence to be tittilated.
I realize this post is a rambling mess but I hope you see what I was trying to get at.
And if it’s perfectly clear to you after you read it ... would you terribly mind explaining it to me later?
I was referring to the Kurt Vonnegut story, “2 B R 0 2 B”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_B_R_0_2_B
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