Social Justice Warriors - Now With Less Feminism Sperging

[Non-Threatening Niall]

My favourite is "Self-Appointed White Ally". Who's the appointing authority for that, then? The same token friend (or council thereof) that issues licences for the telling of racist jokes?

Also, big shout-out to "celebrating Columbus day" and "Euro-centric curriculum". I legit would like to see these people's idea of a non-Euro-centric history syllabus.

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

My favourite is "Self-Appointed White Ally". Who's the appointing authority for that, then? The same token friend (or council thereof) that issues licences for the telling of racist jokes?

Also, big shout-out to "celebrating Columbus day" and "Euro-centric curriculum". I legit would like to see these people's idea of a non-Euro-centric history syllabus.

I'm part Native, and Columbus brought much needed cultural diversity. You can't change my mind, because I absolutely prefer indoor plumbing and internet to wigwams, shitting outside, and pemican.

 

[Trilby]

I'm part Native, and Columbus brought much needed cultural diversity. You can't change my mind, because I absolutely prefer indoor plumbing and internet to wigwams, shitting outside, and pemican.

I'm glad you understood this perfectly. I wish more did.

 

[JambledUpWords]

Why must male feminists always sound so creepy?

An SJW take on a kid’s movie.

 

[Wulfpack Legend]

In one of my current education classes, my professor brought up this chart, described it as "oversimplified"

and this is what was written in out class notes:

"All of us have implicit bias. We have all be socialized into certain norms, some of which are problematic. But we aren’t helpless! Understanding how norms and socialization work can help us to name and overcome our implicit bias….and its harmful effects.

How does this play out in educational settings? Let’s consider one specific example that we’ve touched on briefly before: What are the traditionally understood behavior norms in a classroom? What do those reflect?"

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

In one of my current education classes, my professor brought up this chart, described it as "oversimplified"
View attachment 1222934
and this is what was written in out class notes:

"All of us have implicit bias. We have all be socialized into certain norms, some of which are problematic. But we aren’t helpless! Understanding how norms and socialization work can help us to name and overcome our implicit bias….and its harmful effects.

How does this play out in educational settings? Let’s consider one specific example that we’ve touched on briefly before: What are the traditionally understood behavior norms in a classroom? What do those reflect?"

You can tell your prof to go fuck themselves, if you like -

Mandatory Implicit Bias Training Is a Bad Idea

It's all the rage. But in the view of some, it's seriously counterproductive.

www.psychologytoday.com

Starbucks Philadelphia arrest: Anti-bias training probably won’t work…

archived 10 Apr 2020 00:29:47 UTC

archive.vn

Also, their fancy "oppression wheel" is pretty funny, considering it shows "old" as an oppressed/resistance category, when there's no end of whining SocJus bitches crying about "old men in power".

 

[Wulfpack Legend]

You can tell your prof to go fuck themselves, if you like -

Mandatory Implicit Bias Training Is a Bad Idea

It's all the rage. But in the view of some, it's seriously counterproductive.

www.psychologytoday.com

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Starbucks Philadelphia arrest: Anti-bias training probably won’t work…

archived 10 Apr 2020 00:29:47 UTC

archive.vn

Also, their fancy "oppression wheel" is pretty funny, considering it shows "old" as an oppressed/resistance category, when there's no end of whining SocJus bitches crying about "old men in power".

At times I wanted to, but I try to be more diplomatic, here's another gem

"Note: There are other oppressive systems also at work in schools - classism, sexism, ageism, able-ism, heteronormativity, English-privilege….just to name a few. For this example, we are focusing on racism.

As you look at this information, keep thinking about what you as a teacher can do to disrupt this systemic injustice"

During an online discussion about a passage here is a response from one of my classmates:

"While reading the excerpt from "Teaching to Transgress", two ideas stood out to me: the idea that white people perceive black liberation as a threat and the hook's criticism of the banking method of education. On page 3, hooks says "Too much eagerness to learn could easily be seen as a threat to white authority." This was of particular interest to me because today, with large movements like Black Lives Matter or smaller movements like rapper Nonames' book club, we see a push back from white people insisting that all lives matter and things of that nature. It is interesting to see the creation of black spaces and the fight for black liberation and equality being perceived as threat, and to me that is an acknowledgment that many people see their privilege and wish to hold onto it. hook's opinion on the banking method of education, when she says "[the] banking method of education...did not interest me" (5) and Paulo Friere stood out to me as well because I have read much of his work and agree with her interpretation of it."

 

[TerribleIdeas™]

At times I wanted to, but I try to be more diplomatic, here's another gem

"Note: There are other oppressive systems also at work in schools - classism, sexism, ageism, able-ism, heteronormativity, English-privilege….just to name a few. For this example, we are focusing on racism.

As you look at this information, keep thinking about what you as a teacher can do to disrupt this systemic injustice"

During an online discussion about a passage here is a response from one of my classmates:

"While reading the excerpt from "Teaching to Transgress", two ideas stood out to me: the idea that white people perceive black liberation as a threat and the hook's criticism of the banking method of education. On page 3, hooks says "Too much eagerness to learn could easily be seen as a threat to white authority." This was of particular interest to me because today, with large movements like Black Lives Matter or smaller movements like rapper Nonames' book club, we see a push back from white people insisting that all lives matter and things of that nature. It is interesting to see the creation of black spaces and the fight for black liberation and equality being perceived as threat, and to me that is an acknowledgment that many people see their privilege and wish to hold onto it. hook's opinion on the banking method of education, when she says "[the] banking method of education...did not interest me" (5) and Paulo Friere stood out to me as well because I have read much of his work and agree with her interpretation of it."

Getting really tired of supposedly "progressive educators" hanging the entirety of their classes on Friere and hooks.

Eagerness to learn isn't "a threat to white superiority", all lives DO matter, and educated people from whole homes are less likely to be criminals that get arrested or shot. Seriously, if we as a society (insert "we live in a society memes" here) want to see the maximum improvement in quality of life, the economy, and every other goddamned metric available, the solution is to stop giving the little nigglets and spics ready-made excuses to claim they couldn't succeed ("The system is prejudiced against us!", etc.), and start teaching them.

That includes starting to teach sex ed lessons that explain the economic, emotional, social, physiological, psychological and educational costs of single and early parenthood, so maybe we stop having so many inter-generational single-parent families that act as enormous anchors on our economies and social safety nets.

 

[WinchesterPremium]

In one of my current education classes, my professor brought up this chart, described it as "oversimplified"
View attachment 1222934
and this is what was written in out class notes:

"All of us have implicit bias. We have all be socialized into certain norms, some of which are problematic. But we aren’t helpless! Understanding how norms and socialization work can help us to name and overcome our implicit bias….and its harmful effects.

How does this play out in educational settings? Let’s consider one specific example that we’ve touched on briefly before: What are the traditionally understood behavior norms in a classroom? What do those reflect?"

That seems like an incredibly ineffective way to convey information. I had to tackle it for a couple of minutes just to see what it is trying to say. You'd go a lot farther with a three column graph

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

In one of my current education classes, my professor brought up this chart, described it as "oversimplified"
View attachment 1222934
and this is what was written in out class notes:

"All of us have implicit bias. We have all be socialized into certain norms, some of which are problematic. But we aren’t helpless! Understanding how norms and socialization work can help us to name and overcome our implicit bias….and its harmful effects.

How does this play out in educational settings? Let’s consider one specific example that we’ve touched on briefly before: What are the traditionally understood behavior norms in a classroom? What do those reflect?"

Charts, graphs and such are supposed to be visual aids - to highlight significant data points for those who cannot or will not look at the data itself.

That grievance pinwheel is visual AIDS.

 

[JambledUpWords]

In one of my current education classes, my professor brought up this chart, described it as "oversimplified"
View attachment 1222934
and this is what was written in out class notes:

"All of us have implicit bias. We have all be socialized into certain norms, some of which are problematic. But we aren’t helpless! Understanding how norms and socialization work can help us to name and overcome our implicit bias….and its harmful effects.

How does this play out in educational settings? Let’s consider one specific example that we’ve touched on briefly before: What are the traditionally understood behavior norms in a classroom? What do those reflect?"

I took a class about education and we had to do an implicit bias test online. The test was pretty much useless, since it just relied on how fast you clicked. Also, that chart is flawed. It implies that being white automatically gives you dominion over others. If that’s the case, the land grabs in Zimbabwe would have never happened. Additionally, most places, regardless of nationality, don’t view mental illness as a virtue. Yes, mental illnesses happen, but if someone is mentally impaired enough, an employer has the right to reject them. Finally, if being Christian is so dominant, then why are Christians specifically targeted in Muslim countries along with Jews? I could go on, but that chart only seems applicable in the United States, and even that can be up for debate. This is one of my main issues with SJW beliefs. They seem to think the world exists in a vacuum and that what applies to the United States applies to all other countries. It’s a bit racist too.

 

[Wulfpack Legend]

For the first 10 weeks of class we were reading and discussing articles like these:
https://www.rethinkingschools.org/articles/we-need-to-know-this
https://www.rethinkingschools.org/a...-here-is-the-education-i-want-for-my-children
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-2020/ending-curriculum-violence

and our major books that we had to read was Teaching While The World Is On Fire and Is Everyone Really Equal?

 

[WinchesterPremium]

For the first 10 weeks of class we were reading and discussing articles like these:
https://www.rethinkingschools.org/articles/we-need-to-know-this
https://www.rethinkingschools.org/a...-here-is-the-education-i-want-for-my-children
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-2020/ending-curriculum-violence

and our major books that we had to read was Teaching While The World Is On Fire and Is Everyone Really Equal?

Well don't leave us hanging. Is Everyone Really Equal?

 

[Shaka Brah]

Well don't leave us hanging. Is Everyone Really Equal?

The Bell Curve suggests that may not be so.

 

[Wulfpack Legend]

Here are some more notes:
Privilege & Oppression in American Schooling
To further understand schools as either spaces for liberation or tools for oppression, we must think further about what American schooling as done to uphold systems of power and oppression - and where there is space for resistance.
First, what is privilege?

• How have you benefited from (or seen others benefit from) privilege in life?
• How have you (or others) benefited from privilege in school settings?
• What is privilege, specifically “white privilege”; why do we need to think and talk about it in education?
• What various other ways does privilege manifest?
• Why is it important to consider privilege as a systemic reality and not just call out the problematic behaviors of individuals?
• This illustration of privilege may be helpful; this provides a way to think about the multiple dimensions of privilege.

We all have some sort of privilege (our role of educators privileges us in some ways within the system of schooling!). Our task is to start to think about how we can disrupt the systems that privilege some at the expense of others, including ways we can leverage our privilege.

A Meme!
We talk a lot about "equity" and "equality" around education. But what do we mean by those terms?

This is helpful in breaking it down further. What is "justice" in this context??

The Problem with “Nice” Teachers
Nieto’s essay on “niceness” & Sleeter's Q&A can help us think further about this.

• What argument does Nieto make about “niceness”?
• What connection do these draw between racism, teachers, and schools?
  
• Why is "colorblindness" problematic?
• Why is "appreciating diversity" not enough?

Schools as Systems: Colonization and Privilege

• How are schools systems? Systems within systems?
• Scholars sometimes talk about schools as “colonized”. By whom? What does that mean?
• Let’s think of some concrete examples of what this looks like.
  • What behaviors are privileged in schools?
  • What ways of being (dressing, speaking, interacting) are privileged?
  • What knowledge is privileged?
• What does it mean to “decolonize” education?

 

[Shaka Brah]

Here are some more notes:
Privilege & Oppression in American Schooling
To further understand schools as either spaces for liberation or tools for oppression, we must think further about what American schooling as done to uphold systems of power and oppression - and where there is space for resistance.
First, what is privilege?

• How have you benefited from (or seen others benefit from) privilege in life?
• How have you (or others) benefited from privilege in school settings?
• What is privilege, specifically “white privilege”; why do we need to think and talk about it in education?
• What various other ways does privilege manifest?
• Why is it important to consider privilege as a systemic reality and not just call out the problematic behaviors of individuals?
• This illustration of privilege may be helpful; this provides a way to think about the multiple dimensions of privilege.

We all have some sort of privilege (our role of educators privileges us in some ways within the system of schooling!). Our task is to start to think about how we can disrupt the systems that privilege some at the expense of others, including ways we can leverage our privilege.

A Meme!
We talk a lot about "equity" and "equality" around education. But what do we mean by those terms?

This is helpful in breaking it down further. What is "justice" in this context??

The Problem with “Nice” Teachers
Nieto’s essay on “niceness” & Sleeter's Q&A can help us think further about this.

• What argument does Nieto make about “niceness”?
• What connection do these draw between racism, teachers, and schools?
  
• Why is "colorblindness" problematic?
• Why is "appreciating diversity" not enough?

Schools as Systems: Colonization and Privilege

• How are schools systems? Systems within systems?
• Scholars sometimes talk about schools as “colonized”. By whom? What does that mean?
• Let’s think of some concrete examples of what this looks like.
  • What behaviors are privileged in schools?
  • What ways of being (dressing, speaking, interacting) are privileged?
  • What knowledge is privileged?
• What does it mean to “decolonize” education?

We need to disband universities and put these people in jail (with due process of course).

 

[WinchesterPremium]

Schools as Systems: Colonization and Privilege

• How are schools systems? Systems within systems?
• Scholars sometimes talk about schools as “colonized”. By whom? What does that mean?
• Let’s think of some concrete examples of what this looks like.
  • What behaviors are privileged in schools?
  • What ways of being (dressing, speaking, interacting) are privileged?
  • What knowledge is privileged?
• What does it mean to “decolonize” education?

Not going to lie. These totally sound like questions you'd ask a SJW. What DOES it mean for a school to be 'colonized' and who is doing it?

 

[Wulfpack Legend]

Not going to lie. These totally sound like questions you'd ask a SJW. What DOES it mean for a school to be 'colonized' and who is doing it?

Mostly to not teach the curriculum that enforces "the status quo", here's some more lunacy to take a look at:

Task 1: Reading A Framing Idea

• "Queering Black History and Getting Free" (or rather re-read)
  • What does "queering curriculum" mean or involve?
  • How does this notion of “queering” echo our earlier conversations about liberation and education as the practice of freedom?

Task 2: Reading Some Curriculum Examples
Select 3 of the following articles to read (you are welcome to read them all. And, yes, you’ll need to sort out your Rethinking Schools subscription!). You should choose articles from 3 different disciplines (although you may note that disciplinary lines are fuzzier here - think about that)! I'd encourage you to click on each article and skim the start at least.

As you read these examples, make some notes about what you like and what concerns/questions this raises for you.

Keep thinking too about how curriculum decisions get made - or rather how you will make curriculum decisions!

• "Did Any of You Just Search for Physicist?"
• "Beyond Just a Cells Unit"
• "Medical Apartheid: Teaching the Tuskegee Syphilis Study"
• "Teaching SNCC"
• "What We Don't Learn about the Black Panther Party - but Should"
• "Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us"
• "Ebola: Teaching Science, Race, and the Media"
• "Mapping Childhood"
• "Rethinking Identity: Afro-Mexican History"
• "Deportations on Trial"
• “Do You Have Batman Shoulders?”
• “Diversity is What Makes It Interesting to Study Living Things”
• “Why I Don’t Teach the Hero’s Journey”
• The Largest Civil Rights Protest You've Never Heard Of
• It's Imperialism

 

[Next Task]

Also, their fancy "oppression wheel" is pretty funny, considering it shows "old" as an oppressed/resistance category, when there's no end of whining SocJus bitches crying about "old men in power".

Ageism is totally a thing. It's also totally a form of oppression that SJWs engage in - see all the people who celebrate Corona killing off the elderly.

Pointing it out is like pointing out they're inevitably treating the US like it's the whole world - they get sullen for a second and might fake-apologise, then they'll defensively explain why, essentially, it's alright when they do it because reasons. Those reasons being buzzword-laden versions of, 'But they're evil, so it's OK,' and, 'But I'm right, so it's OK.'

Death, taxes and SJW hypocrisy.

 

[Trilby]

At times I wanted to, but I try to be more diplomatic, here's another gem

"Note: There are other oppressive systems also at work in schools - classism, sexism, ageism, able-ism, heteronormativity, English-privilege….just to name a few. For this example, we are focusing on racism.

As you look at this information, keep thinking about what you as a teacher can do to disrupt this systemic injustice"

Something about "English-privilege" already tells me this guy shouldn't be listened to. He's as fucked as they come.

Eagerness to learn isn't "a threat to white superiority", all lives DO matter, and educated people from whole homes are less likely to be criminals that get arrested or shot. Seriously, if we as a society (insert "we live in a society memes" here) want to see the maximum improvement in quality of life, the economy, and every other goddamned metric available, the solution is to stop giving the little nigglets and spics ready-made excuses to claim they couldn't succeed ("The system is prejudiced against us!", etc.), and start teaching them.

And honestly I thought that was what we were supposed to do anyway. It's like these people don't see it.

That includes starting to teach sex ed lessons that explain the economic, emotional, social, physiological, psychological and educational costs of single and early parenthood, so maybe we stop having so many inter-generational single-parent families that act as enormous anchors on our economies and social safety nets.

True there. Remind children of the world they don't need early on like that simply for not planning ahead.

For the first 10 weeks of class we were reading and discussing articles like these:
https://www.rethinkingschools.org/articles/we-need-to-know-this
https://www.rethinkingschools.org/a...-here-is-the-education-i-want-for-my-children
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-2020/ending-curriculum-violence

and our major books that we had to read was Teaching While The World Is On Fire and Is Everyone Really Equal?

I'm glad just not wanting to go back to school again.