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Re: State subverters
DIR By: guest55
Date: July 21, 2021, 10:59 pm
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Black Teacher Accused Of Bias For Teaching The Reality Of
Slavery
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> The critical race theory controversy which is really a
rejection of anti-racism teachings has teachers like Rodney
Pierce caught in the crossfire. Pierce is a social studies
teacher at Red Oak Middle School in Battleboro, North Carolina
and was social studies teacher of the year in 2019. Now, Pierce
is facing resistance from parents saying that his teaching of
history and race is biased.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxu1iXLFl5o
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 4, 2021, 10:09 pm
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Rightist media complains about woke WWII historians being
increasingly pro-Axis:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYSff9VRITs
as we many years ago promised that they one day would be.
See also:
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/blm-sides-with-third-reich/
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/when-history-is-written-by-leftists-contd/
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/when-history-is-written-by-leftists/
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: September 7, 2021, 11:47 pm
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More people getting it:
HTML https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02288-x
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> Too many scientists still say Caucasian
> ...
> Of the ten clinical genetics labs in the United States that
share the most data with the research community, seven include
‘Caucasian’ as a multiple-choice category for patients’ racial
or ethnic identity, despite the term having no scientific basis.
Nearly 5,000 biomedical papers since 2010 have used ‘Caucasian’
to describe European populations. This suggests that too many
scientists apply the term, either unbothered by or unaware of
its roots in racist taxonomies used to justify slavery — or
worse, adding to pseudoscientific claims of white biological
superiority.
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Thank you for using '' around "Caucasian". But you forget to do
the same with "European".
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> Many working in genomics do have a nuanced understanding of
the issues and want to get things right. Still, I have been
dismayed by how often the academics and clinicians I’ve
encountered shy away from examining, or even acknowledging, how
racism warps science.
> ...
> In the United States, people with ancestry from the world’s
two most populous countries, India and China, along with every
other country on the continent, are collapsed into a single
racial category called ‘Asian’. Similarly, the term ‘Hispanic’
erases a multitude of cultural and ancestral identities,
especially among Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
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In reality, the vast majority of Indians have "Caucasoid"-type
skulls (ie. ones which cannot be placed face down on a flat
surface without tipping to one side). However, they are rarely
labelled as "Caucasian".
Still, thank you for at least putting "Asian" in ''. (No '' is
needed around Hispanic, however; Spanish is a language.)
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> Erroneous ideas about genetic ‘races’ live on in the broad,
ambiguous ‘continental ancestry’ groups such as ‘Black, African’
or ‘African American’, that are used in the US Census and are
ubiquitous in biomedical research. These collapse incredible
amounts of diversity and erase cultural and ancestral
identities. Study participants deemed not to fit within such
crude buckets are often excluded from analyses, despite the fact
that fewer and fewer individuals identify with a single
population of origin.
--- End Quote ---
On the other hand, people from countries such as Libya are
rarely called "African" despite Libya being part of the
"continent" of "Africa" (and indeed the only true Africa:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(Roman_province)
). Because
the real point is neither to consistently stick to "continental"
ancestry nor to consistently stick to skull taxonomy, but to
switch between the two as necessary in accordance with
Eurocentrism.
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> Approaches to genetic ancestry based on known reference
populations are inadequate, in part because so much global
diversity is missing from our data. I am working with the Human
Pangenome Reference Consortium, which aims to generate a more
accurate and inclusive resource for global genomic diversity. It
will include communities, especially Indigenous peoples, in
developing protocols for data collection, storage and use. This
respects Indigenous data sovereignty, and makes for more
accurate and inclusive studies.
>
> The more precisely we can measure genetic and non-genetic
contributors to health and disease, the less researchers will
rely on biologically meaningless designations that reinforce
faulty assumptions and cause harm. The use of sequence data in
clinical care could, for instance, facilitate recommendations
for drug dosage that are genotype-based, rather than race-based.
>
> Simply picking another word to replace ‘Caucasian’ won’t be
enough to root out racism in research and medicine. But all
should be aware of the harms the word represents.
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Indeed:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race#The_Caucasus_as_the_origin_of_humanity_and_the_peak_of_beauty
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> In the eighteenth century, the prevalent view among European
scholars was that the human species had its origin in the region
of the Caucasus Mountains.[22] This view was based upon the
Caucasus being the location for the purported landing point of
Noah's Ark – from whom the Bible states that humanity is
descended – and the location for the suffering of Prometheus,
who in Hesiod's myth had crafted humankind from clay.[22]
>
> In addition, the most beautiful humans were reputed to be the
stereotypical "Circassian beauties" and the Georgian people;
both Georgia and Circassia are in the Caucasus region.[23][22]
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_beauty
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> Here the majority of the women were Circassian, who without
any doubt are much more distinguished in appearance. ... This
natural superiority was the cause of a good deal of ill-will and
envy. One Circassian woman, favoured with an aristocratic
appearance, was avoided and even hated by the chocolate-coloured
African women through no fault of hers, but simply because she
looked majestic.
> ...
> By the early nineteenth century, Circassians were associated
with theories of racial hierarchy, which elevated the Caucasus
region as the source of the purest examples of the "white race",
which was named the Caucasian race after the area by Johann
Friedrich Blumenbach. Blumenbach theorised that the Circassians
were the closest to God's original model of humanity, and thus
"the purest and most beautiful whites were the Circassians".[27]
> ...
> Bella Kukan, "Miss Circassia", 2013
>
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Bella_Kukan.jpg
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More laughter material:
HTML https://twitter.com/sausruqo/status/1059225433353412613
HTML https://twitter.com/sausruqo/status/1060686262347141121
HTML https://twitter.com/lucinapshegubj/status/452035208251211776
See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/homo-hubris/
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 8, 2021, 10:54 pm
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HTML https://www.ajc.com/news/emory-apologizes-for-campuses-displacing-native-americans/AEZPSYGPMZC5PDFYN5BXUFZSVY/
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> On Monday, the Emory board of trustees approved an official
“Land Acknowledgment for Emory University” that “acknowledges
the Muscogee (Creek) people who lived, worked, produced
knowledge on, and nurtured the land where Emory’s Oxford and
Atlanta campuses are now located.”
>
> In a statement issued by President Gregory L. Fenves, the
acknowledgment “sheds light on a tragic chapter in the Emory
story.”
>
> “It also reminds us of the important work that lies ahead to
create a university community that is more inclusive of Native
and Indigenous perspectives, learning, and scholarship,” Fenves
said.
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More importantly, the university should increasingly exclude
Western perspectives, learning and scholarship. It is excluding
Western learning, not including non-Western learning, which we
need if we are to stop:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-does-not-die-soon/
Note:
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> Emory’s announcement came 10 years after the board of trustees
adopted a formal statement of regret over the school’s historic
involvement with African-American slavery.
>
> It also came ahead of the university’s “In the Wake of Slavery
and Dispossession” symposium starting Wednesday. The three-day
event will explore the school’s history with slavery and Native
American land dispossession and examine through panels,
performances and art installations how that history affects the
present.
> ...
> “This is a moment in which scholars, activists and artists of
color have compelled a national conversation surrounding
enduring legacies of anti-Black racism and, increasingly,
colonialism, including overlaps between Indigenous dispossession
and the enslavement of Black people in this country,” said Alix
L. Olson, an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies
at Oxford College.
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The overlap is that both groups of victims were Americans while
their common oppressors were Westerners.
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> Fenves said the school will continue to recognize Indigenous
Peoples’ Day and take steps to establish a stronger connection
with the Muscogee Nation.
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But will it take steps to weaken its connection with Western
civilization?
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 14, 2021, 11:19 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/texas-school-administrator-told-teachers-005600802.html
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> Texas school administrator told teachers to use books with
'opposing' views of Holocaust
> ...
> "Make sure that if, if you have a book on the Holocaust, that
you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives,"
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Yes, it is fortunately legal do this in the US, unlike in
numerous more Zionist countries:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_Holocaust_denial
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Holocaust_Denial_Laws_.svg/1024px-Holocaust_Denial_Laws_.svg.png
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: Zea_mays
Date: October 17, 2021, 8:55 pm
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There are not just laws against mere "denial", but there are
also laws mandating that the sacred narrative is taught:
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> As of April of 2021, laws mandating education about the
Holocaust were on the books in Austria, France, Germany,
Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the
United Kingdom, as well as in the U.S. states of Arkansas,
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois,
Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas. In total, 16 states have
mandatory Holocaust education.[1]
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_requiring_teaching_of_the_Holocaust
I doubt that the teaching of the ethnic cleansing of Native
Americans, US concentration camps for American citizens of
Japanese heritage during WWII, etc. are mandated by law in most
of those US states!!!
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 23, 2021, 10:41 pm
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Good takedown:
HTML https://news.yahoo.com/condoleezza-rice-crt-stance-proves-222000707.html
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> Condoleezza Rice’s recent appearance on The View was offensive
and disgusting for many reasons but she was who we thought she
was: a soldier for white supremacy. Her thoughts on Critical
Race Theory are completely white centric, as in, they revolve
around the thoughts and needs of white people.
>
> Her primary argument against Critical Race Theory is that
history should not be taught in a way that makes white kids feel
bad. What? We should whitewash U.S. history to protect the
feelings of white children? Excuse me, I misspoke — we should
whitewash U.S. history even more than we already do in order to
protect the feelings of white children?
>
> First of all, what about the feelings of Black children? What
would their feelings be if they knew they were being taught a
version of American history that was distorted to protect white
kids? What message does that send to them? And what about the
feelings they have when learning about the real American
history?
>
> Also this — white children and adults should absolutely feel
bad about the past atrocities committed by white Americans. They
should feel guilty. They should cringe at what their ancestors
did. They should also understand that modern white power is
directly related to those atrocities. White people gained
economic and institutional advantages from slavery and
segregation and the long-term subjugation of Black people that
continue to help them to this day.
>
> White people should know that American history is rated X and
their relatives are the one who Black people had to fear. They
didn’t arrive and have a nice dinner with the natives and buy
Manhattan for a few trinkets.
>
> The Europeans who settled early America made treaties with
American Indians and then violated those treaties and
slaughtered the natives as rapidly as possible. They didn’t
merely own slaves and treat them kindly. They had a cruel and
peculiar institution that kidnapped and human trafficked and
then beat and raped and subjugated humans for generations.
>
> Slavery was far more cruel and frightening than most people
even know unless you read diaries written by former slaves. And
the past is not done with us — slavery created the economy and
the wealth that led to America becoming a global economic power.
You didn’t have to own slaves in order to participate in that
wealth-building but all of the wealth derived from it went to
white people and was thus stolen from Black people.
>
> American history is a series of cycles where white people grow
more powerful because of the legalized oppression of Black
people. American history is a series of stories where white
people knock us down and stand on our necks and then ask why
we’re on the ground. If we don’t know history we don’t
understand reality and how it was constructed. I really don’t
care if learning this makes white kids feel bad — and if it
doesn’t then they are too heartless.
> ...
> Our classrooms should not be another example of white
privilege, they should reflect the ugly reality of American
history. But really the whole discussion is bizarre — we are
debating about whether we should teach our children real
American history or if we should lie to them and protect their
fragile white hearts.
>
> I cannot accept a country that contorts itself to avoid
causing white pain. I’m not here to help comfort white people.
And Lord knows I am never, ever going to center them.
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: October 26, 2021, 9:28 pm
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HTML https://www.timesofisrael.com/swedish-agency-suggests-exercise-in-which-students-argue-holocaust-didnt-happen/
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> JTA — Sweden’s National Agency for Education recommended that
teachers should make students try to prove that the Holocaust
never happened, as part of a push to help them understand
conspiracy theories.
>
> The recommendation came in a recently published handbook for
high school teachers that the government’s institution in charge
of scholastic issues had created, the Aftonbladet daily reported
earlier this month.
>
> “Group 1 must find at least three arguments for the case that
the Holocaust never happened, using facts and information from
the internet. They can also ask others what they believe and
why,” the suggested exercise read.
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Only one argument is necessary: why do there exist laws
criminalizing investigation about whether or not any "Holocaust"
happened, if it really did happen? Trump claims he won the 2020
election but had it stolen from him by election fraud. We,
despite hating Trump, do not call for criminalizing
investigation into the 2020 election, because we know the more
audits are done, the more it will be proven beyond any doubt
that no fraud occurred, and that he lost! So, if the alleged
"Holocaust" really did happen, Jews should want us to
investigate it as much as possible, since the more we
investigate it, the more we will prove it did happen! So, given
that in reality Jews don't want us to investigate it, what can
we deduce about it?
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> Sweden’s Jewish Central Council and other critics said asking
students to consume and engage in Holocaust denial is offensive
to victims and has questionable pedagogical value.
>
> “Even if it is well-intentioned, there is a danger in calling
the Holocaust controversial,” Aron Verständig, chairman of
Sweden’s Jewish Central Council, told Aftonbladet. He called the
exercise “bizarre.”
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Yes, the danger is that the truth will come out.
Who else is against this idea?
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> Björn Söder, a member of the Sweden Democrats party, a
populist right-wing movement, queried Education Minister Anna
Ekström on the subject, asking her to explain how the exercise
fits into the government’s policy of opposing antisemitism.
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Of course!
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: guest55
Date: October 27, 2021, 12:50 pm
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And it's as simple as that isn't it. If it really did happen as
Jews claim it did then why fear investigation? "The truth does
not fear investigation" at all, ever! On another note, treachery
and deception has been taking place since the dawn of
civilization but Jews are completely incapable of it of course
because the "chosen people" are perfect, this is why they're so
pretty on the outside and on the inside and all non-Jewish women
want to sleep with them! (Even though those women are often
prostitutes!)
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(When's the last time Ron washed those pants and T-shirt I
cannot help but wonder?)
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Re: Academic decolonization
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: November 2, 2021, 9:24 pm
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A small passive defensive victory:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/westminster-school-pulls-china-communist-203326340.html
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> Westminster School is to pull the plug on its China operation
after a new Communist Party ruling stipulated that all lesson
plans must be approved by Beijing.
>
> The school unveiled its plans in 2017 to set up a sister
institution bearing its name in Chengdu in China’s Sichuan
province.
>
> But on Tuesday, Westminster’s chairman of governors told
parents that this project has now been axed following “recent
changes in Chinese education policy”.
>
> Earlier this year it emerged that British-branded private
schools in China will be forced to abandon their curricula and
teach only lessons approved by Beijing as part of a broader push
led by president Xi Jinping to ensure the “right” thinking.
>
> The new regulations mean that international schools must now
teach the same lessons as China’s state-run public schools from
kindergarten to grade nine.
> ...
> Stephen Spriggs, the managing director at the consultancy firm
William Clarence Education, said: “There was always a risk with
schools viewing China as the land paved with gold. You are
liable to a change in their government’s policy.”
>
> He said he suspects more British schools will pull out of
China and instead target more “politically stable” countries.
>
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"Politically stable" = academically colonized. Why should any
country formerly colonized by Britain (or any other Western
colonial power) tolerate British (or any other Western) schools,
which were first introduced as a consequence of colonization?
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> Some of the country’s leading private schools have set up
campuses in the Far East over the past decade.
>
> The £42,630-a-year Wellington College has five schools in
China and one in Thailand. It set up its first overseas school –
Wellington College International Tianjin – a decade ago.
>
> Meanwhile, Harrow School runs 11 schools in China, Hong Kong,
Japan, Indonesia and Thailand. North London Collegiate School
has a satellite campus in South Korea, Dubai and Singapore.
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Genuinely decolonized peoples would burn them all down. (I
understand we are still far from reaching this point.) Beyond
this, the local curricula themselves need to remove their own
Western content (of which there is plenty). Above all,
compulsory schooling itself (also a Western institution
introduced during colonization) must end.
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> Most private schools use a “franchise” model, where an
investor or management company pays the school a fixed amount
each year – similar to a royalty – in order to use their name,
brand or expertise.
>
> Under this model, the British “mothership” school is often
paid a percentage of the school fees each year, on top of the
franchise fee.
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Burning them all down would save far more money than it costs to
keep them around!
The mothership schools ultimately need the same treatment also.
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