and it's all worth reading. Part of the current post:
Actually, this started with homework, like explaining to them why, no,
we weren’t giving them a copy of our budget as the basis for homework,
as the teacher asked. Even though we had nothing to hide, it was none
of his class’s business. So we were going to make one up. Or when they
asked Robert to color on a map where his ancestors came from, and I told
him to color everything, even the sea, then explained both why it was
true (if you go back far enough) and why the assignment was pernicious,
dividing Americans into hyphenated groups. Or when I explained why the
school’s definition of “culture” as “genetic heritage” was wrong, and in
fact at the root of a bunch of progressive errors. (If you’re one of
those people who doesn't know, genetics might give you certain abilities
and tendencies, but they’re not culture. A Chinese infant brought up by
an American couple is American. The idea that culture is inborn and
non-changeable is what leads progressives to call us racist when we
criticize Islam, or to think it’s “racist” to demand immigrants learn
English. They think that’s objectively impossible since you’re born with
one culture and one language. For the record, I’m writing this in my
third language and the idea of inborn culture is a pernicious lie.)
If you've got kids or other small relatives stuck in the public school system, it's a really good idea to keep track of just what crap is being handed them in the guise of 'education'. So you know what they're up to, and you can try to counter the bullshit.
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