California’s Radical Indoctrination

This opinion piece from the WSJ should scare the living hell out of every red-blooded American, especially those with children in the California school system. What are they going to feed America’s children? Start the indoctrination as early as kindergarten, and continue all the way to the senior year? 

A bill would establish a K-12 curriculum in the ‘four I’s of oppression.’

Conservatives and fair-minded liberals are alarmed that high schools are drawing up plans to teach the “1619 project,” the New York Times ’ revisionist account of race and the American founding, in history classes. The reality is turning out to be worse. The largest state in the union is poised to become one of the first to mandate ethnic studies for all high-school students, and the model curriculum makes the radical “1619 project” look moderate and balanced.

Last year California’s Assembly passed its ethnic-studies bill known as AB 331 by a 63-8 vote. Then the state department of education put forward a model curriculum so extreme and ethnocentric that the state Senate’s Democratic supermajority balked. The curriculum said among other things that “within Ethnic Studies, scholars are often very critical of the system of capitalism as research has shown that Native people and people of color are disproportionately exploited within the system.” Really? Where is the proof of this?

The bill was put on ice, but protests and riots in recent months gave Sacramento’s mavens of racial division more leverage. The education department delivered a new draft model curriculum this month, and AB 331 has been revived. It passed a Senate committee Aug. 20 and is expected to go before the full body soon. If Gov. Gavin Newsom signs it, the legislation would require all school districts to offer a semester-long ethnic studies class starting in 2025.

The model curriculum now on the education department’s website says the course should “build new possibilities for post-imperial life that promotes collective narratives of transformative resistance.” Yes, this is a course for K-12 students. It suggests teachers provide “examples of systems of power, which can include economic systems like capitalism and social systems like patriarchy.” Students can then be taught “the four ‘I’s of oppression”—ideological, institutional, interpersonal and internalized.

The state guidance includes more than 200 pages of approved course outlines. Some of these seem to mandate student political activities, potentially raising First Amendment concerns. “Students acquire tools to become positive actors in their communities to address a contemporary issue and present findings in a public forum,” says one outline. Among the approved topics: “Racism, LGBTQ rights, immigration rights, access to quality health care, income inequality,” and so on. What about the fifth “I” of indoctrination?

It’s not a coincidence that many radical left movements are infused with anti-Semitism. They posit theories of control by shadowy capitalist groups that often echo anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. One course outline tips its hat at this. “Students will write a paper detailing certain events in American history,” it says, “that have led to Jewish and Irish Americans gaining racial privilege.” What about American history? Will the have the benefit of even learning anything about our history or will that simply be skimmed over?

This is ugly stuff, a force-feeding to teenagers of the anti-liberal theories that have been percolating in campus critical studies departments for decades. Enforced identity politics and “intersectionality” are on their way to replacing civic nationalism as America’s creed. Liberals who consider themselves moderate and don’t understand the sense of urgency and assault felt by so many Americans ought to read this curriculum. And responsible statesmen in Sacramento ought to stop it.

Originally posted 2020-08-31 14:19:09.

5 thoughts on “California’s Radical Indoctrination”

  1. From the people that gave Californians electricity that is two the three times more expensive AND, two to three times less reliable… If the good people of California don’t act in a BOLD way soon, the progressives (Marxists) will destroy what is left of civilized life there…..

    I wish that is where it ends but it won’t end there at all, the survivors will then invade other states as they are doing now and infect, subvert, other municipalities all in the name of the greater good..

    And, once again good people of faith will stand by and watch it happen again because they are afraid to speak out, or act out. Even when it’s the right thing to do. Not this old man. I am OK to go out on my feet but never my knees.

  2. Yet no one seems to be fighting back. We read about it. We shake our heads and say that’s terrible and then go make a sandwich. This has happened over and over as our schools were taken over and no one has done anything. We have been asleep at the wheel and our kids will be the ones to feel justified in burning and killing all the evil older people. It’s like the prophetic move from the 1970’s ” Wild in the Streets”. check it out if you haven’t seen it. We could have stopped this in the beginning but we didn’t. And I fear we won’t until they come for us…

  3. After thought ! How does racism feed our beloved country?

  4. In a few short years if not earlier these idiots will wish they had taught gardening and agriculture so they can eat, but no they have govt food…good luck idiots

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