It is a belief, universally accepted, that bad ideas lead to bad action. Bigoted thoughts and words, we have been told, lead to bigoted actions. Thus, it follows that if we wish to rid the world of every last smidgeon of bigoted behavior, we need first to police thought. Those whose minds have been suitably cleansed will lose their interest in acting out their bad ideas.
If we divide bigotry into conscious and conscious bases, that will eventually include just about everything.
If that is the case, then we have every reason to police thought. And to police all thought and expression. Once we do so, citizens will live in peace and harmony-- or some such.
More than that, if we can rid the all our minds of bigotry then people who are subjected to such prejudice will naturally improve their performance, and will also cease committing as many crimes.
So, there are racially charged epithets and also terms of derision applied to certain races There are dismissive terms used to diminish members of certain groups and to confer advantages to members of other groups. They seem to function something like maledictions.
One might say that judgment must then be applied almost as reparations. Some people are not allowed to fail. If they do fail the fault lies with white supremacists.
When race enters the equation objective standards disappear. Meritocracy disappears, even and especially for those who could have succeeded on their own.
Those who promote these aberrations insist that objective standards have been conjured by the patriarch to continue its hegemony. They are not just promoting justice for the victims of patriarchy, but are undermining patriarchy itself.
This raises another thornier issue. If education sets itself to the task of undermining and overthrowing patriarchy, it did not get the idea from critical race theory. It got the idea from what has been called deconstruction, a bizarre method that was advanced by certain continental philosophers, beginning in the thirties and extending at least through the present. As you know, the progenitor of the practice was famed Nazi philosopher, Martin Heidegger.
Deconstruction is presumably a way to read texts. It sets as its goal the undermining of objective truth values, as practiced by the empirical tradition in the west. The notion that people are to be judged, not by the basis of their character, but on the color of their skin. And that implies that members of certain ethnic groups deserve special consideration, or better, that they have received it because of their genetic makeup.
Above all else, pogroms are a cleanse. They show you how to remove all memes that advance Western and Judeo-Civilization from your discourse, this removing the signs of advanced industrial capitalism. In its turn this will tell those who have failed at our system that it is not their fault. The system failed them, because it is bigoted against them and certain designated others.
While learning how to deconstruct Western civilization graduate studunts are learning how to think like Nazis.
As someone who has engaged in any number of home remodeling activities, I can assure one and all that it is a) far easier and b) faster to deconstruct the old building than it is to construct its replacement. Deconstruction takes little more than a suitable hammer and pry bar applied with near-reckless abandon, whereas reconstruction requires a panoply of tools, most of which require skillful manipulation in order to avoid disaster (and unintended deconstruction of what one has so painstakingly built). Thus, it becomes evident why deconstruction is so seemingly popular with the soi-dissant "intellectual class" of second-rate academics who occupy far too many positions in the ever expanding world of secondary education. Their entire reason for being is the destruction of what was carefully constructed by their better forebears, because they are jealous of those forebears. We see the working-out of their activities in the desire to tear down the monuments commemorating past achievements which they themselves are incapable of replicating as well as the very society that gave them the opportunities and advantages they now use to destroy it, never once stopping to think about the consequences. The western world has quite literally become the South Park Underwear Gnomes episode: Phase one: destroy the system!; Phase two: ?; Phase three: PROFIT!
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"The western world has quite literally become the South Park Underwear Gnomes episode: Phase one: destroy the system!; Phase two: ?; Phase three: PROFIT!"
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