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So we've officially moved on to the 'You have backed up all of your opinions with the facts you base them on, you have undeniably disproven all of the claims that you got it wrong, so all we have left is personal attacks portion of the discussion.'



"It's important that we totally protect our Asian community in the US and all around the world. They're amazing people and the spreading of the virus is not their fault, in any way shape or form. They are working closely with us to get rid of it. We will prevail together. It's very important." -Trump



Yes, I did by showing that your statement that they were only reporting that he said, not saying it themselves, is completely and utterly false.

What I'm seeing is people are objecting to this type of thing happening in schools and the workplace:




And this letter from a teacher:


Dear Joe (copies to Head of School, Board Trustees, & English Department Colleagues), I became a teacher at Dwight-Englewood because, as a parent, I loved how the school both nurtured and challenged my own children. Today, I am resigning from a job I love because D-E has changed in ways that undermine its mission and prevent me from holding true to my conscience as an educator. I believe that D-E is failing our students.

Over the past few years, the school has embraced an ideology that is damaging to our students’ intellectual and emotional growth and destroying any chance at creating a true community among our diverse population. I reject the hostile culture of conformity and fear that has taken hold of our school.  The 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. They must locate themselves within the oppressor or oppressed group, or some intersectional middle where they must reckon with being part-oppressor and part-victim. This theory of power hierarchies is only one way of seeing the world, and yet it pervades D-E as the singular way of seeing the world.  As a result, students arrive in my classroom accepting this theory as fact:  People born with less melanin in their skin are oppressors, and people born with more melanin in their skin are oppressed. Men are oppressors, women are oppressed, and so on. 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. I teach students who recoil from a poem because it was written by a man. I teach students who approach texts in search of the oppressor. I teach students who see inequities in texts that have nothing to do with power. 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 my professional opinion, the school is failing to encourage healthy habits of mind, essential for growth, such as intellectual curiosity, humility, honesty, reason, and the capacity to question ideas and consider multiple perspectives. 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? 

Sadly, the school is leading many to become true believers and outspoken purveyors of a regressive and illiberal orthodoxy. Understandably, 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. These young students have no idea that the school has placed ideological blinders on them. 

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. 

I care deeply about our students and our school, and so over the years, I have tried to introduce positive and constructive alternative views. My efforts have fallen on deaf ears. In 2019, I shared with you my negative experiences among hostile and doctrinaire colleagues. You expressed dismay, but I did not hear any follow up from you or other administrators.

Since then, 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. This year, administrators continue to assert  D-E’s policy that we are hiring “for diversity.” D-E has become a workplace that is hostile toward educators based solely on their immutable traits. 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. Will the school force racial segregation on our students next?

I reject D-E’s essentialist, racialist thinking about myself, my colleagues, and my students. As a humanist educator, I strive to create an inclusive classroom by embracing the dignity and unique personality of each and every student; I want to empower all students with the skills and habits of mind that they need to fulfill their potential as learners and human beings. Neither the color of my skin nor the “group identity” assigned to me by D-E dictates my humanist beliefs or my work as an educator. Being told that it does is offensive and wrong, and it violates my dignity as a human being. My conscience does not have a color.

D-E 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.


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These are the type of issues that some parents and teachers are objecting to and it is being dismissed here as simply having the name wrong and only objecting to being taught the details of racism in history.
I hope this gives you another perspective and you weigh it along with what ever else other people are saying about it. 

It doesn't matter that the media isn't the president. They have as much influence over the public, if not more.
No he did not. 

Nancy, walking through Chinatown shoulder to shoulder, maskless, hugging and kissing people and encouraging everyone to come too. 
If Trump would have done that, people would have condemned him as trying to kill people.


Don't forget all of the news agencies calling it the same thing as he did and not one thread or even a single condemnation of THEM doing that.

I've seen CNN call Trump out for calling it a foreign virus, ABC called Trump out for calling it a foreign virus...

This reporter at the White House is objecting to Trump calling it the Chinese virus.

The objections throughout this video are objecting to calling it the Wuhan virus, the China virus and a foreign virus.


So, my facts are not twisted. 

There was an entire thread right here about how terrifying it was and calling him a dictator and how unsettling it was that he would proclaim a loyalty day. 


And here's the proof you asked for about the Democrats. The difference of attitude towards illegal immigrants at the beginning of the video vs. the end of the video is astonishingly noteworthy. 
Before Trump came down the escalator vs. after. 

Okay, what did I get wrong?

It's funny how you say you don't think anyone criticized him for Operation Warp Speed and then repeatedly criticize him for it.

And yes, it IS a stupid argument. Left leaning Peas constantly make observations like the one that was made twice by a couple of other conservatives on this thread. Yet, Merge came along and tried to shut it down by being insulting and rude AND saying it was already discussed. As if she was in charge of the direction of the thread and what could be discussed on it. As if she couldn't possibly let people make observations she doesn't agree with. 



Everything I stated in that list is completely true and not twisted in the slightest.



No. I never asked for general examples.
I spoke of Trumps Loyalty Day and someone expanded to the topic of loyalty to him, in an attempt to dismiss the fact they didn't like.



What in the world did I say that made you think I was?

You know what they say about the word "but"...

Operation Warp Speed was initiated under Trump.

As opposed to this good faith argument:

Not invented. 

ETA: I was having trouble including the video.

Purposefully, yes. Ass hats. 
But she mispronounces her own name...

www.facebook.com/1683706831/videos/10215057680670455/

That's what we think too. 
We recently went on a family trip with our kids, their kids and significant others  and we all agreed with this. We had some really good food that we wouldn't have gotten to try in our own area.

Riiight.
That's why you're "not" going to respond to me.