What a bunch of utter Marxists chumps (trying not to use the more definitive qualifier that starts with a ‘p’ and ends with a ‘y’):
I was working w/ a high school kid just two days ago whose teacher assigned him a typical argumentative essay in which the student is to “Defend, Challenge, or Qualify” a reading.
But, instead of a full reading, this teacher gave the kids a quote from the Atlantic Monthly article by Ta-Nehisi Coates arguing for slavery reparations, and with no context:
“Indeed, in America there is a strange and powerful belief that if you stab a black person 10 times, the bleeding stops and the healing begins the moment the assailant drops the knife.”
I asked the kid if he was going to defend, challenge or qualify. He replied. “Oh, we’re not allowed to challenge.”
Working w/ high school and college kids across the country, I see this kind of crap all the time.
Where are the punk, anti-authority teens that were the subject of countless high school themed movies when I was growing up?
Have we gone too far with circumcision at infancy and removed their gonads as well?