"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire
Over and over again, we have learned it is the nature of all people when given a little to power, to exert unrighteous dominion over their fellow humans. To dehumanize and objectify one another, distilling away individualism, and replacing it with a group identity. Mormon. Jew. Black. Racist. Male. Jock. Nerd.
In 1966, students identifying themselves as Red Guard (unsolicited protectors of Mao Tse Tung) began beating, torturing, and killing their own teachers and administrators. To be brief in writing, educators across China, grade levels, and subject matter disciplines fell at the hands of children. Middle school students were considered the worst offenders.
The total death toll of what historians and documentarians refer to as a Revolution or Great Leap Forward numbers in the 10's of millions. I looked for numbers on teachers and professors, and I didn't find anything solid or reliable. I suppose an actuarial could extrapolate and define numbers, suffice it to say, whatever the number, it was too many.
There was no call for this violence from the Chinese Communist Party. Student's took on the responsibility almost by themselves, calling their teachers Black Gang, Ox-Ghosts, and Snake-Demons. Some of the torture methods, often invented by the students, included forcing dirt into the mouths of teachers, bathing them in black ink, and making them sing songs referencing the aforementioned animal aberrations. My references/sources, look here, and here.
How does a thing like this happen?
History is rife with examples of how we are led to believe absurd things eventually committing atrocities on our fellow humans. Examples include what happened in China, Cuba, Cambodia, Germany, and more recently in Venezuela. It's almost formulaic, the cultural and societal dominos that begin to fall. The playbooks to which totalitarians, socialists, facists, and marxists refer exacts that in order to gain power, art and education must be eradicated.
We need look no further than Evergreen State College's recent past to see how the bell has been rung in our ears, an alarm to us all, signaling the first in a series of abhorrent dominoes falling...with the intent to eradicate public, truly public, education.
For a great summary on the Evergreen situation, Bret Weinstein talks about it here, with his brother, Eric, here, and a revealing Mike Nayna three-part video series is linked here, here, and here.
To be brief in writing, the most privileged student group to attend arguably the most progressive university in the United States, were taught absurdities and committed atrocities, leading to the dismissal of Bret and his wife after 15 years of dedicated service.
Students emotionally kidnapped, tortured, and ended the careers of their professors. They formed their own red guard at the behest of a new school president. They cried and lied "racist", screamed obscenities, shouted down past presidents, behaved as jackboots checking peoples cars and beating people in the streets for refusing to comply with their agendas. The police force was neutered, or...de-funded, and barricaded in their central offices.
Here's where I scratch my head...they wanted to add specific language to their demands removing STEM from scientific references. So, you can't even say STEM? Nope. Where am I right now? More recently, black lives matter released a tweet - that remarkably didn't appear in the feeds of members of the intellectual dark web - calling for the removal of any and all STEM language from our lexicon.
Yep. No STEM. No scienc-y language. Why? Because science is racist. It suppresses people of color.
Unbelievable. Yet, you can check my math, here. All of it.
We've removed God, supplanted a moral law-giver with Science, and now marxists have come for the very people who helped them do their work. Compelled speech, taking a knee, forced ideological compliance, cancel culture.
Fascist much? (every time I type fascist, google corrects it to racist!)
Onward!
Dr. J
Over and over again, we have learned it is the nature of all people when given a little to power, to exert unrighteous dominion over their fellow humans. To dehumanize and objectify one another, distilling away individualism, and replacing it with a group identity. Mormon. Jew. Black. Racist. Male. Jock. Nerd.
In 1966, students identifying themselves as Red Guard (unsolicited protectors of Mao Tse Tung) began beating, torturing, and killing their own teachers and administrators. To be brief in writing, educators across China, grade levels, and subject matter disciplines fell at the hands of children. Middle school students were considered the worst offenders.
The total death toll of what historians and documentarians refer to as a Revolution or Great Leap Forward numbers in the 10's of millions. I looked for numbers on teachers and professors, and I didn't find anything solid or reliable. I suppose an actuarial could extrapolate and define numbers, suffice it to say, whatever the number, it was too many.
There was no call for this violence from the Chinese Communist Party. Student's took on the responsibility almost by themselves, calling their teachers Black Gang, Ox-Ghosts, and Snake-Demons. Some of the torture methods, often invented by the students, included forcing dirt into the mouths of teachers, bathing them in black ink, and making them sing songs referencing the aforementioned animal aberrations. My references/sources, look here, and here.
How does a thing like this happen?
History is rife with examples of how we are led to believe absurd things eventually committing atrocities on our fellow humans. Examples include what happened in China, Cuba, Cambodia, Germany, and more recently in Venezuela. It's almost formulaic, the cultural and societal dominos that begin to fall. The playbooks to which totalitarians, socialists, facists, and marxists refer exacts that in order to gain power, art and education must be eradicated.
We need look no further than Evergreen State College's recent past to see how the bell has been rung in our ears, an alarm to us all, signaling the first in a series of abhorrent dominoes falling...with the intent to eradicate public, truly public, education.
For a great summary on the Evergreen situation, Bret Weinstein talks about it here, with his brother, Eric, here, and a revealing Mike Nayna three-part video series is linked here, here, and here.
To be brief in writing, the most privileged student group to attend arguably the most progressive university in the United States, were taught absurdities and committed atrocities, leading to the dismissal of Bret and his wife after 15 years of dedicated service.
Students emotionally kidnapped, tortured, and ended the careers of their professors. They formed their own red guard at the behest of a new school president. They cried and lied "racist", screamed obscenities, shouted down past presidents, behaved as jackboots checking peoples cars and beating people in the streets for refusing to comply with their agendas. The police force was neutered, or...de-funded, and barricaded in their central offices.
Here's where I scratch my head...they wanted to add specific language to their demands removing STEM from scientific references. So, you can't even say STEM? Nope. Where am I right now? More recently, black lives matter released a tweet - that remarkably didn't appear in the feeds of members of the intellectual dark web - calling for the removal of any and all STEM language from our lexicon.
Yep. No STEM. No scienc-y language. Why? Because science is racist. It suppresses people of color.
Unbelievable. Yet, you can check my math, here. All of it.
We've removed God, supplanted a moral law-giver with Science, and now marxists have come for the very people who helped them do their work. Compelled speech, taking a knee, forced ideological compliance, cancel culture.
Fascist much? (every time I type fascist, google corrects it to racist!)
Onward!
Dr. J
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