Is it too soon to congratulate Virginia??

“I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”
He denounced them. 

I just find it so interesting that the “good” protestors trying to protect Robert E Lee’s monument felt comfortable mixing with Neo-Nazis. I cannot imagine any “cause” that would make me protest with them. But that’s me.I have a strange aversion to Nazis. Guess everyone is just different.👀

You pretending to read his mind in order to claim he meant something other that the actual words he used, doesn't change the words, the meaning of them, or reality. You trying to do that is absolutely twisting. So it would seem you deemed it necessary. 
The only way the words he said mean something different than the words actual meaning is for you to pretend. 

My name is pixiechick. To call me someone else is rude. 
But to call me by someone's name that you've already successfully vilified only shows your desperate need to vilify. It reveals that you don't have enough faith in your twisting of reality.
If you need to vilify ME you can do it by basing it on MY posts.

I'm not really concerned with what anyone CALLS it. That isn't really the issue. What stands out to me is what the students and teachers are experiencing from whatever you want to call it, that they are employing in schools:





"hostile culture of conformity and fear that has taken hold of our school"

"school’s ideology requires students to see themselves not as individuals, but as representatives of a group, forcing them to adopt the status of privilege or victimhood"

"This is the dominant and divisive ideology that is guiding our adolescent students."


"In my classroom, I see up close how this orthodoxy hinders students’ ability to read, write, and think."

"Students have internalized the message that this is the way we read and think about the world, and as a result, they fixate on power and group identity. This fixation has stunted their ability to observe and engage with the full fabric of human experience in our literature.

In our school, the opportunity to hear competing ideas is practically non-existent."

"How can students, who accept a single ideology as fact, learn to practice intellectual curiosity or humility or consider a competing idea they’ve never encountered?"

"How can students develop higher order thinking if they are limited to seeing the world only through the lens of group identity and power?"

"these students have found comfort in their moral certainty, and so they have become rigid and closed-minded, unable or unwilling to consider alternative perspectives."

"Of course, not all students are true believers. Many pretend to agree because of pressure to conform."

"I’ve heard from students who want to ask a question but stop for fear of offending someone. I have heard from students who don’t participate in discussions for fear of being ostracized."

"One student did not want to develop her personal essay — about an experience she had in another country — for fear that it might mean that she was, without even realizing it, racist. In her fear, she actually stopped herself from thinking. This is the very definition of self-censorship."

"the stifling conformity has only intensified. Last fall, two administrators informed faculty that certain viewpoints simply would not be tolerated during our new “race explicit” conversations with our new “anti-racist” work. They said that no one would be allowed to question the orthodoxy regarding “systemic racism.” The message was clear, and the faculty went silent in response."

"The reality is that fear pervades the faculty. On at least two separate occasions in 2017 and 2018, our Head of School, standing at the front of Hajjar Auditorium, told the entire faculty that he would fire us all if he could so that he could replace us all with people of color."

"During a recent faculty meeting, teachers were segregated by skin color. Teachers who had light skin were placed into a “white caucus” group and asked to “remember” that we are “White” and “to take responsibility for [our] power and privilege.” D-E’s racial segregation of educators, aimed at leading us to rethink of ourselves as oppressors, was regressive and demeaning to us as individuals with our own moral compass and human agency."

"DE claims that we teach students how to think, not what to think. But sadly, that is just no longer true."

"I hope administrators and board members awaken in time to prevent this misguided and absolutist ideology from hollowing out D-E, as it has already hollowed out so many other institutions."
 

Missing the forest for the trees again.  And a convenient deflection from the overwhelming evidence that former ignored the rise and danger of white supremecists and refused to condemn them.

Gosar openly embracing white supremacy and issuing death threats against the president and members of Congress.  Silence when MTG posted anti-Semitic comments.  Silence when the former president through his actions and words supported white supremacy and on multiple occasions, refused to condemn it.  They remain silent or in some cases, defend all of those politicians because they have an R after their name.
Just as they were quick to condemn Cuomo but remain silent about Matt Gaetz. Anything goes if you’re a Republican but Democrats get held to a higher standard.  The hypocrisy is unbelievable.

Oh, Gia. You never disappoint.

Not deflecting.

The comments he made regarding Charlottesville can be interpreted a lot of ways.  If his statement was unclear and led to misunderstanding, that’s on him.

Also, as others have have pointed out, you and other conservatives on this board have remained silent about the indefensible statements by Republicans.

Jan 6th? Crickets.

This was a disgusting event by a bunch of dumbass thugs who lost their minds. If they ever even had one to begin with.
It was completely wrong and NEVER should have happened.

I think you’d get more respect here if you admitted your previous usernames. You’re not fooling anyone. That’s an action that speaks louder than words, too - your refusal to own all your history on this board.

That is not true, and almost as unhelpful as the OP. Posts like this potentially taint any new members in the minds of others, and that is completely unfair. No-one has the right to know if a new poster had a previous ID or if so what it was: each should be judged on their own merits.

I never said we had the right to know.

Posts like this potentially taint any new members in the minds of others, and that is completely unfair. No-one has the right to know if a new poster had a previous ID or if so what it was: each should be judged on their own merits.

I suggested that you'd get more respect if you admitted it yourself.

I'm not really concerned with what anyone CALLS it. That isn't really the issue. What stands out to me is what the students and teachers are experiencing from whatever you want to call it, that they are employing in schools:





"hostile culture of conformity and fear that has taken hold of our school"

"school’s ideology requires students to see themselves not as individuals, but as representatives of a group, forcing them to adopt the status of privilege or victimhood"

"This is the dominant and divisive ideology that is guiding our adolescent students."


"In my classroom, I see up close how this orthodoxy hinders students’ ability to read, write, and think."

"Students have internalized the message that this is the way we read and think about the world, and as a result, they fixate on power and group identity. This fixation has stunted their ability to observe and engage with the full fabric of human experience in our literature.

In our school, the opportunity to hear competing ideas is practically non-existent."

"How can students, who accept a single ideology as fact, learn to practice intellectual curiosity or humility or consider a competing idea they’ve never encountered?"

"How can students develop higher order thinking if they are limited to seeing the world only through the lens of group identity and power?"

"these students have found comfort in their moral certainty, and so they have become rigid and closed-minded, unable or unwilling to consider alternative perspectives."

"Of course, not all students are true believers. Many pretend to agree because of pressure to conform."

"I’ve heard from students who want to ask a question but stop for fear of offending someone. I have heard from students who don’t participate in discussions for fear of being ostracized."

"One student did not want to develop her personal essay — about an experience she had in another country — for fear that it might mean that she was, without even realizing it, racist. In her fear, she actually stopped herself from thinking. This is the very definition of self-censorship."

"the stifling conformity has only intensified. Last fall, two administrators informed faculty that certain viewpoints simply would not be tolerated during our new “race explicit” conversations with our new “anti-racist” work. They said that no one would be allowed to question the orthodoxy regarding “systemic racism.” The message was clear, and the faculty went silent in response."

"The reality is that fear pervades the faculty. On at least two separate occasions in 2017 and 2018, our Head of School, standing at the front of Hajjar Auditorium, told the entire faculty that he would fire us all if he could so that he could replace us all with people of color."

"During a recent faculty meeting, teachers were segregated by skin color. Teachers who had light skin were placed into a “white caucus” group and asked to “remember” that we are “White” and “to take responsibility for [our] power and privilege.” D-E’s racial segregation of educators, aimed at leading us to rethink of ourselves as oppressors, was regressive and demeaning to us as individuals with our own moral compass and human agency."

"DE claims that we teach students how to think, not what to think. But sadly, that is just no longer true."

"I hope administrators and board members awaken in time to prevent this misguided and absolutist ideology from hollowing out D-E, as it has already hollowed out so many other institutions."