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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 25, 2024, 7:12 pm
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HTML https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/tdsb-calls-education-a-colonial-structure-centred-on-whiteness
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> “Schooling in North America is inherently designed for the
benefit of the dominant culture (i.e., white, middle-upper
class, male, Christian, cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied,
neurotypical, etc.),” reads the latest document under a heading
titled “Core Beliefs.”
>
> “Education is a colonial structure that centres whiteness and
Eurocentricity and therefore it must be actively decolonized,”
> ...
> “White Supremacy is a structural reality that impacts all
students and must be discussed and dismantled in classrooms,
schools, and communities.”
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Exactly. Who disagrees?
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> “Schools are a place for learning life and job skills, above
all else.” Education Minister Stephen Lecce said in a statement
to the Toronto Sun.
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Life and job skills in which civilization?
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> “Time after time, our government has brought in legislation to
prepare our students for the real world,” he said.
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The real world in which civilization?
(And note that even in non-Western countries, the school
curriculum is almost entirely Western.....)
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 6, 2024, 9:47 pm
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Thank you for trying:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/nj-teacher-resigning-outcry-jewish-045306368.html
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> FORT LEE, N.J. (PIX11) — Jewish parents of students who were
subjected to a controversial history lesson at Fort Lee High
School are in an uproar over the decision to accept the
resignation of the teacher who made the presentation.
>
> At a fiery school board meeting they demanded that the teacher
be fired, but after a four-hour meeting, that’s not the decision
they got.
>
> “There was a resolution to accept the resignation of the
employee,” said Lester Taylor, the board’s legal counsel.
> ...
> The Jewish community is incensed over a lesson given to a
social studies class at Fort Lee High School. They claim a
presentation of Middle East history was anti-Israel and
pro-Palestinian.
>
> “Teachers violated their responsibility, giving inaccurate
information to a captive audience. I say shame on them,” an
infuriated parent said.
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What is the alleged inaccuracy?
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> The biggest outcry was over the presentation’s identification
of Hamas as a political resistance movement.
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This is accurate!
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas
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> Hamas,[d] an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama
al-Islamiya (Arabic: حركة
المقاومة
الإسلامية,
romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah
al-ʾIslāmiyyah, lit. 'Islamic Resistance
Movement'),[56] is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist[57] political
and military movement governing the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip
since 2007.[58]
>
> Hamas was founded by Palestinian imam and activist Ahmed
Yassin in 1987, after the outbreak of the First Intifada against
the Israeli occupation.
> ...
> In 2018, a motion at the United Nations to condemn Hamas was
rejected.[e][93][94]
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Back to first link:
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> When a Palestinian supporter attempted to speak, somebody
activated the fire alarm, but he was not silenced. Sayel Kayed,
president of the American Muslims for Palestine organization,
denied the presentation was biased.
>
> “To try and suspend the teachers is biased. The lesson itself
is not biased. It got the approval from the principal, and it
got approval from the teacher and the students,” Kayed said.
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Woke comments:
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> The teacher wasn't wrong...
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> History is about facts. Under United Nations rules, do
"people" under occupation have the right to fight their
occupiers using force? If yes, then replace the word "people"
with any group name you like and you know the answer.
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> Do these parents realize there would be no Hamas without the
occupation?? You can;t even speak the truth about Israel without
losing your job.
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> step number 1 in the history :
>
> November 02 1917 rothschild letter
>
> On November 2, 1917, Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour
wrote a letter to Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, a prominent
British Jewish leader, expressing the British government’s
support for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish
people in Palestine. This letter, known as the Balfour
Declaration
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> Jews did not just advocate but actually murdered in cold blood
innocent defenseless elders and children and that should come as
no surprise to anyone who looks back at history and the story of
God’s prophets and messengers.
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 19, 2024, 7:34 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/columbia-professor-told-students-avoid-100043830.html
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> Columbia professor told students to avoid mainstream media
because 'it is owned by Jews:' report
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:)
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> "One professor encountering a Jewish-sounding surname while
reading names before an exam asked the student to explain their
views on the Israeli government's actions in Gaza," the paper
reported, citing members of the task force.
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I personally would have asked them to explain whether they have
decided to voluntarily refrain from reproducing, considering
that Israel would never have existed if Jews had started doing
this earlier.
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> Another professor reportedly "revealed a student's complaint
about an offensive comment regarding Jews by publicly displaying
their email to fellow students."
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:)
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> "Other incidents included students wearing Jewish symbols
having them torn from their person. Some were pushed out of
student clubs they had been part of because they did not want to
participate in group actions and statements against Israel's
right to exist," the report reads.
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I would let them keep the Jewish symbols because they help
identify the wearers' bloodline. In fact such symbols should be
compulsory for all offspring of at least one Jewish parent (as
was the case in National Socialist Germany).
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 11, 2024, 1:00 am
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HTML https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/02/columbia-university-us-campus-protests-israel-palestine-decolonization-history/
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> No, College Curriculums Aren’t Too Focused on Decolonization
> ...
> For months now, the birth of this campus movement has
generated a spate of editorials and commentaries slighting the
worthiness of decolonization as a topic; dismissing its
relevance to the tragically vexed relationship between Israel
and Palestine; and perhaps most surprising of all, seeking to
blame the demonstrations and unrest at U.S. universities such as
mine on a supposedly excessive focus on anti-colonialism in
college curriculums.
>
> Some of this voguish scorn for the topic of decolonization
seems politically driven and of questionable good faith. Other
currents have been more intellectual in nature. But both are
seriously misguided. In the United States, the public has long
been conditioned to believe that the most important achievements
in living memory were those of what Hollywood and popularizing
historians commemorate as the Greatest Generation. These were
the Western men—who, when compared to the actual record, have
been disproportionately represented as white—credited with the
defeat of totalitarianism in Nazi Germany and Japan in World War
II.
> ...
> Westerners have celebrated their history in ways that have
wrongly overshadowed or crowded out of the picture another
20th-century story of freedom. Although this may seem jarring to
a Western public, this story was at least as significant, and
arguably greater, than the Allied triumph in World War II.
>
> This other story of freedom, badly neglected when not outright
scorned nowadays, was the triumph of “a movement of moral
justice and political solidarity against imperialism,” in the
words of the eminent Duke University historian Prasenjit Duara,
that belongs under the heading of decolonization.
> ...
> Countries from what would become popularly known as the Third
World sent delegates to the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, which
laid the foundation of a new global economic system and
established the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. John
Maynard Keynes, the celebrated British economist who also served
as a delegate, deplored non-Westerners’ presence at the historic
New Hampshire gathering and complained that it was “the most
monstrous monkey-house assembled for years.”
>
> But how is it that of all places, I have wondered, the United
States has found so little room to embrace—or better,
celebrate—the story of global decolonization? Why have so many
recent commentators there treated it almost like a bad word?
After all, the United States’ own national foundation is rooted
in liberation from colonial rule.
> ...
> What might we learn if we opened our minds to the actual
record of the colonial past in what became the nonaligned world?
We would come to see how European nations led by Britain and
France enlisted colonial subjects from Asia and Africa to labor,
fight, and die in large numbers for the cause of European
freedom in the 20th century. We would see how Europe’s old
powers partially financed their recovery from the devastation of
World War II on the backs of Asian and African miners and
farmers, whose exports of tin, manganese, cocoa, rubber, and
many other commodities replenished European treasuries.
>
> We would learn that even in the postwar years, some European
countries briefly sustained a regime of forced labor on Africans
that was not far removed from enslavement. We would come to see
how a tiny minority of British settlers in Kenya employed
violence on a massive scale and confined native populations to
tightly policed camps in the 1950s so that they could control
the country’s richest farmlands. We would learn of the attempt
to get into the colonial game by imperial latecomers such as
Italy, which killed as much as one-eighth of the population of
Ethiopia through aerial bombing and poison mustard gas in the
1930s. We would see how Portugal, still unsated after centuries
of colonial rule, fought to sustain its control over colonies in
present-day Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau into the
1970s, aligning itself with apartheid-ruled South Africa in the
process.
> ...
> A lot of the anxious criticism of anti-colonial learning, I
believe, is motivated by a desire to shield Israel from
inclusion in a history so ugly and tragic.
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 14, 2024, 7:00 pm
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HTML https://www.aol.com/news/chicago-teachers-union-claim-black-100034177.html
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> "You can't test black children with an instrument that was
born to prove their inferiority," she said. "Some of this is
about, releasing our people from a standard that is created for
the failure."
> ...
> "This is why being able to teach CRT is important, because it
helps us to examine how we come to our conclusions," she said.
"CRT is an important function and should be in our education
system, which is why the Republicans… are aiming directly for
those types of things."
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: October 1, 2024, 5:54 pm
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Westerner in quoted tweet is mad that non Western historians
were not like Western historians:
HTML https://x.com/arjuna0104/status/1840765297042878878?t=OTAZXSl59pjXn18xiGjePg&s=19
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What use is knowing the birth date of some king? What matters is
that your itihasa should provide you with values. Our itihasa
aimed to teach us morality or the ideal conduct which we could
pass on to future generations. But I concede that we should've
recorded military history.
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Indians have no history, no legacy, no "memory" save what the
British & their clerks have dug up. The Franks can tell you to
the exact date when their individual kings were born even 1500y
back. For Indians, events barely 500y back belong to the realm
of ballads & myths
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: December 12, 2024, 11:55 pm
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HTML https://qz.com/india/340153/how-india-and-china-explain-the-holocaust-to-school-kids
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Indian school history textbooks don’t use the word “holocaust”
while teaching world history and the second World War. In one
instance, where a government-prescribed textbook was published
during the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) previous reign at the
centre, even the details of the genocide are completely glossed
over.
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This is the way it should be.
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: rp
Date: September 27, 2025, 9:11 pm
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HTML https://x.com/GermaniaZongdu/status/1970158579630985639?t=-RruEatFxXi7MHROszpMTA&s=19
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In the 19th and early 20th century, learned Chinese men were
essentially humanities scholars. Their understanding of the
world, though limited, was often astute. The Communists shifted
China toward a STEM mindset, viewing knowledge of the humanities
as both subversive and useless
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HTML https://x.com/GermaniaZongdu/status/1970158582327894175?t=_7gSOpLWO1CN4auB6-H3cQ&s=19
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When Mao said that “reading too many books is harmful,” he meant
books on history, philosophy, and society, etc, not nuclear
physics or engineering. As a result, generations of Chinese
today struggle to think deeply about human nature, statecraft,
and society, past and future.
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HTML https://x.com/GermaniaZongdu/status/1970158583980368369?t=WQcAPnBOGaznyOfcyHnK-w&s=19
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You see it with Chinese posters here...shallow and superficial
analysis, quantitative approach and focus on technical details,
lack of basic knowledge about the world as well as Chinese
history, etc
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 28, 2025, 4:59 pm
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While I mostly agree with these observations in isolation, the
tweeter is not on our side:
HTML https://x.com/GermaniaZongdu/status/1901603308541784090
HTML https://x.com/GermaniaZongdu/status/1886483153013104833
HTML https://x.com/GermaniaZongdu/status/1915780127704629694
HTML https://x.com/GermaniaZongdu/status/1958262133017174318
HTML https://x.com/GermaniaZongdu/status/1945153442319638841
HTML https://x.com/GermaniaZongdu/status/1923853907651858605
Just another Turanist Arctic Alliance type, it seems.
To elaborate on the points made, I would diagnose the
fundamental problem to be acceptance of progressivism. The
entire narrative of history in"New China" rests on the
unquestioned assumption that progress is both desirable and
inevitable. This prevents "New China" from viewing the Century
of Humiliation as evidence of the Western colonial powers'
barbarism, instead merely viewing it as evidence of the need for
China to Westernize.
Can more study of history and philosophy cure this? History,
probably not. So long as you study history through a progressive
lens (thus looking down on ancient people and belittling their
thought processes) from the outset, studying a larger quantity
of history does not help. Philosophy, perhaps, but even then I
am not optimistic. Philosophy would encourage scepticism towards
progressivism, but by the same token would encourage scepticism
towards regressivism also, so ultimately it is still a tossup.
While it is true that pre-modern Chinese education emphasized
non-STEM subjects, this did not as a matter of fact prevent most
educated pre-modern Chinese from becoming staunch converts to
progressivism and hysterical admirers of Western civilization
during the colonial era. If preventing a problem is easier than
solving it, and something could not prevent the problem, why
should we think it can solve the problem? In the end, I stand by
my position:
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