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Getting To Be ‘Woke’

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Biden jumps in....and his worst enemies are the 'woke' way-Left Democrats!

Woke???

How did the formerly American political party get to be Bolsheviks????



1.The most succinct definition of woke appears to be simply observing another person’s skin color, and deciding that you know all there is to know about them…and how to react to them.

Remember when the Left/Liberals/Democrats claimed not to judge by said characteristics???? Seems to be Orwellian ‘Doublespeak’…..“War is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.” And now, “Melanin Matters.”




2. Government schooling is the vehicle for the insanity that grips the nation, it gets 'em to be woke, not educated.....and if it is not wrested back from the Left, there is no hope. The forces that oppose the civilization we bask in today have advanced via Dewey, Spock, and the Self-Esteem Movement.

The most important influence in the education of American children is John Dewey.

John Dewey was a communist dupe, a Potemkin Progressive. Yet, this man is the greatest single influence on American schoolchildren; his books have been used to train generations of teachers. Even while the Russian civil war was still going on (some seven million killed between 1917 and 1921), Dewey’s books were translated into Russian by the Bolsheviks: they immediately recognized the importance of his ideas to the Soviet collective communist state.

  1. 1918, “School’s of Tomorrow,” published in Russian.
  2. 1919, “How We Think,” published in Russian.
  3. 1920, “The School and Society,” published in Russian.
  4. 1921, “Democracy and Education,” published in Russian. The English version, of course, became a bible at Columbia Teacher’s College.


In 1928, Dewey, on his trip to the Soviet, was given the full Potemkin treatment. He laughed off the possibility of his being manipulated…”the warning, which appears humorous in retrospect by my kindly friends is that I would be fooled by being taken to show places…” Of course, immediately upon returning, he wrote a six part series for The New Republic, the political ‘font of all knowledge’ of the American left. “My mind was in a whirl of new impressions in those early days in Leningrad. Readjustment was difficult, and I lived somewhat dazed….” Impressions of Soviet Russia, by John Dewey.




3. The next bombshell was Dr. Benjamin Spock’s “Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care,” which also place the blame for all societal problems on the rigidity of old-school parenting. Spock, another communist, warned parents not to impose their views on their children.

Here’s a pretty good analysis of the effects: "I have been a child psychologist for over 40 years and have witnessed an epidemic of troubled, self-centered and out of control children. [Pretty good description of the 'woke' generation].

It is the legacy of Sigmund Freud and his disciples from Dr. Benjamin Spock to Dr. T. Berry Brazelton. According to Spock, whose child-rearing book, “Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care” has become one of the all-time best sellers worldwide, “kids don’t have to be disciplined into adulthood but can direct themselves toward adulthood by following their own will.”


Signs are everywhere of children being led into misery by their own will, in the eyes of desperate parents seeking help, in the $14.5 billion dollar sales of medications to treat behavioral disorders, and in the disturbing behavior of children themselves. Today, we have such atrocities as school shootings, unthinkable before the first publication of Spock’s book in 1946.” Azerrad: Children of Spock and Brazelton


And the central issue…..the Self-Esteem Movement.

Next.
 
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2020 will be the old guard dems against the "woked" progressive young. I'm thinking that Biden doesn't have a chance after the field of 20 or more gets whittled down to 2 or 3. Then at the convention Biden and Bernie are toast because the dems will go full socialism agenda and platform.
 
4.The distinction between the views of the Left and the Right in education is about which comes first: achievement or self-esteem. Progressive Education aims to “level the playing field.” Translation: “lower the standards.” Everyone’s work goes up on the walls because it’s not fair to judge a child’s work as there are no wrong answers, only life experiences.

‘Lost in all the chanting for change is the core commitment to impart actual knowledge. For progressives in the Age of Obama, setting high academic standards is secondary to the self-improvement of the "whole child" and "service" to the cause of social justice.’ The Three R's in the Age of Obama: Rappin', Revolution and Radicalism


Research demonstrates that true self-esteem arise from true achievement, and also shows that kids with the highest self-esteem, particularly minority youngsters, often show distressingly low achievement levels as well as sundry pathologies.





5.' In the light of the essential nature of emotion to the Left, it makes perfect sense that they have created the (highly destructive) self-esteem movement, based on how one feels about oneself. Of course, it is always quite a high number for Leftists, convinced that they are brighter, kinder, finer, more sophisticated, more enlightened, more selfless, and, of course, more intellectual.'
Dennis Prager





“A 1989 study of mathematical skills compared students in eight different countries. American students ranked lowest in mathematical competence and Korean students ranked highest. But the researchers also asked students to rate how good they were at mathematics. The Americans ranked highest in self-judged mathematical ability, while the Koreans ranked lowest….
There is no evidence that high self-esteem reliably causes anything.”
Catholic Education Resource Center



In fact, feeling good is so central to Liberalism, that it is a higher value than truth. The Left has changed American school textbooks from books attempting to convey history to books attempting to make women and members of select minorities feel good about themselves. Democrat lawmakers pass laws demanding that textbooks be rewritten to include more Democrat Party blocs.
California Gay Textbooks Proposal Would Require LGBT Lessons In Schools




As long as the Left/Liberals/Democrats continue to control the schools, America will continue in the death spiral of the woke generation.
 
The most succinct definition of woke appears to be simply observing another person’s skin color, and deciding that you know all there is to know about them…and how to react to them.
So all you conservative types are "woke" then?

Who knew!!
 
The most succinct definition of woke appears to be simply observing another person’s skin color, and deciding that you know all there is to know about them…and how to react to them.
So all you conservative types are "woke" then?

Who knew!!
Any white person who votes for Progs are fools in today's political climate. Biden has even hired one of the arbiters of propaganda hate to run his campaign. I am telling you. Let some of your cities get torched. You will receive the same sympathy you give.
 
The most succinct definition of woke appears to be simply observing another person’s skin color, and deciding that you know all there is to know about them…and how to react to them.
So all you conservative types are "woke" then?

Who knew!!
Any white person who votes for Progs are fools in today's political climate. Biden has even hired one of the arbiters of propaganda hate to run his campaign. I am telling you. Let some of your cities get torched. You will receive the same sympathy you give.
So that's a "yes" then?
 
4.The distinction between the views of the Left and the Right in education is about which comes first: achievement or self-esteem. Progressive Education aims to “level the playing field.” Translation: “lower the standards.” Everyone’s work goes up on the walls because it’s not fair to judge a child’s work as there are no wrong answers, only life experiences.

‘Lost in all the chanting for change is the core commitment to impart actual knowledge. For progressives in the Age of Obama, setting high academic standards is secondary to the self-improvement of the "whole child" and "service" to the cause of social justice.’ The Three R's in the Age of Obama: Rappin', Revolution and Radicalism


Research demonstrates that true self-esteem arise from true achievement, and also shows that kids with the highest self-esteem, particularly minority youngsters, often show distressingly low achievement levels as well as sundry pathologies.





5.' In the light of the essential nature of emotion to the Left, it makes perfect sense that they have created the (highly destructive) self-esteem movement, based on how one feels about oneself. Of course, it is always quite a high number for Leftists, convinced that they are brighter, kinder, finer, more sophisticated, more enlightened, more selfless, and, of course, more intellectual.'
Dennis Prager





“A 1989 study of mathematical skills compared students in eight different countries. American students ranked lowest in mathematical competence and Korean students ranked highest. But the researchers also asked students to rate how good they were at mathematics. The Americans ranked highest in self-judged mathematical ability, while the Koreans ranked lowest….
There is no evidence that high self-esteem reliably causes anything.”
Catholic Education Resource Center



In fact, feeling good is so central to Liberalism, that it is a higher value than truth. The Left has changed American school textbooks from books attempting to convey history to books attempting to make women and members of select minorities feel good about themselves. Democrat lawmakers pass laws demanding that textbooks be rewritten to include more Democrat Party blocs.
California Gay Textbooks Proposal Would Require LGBT Lessons In Schools




As long as the Left/Liberals/Democrats continue to control the schools, America will continue in the death spiral of the woke generation.

We used to call it the "dumbing down" of the US education system. If you track how the US kids do against the rest of the world we're losing badly. Why is that? Social promotion? Too many low IQ kids; the upper and middle class are not forming families and raising smart kids? The progressives don't like data analysis disproving their beautiful theories; i.e. their beautiful theories are killed by those ugly little facts...
 
Yeah I don't see how Biden can win over the new order of democrats by claiming to be "woke". Liberals have been demonizing historical persons despite those person views having involved. Gonna be hard to make a case for allowing Biden a "woke" pass when you're burning Dr Seuss books and tearing down statues of Kate Smith.
 
The most succinct definition of woke appears to be simply observing another person’s skin color, and deciding that you know all there is to know about them…and how to react to them.
So all you conservative types are "woke" then?

Who knew!!

What a syphilitic idiot you are.....

Even you know this:
The Democrat Party is now running on full-blown anti-white racism, socialism, infanticide, opposition to free speech, substituting illegal alien voters for the American citizenry, and anti-Semitism…




Bet you are a result of government schooling, huh?
 
4.The distinction between the views of the Left and the Right in education is about which comes first: achievement or self-esteem. Progressive Education aims to “level the playing field.” Translation: “lower the standards.” Everyone’s work goes up on the walls because it’s not fair to judge a child’s work as there are no wrong answers, only life experiences.

‘Lost in all the chanting for change is the core commitment to impart actual knowledge. For progressives in the Age of Obama, setting high academic standards is secondary to the self-improvement of the "whole child" and "service" to the cause of social justice.’ The Three R's in the Age of Obama: Rappin', Revolution and Radicalism


Research demonstrates that true self-esteem arise from true achievement, and also shows that kids with the highest self-esteem, particularly minority youngsters, often show distressingly low achievement levels as well as sundry pathologies.





5.' In the light of the essential nature of emotion to the Left, it makes perfect sense that they have created the (highly destructive) self-esteem movement, based on how one feels about oneself. Of course, it is always quite a high number for Leftists, convinced that they are brighter, kinder, finer, more sophisticated, more enlightened, more selfless, and, of course, more intellectual.'
Dennis Prager





“A 1989 study of mathematical skills compared students in eight different countries. American students ranked lowest in mathematical competence and Korean students ranked highest. But the researchers also asked students to rate how good they were at mathematics. The Americans ranked highest in self-judged mathematical ability, while the Koreans ranked lowest….
There is no evidence that high self-esteem reliably causes anything.”
Catholic Education Resource Center



In fact, feeling good is so central to Liberalism, that it is a higher value than truth. The Left has changed American school textbooks from books attempting to convey history to books attempting to make women and members of select minorities feel good about themselves. Democrat lawmakers pass laws demanding that textbooks be rewritten to include more Democrat Party blocs.
California Gay Textbooks Proposal Would Require LGBT Lessons In Schools




As long as the Left/Liberals/Democrats continue to control the schools, America will continue in the death spiral of the woke generation.

We used to call it the "dumbing down" of the US education system. If you track how the US kids do against the rest of the world we're losing badly. Why is that? Social promotion? Too many low IQ kids; the upper and middle class are not forming families and raising smart kids? The progressives don't like data analysis disproving their beautiful theories; i.e. their beautiful theories are killed by those ugly little facts...




You couldn't be more right!

Abraham Lincoln is credited with saying that the philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.





Now....how do we take back control of the schools?????
 
Yeah I don't see how Biden can win over the new order of democrats by claiming to be "woke". Liberals have been demonizing historical persons despite those person views having involved. Gonna be hard to make a case for allowing Biden a "woke" pass when you're burning Dr Seuss books and tearing down statues of Kate Smith.


I don't believe he will try to be more 'woke.'

His best path is to let the woke contingent bump each other off.

I have lots of other reasons to despise Biden.


Here's one:
Joe Biden: ‘I’ve Never Been Gainfully Employed In My Life’
Joe Biden: ‘I’ve Never Been Gainfully Employed In My Life’ | Breitbart



And another:

. [C]hairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joseph Biden,…[t]he Delaware Democrat was one of seventeen Senators who voted in 1974 to ban all covert operations, and proudly noted during his 1988 campaign for president that he had threatened to “go public” with covert action plans by the Reagan administration, causing them to cancel the operations.
Congressional Oversight and the Crippling of the CIA Congressional Oversight and the Crippling of the CIA | History News Network

Many believe that this move by the Democrats resulted in 9/11
 
‘Woke’…..just one more agenda in a long line of failed, stupid, counter-intuitive and just plain insane plans by the Left/Liberals/Democrats.




5.“It would be hard to overstate the long-term impact of these claims [about the benefits of self-esteem]. The self-esteem craze changed how countless organizations were run, how an entire generation — millennials — was educated, and how that generation went on to perceive itself (quite favorably). As it turned out, the central claim underlying the trend, that there’s a causal relationship between self-esteem and various positive outcomes, was almost certainly inaccurate.
How the Self-Esteem Craze Took Over America




But the Left has proven to be relentlessly wrong about everything….criminality included.

“I’ve read hundreds of files on criminals,” Deputy Attorney General Brian Taugher told a United Press International journalist. “Some people end up in a life of serious crime simply because they dislike themselves.” Here and elsewhere, correlation and causation were endlessly confused. That is: Of course it shouldn’t be surprising if many criminals have low self-esteem. That’s because people who are criminals tend to have a lot of bad stuff going on in their lives. It doesn’t prove self-esteem caused their criminality, or that had someone had bolstered their self-esteem at a young age, they wouldn’t have ended up committing crimes anyway.”
Ibid.




How about the effects of Liberal criminal 'justice'....

Carter-appointed judge Norma Shapiro “ is one of the worst offenders among that influential cadre of federal judges who have substituted the ACLU's prisoners' rights wish list for the Bill of Rights and have trifled with public safety concerns. …single-handedly decriminalized property and drug crimes in the City of Brotherly Love….And in the past 18 months alone, 9,732 arrestees, out on the streets on pre-trial release because of her prison cap, were arrested on second charges, including 79 murders, 90 rapes, 701 burglaries, 959 robberies, 1,113 assaults, 2,215 drug offenses and 2,748 thefts….Activist judges such as Shapiro and Justice assert that prison crowding violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments. But there is no empirical evidence to substantiate this assertion. In every study of the subject, the widely believed negative effects of crowding - violence, program disruption, health problems and so on - are nowhere in evidence.”
http://articles.philly.com/1994-10-31/news/25870404_1_prison-cap-prison-violence-crime-bill/3


In 1992, black youths were nine times more likely to be murdered than white youths. Liberals lied, black kids died.
 
Biden jumps in....and his worst enemies are the 'woke' way-Left Democrats!

Woke???

How did the formerly American political party get to be Bolsheviks????



1.The most succinct definition of woke appears to be simply observing another person’s skin color, and deciding that you know all there is to know about them…and how to react to them.

Remember when the Left/Liberals/Democrats claimed not to judge by said characteristics???? Seems to be Orwellian ‘Doublespeak’…..“War is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength.” And now, “Melanin Matters.”




2. Government schooling is the vehicle for the insanity that grips the nation, it gets 'em to be woke, not educated.....and if it is not wrested back from the Left, there is no hope. The forces that oppose the civilization we bask in today have advanced via Dewey, Spock, and the Self-Esteem Movement.

The most important influence in the education of American children is John Dewey.

John Dewey was a communist dupe, a Potemkin Progressive. Yet, this man is the greatest single influence on American schoolchildren; his books have been used to train generations of teachers. Even while the Russian civil war was still going on (some seven million killed between 1917 and 1921), Dewey’s books were translated into Russian by the Bolsheviks: they immediately recognized the importance of his ideas to the Soviet collective communist state.

  1. 1918, “School’s of Tomorrow,” published in Russian.
  2. 1919, “How We Think,” published in Russian.
  3. 1920, “The School and Society,” published in Russian.
  4. 1921, “Democracy and Education,” published in Russian. The English version, of course, became a bible at Columbia Teacher’s College.


In 1928, Dewey, on his trip to the Soviet, was given the full Potemkin treatment. He laughed off the possibility of his being manipulated…”the warning, which appears humorous in retrospect by my kindly friends is that I would be fooled by being taken to show places…” Of course, immediately upon returning, he wrote a six part series for The New Republic, the political ‘font of all knowledge’ of the American left. “My mind was in a whirl of new impressions in those early days in Leningrad. Readjustment was difficult, and I lived somewhat dazed….” Impressions of Soviet Russia, by John Dewey.




3. The next bombshell was Dr. Benjamin Spock’s “Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care,” which also place the blame for all societal problems on the rigidity of old-school parenting. Spock, another communist, warned parents not to impose their views on their children.

Here’s a pretty good analysis of the effects: "I have been a child psychologist for over 40 years and have witnessed an epidemic of troubled, self-centered and out of control children. [Pretty good description of the 'woke' generation].

It is the legacy of Sigmund Freud and his disciples from Dr. Benjamin Spock to Dr. T. Berry Brazelton. According to Spock, whose child-rearing book, “Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care” has become one of the all-time best sellers worldwide, “kids don’t have to be disciplined into adulthood but can direct themselves toward adulthood by following their own will.”


Signs are everywhere of children being led into misery by their own will, in the eyes of desperate parents seeking help, in the $14.5 billion dollar sales of medications to treat behavioral disorders, and in the disturbing behavior of children themselves. Today, we have such atrocities as school shootings, unthinkable before the first publication of Spock’s book in 1946.” Azerrad: Children of Spock and Brazelton


And the central issue…..the Self-Esteem Movement.

Next.

In order to be Woke one must scoop out his or her eyes so the ancient truths can no longer be seen. This is the way of the radical Left; a pandemic outbreak of self-blinding.
 
As long as the Left/Liberals/Democrats continue to control the schools, America will continue in the death spiral of the woke generation.
Curious that all the schools in those Red states are still controlled by Dems. I guess the GOP doesn't care about education, at least not public school education.
 
As long as the Left/Liberals/Democrats continue to control the schools, America will continue in the death spiral of the woke generation.
Curious that all the schools in those Red states are still controlled by Dems. I guess the GOP doesn't care about education, at least not public school education.


You do an awful lot of guessing.....how about you give education a try?



Here...let me start you off.


  1. The radicals of the sixties did not remain within the universities…They realized that the apocalypse never materialized. “…they were dropping off into environmentalism and consumerism and fatalism…I watched many of my old comrades apply to graduate school in universities they had failed to burn down, so they could get advanced degrees and spread the ideas that had been discredited in the streets under an academic cover.” Collier and Horowitz, “Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About The Sixties,” p. 294-295.
  2. “The radicals were not likely to go into business or the conventional practice of the professions. They were part of the chattering class, talkers interested in policy, politics, culture. They went into politics, print and electronic journalism, church bureaucracies, foundation staffs, Hollywood careers, public interest organizations, anywhere attitudes and opinions could be influenced. And they are exerting influence.” Robert H. Bork, “Slouching Toward Gomorrah,” p. 51
  3. “[The radicals] did not go away or change their minds; the New Left shattered into a multitude of single-issue groups. We now have, to name a few, radical feminists, black extremists, animal rights groups, radical environmentalists, activist homosexual organizations, multiculturalists, organizations such as People for the American Way, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), the National Organization for Women (NOW), and Planned Parenthood.” Robert H. Bork, “Slouching Toward Gomorrah,” p. 53
  4. “The youthful radicals propelled a new set of values from the fringes to the midst of contemporary social conflict.” Rothman and Lichter, “Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians, and the New Left,” p. 392-394 Thus the themes and traits of the New Left have become prominent in today’s culture, and everything has become, ultimately, political. The result of the politicization of the culture is that one’s opponents are not merely wrong, but are morally evil, and, therefore, one may wish every affliction to befall them.
 
6.Self-esteem is central to the Left because it is runs counter to the things they hate: religion, and capitalism, neither of which award points based on how you feel about yourself.

Radio host Dennis Prager tells this story about how he learned about self-centeredness. One day in his religious school, at a time regularly set for prayer, he told the rabbi, “I don’t feel like praying right now.’

The rabbi’s response was ‘who cares how you feel.’

Responsibility was more important than his feelings at the moment. Quite a lesson. Capitalism, as well, which only rewards based on one’s ability to provide goods and services that others want.





7. But the Left relies on a simple statistic: as long as they can point out any difference in outcome for different groups, well, then, there must be racism, sexism, bigotry of one sort or another….and the system must be destroyed.

The anodyne is for ‘victimized’ groups to restore their self-esteem by allying with other such groups. And the concept of ‘intersectionality’ is based simply on the victim-group one belongs to.
Intersectionality: your identity is based on the group you belong to, with those groups ranked based on how much of a victim you are. Black, woman, Hispanic, transgender, gay, whatever.


And what theses groups do to advance their premise?

Bully and threaten.

Next.
 
Maybe the Democrats and their low information (ignorant) followers should stop celebrating Ebonics, and speak proper ENGLISH.
 

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