How do you ensure your kids to get a balanced view of culture war issues discussed at school?

[Anonymous]

Meritocracy? ? The U.S.? If I had a drink I would have spat it out!
Based on what is the U.S. a meritocraxy?
USSR was a 'more' meritocracy than this fedalism we have here!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meritocracy? ? The U.S.? If I had a drink I would have spat it out!
Based on what is the U.S. a meritocraxy?
USSR was a 'more' meritocracy than this fedalism we have here!

Completely with the even greater concentration of wealth today and the outsized influence of corporations we're closer to oligarchy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meritocracy? ? The U.S.? If I had a drink I would have spat it out!
Based on what is the U.S. a meritocraxy?
USSR was a 'more' meritocracy than this fedalism we have here!

As I recall, you had to mouth the party line in the USSR or be sent to the Gulag. Only the party of Trump is trying that sort of loyalty test.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meritocracy? ? The U.S.? If I had a drink I would have spat it out!
Based on what is the U.S. a meritocraxy?
USSR was a 'more' meritocracy than this fedalism we have here!

Most immigrants would disagree with you.

I am a first generation American and my dad would happily discuss with you how important the American Dream is to immigrants. And how, the US, more than most countries in the world, does a fantastic job allowing people upward mobility.

He comes from a country with a well-defined social system. Where it is very difficult to ‘break-out’ of the category you are born into.

Hard to take you seriously if you truly think the USSR ever offered people more opportunities to get ahead based on merit than the US does.

[Anonymous]

Vote for candidates that allow "School Choice" and talk about "funding students, not institutions". Move out of MoCo. Homeschool.

There is a Culture War. Meritocracy isn't evil or racist. Standards of performance aren't either. This country would be exactly as wealthy as it is, if not wealthier, if slavery had never existed. Slavery existed throughout the world when the Europeans began to colonize the Americas. North America was barely populated, due to pandemic smallpox, at the time of the English settlements. Most of the trans-atlantic slave trade shipped humans to Latin America, because slaves went there and died. Cancel culture is real, and inhibits sense-making and solution discovery by restricting the range of conversation. The left subverts objective truth with consensus / power-based "truth": "The grain harvests are bountiful, commissar!".

Conversely, blacks and hispanics are just as smart as whites and asians. They're just as hardworking. There are real, systemic, laws and practices that have long benefitted landowners & homeowners, which, by definition hurt new immigrants and those who were redlined out of homeownership. Teacher selection for advanced programming has been proven to be biased against boys and POC. Policing is more aggressive in minority neighborhoods.

The United States of America has been the best practical engine for creating world-wide wealth and prosperity, and has continuously arced towards it's stated ideals of equal rights, blind justice, and prosperity for all.

No other diverse country of our size has even come close.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vote for candidates that allow "School Choice" and talk about "funding students, not institutions". Move out of MoCo. Homeschool.

There is a Culture War. Meritocracy isn't evil or racist. Standards of performance aren't either. This country would be exactly as wealthy as it is, if not wealthier, if slavery had never existed. Slavery existed throughout the world when the Europeans began to colonize the Americas. North America was barely populated, due to pandemic smallpox, at the time of the English settlements. Most of the trans-atlantic slave trade shipped humans to Latin America, because slaves went there and died. Cancel culture is real, and inhibits sense-making and solution discovery by restricting the range of conversation. The left subverts objective truth with consensus / power-based "truth": "The grain harvests are bountiful, commissar!".

Conversely, blacks and hispanics are just as smart as whites and asians. They're just as hardworking. There are real, systemic, laws and practices that have long benefitted landowners & homeowners, which, by definition hurt new immigrants and those who were redlined out of homeownership. Teacher selection for advanced programming has been proven to be biased against boys and POC. Policing is more aggressive in minority neighborhoods.

The United States of America has been the best practical engine for creating world-wide wealth and prosperity, and has continuously arced towards it's stated ideals of equal rights, blind justice, and prosperity for all.

No other diverse country of our size has even come close.

Well said. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My middle school kids seem to always be getting assignments that focus on highly politicized current events and topics. The school seems to be emphasizing one point of view. I would like them to understand that many people outside of the “DC Bubble” do have different viewpoints.

You mean you want your kids to be taught that truth and lies are equal?

Just because Fox says it and a bunch of people in this country fall for it because they don’t know why Rupert Murdoch is lying to them, doesn’t mean i will tolerate my kids being taught lies.

I want right wing garbage OUT of my schools.

My kids will be taught truth, ideas that come from educated smart people that care about democracy.
And they will be taught that a huge rightwing media machine lies to half of America and tries to get that half of America to hate the other half for Murdoch’s political advantage.

I’m done tiptoeing around conservative lies and Republican liars. All I have to say today is: Get. Out.

Translation: REEEEEEEEE!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are white, why should your opinion about racism towards black Americans count?

This is sarcasm right?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Coleman Hughes is funded by rightwing billionares and his career was built via those billionaires at the Manhattan Institute. His ideas lost in the marketplace, and we only hear about them because billionaires find him politically useful to achieve their agenda. Wealthy funders are the reason he’s part of public debate.

That’s a long way of saying: Don’t be fooled. Hughes has been selected by the wealthy to deceive you.

What is the agenda that billionaire founders are trying to achieve through Coleman? His messages and approach to anti racism seem very positive and balanced. Far left anti racism messages actually start to sound racist and are also funded by billionaires.

PP, if you think they're "far left", then please consider recalibrating your political spectrum. They're not far-left at all. They're conventional and mainstream.

Is this conventional and mainstream? https://twitter.com/marya_hay/status/1230546821346471939?s=20

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meritocracy? ? The U.S.? If I had a drink I would have spat it out!
Based on what is the U.S. a meritocraxy?
USSR was a 'more' meritocracy than this feudalism we have here!

As I recall, you had to mouth the party line in the USSR or be sent to the Gulag. Only the party of Trump is trying that sort of loyalty test.

Well, you don't recall because you are here and were not there.
Even if they towed the party line, so what? Here you towed the capitalism line, no? At least they thought kids in schools that all races are created equal, that all humans are equal, oh and that evil capitalism use African Americans as property!
And the education they brought to that huge country? Yep, created smart people and taught them science! Here in 2021, we have a thread about one of the most liberal counties in the U.S. trying to teach racial equality and factual history, and we have people complaining about it!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Here is my personal experience with employers trying to address race problems.

The employer first tries to hire black people equally qualified (by education and experience) as the rest of the applicant pool.

Those candidates are HIGHLY sought after. Employer is not able to attract them.

Employer then reduces a the requirements, finds applicants, and hires.

The black employee is then assigned work as they would be if they had the preferred experience and education, or at least similar.

The employee is not able to meet expectations.

The company then slowly stops giving them the work they were hired to do. The company avoids difficult conversations about how the employee is not fulfilling the needs of their role because they’re scared of being called racist (or, if they’ve done bias training, managers are even scared that they *are* racist).

The employee is gently counseled out after a couple of years.

Nothing offered right now by far left OR mainstream “anti racism” training or theory addresses any of this. I would love to see people engage with this real problem. But telling more employers they should do what my employers have done, which is lower the bar for hiring? No. That’s not helping.

Oh, my.

Don't you mean REEEEEEEEE!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My middle school kids seem to always be getting assignments that focus on highly politicized current events and topics. The school seems to be emphasizing one point of view. I would like them to understand that many people outside of the “DC Bubble” do have different viewpoints.

At this point in time there is no "culture war" in the US.

Call it what it is!

GOP trying to overthrow the government (Democracy) gaslighting, Russian trolls, Grifters.

You don't like it here, leave move to Russia or China. Your culture fits in better there.

Also, get yourself a dictionary. Clearly, you need an education.

This thread proves otherwise wokie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meritocracy? ? The U.S.? If I had a drink I would have spat it out!
Based on what is the U.S. a meritocraxy?
USSR was a 'more' meritocracy than this fedalism we have here!

As I recall, you had to mouth the party line in the USSR or be sent to the Gulag. Only the party of Trump is trying that sort of loyalty test.

Please give an example. I find this to be far more prevalent amongst wokes. It's what virtue signaling is all about (personal pronouns, BLM signs, etc).

[Anonymous]

I think that a lot of these culture wars conservations leave out the people they impact most, so I would research, say, the perspectives about Black Lives Matter from the point of view of Black people and just have a good old dinner time conversation about it. With kids I don’t think you can always “set them straight” and tell them what they have learned at school is wrong, because they are their own people and you might actually be the one in the wrong. But an open-minded discussion about hot-button issues is important.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are white, why should your opinion about racism towards black Americans count?

This is sarcasm right?

No. Not at all. What would you possibly know about it?
I am skinny, what do I know about being obese? Nothing? What do I know about obese people trying to lose weight, nothing?
I am not Chinese, for example. What do I know about being Chinese and their opinions, values, etc? Very, very little and personal experience? Nothing. Never been there, have 2 acquaintances who are Chinese. Should I chime in on China and what people there should do, should not do, how they perceive this or that? No.
I know nothing about it.
Does an elephant know how to hunt a zebra? No, we look to a lion for that information.