It is easy to find the “man in the street” videos again (or, I’m just better at stumbling over them), especially those made by younger people asking (what should be rather easy questions) of their cohort. Easy being “at least in the ballpark.” Sadly,” easy” seems to really mean “unobtainable.”
Related: NH Recommends in Person Education in September, does not mandate masks
While teaching the Marxist “Critical Theory” (now “Critical Race History”) as “knowledge,” their ability to “critically think” is about as substantial as a spider’s web. There’s a lot of space in between the “data points” and a lot of those are wrong (e.g., The NYT’s 1619 Project). Without our educational system teaching solid facts, and without the scaffolding (to wit: teaching thinking as opposed to teaching them WHAT to think and ACCEPT), we’re doomed as a country.
ROGER SIMON: Our Educational System Makes U.S. Land of Useful Idiots. This from the piece (reformatted, emphasis mine):
…Sometimes attributed to V. I. Lenin, “useful idiot” is a term of murky provenance. Nevertheless, its meaning is clear: an ill-informed, easily gulled individual, often of the bourgeoisie, who can be manipulated by the left to support their most nefarious and bloody causes. These days, “useful idiots” are all around us. The seemingly-endless proliferation of unquestioning followers of Black Lives Matters is an obvious example.
You would think this would have been executed with some stealth, but that wasn’t necessary for the ultra—naive “useful idiots” whose cluelessness knows no bounds.
BLM is not a covert communist organization, it’s an overt one. Its leadership advertises itself as “trained Marxists” (their words). One of their leaders recently proudly “took no sides” on the violent destruction and escalating black on black murder going on across the country, tantamount to giving it all a nod of approval. Of perhaps greater importance, ultimately, much of their significant financial support comes via Susan Rosenberg, a convicted domestic terrorist and wannabe cop killer once allied with the Weathermen whose near-life sentence was commuted by Bill Clinton on the last day of his presidency.
…The cause of this extraordinary naivety is our wretched educational system, which teaches nothing while it endlessly inculcates leftist cant into the minds of our innocent youth. We are a nation of “useful idiots” because of that system that gets worse, more extremely biased, every year. In fact, our educational system is a “useful idiot” manufacturing machine.
This machine has worked for years in a top down manner. As our most renowned colleges and universities became progressively leftist in faculties and administrations—over ninety percent of professors are now Democrats, mostly left Democrats—so naturally do their students follow suit, almost all of whom have become indoctrinated by the system to one degree or another from the first week of their freshman years. Of course they want to please their professors, get a good grade and so forth. And the courses they are taking in the first place are almost always rigged for indoctrination. (Go and look at the required general education courses of almost any university if you think I’m exaggerating.) These same students go on to teach at other, sometimes less prominent, colleges and universities, but also at our elementary, middle and high schools, even at our kindergartens and nursery schools, forming a perfect system of uniform bias.
Nothing is questioned. Little is examined. We have endless diversity classes and administrators, but what’s known as viewpoint diversity (diversity of ideas) has virtually disappeared.
We are a capitalist society with a socialist educational system. (“Stalin’s Children,” but not in a movie. In life.). No wonder so few look under the hood at what makes Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and their allies tick, what their real intentions are. (It’s certainly not saving black lives. So many are dying it’s hard to keep up.)
…But give this educational system a few more years (with most of the GOP continuing to behave like court eunuchs) and we will be past the point of no return. We will fully be a nation of “useful idiots.”
“Without question.” Parents, time to start grilling your kids today:
- Demand the lesson plans
- What did you learn?
- Let me see your handouts from class.
Conservatives, time to:
- Get on your School Boards
- Get copies of the curriculum
Ask questions, put in the Right to Know requests, show up at meetings. And turn around and use those 60s radicals’ words against them:
Question Authority
Especially those that aren’t especially useful as idiots in the first place.
And since these useful idiots don’t seem to understand much except “platitudes are nice to use” (betcha you’d get a blank stare if you ask them what platitude means), go read this post: “Are We In The First Days Of A Lawless Era?” because if you don’t know our political philosophy on which our Constitutional Republic stands, we really are doomed and it is starting now.
THAT is the end game for Political Correctness.
(H/T: Instapundit)
