South Carolina honored "Confederate Memorial Day" (radical, how much, support)
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Some folks were brainwashed by the Cult of the Lost Cause, those folks don’t know any better.
I wish I could said it was just brainwashing. I did try to tell some people what the cult of the Lost Cause is about. Some people aren't brainwashed. They just don't want to let go of certain traditions, and will snap at anyone who would tell them different. For some, it isn't really a matter of knowing better. It's often a matter of not wanting to change.
Another speaker at the monument dedication, Methodist Reverend Dr. W.T. Bolling, said the following:
"The men who went forth to battle under this banner were not actuated by hate, by desire for conquest, or to maintain the institution of slavery, but battled for what they believed to be a great fundamental doctrine, a foundation principle in a government founded upon the consent of the governed."
It's my business if I live somewhere and the state I live in makes a public holiday out of something whose principles included making sure people of my race stayed enslaved. I'm making it my business because it was my ancestors that many wanted to make sure remained enslaved.
Some folks were brainwashed by the Cult of the Lost Cause, those folks don’t know any better.
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Originally Posted by green_mariner
I wish I could said it was just brainwashing. I did try to tell some people what the cult of the Lost Cause is about. Some people aren't brainwashed. They just don't want to let go of certain traditions, and will snap at anyone who would tell them different. For some, it isn't really a matter of knowing better. It's often a matter of not wanting to change.
They connect all of the dots and reconcile it --- ps they go beyond what the government education system would have them to believe.
Another speaker at the monument dedication, Methodist Reverend Dr. W.T. Bolling, said the following:
"The men who went forth to battle under this banner were not actuated by hate, by desire for conquest, or to maintain the institution of slavery, but battled for what they believed to be a great fundamental doctrine, a foundation principle in a government founded upon the consent of the governed."
Going back 15-20 years or more, the Confederate flag was just an offbeat symbol of the South. It was on the "General Lee" from TV's "Dukes of Hazzard", some military shoulder patches, NASCAR events (obviously), and a myriad of other places. And few seemed to give it a second thought, or even care.
Fast forward to today, and people who couldn't even spell "Civil War" or who thought Abraham Lincoln worked for Ford designing cars are making the Confederacy thing their "outrage of the moment" because it's fashionable.
I doubt it keeps many people awake at night, but it's entertaining to watch. Heck, even the US Army has an admiration for folks like Robert E. Lee and Jeb Stuart for their military talents, but they can't really say it publicly.
Going back 15-20 years or more, the Confederate flag was just an offbeat symbol of the South. It was on the "General Lee" from TV's "Dukes of Hazzard", some military shoulder patches, NASCAR events (obviously), and a myriad of other places. And few seemed to give it a second thought, or even care.
Fast forward to today, and people who couldn't even spell "Civil War" or who thought Abraham Lincoln worked for Ford designing cars are making the Confederacy thing their "outrage of the moment" because it's fashionable.
I doubt it keeps many people awake at night, but it's entertaining to watch. Heck, even the US Army has an admiration for folks like Robert E. Lee and Jeb Stuart for their military talents, but they can't really say it publicly.
I was in high school 20 years ago. I went to a high school that was about 90% White, 7% Black at the start. Most of the Black kids (including me) hated the Confederate flag. It was not an "offbeat symbol of the south" to most of the Black kids (most of whom were born and raised in the South). Black people were certainly giving it alot of thought in Georgia and other southern states. I've noticed most Black people find the Confederate flag to be a racist symbol. And a majority of Black Americans are southerners. Something to really think about.
Going back 15-20 years or more, the Confederate flag was just an offbeat symbol of the South. It was on the "General Lee" from TV's "Dukes of Hazzard", some military shoulder patches, NASCAR events (obviously), and a myriad of other places. And few seemed to give it a second thought, or even care.
Fast forward to today, and people who couldn't even spell "Civil War" or who thought Abraham Lincoln worked for Ford designing cars are making the Confederacy thing their "outrage of the moment" because it's fashionable.
I doubt it keeps many people awake at night, but it's entertaining to watch. Heck, even the US Army has an admiration for folks like Robert E. Lee and Jeb Stuart for their military talents, but they can't really say it publicly.
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So what changed between 2001 and 2011? Not the percentage of sexual assaults on campus — according to Joe Biden, that percentage was the “same” in 1995 as in 2017. Rather, the election of Barack Obama had two critical effects.
First, as with any modern Democratic administration, strong advocates of identity politics occupied key bureaucratic positions, which they could use to implement regulatory policies outside of rigorous congressional oversight.
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Read: Critical Race Theorist
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Second, the Democratic defeat in the 2010 midterm elections focused Obama’s attention on how identity politics could rally his base. This model had worked well in one of the few major Democratic victories that year, the Colorado Senate race.
That Dear Colleague Letter led to the installation of DIE programs throughout academy, well, at least those receiving federal funds. That led to DIE “tribunals” and an uptick of accusations of sexual and racial discrimination with very little protections for the accused. That led to the opening of their positions throughout the institutions where DIE specialist trained in CRT poured in. Over the next several years more focus was given to DIE programs and training (reprogramming the false consciousness out of people) to people with Critical Social Justice degrees who then poured out into corporations and public institutions.
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Women’s studies should prioritize the development of students who can move through, within, and between disciplines, who can, in essence, change form… At play is the virus’s ability to change itself as it replicates and disseminates” (p. 14). These infectious students, carrying the blueprints of feminist pedagogies, step into other programs and reconstitute themselves through the work they submit and through interaction with instructors and student peers. This infects the formerly isolated and protected, traditional disciplines (e.g., history, mathematics, physics, psychology, and so on) with principles of critical feminist analysis. Unwittingly, then, the corporate university begins to integrate, bit-by-bit, portions of feminist pedagogies into its own ideology. As the perpetual expansion of the corporate university builds upon itself, it carries these alien blueprints into new domains.
So far they’ve made the most ground in the corporate world in media both traditional and social. In academia of course, mostly the social sciences but they’ve got a full court press on the disciplines in the quote. Critical Race Theory was born from Critical Legal Studies, the debate is no longer even much of a thing in law. They’ve no doubt captured many public unions most aimed at the teachers who teach your children.
Back as CLS was synthesizing into CRT and Intersectionality one of the founders of CRT wrote a long article published on the University of Hawaii’s website in which this quote sums up all of the various Critical Theories and their offshoots:
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In summary, the Critical Legal Studies movement has ad- vanced legal thought in directions particularly useful for people of color. This usefulness is magnified by the astounding deftness with which critical legal scholars reveal structure, de-construct, and de-legitimate. Like a pack of super-termites, these scholars eat away at the trees of legal doctrine and liberal ideals, leaving sawdust in their paths.32 That they do it so well, and so single- mindedly, is compelling; it suggests that this is what the smartest are doing. Never mind that no one knows what to do with all the sawdust.
Sexual assault is a major issue on college campuses, but it has nothing to do with the topic of this thread. If you would like to talk about this issue, you can start your own thread and raise discussion about it. I think you only mentioned this to distract from the topic about Confederate Memorial Day.
Not if it's "Confederate Memorial Day". I was working on that day anyway.
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