Affluent Prep School Told Students To Stop Saying ‘Newton’s Laws’ To ‘Decenter Whiteness’: REPORT

the DC via MSN ^ | 11 Mar 2021 | Mary Margaret Olohan

[blueplum]

An affluent New York prep school reportedly told students to call Newton’s Laws of Motion the “three fundamental laws of physics” in attempts to “decenter whiteness.”

Fieldston School in New York City offers elite academic and science programs for high schoolers, journalist Bari Weiss wrote in a Tuesday piece on “miseducation of America’s elites,” but the school reportedly fosters an ideologically charged environment that scares students from speaking out on their own viewpoints with the thought of social shaming.

“If you publish my name, it would ruin my life,” one student reportedly told Weiss. “People would attack me for even questioning this ideology. I don’t even want people knowing I’m a capitalist.”

...The writer said that the ideology being taught in schools like Fieldston “has changed children’s self-conception.” One student told Weiss that students are frequently told, “if you are white and male, you are second in line to speak.”

“This is considered a normal and necessary redistribution of power,” Weiss wrote.

[blueplum]

This is child abuse

And it's delegitimizing and misappropriating a culture that enabled the concept of "education" in the first place

[SuperLuminal]

Communist Thought Police Have Joined The Communist Purge & Nothing Is Being Done About Any Of It!

[snarkytart]

Who needs Newton when you can celebrate twerking

[Terry L Smith]

All “early alchemists of note” were white.
Madame Curie was white.
Pythagorus was white.
Thales of Miletus was white.
John Dee was white.
Sir Francis Bacon was white.
Euclid was white.
Descartes was white.

[noiseman]

I know this article is talking about a prep school, but I have an idea I’ve been thinking about for a long time for how to support conservative kids who are in college in their daily battles against leftist professors and students. Conservative adults who have the time and money should sign up for college courses that are known hotbeds of leftist idiocy. Adults who have nothing to lose, who couldn’t care less what the professor or other students think of them, and who are more grounded in facts, logic, and reason than the typical college kid would be powerful allies for besieged conservative students, and could perhaps enlighten some of the lefty students who never hear a dissenting opinion, as well.

So many of these leftist professors bully any students who dare express a dissenting opinion in class. Just imagine them having to deal instead with a fearless adult, who is well informed and not afraid to ask them difficult questions and debate issues in front of the class. We wouldn’t be there to disrupt the class or cause a scene, but merely to say in the course of normal discussion the things that the kids are afraid to say. If the right people took up this cause (and enough of them), it could really help break through the leftist indoctrination and bolster the confidence of intimidated kids.

Besides, what can the leftist wacko professor do about it? Give you an “F?” (LOL) We would be paying “customers”, just like anyone else, only with a different purpose for being there. Sort of like academic guardian angels.

[Nateman]

You have Soviet style funding, you will eventually get Soviet style output. You can tinker with the State Indoctrination Camps all day but as long as Teachers get those paychecks from the State it is the State that they will look forward to pleasing.

Now that schools have already been closed a year it is a good time to wean ourselves out of public education. Separation of School and State is an idea whose time has come.

[Fred Hayek]

Decades ago, feminists were calling Newton’s Principia Mathematica a “ rape manual”.

[gundog]

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-physics-behind-twerking?share=1

[Does so]

Excellent: Sometimes asking JUST the right question should be enough for one class. :)

[BobL]

Most people think that the Brit Newton also invented Calculus, but that’s only half true, so why does Newton get all of the credit? Easy, because he’s WHITE.

But how about the other person, who also, separately, invented Calculus at the same time, why is he ignored? Maybe because he’s NOT WHITE? Perhaps the Left has a point here.

...hmmmm

Dammit! Winds up that the other guy, Leibniz (a German), was also white.

Maybe there was also someone upstream in the Congo, perhaps?

[EEGator]

The Tribe Founder of the “School”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Adler_(professor)

[alexander_busek]

Affluent Prep School Told Students To Stop Saying ‘Newton’s Laws’ To ‘Decenter Whiteness’

Reminds me of Hitler demeaning "Einstein's Relativity Theory" by calling it "Jewish Physics."

Regards,

[PubliusMM]

An EFFLUENT New York prep school reportedly told students to call Newton’s Laws of Motion the “three fundamental laws of physics” in attempts to “decenter whiteness.”

There, fixed it...

[alexander_busek]

Excellent: Sometimes asking JUST the right question should be enough for one class. :)

In many cases, a simple statement such as "Prove it!" would suffice.

But if I were feeling especially cocky that day, I might raise my hand and opine, "But Professor, societies which 'center Whiteness' have consistently proven to outscore other societies (with the exception of S. Korea and Japan) by almost every metric! So why should our society suddenly start to 'decenter' Whiteness?"

Regards,

[mo]

better take a look at my tagline....

[Lisbon1940]

Fieldston espouses ethical culture.

[eyeamok]

I only see one solution to this problem, Complete School Segregation.

[Buttons12]

I bet they don’t teach calculus.

[bert]

Sounds unchristian to me

[lurk]

Waiting for the day they tear down Babe Ruth for being a white male.