Posted on 03/12/2021 12:43:02 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
It’s deeper than “decentering whiteness”—that’s just a cover story.
Calling them “Newton’s laws of motion” implies that an individual came up with the idea. In the era of Settled Science, we don’t need individuals any more. All the thinking has already been done. New ideas, by definition, would contradict the teachings of The Party.
“Decades ago, feminists were calling Newton’s Principia Mathematica a “ rape manual”.”
If I’m not mistaken, rape pre-dates Newton by at least a couple of decades.
Newton was guilty of being white?
If the parents are bothered by anti-racism lessons, then the parents must be RACISTS too. Why else would they object to attempts to simply root-out racism?
(I only say the above assuming that the vast majority of these parents voted against Trump - time we have fun when they start to learn a bit about the people they just empowered)
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