aided by administrators either equally stupid or too cowardly to tell them the knock it off. and it's ruining education. What happens when, instead of students going to college who need remedial damn-near-everything, the fools in charge say 'Remedial education is racist/sexist/whatever!' and just start them in classes?
In some cases they'll get rid of grades, or otherwise make sure those unprepared kids cannot fail, which will mean the degree they're issued at the end is worthless. Oh yeah, that'll work. Look how well it's worked for all those Gender/fill in the blank/ Studies majors who whine about not being able to pay their loans...
The reason behind such tyranny came into focus for me when Condolezza Rice, former secretary of state and current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, told me she’d shared with her students that the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (9/11’s architect) had felt like “having Erwin Rommel under lock and key.” The blank looks on the faces of her very bright students revealed that they had never heard of WWII’s famous Desert Fox.
Until then, I’d traced the enmity to activists like Jackson and Hannah-Jones. Now, I could see that it also stemmed from students having swapped an education for indoctrination. Those enlisted as social justice warriors had avoided the lessons of history, missed out on refining skills that might have allowed them to judge assertions and denied themselves the insights required to make wise trade-offs.
Hey, wanting them to actually learn history, let alone make trade-offs, is racist, didn't he know?
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It is worse than that. I asked a 25 y/o barber for a Snydley Whiplash. She had no idea. Never heard of Dudly either.
Just yesterday I read a comment made by a self-admitted 'firearms enthusiast' that the Puckle gun was disfavored because it was not 'full auto selective fire'. Further, because the gun was of little use, the Founders could not have known of it.
Once, when I pointed out that there were repeating arms at the time the Constitution was written, guy insisted "Yes, but average citizens were not allowed to own such things."
Me: "If you know of a federal law from that period that says such, can you please tell me about it?"
Them: [crickets]
When I worked in the foster care system, I often got in conflict with folks who wanted to have 17-18 year old wards get GED's and start college. My argument that these youth were not prepared for college and would likely fail carried no water. More than once I was called a racist for trying to hold these poor black youth back. The fact that 99% of them failed because they didn't have the skill set to succeed was also somehow the "systems" fault. Having math and reading skills of a 4th grader will definitely make college difficult, equally, not having a history of regular attendance, studying and doing homework might also interfere with your success.
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