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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I believe in diversity and equity. The way it is pushed these days is more like a religion where other opinions are not allowed (look at the Hamline University debacle.. I am muslim and every muslim I know thinks what happens is insane). I am a person who is an admirer of Edward Said's book Orientalism as well as the People's History of the United States. I am Arab so am staunchly anti-imperialist. But I think schools have gone overboard. Also there is very little critique of class. I get it - they are private schools. But it is hypocritical to be pushing all of this and ignore the class aspect.

My kids are young - Kindergarten and first grade so they haven't been exposed to a lot of this yet. But I am worried that there is some indoctrination going on.[/quote]

Harsh question: Why should someone who claims to be “from a foreign background “ and from a religion that hardly represents a common viewpoint in the US expect to “fit in” — or even want to “fit in”?  Surely you must realize that it’s the culture and values behind what you deem “wokeness” that has given you and your kids not just the chance of fitting in, but of being accepted at all by schools and universities that, not too long ago, we’re almost exclusively white, male, American, and, in many cases aggressively Christian? [/quote]

The phenomenon of dividing and atomizing people (voters) into smaller and smaller categories certainly isn't unique to the progressive left. As a political strategy it was pioneered by Karl Rove in the 80s and 90s as a way to increase GOP voter loyalty and tribal identity.  "Pro-life" v. "Pro-choice" wasn't an important political or identity characteristic before Rove understood its divisive power. Now it is so tribal that it is on the precipice of causing a schism in the American Catholic Church.  Families and communities are divided into tribal political categories now, and the DEI controversy is (mostly) an proxy war for that same "us v. them" political strategy that Rove masterminded.

OP again. Yes my kids will never fit in. My problem with woke progressives is they like speaking for us non-white people. They speak over us. They do not listen to us.  It's still Western imperialism but of a different kind.  There is a balance between the extreme agenda of woke progressives and that of conservatives. Neither of these extremes represent me. Also what I can't stand about this new left is how they completely ignore class and focus on dividing people into smaller and smaller groups so that no mass solidarity can ever exist.  I'm not a fan of Huntington but I agree with the criticism of progressive ideology that I read in this article: https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/01/why-china-loves-conservatives

"Progressive liberal ideology seeks to downplay cultural wholes. It envisions the world in universal, globalist terms, while reducing national societies to collections of atomized individuals. In its advanced form as identity politics, this version of liberalism views individuals as members of intersecting identity categories—categories that are not real communities and cultures, but rather demographic abstractions such as “Asian American” and “LGBTQIA+.” The word “community” may be added to such abstractions—as in “LGBTQIA+ community”—but it is empty, for none of the identity-politics categories are concrete communities with shared cultural lives. Indeed, the pseudo-solidarity of identity politics further atomizes the individual by undermining the legitimacy of inherited cultures. This outcome is not accidental. Progressive liberals seek to weaken the hold of larger cultural collectives by erasing them from their accounts of the social world, accounts they disseminate using their dominance in the West’s humanities and social science departments."

I don't care much about cultural collectives but the continuous focus on specific identity categories undermines solidarity amongst different identity groups which is necessary if we want to effectuate change.[/quote][/quote]

OP here.. yes I agree of course. It isn't unique to the left. Ive always critiqued the right.. but specifically focusing on the left here because it seems to have taken over schools (Except with it comes to being pro palestinian of course).[/quote]

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