How many mouths will this feed? How many roofs built? How many alliances forged?
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I wonder how they'll try to walk it back once they realize that they effectively banned teaching religion in schools
Rules for theeeeeee
Out with the DEI hires, in with the DUI hires
Oh America, get it the fuck together.
That's not going to happen for a long time. Our education system is a shit show. We'd need a whole lot of stupid people to stop voting and a whole lot of candidates who actually believe in public service.
I honestly don't understand how these asshats can think that "diversity" doesn't also include white folks. Or that "equity" doesn't also include white folks. Or the "inclusion" doesn't also include white folks.
Teaching kids to respect each other, regardless of their race, religion, sex or gender, is never a bad thing.
I honestly don't understand how these asshats can think that "diversity"
Same way articles written by the brainless called Black Panther "the most diverse movie ever"-- it's a buzzword, people don't think about or register what the word actually means
Simple answer is - because whites are excluded in every single advertisement of this and left likes to blame whites for existing. And I know I am ruffling some feather and that most of left doesn't actually do that, but the loud and visible part does. And I also once fell for that and became pretty pissed at the whole idea of diversity, it felt forced and weird. Only I learned later that I was fed the cases where it was badly applied...most people aren't, however, inquisitive enough to actually expand horizons.
It's worse than that. Kids aren't born into this world racist, sexist, and hating, they get taught that either from exposure to it or directly. Of course they see other kids are different to them, but they're fine with that until adults teach them otherwise.
Which is exactly why things like DEI need to be taught in schools.
If parents are racist...they teach their kids to be racist. And that comes out when they go to school and encounter other kids that their parents have taught them to hate. There is no better place to push back on that, than in the place where they encounter those other kids.
Teachers should not be forced to turn a blind eye to that hate. They should be required to teach kids a better way of interacting with each other, because it solves two major problems at once...
A)...it provides every kid in that school with a safer learning environment.
And B)...it might actually prevent some of those kids from growing up to also teach their kids to be racist, and end the generational learning curve that perpetuates racism in the 1st place.
Absolutely. My post was just about how kids begin with a DEI mindset and that gets removed from them. What you're talking about is reinforcing the normal, especially for those kids in bad environments. The issue then becomes the schools not having the backing to fight the eventual angry parents and their lawyers because their child is being shown that their parents are wrong. Schools used to be able to push back, but they bend over at anything now for fear of lawsuits and/or funding cut and jobs lost.
Education is one of the most critical careers we have, and yet it's underpaid and attacked constantly for doing their job.
They don't think.
Ask someone who is supporting all this anti-DEI stuff what DEI stands for. They either won't have a clue, or if they do, you've found yourself a bigot who is find with oppressing others.
You shall find your answers if you follow the path of power, which in time will lead into the Forest of Money, and after many days shall lead into the Heart of Dissension. All of it found in the Realm of Mockery.
For you see, many of the Republican leaders aren't stupid. They are quite smart. However, they collectively have very similar character traits:
- Propensity for hatred
- Superhuman ability to project
- Stupendously fragile ego
- Thirst for power not for, just against
- Diligence against learning
- Frightened to challenge their own beliefs
- Terror of ostracisation
- Desire to fit in
They hate so strongly that they refuse to understand that the "values" they have are projections of their own ego in their thirst for power. This desire for authority is never to help others, it's to stomp on those who challenge their fragile beliefs lest they get questioned too hard and are kicked from the many mini cults they subscribe to. Don't believe me? Play "I'm an Imaginary Republican in 2025!"
"This goes against..! -> "OBAMA..." -> [insert personal attack] -> "My constituents could never..." -> "In 1847..." -> covers ears "LA LA LA" -> Other holdout Republicans begin voting yes on destroying the Universe and all who live within it -> Votes "Yes" trying to be the last holdout because his colleagues know what he's doing and salty because they know his base probably loved it
I mean we're talking about appealing to a voting block who still fly confederate flags. They're not exactly intelligent or reasonable people..