Literally.
Today we find that The Hill clearing space for Ms. Teresa Mull, who is a woman of Many!Ludicrous !Opinions!
How left-wing and racist radicals are infiltrating our children’s mindsYou know you're in for a roller-coaster ride of fake nostalgia, fake Christianity and fake patriotism when a wingnut column begins..
Once upon a time in America...Wheee! And we're off! Here's a sample platter:
A radical progressive political agenda has replaced the pursuit of truth and objectivity in our nation’s classrooms...Yadda, yadda and also yadda.
At New Trier High School, a public school in Winnetka, Illinois, students will be subjected in February to an “All-School Seminar Day” aimed at “understanding today’s struggles for racial civil rights.” The entire day is chock-full of race-baiting discussion topics, left-wing speakers, and one-sided, indoctrinating ideologies...
What is happening at New Trier is an obvious, systematic brainwashing, going so far as to goad students who don’t observe racism in their daily lives into believing they do...
They are the same folks who rally against prayer in school and any mention of the Bible while they inject one-sided, liberal-fueled propaganda...
New Trier is an extreme example, of course, but this type of shameless indoctrination is happening in government schools all across the country.
Teaching “just the facts” goes against the nature of government schools and their employees, because it is in their best interests to produce wards of the state who love big government as much as they do...
You may well ask yourself where in the real world does an obviously unhinged goober like this go to make their daily bread?
Where else but Illinois' most well-known ExxonMobile/Koch Brothers/OtherHorribles funded "think tank"!
Of course The Heartland Alliance is most infamous for its tireless, species-betraying, rear-guard action on climate change denial, and as whelping box for the next generation of morally bankrupt wingnut killbots like Box Turtle Ben Domenech, but it's pretty uniformly loathsome at everything it does
You know, once upon a time in America any sensible person would have moved to a different car on the El to get away from the obviously unnhinged ravings of goobers like Ms. Mull.
Now they're gearing up to take over the Department of Education
There's probably a lesson in there somewhere.
8 comments:
"Government" schools is the tell, a Frank Luntz term. She should be happy that the incoming Secretary of Education is a religious nut who wants to eliminate public education. For-profit private schools run by Wackford Squeers.
Apparently Betsy's brother is wriggling around under some of Trump's rocks also:
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/notorious-mercenary-erik-prince-is-advising-trump-from-the-shadows/
-Doug in Oakland
As you point out in other posts, the thing is it really isn't what Ms. Mull said or the size of the megaphone her employer gives her....it is the 10's of millions of people simultaneously changing their personal memories to fit this bullshit interpretation of events.
It is 10's of millions of Americans who took every last drop of our Government's post-WWII/Cold War investment in this country (including public education from Kindergarten through the university system) only to insist it all be destroyed the instant the "Whites Only" label got removed.
I went to New Trier, back in the late Cretaceous period. It's an excellent public school, what with all the preposterous wealth serving as its tax base.
When I went there, the student body was so racially enlightened that "we" started a chant, in the state semifinal basketball game against Peoria Manual (the team was all African American) down 20 points or so, that went like this: "five ten fifteen bucks. We own the company, you drive the trucks."
So tell me again, wingnut dipshit, how New Trier is above needing a little extra time to understand racism and its history.
"Once upon a time in America..."
I tried to guess before I read on. Brooks? Cokie and Steve? Alas, I was wrong. I don't know Ms Mull, but apparently I haven't missed much. DG, thanks for doing what you do, so we don't have to.
Yes, New Trier, that hotbed of left wing radicalism. [end sarcasm]
I'm going to need a neck brace soon due to all the head shaking I'm doing, JUST READING THE HEADLINES!
Squeers got his ass beat and had every bit of it coming to him.
I went to New Trier during the Nixon era. Back then we had all-day mandatory attendance seminars on sexually transmitted diseases. [This was pre-AIDS, mind you.] zzzzzzzz
In the mid-1990s (Unknown's time at NT, see above) the school had a small white supremacist clique that would occasionally get in trouble for passing out hate literature or scrawling swastikas on synagogues. One went on a 3-day shooting rampage in 1999, targeting non-whites/non-Christians --2 dead, 10 injured. The school doesn't want that to happen again.
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