Posted on 10/11/2001 11:25:50 PM PDT by FreedomFriend
Today, I felt it upon myself to right about a very serious problem in our country. No, I'm not talking about the Taliban, bombs, biological warfare, etc., though those are some very legitimate concerns. Instead, I am refering to the rampant "multiculturalism" and "diversity" mantra that is being used through propagandic techniques in the brainwashing of our children.
As a substitute teacher, I come in contact with propagandic material on a near weekly basis. This material comes in the form of magazines, pamphlets, textbooks, and curricula that is set-aside and funded by the state.
For example, the Federal Government, in coordination with state governments and local schoolboards, publishes a quarterly magazine that deals with America's Diversity. The magazine falsifies history and talks about America's "rich culturally diverse past" (Despite multiculturalism was not tolerated pre-Clinton). I'm not talking about having various cultural backgrounds, but rather a technique being used that is having the effect of misinforming our children to the point where they may believe that many cultures have lived together in harmony all throughout America's past. Many of these same magazines feature children from various ethnic and racial backgrounds on the front cover. What I don't get, though, is why there are very few white children on these covers. I mean, they'll have higher numbers of Asian and black children in these pictures as opposed to white children which, I might say, still have a much larger share of the population than either of the above groups. In some pictures, I've seen as few as two white children, while there'll be five Asian children and four black children. I have no problem with there being different races and ethnic groups represented, but why do they have to misrepresent the numbers in these types of magazines all the time?
In pamphlets and textbooks, I have witnessed the systematic selectivity of historic events. For example, history textbooks in some fifth grade classes that I have taught fascade the entire Civil War era in a Slavery "Cloak". The whole War is shown to have originated from slavery starting with the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the Dread Scott Decision, along with Lincoln, yet there is a total omission of states' rights, high taxes, unfair tarrifs, differences in economies, U.S. law and the Constitution, and blockading of southern ports to the point of southern weakness. I've seen time lines of U.S. History drawn up in which it is made to appear that the European settlers were the worst things to ever have come to this land, for it resulted in the displacement of Indians. In fact, I've seen some textbooks where it says that the "Indians lived a harvesting life for thousands of years until the European settlers came in and disrupted their peaceful lifestyle forever". Not exact words, but close. The point, though, is that only one side of the story is shown, and it is generally the one the Socialist elite wants your children to see. That is, it is the one that omits many facts while blurring and scewing the truth and reality.
As far as Curricula goes, this deals mostly with the government funded "diversity" education and studies/subjects that are being pushed down the throats of teachers and students. That is, many teachers have no choice but to teach the material that the state says to teach. For example, many of these "Diversity Education" subjects/programs focus on "diversity in the educational environment", "why all of us are different", "why diversity is a good thing", etc. My point about this is why pay money for something that should come naturally, or shouldn't come naturally? I mean, whatever environment a child will become exposed to will be the one that he/she becomes accustomed to. There is no reason to spend time and money on programs that will be used to brainwash many young minds. I mean, why would we need programs such as these in the mountains of West Virginia, in Montana, etc. Generally, why would you need them in areas where there is a dominant American culture? To me, it appears that there must be a hidden agenda to change America's culture, and that they are attempting to desensitize the young to the coming, forced/manufactured/non-natural change. Shouldn't assimilating be the goal? Why is E Pluribus Unum on our money if we are teaching many cultures instead of one? It's very odd, I'd say.
It's funny how I misspelled write. I proofread the article, and I did not pick up on the error. However, when you're very tired you're prone to mistakes.
For example, I recently subbed a class, and part of the daily schedule was for the students to attend an assembly in the school cafeteria. So, I took the students down to the cafeteria for their "Character" Assembly.
Upon arriving, I thought, "Hey, maybe this is a good thing". Afterall, displayed on cards throughout the cafeteria were the words, "Respect", "Responsibility", etc. I must say, though, they did have words such as "Tolerance" and "Compassion" up. Howeve, despite it making me a little wary, it didn't make me suspect it too much.
As the third grade students began to start their performance (they were the ones involved in the "character assembly", I quickly realized that it was merely another attempt to force Leftist idealism and PC dogma onto the young children of America. For example, the children started singing about "behavior". The students were saying, "you can't tell me what to do. I dictate my own behavior. I control my own thoughts. You have no right to tell me what to do." The point is, there wasn't a distinction made between parents and bad people. It gave the children the opinion that they don't have to do or say anything anyone says, including their parents.
Later on in the assembly, I realized that the performance was taking on a humanism nature. For example, the children started singing, "I dictate what I believe. What I know is fact, etc." Thus, in general it was saying that there are no absolutes. Fact is what you believe in your mind. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I saw a group of teachers over in the corner conversating, and I could only wonder what they were talking about.
There were many other examples of Leftist brainwashing, and if you were all there, you'd catch onto it rather fast. However, elementary school children are very vulnerable, and they soak up everything rather quickly. The socialist elite is seeking to brainwashing our children to their atheistic/multiculturalist/diversity ways. If only more parents knew what their children were being exposed to. The indoctrination is deep into the performances, textbooks, magazines, school curriculum, etc. It's a terrible thing, and I try to set the children straight about the truth.
I would say "I would be a Douglas fir. So, when I grow up, some lumber company can cut me down, make me into a baseball bat, and I can hit you over the head and knock some sense into you."
You ask why white people teach this crap to children. The intellectual James Burnham correctly identified 40 years ago that the ideology of liberalism only makes sense when you realize that it is an ideology of civilizational suicide.
As I was going over the assignments with the children, I quickly discovered the environmentalist socialist persective. For example, the children were to read a story, and then they were instructed to fill in the blanks in the story with the words located in the box above. It was quite obvious that the green coalition had something to do with this. The story was about the rainforest and the benefits of it. Okay. In this regard, the story is fine, for I like the forests. However, the story dealt with how loggers should give up their jobs.
The next assignment in the very same book was "how to make a desert". The book stated outright lies in an attempt to pull children over to the ideology of the radical environmentalists. For example, the book stated that if you keep chopping down the rainforest that a desert would form. It went like this. You chop down the forests, the roots would rot, and left in its place would be a desert. I know for a fact that this is a garbage because I studied climatology in college. Deserts are less the result of vegetation as opposed to topology, wind currents, and proximity to lakes, oceans and rivers. If the book was trying to make the point that if you cut down the trees that it will take out a part of the hydrologic cycle, thus reducing moisture and bringing in a dry climate, it is also wrong. Nature has a way of replenishing itself. Left alone, it will replenish itself. Furthermore, the majority of trees do not have roots that rot because the tree has been cut down. The only time the roots rot is when the tree dies because of disease. In terms of logging, only in a few cases does it cause the death of the rootbed. Furthermore, despite that, most loggers have the roots grounded, which destroys the root system, so that it will provide ground area for the newly replanted trees to grow. In fact, most loggers replant the trees, and it is a huge part of the economy. For example, logging is the biggest industry in the state of Georgia. In essence, logging keeps many areas from being developed, and it ensures green spaces for years to come. This is something the greens should enjoy.
The same day, I was looking through another one of the students' textbooks. It was their social studies book. Upon flipping through the pages, I learned that America was a multicultural nation, and that it has had a deep multicultural past since its founding. I thought, "boy, have I been stupid" (sarcasm). This could be further from the truth, and it's an outright lie. The book showed people from various cultures, and essentially stated that this is what America has always been. (another lie).
In the same textbook, I proceeded to give the children their social studies assignment. I was to play a tape that corresponded with a particular chapter of their textbook. The assignment was taken from a historical standpoint, and it was about Cortes and the Conquistadors. While much of this assignment had some truth to it, there was an outright lie. For example, the book/tape stated that Cortes arrived in Mexico. The lie lies with the fact that Mexico wasn't a country during the day of the Aztec Empire. Next, the book/tape went on to say that Cortes pillaged (yes, he did this), and that as a result he took over the Mexican nation. (No, he inhabited the land, not the nation. The Mexican nation would later become a byproduct of the Spanish Conquests of the present day land of Mexico). Thus, the children were given the idea that the Spaniards stole Mexico from the Aztecs, and that they took over the government for themselves. Though Cortes did kill and pillage and steal (which, the book did state), its failure to state that Mexico did not exist, instead saying that it did, destroys the validity of much of the book. However, the children don't know that, and again, they'll be taught the multicultural/non-western mantra that everything the west achieved was the result of the captivity and subjugation of non-western peoples.
Also, I have a sophomore and a 7th grader. In each of their History classes, they have only recently moved from the study of "Native Americans" (a misnomer for Indians) to the study of colonial America. In the case of my 7th grader, the "Native American" unit was a REVIEW of 5th and 6th grade social(ist)studies, so they've had this sufficiently beaten into them for three years now. My sophomore has been in school for so long (since mid-Aug) that his report card was mailed yesterday. That means, an entire quarter in American History was devoted to the study of "Native Americans". I'm so glad we're paying $5,600.00 a year for his education, I could cry.
That would be me.
I am looking forward to getting into the public school classroom and saving about 30 kids/year for one year, anyway! And, I realize I won't be able to completely teach my own way, but at least I can weed out some of the nonsense and drivel they would otherwise be subjected to were the students not in my classroom. And, they'll learn how to read and write, too!
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