Jason Stanley writes in Literary Hub of
How the Far-Right Uses Educational Takeover to Impose Its Agenda
Jason Stanley on the Ongoing Fight Against Creeping Fascism in American Schools
“Wars are won by teachers.”
–Vladimir Putin
They are won by soldiers. Shame, his soldiers are shit. This isn't the fault of Russian teachers who have turned out just as good physicists and mathematicians and so forth as Chinese or American teachers. It is the fault of bad leadership.
In a prescient 1995 address at Howard University titled “Racism and Fascism,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison
who wasn't a big fan of the Jews
warned of forces within the United States “interested in fascist solutions to national problems.”
Unlike Alice Walker, she didn't read David Icke and thus wasn't aware that the fascist threat is just part and parcel of the wider conspiracy by shape-shifting lizard people from Planet X.
These fascist solutions, she explained, involve both representations and practices—in other words, what fascists say or believe and what they do.
Also the fact that they iz White. Why can't White peeps at least have black stripes- like zebras? Would that be too much to ask? Still, Toni thought Bill Clinton was bleck. That's why an evil Jewess raped him.
As Morrison pointed out, representations and practices can be mutually reinforcing.
Like how White peeps who represent themselves as White end up practicing Whiteness instead of eating grass the way zebras do.
Representations can make practices that would otherwise be unacceptable seem normal and justified,
Which is why TV should not show representations of murder and rape.
while practices can make representations seem retrospectively apt.
Eg. the practice of having babies pop out of your vagina can lead to your representation of yourself as female appear apt.
The representation of immigrants as dangerous criminals justifies the practice of penning them in large prison-like centers;
Under Operation Wetback, over a million people weren't imprisoned, they were simply deported to Mexico. No one said they were criminals.
once they are there, the fact that they are imprisoned leads some to conclude that they must be dangerous.
Nonsense! We know there are plenty of people in jail for non-violent crimes.
To understand the power that fascism can wield in the realm of education,
is to understand nonsense. Education doesn't matter. Beating does.
it is first necessary to understand some of its representations and practices. According to the Nazi political theorist Carl Schmitt, “[t]he specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.”
Schmitt was obviously wrong. Sometimes you kill your friend to get his job. You may ally with an enemy to do so. Still, I suppose people thought of Schleicher, not Hitler, as the guy who always betrayed his friends.
Which is to say, for fascists, being political means defining oneself against an enemy.
For a party which seeks power, the enemy is the guys who have power. That's how politics works.
As such, fascist regimes selectively disenfranchise certain segments of their population
Jim Crow America did that. Weimar didn't. But it ended up with Hitler because there was a Communist threat.
and violently cast them into what the political philosopher Elizabeth F. Cohen calls “semi-citizenship,” in order to emphasize the virtue and worth of the dominant group.
This guy mentions Toni Morrison but doesn't seem to get that African Americans and First Nations had it worse in America for much much longer. Yet America wasn't Fascist.
A fascist form of life…requires an education system that can validate the dominant group’s elevated status as a justified consequence of history.
Nope. Education doesn't matter. Beating and killing people is what matters. America, of course, had lynch law. Why pay guys to do genocide when you can just sit back and let the mob do the job for free?
Fascist regimes are also typically organized around a charismatic leader
Franco wasn't charismatic. Primo de Rivera was and his execution was kept secret for a couple of years lest it adversely affect the morale of the Nationalists.
—and form social and political cultures centered on that leader, who is taken to be the violent and powerful protector of the nation.
There is no need if the dude is boring but can have you killed.
Russia’s Vladimir Putin is a clear contemporary example.
He has the charisma of a dead goldfish. But his goons can kill you.
All of Russia is centered around Putin’s rule, and Putin is represented as the powerful male leader upon whose shoulders Russian greatness rests. But fascism can also be leaderless.
No. There has to be a leader- even if he is boring.
The southern United States under the Jim Crow system of segregation, for example, was governed by a form of racial fascism premised not on a single powerful leader, but on decentralized groups of vigilantes and terrorists.
That was racism, not Fascism. Whites could still vote for whom they pleased. Generally, this was Democratic Presidential candidates.
To fully understand the imminent threat of fascism today,
there is no such threat because there is no internal Communist threat
we must pay careful attention to fascist movements that are not necessarily based on reverence for the leader.
Reverence does not matter. Having a leader who kills his opponents is all that counts.
Regardless of how it is led, a fascist culture, or form of life, often has certain features that make it an ideal environment for fascist politics.
Since Fascism is political, its culture is nothing but its brand of politics.
These cultures will, for instance, elevate an already dominant group of people to a mythic status, exalting them as “the people” who constitute the nation, while relegating others to second-class citizenship.
It may do. It may not. Some Fascist movements- e.g. the English Mistery- were feudal and wanted power to revert to the aristocracy.
From a fascist perspective, egalitarianism is a threat because it promises to upset this hierarchy.
By killing the Dictator and his henchmen. This threat is best combatted by killing those who might possibly do so.
The threat is felt so acutely that fascists are led to take joy in cruelty against those outside this group,
Americans took great joy in slaughtering Muslims in their stupid 'war on terror'.
and others who stand to benefit from greater equality. A fascist form of life is suffused with fear that others will achieve equal status, a possibility cynically exploited in fascist politics.
Bosses are fascists because they don't want you to become equal to them. So are Mummies. Why does she get to tell me when to go to bed and not the other way around?
A fascist form of life also has certain requirements. Perhaps most importantly, it requires an education system that can validate the dominant group’s elevated status as a justified consequence of history rather than the fabricated result of intentional choices.
Teachers may tell kids that teaching is important. Kids don't believe them because they drive shitty cars.
It does this, as we will see, by selectively doctoring the historical record, erasing perspectives and events that are unflattering to the dominant group, and replacing them with a unitary, simplified account that supports its ideological ends.
If education had any such power, teachers would be knee deep in pussy. Also they would drive nice cars.
In recent years, for example, the United States has seen a wave of right-wing political interference in education focused on banning certain concepts, authors, and books from schools’ libraries and curricula.
Some politicians get votes that way. Good luck to them.
The unstated goal of these bans is to erase the perspectives and histories of marginalized groups, including most prominently the history of Black Americans, whose ancestors were enslaved and brutally subjugated in this country.
That goal is unstated because it is silly. There is a wide difference between my not wanting to know about your complicated history of incontinence and the erasure from every human mind of the memory of your shitting yourself at the office party. Also, it isn't really true that 'Albert Einstein regularly shat himself as part of his affirmation of his African heritage.' President Obama- maybe. But not Beyonce. Never Beyonce.
These bans target especially concepts and theories used to explain how that subjugation operated,
paranoid gibberish
how it has changed over time and persisted to this day, and how it might be challenged—concepts such as structural racism, intersectionality, and critical race theory (CRT).
Stupid concepts can't challenge shit. On the other hand it is true that Critical Death Theory- which shows how Death can be challenged by saying it is part of a Neo-Liberal conspiracy financed by Undertakers- can prevent disabled lesbians of colour from encountering the Grim Reaper.
The concept of structural racism, for instance, is targeted because it explains racial subjugation not in terms of individual bigotry, but as a result of underlying systems and practices—whether in housing,
Why didn't Biden turn over the White House to me? Is it coz I iz bleck?
schooling,
Why did I not get into Medical Skool? Is it coz I iz bleck?
banking,
Why does my bank not give me all its money?
policing,
How come White police officers aren't bleck? Is it because they are racist?
or the criminal legal system.
How is it that Biden isn't in jail even though he hasn't undergone gender reassignment surgery? Dicks cause RAPE! Ban them immediately.
It explains, for example, that the racial wealth gap in America (which is so extreme that Black Americans possess just over 15 percent of white Americans’ wealth)
Wealth takes time to accumulate. Indian Americans have higher median income than Whites but their net wealth may be lower.
is a product of racist policies such as discriminatory lending and redlining.
Which Law Professors- like Obama- know how to counter. CRT was useless as was intersectionality
The concept of intersectionality, introduced by the law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, reveals the particularly acute harms inflicted on groups that are at the intersection of multiple oppressions.
Currently, you only get the reward associated with ticking one box. Thus if you are a disabled, lesbian who smells bad, you only get the reward for being disabled even if your bad smell severely disadvantages you in lesbian society.
Critical race theory is the study of these concepts, and emerged from the work of American legal theorists in the 1980s and 1990s, centrally including Harvard Law professor Derrick Bell,
a potential High Court or even Supreme Court judge who took a wrong turning.
Northeastern professor Patricia J. Williams
whose 'diary of a mad law professor' was exactly that
, and Professor Crenshaw.
who was a gift to the Federalists.
In the rhetoric of those who seek to ban it, the term “critical race theory” has morphed into something completely unrelated to its true meaning,
the problem with it is that it can be criticized as something stupid law professors came up with so as to increase the hiring of stupid people of their own colour. They had an interest in 'socially constructing' a paranoid delusion system in which they mattered despite their evident uselessness and stupidity.
and is imagined as something like a system for dividing groups into categories of oppressor and oppressed, the purpose of which is to saddle white people with a permanent and debilitating sense of guilt for the wrongdoing of their ancestors.
Why not just vote for Trump? Oh. That's the point. The reason these nutters were put on the faculty was to scare students straight.
In erasing these concepts, or transforming them into meaningless slogans, the recent right-wing campaign of educational suppression seeks to eliminate an important means of understanding Black history.
Did you know White peeps invented Blackness? I used to have blue eyes when I was born. White peeps caused them to become dark brown. Also, I really wanted to have wings so as to fly up into the sky. White peeps were all like 'if darkies start flying they will shit on our heads.' That's why I don't have a nice pair of wings.
But critical race theory and Black history are impossible to separate.
Because White peeps put superglue into the anus of Critical Race Theory. Incidentally, Black History isn't Gay. Anyway, it happened at a Liberal Arts College when everybody experiments.
History is the study of not just people and events but also the practices, structures, and institutions that shape them.
History is the subject which informs us that Fascism isn't now and has never been what Stanley says it is. If there is a Communist threat which can't be handled by the police and the Army, then there is Fascism. Otherwise there is nothing unless, as in Romania, there are too many unemployed graduates and all the people in power, from the King downward, are crazier than bedbugs.
Without accounting for these forces, history is rendered flat and malleable—ideal for manipulation by fascist politics.
There is no point 'manipulating' History. If there were, smart peeps- as opposed to crazy shitheads- would be doing it.
When fascists attempt to rewrite history, they sometimes claim that they are erasing only theories and interpretations of history, which they claim to be biased, rather than underlying historical events.
No. They are saying that Leftist nutters told a bunch of stupid lies.
But they know well that their interventions result in the erasure of events themselves,
Why not hire historians to 'erase' 9/11 and thus save thousands of lives?
as well as the patterns they form. In her celebrated 2021 book, America on Fire, the historian Elizabeth Hinton identifies a recurring pattern in mid-twentieth-century US history that she calls “the cycle,” in which over-policing and police violence elicit rebellions within the communities these practices affect.
Then people get sick and tired of being mugged so the cycle repeats itself.
This pattern, she explains, “helped define urban life in segregated, low-income, Black, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican communities,” and ultimately “put this nation on the path to mass incarceration.”
Why not genocide? How about a return to slavery? Did you know Christopher Columbus was Jewish? Netan-Yahoo plans to conquer America and force everybody to give up eating hot dogs.
Hinton’s thesis is based not in abstract theory, but
hysterical fantasy. Still, she is Black and thus knows that Harris will be shot by a police officer if she ever dares take possession of the 'White' House. They may also force her to grow a penis. 99 percent of African American men were born female but were surgically altered by Jewish physicians so as to feed 'carceral capitalism'.
in an account of the historical forces and events that led the United States to where it is today.
US is only Rich and Powerful because it was racist and misogynistic. By electing Harris we can ensure the US becomes poor and weak.
Without this history, it is impossible to understand, for example, how and why the United States came to have the largest prison population of any country in the world.
There was a time when Americans objected to being robbed or raped. We must change attitudes. Teachers should personally sodomize all the kids in their class while also stealing their lunch money. That way, the voters of the future will come to feel respect and admiration for those who rape and rob them in a sufficiently brutal manner.
Hinton’s work shows how institutions—from urban police to public housing and segregated, underfunded schools—have, through their practices, entrenched a racially unjust status quo.
Only because penises still exist. George Washington should have banned them.
Ultimately, it is not possible to teach the history of what happened to Black Americans without teaching about structural racism.
Ultimately, it not possible to learn anything useful from the history of Black Americans or Lesbian Nigerians or flatulent South Indian peeps. The Chinese teach their kids STEM subjects. Their economy surpassed the US in purchasing power parity terms a decade ago.
When these concepts are banned, the result is, in practice, to forbid schools from teaching any honest account of US history.
Private schools can teach any nonsense they like.
The Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective (ARTLC) is an
useless and stupid
organization in Connecticut that brings together teachers, organizers, and students
i.e. stupid and ignorant people who want to become even more useless
in order to, as the group’s website puts it, “address the oppressive effects of the racism that shape public education and society at large.”
Start by banning dicks. Dicks cause RAPE. Also, did you know that for a white person to be white, a white penis has to enter a white vagina?
The website also includes a series of firsthand accounts from teachers of the practices they have employed in the classroom to help build a common understanding of structural racism.
Point at a white kid and say 'Shame! Shame!'
Marco Cenabre, for example, teaches literature at New Haven Academy, a public high school in New Haven. In one of Cenabre’s classroom lessons, the students are asked to study the Civics portion of the US naturalization test, as well as a classic essay from Audre Lorde that discusses “mythical norms” related to age, race, class, and sex.
Meanwhile Chinese kids are learning algebraic topology.
What does the information an immigrant must learn about American history to become a naturalized American reveal about mythical norms?
Nothing. Why does not the naturalization test ask questions like
Why woz Jorge Washington white debil? Was it because
a) his daddy had penis
b) his daddy had white penis
c) I is totes triggered. Kindly provide me with a gun and a White policeman I can shoot.
d) Jorge Washington was disabled lesbian of colour sodomized and enslaved by evil Jewish Capitalists.
Does it elevate one group’s history over others?
Does it chop of penises- Marco's in particular? If not- it is very evil and part of Jewish conspiracy
Does it allow certain misconceptions to be normalized?
Like it being 'normal' for some peeps to have dicks.
The ultimate goal is to justify a takeover of the institutions,
which these worthless nutters think they have taken over. They don't get that teechurs are just glorified child minders.
transforming them into weapons in the war against the very idea of multi-racial democracy.
So long as dicks exist, Society will be totes Fascist. Did you know Hitler had a dick?
Ruth Terry Walden
who is Black and does not have a penis and is thus better than Marco
teaches literature at Westhill High School, a public school in Stamford, and focuses her courses on themes of protest, resistance, and direct action.
She compares the British Redcoats to the American police. Did you know British Redcoats forced Jorge Washington, a disabled Lesbian of colour, to grow a penis?
In her classroom, she invites her students to think about why, during the Colonial era, the ordinary people began to see the British as an occupying army, and how that led to the American Revolution. She asks them to consider this in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement, as a way of understanding how Black residents of Ferguson, Missouri, may have come to regard the police as an occupying army.
In the recent riots in August, an African American officer was left in a coma by an African American assailant. Ruth Terry Walden must be laughing her head off.
Other teachers who are part of the ARTLC testify to the immense difficulty of teaching these sorts of lessons without support from school administrators.
Students try to run away.
Samm Leska, a teacher at Staples High School, a public school in Westport, explains that her peers are reluctant to engage in such teaching practices, since they do not feel that the administration will support them if they become a target of political attacks for teaching on supposedly controversial topics.
Also, students might decide that if the police are an occupying army, then teechurs are their collaborators. Why not knife teechur? He doesn't have a gun.
Since even noting the existence of structural racism is considered “critical race theory,” all but the bravest teachers tend to avoid discussing texts that present students with Black perspectives on US history.
Because that perspective won't make them smart and able to compete with the Chinese.
This means that it takes a measure of bravery to teach the works of the Nobel Prize-winning Black American novelist Toni Morrison, even in states where that is legal.
But her works are shit. STEM subjects make you smart. Novels just help pass the time. Why not teach critical wanking theory instead?
It should be no surprise that right-wing politicians’ efforts to stifle any discussion of structural racism
They benefit when nutters talk about it because it creates a backlash
extend naturally into a program of combating on-the-ground efforts to redress the harms of racism—and thwarting efforts to build a truly multi-racial democracy that is inclusive of all groups.
by cutting off their penises. Seriously, dicks cause RAPE! Did you know that Mussolini had a penis?
One way that institutions in the United States have sought to address racism is through what are called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives.
Which is why we have a vapid diversity hire running for the top job.
Predictably, these efforts are often targeted by the same right-wing forces that pour so much energy into attacking the history and theory of racism.
Predictably, those same right-wing forces refuse to chop off their own dicks or those of people known to them.
The arguments are mutually reinforcing: if there is no racism, nothing needs to be done about it.
If there are no penises, nothing need be done about it.
Broadly speaking, DEI initiatives are any programs at schools, universities, or private companies that seek to ameliorate the effects of structural racism in teaching, hiring, or institutional mission.
by teaching or hiring useless idiots of the right colour, gender, or degree of disability.
For example, a DEI program at a medical school might seek to make sure that doctors from affluent white backgrounds are aware of the structural barriers that patients from other backgrounds may face.
Doctors with dicks should be educated in proper methods of chopping them off in between shooting White police officers.
Such a program may, for instance, provide non-disabled doctors with insight into the barriers facing patients who are disabled.
By chopping their legs off.
As they do with CRT, the right-wing critics of DEI intentionally distort these programs to create the impression that those whose perspectives are finally being included—like Black Americans, for instance—are receiving some sort of illicit benefit or an unfair advantage.
It is perfectly licit and fair to hire a disabled, Lesbian, goat to teach algebraic topology. Incidentally, the goat says you should pay his salary into my Bank Account. Also, he is invisible.
And so they target Black Americans who have risen to positions of power and influence and seek to delegitimize them as undeserving.
because they were born in Nairobi and are actually goats.
The ultimate goal is to justify a takeover of the institutions, transforming them into weapons in the war against the very idea of multi-racial democracy.
which is like the war against sodomizing the invisible goat which has piteously bleated about the necessity of chopping off dicks wherever they may be found. In other words, it is a war nobody is interested in, probably because everybody is actually Adolf Hitler- except Adolf Hitler who is a disabled, Lesbian, of colour happily married to an invisible goat.
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