Feel free to berate me for the odd and (perhaps) unnecessarily long title, but I promise the two thoughts are connected if you grant me a few moments to make the case.
We’ll start with anthropology and evolution and the migration of humanity from the cradle of life. Taken at either face value or in-depth, the current consensus contradicts the indigenous ideology that proliferates primarily on the political Left. That people “from here” had more rights than anyone who showed up later. Regular readers will know I think this absurd.
My default example is North America, which had no people for millions of years and only recently enjoyed their presence – a series of occupations with the current disfavored European colonialists currently in the majority—each successive set of people displaced, bred-out, absorbed, or eliminated the predecessors and their culture. Calling the last know ‘occupants’ indigenous is absurd.
And so it is with not just the remainder of the globe but with other Hominini who preceded our alleged ancestors, all of whom – based on the known fossil record, first did “people” things somewhere around the *African-Euroasian regions, subject to change as new evidence presents itself. The rest of the globe was allegedly unpopulated but filled up with successive generations of conquerors whose ancestors would one day be us.
We are all brothers and sisters, but not one of us, with few exceptions, can claim to be indigenous where we are now unless the definition is reduced to meaning the last flock of folks before the current bunch that displaced them, just as they displaced those who came before them.
Any claim to special considerations as a victim of history on these terms is little more than the most recent page of a story that might be 3.5 million years long. And history tells us that we, too, shall one day be displaced, and those few who remain while victims of history have not earned any special consideration for what was lost, certainly not in America.
What Does That Have to Do with Public Schools?
Education, like humanity, has evolved, but not for the better. In America, the government takeover of education has resulted in a tumultuous century-long journey down a steep hill toward systemic ignorance. A devolution from near-universal literacy back to a time when the ruling class was well-educated, and everyone else was kept stupid enough to do as they were told.
Public education and its progressive advocates are wholly responsible for generations of idiots whose children they now insist cannot be trusted with their progenitors. If, as the educrats suggest, a biological parent is incapable of knowing what is best for their child, are they not to blame? And if they are, why isn’t the cure to reverse course and do whatever can be imagined to protect future generations from the same fate at their education industrial complex hands?
Why aren’t parents who dare to take note of this trend, and change course, not afforded indigenous (education) rights in the interest of preserving what was once an at least respectable means of passing on skills and knowledge for the benefit of posterity? Their ancestors and ours taught children at home or in neighborhood groups, passing along not just knowledge and values but the ability to learn and think for themselves.
Their indigenous education heritage, one that has real modern value, is dismissed as hackneys and discriminatory, while the new-age progressive educational colonialists abandon history, logic, and even basic literacy for protest, victimism, pornography, and gender mutilation while claiming that their previous generation of students lacks the skills needed to manage not just their child education but every aspect of politics and culture.
I think it is unwise to allow people so incapable of teaching to decide not just what kids think but how they think. To persist is demographic and cultural suicide which, as our readers also know, is exactly what they are after.
*The only indigenous population rights that might exist based on the current politicized meaning should be somewhere in Africa/Eurasia.
