Turning 1984 on the Left

[Kamaji]

Turning 1984 on the Left

Video cameras in every classroom may sound dystopian, but how else to stop woke indoctrination in schools?

William S. Lind
Oct 17, 2022

Usually, conservatives are happy to turn back the clock. But not always. At present, it is the calendar that is turning backwards to the year 1984, and we don’t much like it. Why? Because in the novel with that title, anyone who dares defy the state ideology is in trouble and that ideology demands that everyone live a lie.

In our case, the ideology is cultural Marxism, Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms, largely by the Frankfurt School. Just as under economic Marxism, all members of the bourgeoisie are inherently evil and must be “reeducated,” so the same is now true for anyone white, male (or non-feminist female), and straight. An op-ed from the October 1 Wall Street Journal by a registered nurse, Laura L. Morgan, shows where we are:

I was fired from my nursing job this year for refusing to take “implicit bias” training. After 39 years of providing equal care to all my patients without regard to their race, I objected to a mandatory course grounded in the idea that I’m racist because I’m white. I fear every healthcare professional will soon be forced to make the same awful decision I did: Falsely admit to being racist or abandon the medical field.

The situation Nurse Morgan describes is the work of “critical race theory” (CRT). When schools went virtual during the Coronapanic, many parents got to see how their children were being programmed with CRT in public schools. Rightly, many were outraged. But CRT is only one part of something larger, Critical Theory, which is now shaping school curricula.

Critical Theory, another baleful product of the Frankfurt School, is something of a play on words. What is the theory? The theory is to criticize. To subject every element of traditional societies to unending criticism with the goal of delegitimizing them. The family, the church, cornmunity, race (if you are white or Asian), American history, the list is endless. If you dare defend any aspect of traditional society and culture, you are a “thisist” or a “thatist,” a condition that can only be redeemed by endless, groveling apologies and self-criticism—exactly what Nurse Morgan refused to do. So she was fired.

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Source:  https://www.theamericanconservative.com/turning-1984-on-the-left/

[Smokin Joe]

Critical Theory, another baleful product of the Frankfurt School, is something of a play on words. What is the theory? The theory is to criticize. To subject every element of traditional societies to unending criticism with the goal of delegitimizing them.

Well, that's happening all over. From Trump to Jesus and everyone in between, the commontaters are all jumping to the fore to come up with reasons it is candidates' fault for the elections being stolen from them, and have ever been attacking on social issues, like objecting to the whole trans fad.