This is what we are going up against. The primacy of stand-point epistemology(1) versus the common reality we all share is huge barrier to overcome as any sort of argument of discussion can be had. I think this is the situation that we have to prepare for when dealing with people who have been knowingly or unknowingly indoctrinated into a Critical Theory (2) mind-set.
The ‘social workers’ failed on every level to even engage in a substantive dialogue with Peter Boghossian. What was demonstrated in their failure to engage with Dr.Boghossian was an unwillingness to think outside their ideological box – they had the right answers – just count how many times the words “triggered” was used. These are proto-professionals who cannot engage with ideas that do not match their own. It’s completely fucking scary.
(1) – In summary, standpoint epistemology (and related identity-based epistemologies) are a complicated and widely discredited way to create and justify a kind of gnosticism around critical conceptions of identity and the relevant power dynamics in society. In practice, this typically means it is yet another justification within Theory for only people who agree with Theory to be considered knowledgeable authorities, which is then used to silence opposition and install “professionals” in positions of authority and power based on group identity alone—or, almost alone, as such people tend to have to present a critical consciousness, i.e., be woke Critical Social Justice activists, as well (see also, diversity and inclusion).
(2) – Max Horkheimer defined a “Critical Theory” in direct opposition to a “Traditional Theory” in a 1937 piece called Traditional and Critical Theory. Whereas a Traditional Theory is meant to be descriptive of some phenomenon, usually social, and aims to understand how it works and why it works that way, a Critical Theory should proceed from a prescriptive normative moral vision for society, describe how the item being critiqued fails that vision (usually in a systemic sense), and prescribe activism to subvert, dismantle, disrupt, overthrow, or change it—that is, generally, to break and then remake society in accordance with the particular critical theory’s prescribed vision. This use of the word “critical” is drawn from Marx’s insistence that everything be “ruthlessly” criticized and from his admonition that the point of studying society is to change it. Of note, then, a Critical Theory is only tangentially concerned with understanding or truth and has, as Hume might have it, abandoned descriptions of what is in favor of pushing for what the particular critical theory holds ought to be. The critical methodology, then, is the central object of concern, and it is the tool by which Social Justice scholarship and activism proceed.
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May 14, 2022 at 10:09 am
tildeb
Now check out Ontario’s Bill 67 here.
Highlights:
anti-racism means advancing racial equity
Every school board shall establish a racial equity plan for the schools of the board and require its schools to implement the plan. A performance review of results will be mandatory every three years.
If, in the opinion of the Minister (of Education), a report indicates that the board’s new teacher induction program does not include anti-racism and racial equity training the Minister shall inform the board of that fact and shall direct the board to further develop its anti-racism accountability program and resubmit the report
Anti-racism and racial equity training for new teachers:
A performance appraisal of a teacher shall include competencies related to a teacher’s anti-racism awareness and the teacher’s efforts to promote racial equity.
The Board plan and results shall be reviewed by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario. At least one member of the Council shall be a person who has expertise in racial equity in the post-secondary education sector.
If the Minister (of Education) learns, upon conducting an investigation or otherwise, that a member of the Council does not have a proven commitment to racial equity in the post-secondary education sector, the Minister shall require that member to take anti-racism training within the following six months.
Licensing for teachers by the Ontario College of Teachers requires student teachers to successfully complete any prescribed examinations and training in anti-racism for the issuance of the certificate.
The Board of Governors for any accredited university must have a racial equity representative who has expertise in racial equity in the education sector.
In all cases of prescribed groups that might be subjected to racism one group is missing: whites.
This Bill received unanimous approval from the three main political parties (New Democrats, Liberals, and Conservatives).
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Notice who is the ‘expert’ that oversees mandatory anti-racism programs and ACTIVISM at every level of publicly funded education is of the same mindset of certainty and graduate in the righteousness of the One True Faith as any of the dweebs revealed in this “Fuck You” video.
Oh… but CRT isn’t in the schools we’re told by these blind, deaf, and dumb racially religious critical apologists and ideologues. Yeah, there’s no institutional capture to see here… just move along… and pretend we’re not redefining the world to vulnerable and impressionable students in full blown racist colours.
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May 14, 2022 at 11:18 am
The Arbourist
@tildeb
Ontario teachers are so screwed. We have nothing, at present, like this in Alberta and thank heavens for that. To think that to get your teaching certificate you need to pass muster with a Race Commissar is abhorrent.
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May 14, 2022 at 12:59 pm
tildeb
As Ontario goes, so too does the ROC (except Quebec). And calling such ‘experts’ Commissars is exactly right: they are Marxist ideologues of the very worst kind because they see themselves as virtuous.
The thing that bothers me so much is that teachers not only have to embrace and teach CRT to be a teacher, but are ordered to DEMONSTRATE the children’s learning of it. This turns students into naïve activists and teachers into the foot soldiers for these woke ideologues. It imposes a political totalitarian ideology on those without any informed consent and grants these social justice wannabes full access to impose their Marxist CRT on everyone to produce a nation of racists. It is not only the death of education; it is the death knell of liberal democracy and a guaranteed path to authoritarianism.
If I were a parent with school age children, I’d pull them. And I’ve taught every level of education so that should say something. I would not advise any student to waste so much money to go to university. Today, universities are cesspools of the one correct ideology where critical thinking and respect for what’s knowable and true goes to die.
College and the trades is the last bastion where actual know-how seems to matter… assuming students might be able to respect reality long enough to learn about it. That will grow more dubious with each passing year.
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May 14, 2022 at 9:08 pm
hbyd
My indepth analysis of this is that if this bullshit continues much longer we’re all f*cked. Poor kids.
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May 15, 2022 at 9:55 am
tildeb
John F Young, former CEO of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, calls this ideology, “fascist in action and totalitarian in doctrine,” and one that forms an “allegiance to a singular, illiberal, gnostic perspective that rejects dialogue itself.”
That’s what we’re seeing here. This is woke activism played out in this video. This is what being woke does to one’s brain. Like a religious belief, it takes over the rational and substitutes faith in being virtuous.
Notice the non binary woman who considers herself a They ask Boghossian what he does and then – failing to listen to his answer of expertise in this very subject of gender – lectures him on why the reality of biology plays no part in assigning sex and that the spectrum of gender identity based on shifting feelings is what’s real and that ANY questioning of this causes ‘harm’. I love the ego demonstrated by another person telling Boghossian to consider what he’s ‘learned’ today from these social justice defenders of the victimized.
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May 15, 2022 at 9:57 am
The Arbourist
@Tildeb
Believe you me, I won’t be part of the CRT madness. If I see it in a provided lesson plan it will be modified with all due haste. The indoctrination will never be coming through me.
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May 15, 2022 at 10:00 am
The Arbourist
@ tildeb
What struck me was the hubris on display. They had no idea how to step back and evaluate their own systems and though processes.
Not being able to pause and reflect on issues – thinking there is only one correct way (their way) – is the sign of a indoctrinated mind.
That these were social workers who are going to interact with actual people in crisis – is kinda sickening.
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May 15, 2022 at 12:10 pm
tildeb
Like evangelical creationists, they already know The Truth (TM) and are certain in their righteousness. They carry the Good News! in their hearts and only wish to ‘share’ so that others may ‘benefit’.
Self doubt is not in their wheelhouse. Imagine… a university education leading to full on indoctrination.
From Lydia Perovic, émigré from the Balkans over 20 years ago, she observes,
“My adoptive country and my city are becoming unrecognizable. Conversations in the public sphere are changing, as are those in the media and the culture. Public speech increasingly must be premised with a recitation of pronouns — this is now even required of lawyers before B.C. courts and their clients — and land acknowledgements. What should those who do not share those religious and ideological beliefs do?”
Follow the new atheist model, I suggest: criticize false beliefs and respect what’s true. Not lying, not going along with lying, is a pretty good place to start.
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May 15, 2022 at 12:18 pm
tildeb
“The indoctrination will never be coming through me.”
That makes two of us but, in Ontario, it means you can’t be licensed to teach.
That’s what institutional capture looks like in action: a small group of extremists push a victimized agenda, use nice words like tolerance and diversity and equity and inclusion, get the sheep in positions of authority to be afraid, allow them to then choose the easier path and go along to get along with the extremists, and then reverse the meaning of these terms in policy. Fascism followed by totalitarianism. These students are so naïve and so ignorant that they can’t even see what they’re doing, can’t understand they are the intolerant jackbooted foot soldiers 2.0.
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May 15, 2022 at 12:47 pm
The Arbourist
@ tildeb
Taking a stand always has consequences. The forced teaming is definitely a thing. They don’t actually go into schools and institutions to promote their ‘values’ they go into to collect followers and sow division and strife within. If the capture is on a large enough scale the dissenters are pushed out and then we have another institution producing more crt drones ready to infect the next institution. :(
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May 15, 2022 at 1:54 pm
tildeb
This is why I was absolutely gobsmacked that the vote for this legislation received unanimous party approval (except for one independent vote). At every level of authority and oversight, the legislation demands an ‘expert’ DEI officer to be at the table to judge whether or not a subordinate whatever (board, admin, school admin, and teachers) had DEMONSTRATED CRT indoctrination to effect. And every teacher was to be reviewed for exactly this every three years. That turns CRT activism into a mandated part of the curriculum. That is unconscionable in a liberal democracy. This leaves me with no voting option.
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