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I feel objectified if people see me only through my ability or what I can do to make an impact on the world or to make money. I am a person, more than just someone who benefits others.
#selfworth #objectification #humanity #livedexperience #dignity #capitalism #productivity #burnout #boundaries #reflections #identity #authenticity #mentalhealth
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1000 mm !
Nouvel objectif, le RF 100-500 et le multiplicateur RF 2x de Canon.#Photoday #UnJourUnePhoto #Paris
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1000 mm !
Nouvel objectif, le RF 100-500 et le multiplicateur RF 2x de Canon.#Photoday #UnJourUnePhoto #Paris
#Canon #Photos📷
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1000 mm !
Nouvel objectif, le RF 100-500 et le multiplicateur RF 2x de Canon.#Photoday #UnJourUnePhoto #Paris
#Canon #Photos📷
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@atro/117224386997348401
"Capitalism and Artificial Intelligence are the same thing."
Artificial Intelligence here being externalized objectified information. A toaster is "intelligent" as it's embodied information byway of design and machined function. Markets externalized are data, etc..
It casts Human intelligence as a subjective: seeking jouissance, etc...
Unfettered objective information denatures and deterritorializes (in Deleuze and Guattari sense.)
with the explanation of iwith the deterritorialization
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/672082/ Taapsee Pannu says makers blame audience for objectification of women in films: ‘They feel janta maang rahi hai’ #Bollywood #Éire #Entertainment #IE #Ireland #Movies #TaapseePannu #toxic #Yash
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Mostra de Venise 2026 : George Clooney confie son trophée à une photographe avant de s’emparer de son objectif
🗞️ Le Figaro - 🕐 03/09 15:49
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Adèle Haenel, Annie Ernaux, Céline Sciamma... Avant la Mostra de Venise, des personnalités appellent au «soutien de la Palestine»
Un collectif propalestinien appelle les organisateurs du prestigieux festival de cinéma à « prendre des mes... [803 chars]
🔗 https://www.lefigaro.fr/cinema/mostra-de-venise-2026-george-clooney-confie-son-trophee-a-une-photographe-avant-de-s-emparer-de-son-objectif-20260903
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https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/241211/ Cotillard, Niney, Bad Bunny : les stars défilent sous l’objectif de Valentin Le Cron, installé dans l’Orne #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #ArtsEtDesign #BE #BEFr #Belgique #Belgium #Design #Divertissement #Entertainment #lifestyle #photographie
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#TimeTravelAuthors 5: grow?
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“Hold on. If cloak guy has time powers like you,” Sherlock objected, “why didn’t he follow you and Jenny back here into the past?”Carrie’s resolve seemed to grow. “Because in about 45 minutes, my plan is to ambush him from behind even as my past self time jumps away. Which should keep him off our backs, for the very simple reason that he’s not here now. The one timeline effect.”
“Oh, so you have a plan,” Jenny said.
Carrie’s lips pursed. “Not. As. Such."
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Livret A : pourquoi le gouvernement veut-il augmenter fortement le plafond ?
🗞️ CNews - 🕐 04/09 21:31
Le gouvernement envisage de relever le plafond du Livret A de 23.000 à 30.000 euros. L’objectif affiché est de mobiliser davantage l’épargne des Français pour financer l’adaptation au changement climatique.
Le Livret A pourrait bientôt voir son plafo... [2255 chars]
🔗 https://www.cnews.fr/france/2026-09-04/livret-pourquoi-le-gouvernement-veut-il-augmenter-fortement-le-plafond-1914104
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Livret A : pourquoi le gouvernement veut-il augmenter fortement le plafond ?
🗞️ CNews - 🕐 04/09 21:31
Le gouvernement envisage de relever le plafond du Livret A de 23.000 à 30.000 euros. L’objectif affiché est de mobiliser davantage l’épargne des Français pour financer l’adaptation au changement climatique.
Le Livret A pourrait bientôt voir son plafo... [2255 chars]
🔗 https://www.cnews.fr/france/2026-09-04/livret-pourquoi-le-gouvernement-veut-il-augmenter-fortement-le-plafond-1914104
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Livret A : pourquoi le gouvernement veut-il augmenter fortement le plafond ?
🗞️ CNews - 🕐 04/09 21:31
Le gouvernement envisage de relever le plafond du Livret A de 23.000 à 30.000 euros. L’objectif affiché est de mobiliser davantage l’épargne des Français pour financer l’adaptation au changement climatique.
Le Livret A pourrait bientôt voir son plafo... [2255 chars]
🔗 https://www.cnews.fr/france/2026-09-04/livret-pourquoi-le-gouvernement-veut-il-augmenter-fortement-le-plafond-1914104
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Livret A : pourquoi le gouvernement veut-il augmenter fortement le plafond ?
🗞️ CNews - 🕐 04/09 21:31
Le gouvernement envisage de relever le plafond du Livret A de 23.000 à 30.000 euros. L’objectif affiché est de mobiliser davantage l’épargne des Français pour financer l’adaptation au changement climatique.
Le Livret A pourrait bientôt voir son plafo... [2255 chars]
🔗 https://www.cnews.fr/france/2026-09-04/livret-pourquoi-le-gouvernement-veut-il-augmenter-fortement-le-plafond-1914104
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Livret A : pourquoi le gouvernement veut-il augmenter fortement le plafond ?
🗞️ CNews - 🕐 04/09 21:31
Le gouvernement envisage de relever le plafond du Livret A de 23.000 à 30.000 euros. L’objectif affiché est de mobiliser davantage l’épargne des Français pour financer l’adaptation au changement climatique.
Le Livret A pourrait bientôt voir son plafo... [2255 chars]
🔗 https://www.cnews.fr/france/2026-09-04/livret-pourquoi-le-gouvernement-veut-il-augmenter-fortement-le-plafond-1914104
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She returned to that theme in 2008 with “Goodbye to All That (#2),” an essay calling out the toxic #misogyny aimed at #HillaryClinton, a senator running for the Democratic presidential nom. The article went viral….
#RobinMorgan’s early activism in the late 1960s included cofounding the radical #feminist groups Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell & New York Radical Women, which organized one of the first protests against the Miss America pageant for its objectification of #women. -
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"Si la lecture de ce chapitre vous a troublée, heurtée ou fait ressentir de l'inconfort, c'est bon signe : c'est à partir du moment où on commence à considérer qu'on fait partie du problème qu'on peut entamer une transformation radicale. Il existe un conflit objectif (et inscrit dans l'histoire coloniale-esclavagiste de notre pays) entre femmes noires et femmes blanches. Travailler à le nommer et à reconnaître les mécanismes à partie desquels les femmes blanches (en particulier des classes dominantes) peuvent mobiliser la féminité hégémonique pour opprimer les femmes noires est un devoir."Amandine Gay, dans son livre "Vivre, libre: Exister au cœur de la suprématie blanche"
…#blanchité #misogynoir #féminismeBlanc #féminismeBourgeois #suprématieBlanche #antiracismePolitique #AmandineGay #afroféminisme #vendrediLecture
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"Si la lecture de ce chapitre vous a troublée, heurtée ou fait ressentir de l'inconfort, c'est bon signe : c'est à partir du moment où on commence à considérer qu'on fait partie du problème qu'on peut entamer une transformation radicale. Il existe un conflit objectif (et inscrit dans l'histoire coloniale-esclavagiste de notre pays) entre femmes noires et femmes blanches. Travailler à le nommer et à reconnaître les mécanismes à partie desquels les femmes blanches (en particulier des classes dominantes) peuvent mobiliser la féminité hégémonique pour opprimer les femmes noires est un devoir."Amandine Gay, dans son livre "Vivre, libre: Exister au cœur de la suprématie blanche"
…#blanchité #misogynoir #féminismeBlanc #féminismeBourgeois #suprématieBlanche #antiracismePolitique #AmandineGay #afroféminisme #vendrediLecture
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"Si la lecture de ce chapitre vous a troublée, heurtée ou fait ressentir de l'inconfort, c'est bon signe : c'est à partir du moment où on commence à considérer qu'on fait partie du problème qu'on peut entamer une transformation radicale. Il existe un conflit objectif (et inscrit dans l'histoire coloniale-esclavagiste de notre pays) entre femmes noires et femmes blanches. Travailler à le nommer et à reconnaître les mécanismes à partie desquels les femmes blanches (en particulier des classes dominantes) peuvent mobiliser la féminité hégémonique pour opprimer les femmes noires est un devoir."Amandine Gay, dans son livre "Vivre, libre: Exister au cœur de la suprématie blanche"
…#blanchité #misogynoir #féminismeBlanc #féminismeBourgeois #suprématieBlanche #antiracismePolitique #AmandineGay #afroféminisme #vendrediLecture
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"Si la lecture de ce chapitre vous a troublée, heurtée ou fait ressentir de l'inconfort, c'est bon signe : c'est à partir du moment où on commence à considérer qu'on fait partie du problème qu'on peut entamer une transformation radicale. Il existe un conflit objectif (et inscrit dans l'histoire coloniale-esclavagiste de notre pays) entre femmes noires et femmes blanches. Travailler à le nommer et à reconnaître les mécanismes à partie desquels les femmes blanches (en particulier des classes dominantes) peuvent mobiliser la féminité hégémonique pour opprimer les femmes noires est un devoir."Amandine Gay, dans son livre "Vivre, libre: Exister au cœur de la suprématie blanche"
…#blanchité #misogynoir #féminismeBlanc #féminismeBourgeois #suprématieBlanche #antiracismePolitique #AmandineGay #afroféminisme #vendrediLecture
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"Si la lecture de ce chapitre vous a troublée, heurtée ou fait ressentir de l'inconfort, c'est bon signe : c'est à partir du moment où on commence à considérer qu'on fait partie du problème qu'on peut entamer une transformation radicale. Il existe un conflit objectif (et inscrit dans l'histoire coloniale-esclavagiste de notre pays) entre femmes noires et femmes blanches. Travailler à le nommer et à reconnaître les mécanismes à partie desquels les femmes blanches (en particulier des classes dominantes) peuvent mobiliser la féminité hégémonique pour opprimer les femmes noires est un devoir."Amandine Gay, dans son livre "Vivre, libre: Exister au cœur de la suprématie blanche"
…#blanchité #misogynoir #féminismeBlanc #féminismeBourgeois #suprématieBlanche #antiracismePolitique #AmandineGay #afroféminisme #vendrediLecture
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"Si la lecture de ce chapitre vous a troublée, heurtée ou fait ressentir de l'inconfort, c'est bon signe : c'est à partir du moment où on commence à considérer qu'on fait partie du problème qu'on peut entamer une transformation radicale. Il existe un conflit objectif (et inscrit dans l'histoire coloniale-esclavagiste de notre pays) entre femmes noires et femmes blanches. Travailler à le nommer et à reconnaître les mécanismes à partie desquels les femmes blanches (en particulier des classes dominantes) peuvent mobiliser la féminité hégémonique pour opprimer les femmes noires est un devoir."Amandine Gay, dans son livre "Vivre, libre: Exister au cœur de la suprématie blanche"
…#blanchité #misogynoir #féminismeBlanc #féminismeBourgeois #suprématieBlanche #antiracismePolitique #AmandineGay #afroféminisme #vendrediLecture
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Dordogne : L’Etat verse 24 millions au département pour une déviation routière stoppée en plein chantier
🗞️ 20 Minutes - 🕐 03/09 20:40
Un conflit à rebondissements va connaître son épilogue. L’Etat et le conseil départemental de la Dordogne ont conclu un accord transactionnel prévoyant le versement d’environ 24 millions d’euros à la collectivité. L’objectif : solder le contentieux n... [2561 chars]
🔗 https://www.20minutes.fr/societe/4242668-20260903-dordogne-etat-verse-24-millions-departement-deviation-routiere-stoppee-plein-chantier
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Loire : un maire prend un arrêté pour interdire aux moustiques tigres de… survoler sa commune
🗞️ Orange Actualités - 🕐 03/09 19:22
À Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert (Loire), le maire de la commune a décidé de prendre un arrêté pour interdire aux moustiques tigres de la survoler. Si cette décision peut prêter à sourire, l’objectif affiché par le maire est aussi de sensibiliser à des ges... [2251 chars]
🔗 https://actu.orange.fr/societe/insolite/loire-un-maire-prend-un-arrete-pour-interdire-aux-moustiques-tigres-de-survoler-sa-commune-magic-CNT000002rHVpM.html
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Finally Friday Reads: Definitely Not the Normal Timeline
“Given trump’s track record of hiring Fox News pundits. Maria Bartiromo, come on down!” John Buss, @repeat1968
Good Day, Sky Dancers!
The end of the week is always good for a little drama. It’s not that I want to go all gossip rag, but anytime something weird happens to a hyper Trumper, especially one kicked from Fox News, I’m all in. Fox News is not worth watching, but what it does is always of interest. It’s still the home of blatant right-wing propaganda.
Maria Bartiromo used to be a business reporter with a following on the normal Fox Business schedule. Now, she’s been inexplicably booted from Fox. It is always interesting to watch the back-and-forth relationships between the network that flies its freak flag continually and what’s going on in the current West Wing. This is so weird that I can’t help but follow it.
This head line comes from Status News. It’s written by Oliver Darcy, a former CNN senior Media Reporter. “Bartiromo’s Fox Betrayal. Fox News offered no explanation for Maria Bartiromo’s abrupt firing. But Status has learned what happened behind the scenes and why it put the longtime host at odds with her own network.”
On Thursday afternoon, Fox News issued a press release that reverberated through the media and political worlds. In a terse statement, the network announced that it had severed ties with Maria Bartiromo, the once-respected business journalist who in recent years became consumed by right-wing conspiracy theories. “We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 ½ years and wish her all the best on her next chapter,” Fox News said.
That was it. The Rupert Murdoch-controlled network offered no explanation for parting ways with the high-profile host, who is known to be very close to Donald Trump. It didn’t even explicitly say that Bartiromo had been fired—though make no mistake, she was. In the hours that followed, insiders wondered what had gone awry. What had Bartiromo done to get pink-slipped by the outlet she had called home for more than a decade?
Status has learned that Bartiromo’s termination stems from an incident, which has not previously been reported, that occurred in July. After Trump delivered his unhinged prime time speech in which he pushed more conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, this time making a number of allegations against China, I am told that Fox issued guidance to senior employees instructing them to steer clear of giving credence to Trump’s delusional claims. I’m told that the guidance was issued in writing.
Indeed, the day after Trump’s prime time address, Fox conspicuously avoided covering the debunked claims the president had pushed. The lack of coverage raised eyebrows among media observers at the time. It also appears to have caught the attention of the White House.
It’s unclear whether Trump or someone at the White House inquired with Bartiromo about the lack of coverage. But ultimately Bartiromo spilled the secret, Status has learned, divulging to the White House that Trump’s speech had received scant coverage on the channel because network bosses had ordered it so. I’m even told the text message in which Fox Business brass offered their guidance was shared by Bartiromo with the White House. In doing so, Bartiromo not only effectively betrayed her employer, but also disclosed confidential company information, violating the terms of her employment agreement.
Well, isn’t that interesting. The Hill has this analysis. “Trump: Fans ‘will not be happy’ Bartiromo out at Fox News.” The reporter on this story is Mira Bhakta.
President Trump said late Thursday that Maria Bartiromo’s fans will not be happy that the host is out at Fox News.
“I can’t believe Maria Bartiromo is no longer going to have her great show(s) on FoxNews/Business,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “Three different shows, always number one. Maria is a total professional, and a true warrior.”
“Her fans, of which there are many, will not be happy. God bless you, Maria,” he added.
Bartiromo worked at Fox Business for just more than 12 years and grew to be one of Trump’s most vocal supporters on the network. Before that, she worked as a financial journalist for 20 years at CNBC, where she won an Emmy Award for a documentary about Google.
Fox abruptly announced that the final episode of “Mornings with Maria” aired Thursday morning and that the show would be called “Mornings with Fox Business” beginning Friday and feature rotating hosts.
The network will also rename “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street” to “FBN’s Wall Street,” with a new host.
Fox News gave few details on what led to Bartiromo’s departure.
Hot Air‘s Ed Morrissey has this new headline up this afternoon. “War? Bartiromo Gets Boot From Fox, Lawyers Up.”
Reporters live by the leak. Sometimes, they die by the leak too … if they’re the leaker. Allegedly.
“Word leaked out yesterday that Fox Business Channel and longtime host Maria Bartiromo had parted ways. At first, observers expected to hear that she had left to replace Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary. However, her former booking producer Breanna Morello made it sound as though Fox cut ties with Bartiromo rather than the other way around:
@Breanna MorelloFox Corp is parting ways with Maria Bartiromo. As her former booking producer, I can say she is the hardest-working journalist at the company. Bartiromo has given everything to her 12 years of work at Fox Corp. She worked six days a week and has a presence on their platforms seven days a week. She was always a class act and embodied what journalism should be. I look forward to seeing what she does next. As I noted in last night’s Final Word, the situation was confusing enough to become a topic in Vice President J.D. Vance’s press briefing at the White House. When asked about it, Vance seemed surprised to hear the news, calling her a “very very dear friend.” Vance also said he didn’t think she would be coming into the White House …
Well, more of the worst economic policy ever is likely on the way. This is from CNBC. “Trump doubles down on threat to halt trade with top partners unless Fed cuts rates.” This story is reported by Kevin Breuninger.President Donald Trump on Friday doubled down on his threat to cut off trade with countries that have surpluses with the U.S. unless the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates.
“What I’m saying, very simply, is that we should be paying the lowest interest rate in the world,” Trump said in the Oval Office Friday afternoon. He had been asked about his Truth Social post earlier in the day declaring, “LOWER THE RATE OR I’LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT.”
Trump issued that sweeping ultimatum after urging the Fed and its chairman, Kevin Warsh, to “get smart” and cut rates following a much-stronger-than-expected monthly jobs report.
Read Trump’s full post:
Great jobs number just announced, breaking all estimates (except mine!) by double and triple – And you haven’t seen anything yet! EMPLOYERS ADDED 162,000 JOB IN AUGUST. Lower the interest rates because the U.S.A. is a much stronger credit than it was just a short time ago! A STRONG COUNTRY MEANS A LOWER INTEREST RATE – IT’S A BETTER CREDIT…Very simple! We should have the LOWEST RATE of any country in the World, like “the old days.” Without the United States agreeing to allow them their big surpluses, and we could stop that immediately, they would no longer be considered financially ELITE! LOWER THE RATE OR I’LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT, which the U.S. Supreme Court, in its ridiculous and very costly Tariff decision, strongly acknowledged “the President” has an absolute right to do. IT’S BETTER THAN TARIFFS! The Fed Board, with its great new leader, must get smart – BE PATRIOTS for a change. High interest rates put the U.S.A. at a very unfair disadvantage, and I won’t allow that to happen! President DONALD J. TRUMP
The Fed declined to comment on Trump’s post.
It’s likely also one the reasons for this phenomenon. This story is reported by Catherine Rampell writing at The Bulwark. “Europe’s Gold Fled the Nazis. Now It’s Fleeing Trump. Our allies once trusted America to safeguard their reserves. Now they worry the president might freeze them.”
NEARLY A CENTURY AGO, our European allies evacuated their gold to America to safeguard it from the Nazis. Today, some European countries are taking it back—apparently to protect it from Donald Trump.
I wish this were a gag about our president’s garish tastes.
It is not.
In a frightening sign of just how much trust has been lost between the United States and its erstwhile allies, billions of dollars of gold reserves are being repatriated or otherwise moved out of Trump’s reach.
Yesterday, the Dutch central bank announced that it had shifted about $12 billion of gold reserves held mostly in New York over to London vaults instead.1 This follows a similar move by France’s central bank, which recently sold off about $15 billion of bullion held in New York, replacing it with gold bars stored in Paris instead. And for the past year, Germany and Italy—the second- and third-largest holders of gold reserves, respectively, after the United States—have been debating whether to pull their gold from U.S. vaults, too.
Paul Krugman has even more frightening details to outline on his SubStack. “Ingots We No Longer Trust. America’s word is as good as gold — that is, unreliable.” This really sends a bad signal to every one.
For the most part, monetary gold — gold held as reserves by national central banks — is a lot like the stones of Yap. Central banks own trillions of dollars’ worth of gold, which they sometimes sell to each other to settle international payments. But these transfers rarely involve physically moving gold across borders. A large fraction of the world’s gold reserves actually sits in a vault underneath the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, although the New York Fed does move ingots between compartments when transfers take place.
And why not? The sanctity of nations’ ownership of gold stored in New York is guaranteed by the word of the U.S. government — a government that is utterly reliable, because it honors the role of law.
Or anyway, that’s the country we used to be.
“Rule of law” is not a phrase often applied to the Trump administration. And the administration has special contempt for international law. Many of Trump’s tariffs have been ruled illegal under U.S. law, but more or less all of those tariffs were and are in clear violation of past agreements solemnly signed by previous U.S. presidents, including Trump himself.
So the idea that the U.S. government might devise some excuse to seize gold held in the Fed’s vault is no longer far-fetched. And nations are taking precautions. Earlier this week the Dutch central bank announced that it was shifting about $12 billion in gold from the vault in New York to the Bank of England’s vault in London. This follows a move by the French central bank to shift an even larger sum from New York to Paris. Other countries are considering similar moves.
The direct economic or financial impact of these actions will be minimal. There won’t even be large trans-Atlantic gold shipments: foreign central banks will sell their New York gold to private buyers in America and replenish it with purchases from private sellers in Europe.
But the symbolism is chilling. America is no longer trusted. Foreign governments can no longer count on us to obey the most basic rules, like the commandment that thou shalt not steal other people’s gold.
A federal prosecutor investigating the murder of a man by an ICE office is under investigation. This is scary and shows how out of control the DOJ has become. This is from CBS News. There a quite a few reporters on this story. “Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say.” Violating civil rights of people is evidently A-OK with the Trump Regime’s war on the U.S. Constitution.
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Evans was investigating ICE officer Christian Castro over the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant earlier this year. The Justice Department ultimately charged Castro this week with making false statements about the incident, but the indictment remains sealed, CBS News has previously reported.
Earlier this week, ProPublica reported that Evans told attorneys for the man who was shot, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, and other victims to prepare for Castro to only be charged with making false statements, which would carry lesser penalties than criminal charges that he violated people’s constitutional rights under color of law.
ProPublica quoted directly from an email it said Evans had sent to the attorneys.
“This is being directed by the Main Justice and the US Attorney,” the email from Evans reportedly said. “I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could. It wasn’t enough.” (CBS News has not obtained the email reviewed by ProPublica.)
Three sources told CBS News that Evans is under investigation by the Justice Department. Two sources said the investigation focuses on allegations of leaking.
This country is a cesspool. The elected officials that we vote for and count on to ensure the Constitutionality of actions taken here are sadly missing. But the, look at this headline, and you’ll see that clearly. This is Politico‘s take on a Wall Street Journal Investigation. “‘Too lazy to do the job’: Democrats dump on Fetterman after WSJ report. The Wall Street Journal’s story recounted multiple instances of Sen. John Fetterman refusing to meet with constituents in Washington even for scheduled meetings.” Gregory Svirnovskiy has the lede.
A swath of Democrats denounced Sen. John Fetterman in the aftermath of a Wall Street Journal report that showed the Pennsylvania Democrat routinely ducking meetings with constituents, skirting committee hearings and contemplating skipping a police funeral in his home state.
“John Fetterman is a disgrace,” Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) wrote Thursday night on X. “Our state deserves better than a lazy trust fund baby who is too lazy to do the job.”
“There is a lot I could say about this report of John Fetterman’s pathetic behavior as a Senator,” Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) wrote on the platform Friday morning. “But between the laziness, disrespect, and willingness to carry water for a foreign government, it shows us something we already know: this man has no sense of duty. He is not up for the high office he was elected to — and we in Pennsylvania will do something about it in 2028.”
The Journal’s story recounted multiple instances of Fetterman refusing to meet with constituents in Washington, even for scheduled meetings. In one case, he canceled on three paralyzed military veterans in his office, telling his staff that he was feeling unwell. But Fetterman came into the office shortly thereafter to prepare for a live hit with Fox News.
I have a feeling he’s not alone. Many of our elected officials are not doing their jobs. I certainly hope the midterms are based on change. I’d like to believe our democracy is still recoverable.
What’s’ on your Reading, Action, and Blogging list today?
#JohnbussBskySocialJohnBuss #CorruptDOJ #FauxNews #GoldRush #ICEMurdersInMinnesota #JohnFetterman #MariaBartiromo #WhenThatManIsDeadAndGone
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Finally Friday Reads: Definitely Not the Normal Timeline
“Given trump’s track record of hiring Fox News pundits. Maria Bartiromo, come on down!” John Buss, @repeat1968
Good Day, Sky Dancers!
The end of the week is always good for a little drama. It’s not that I want to go all gossip rag, but anytime something weird happens to a hyper Trumper, especially one kicked from Fox News, I’m all in. Fox News is not worth watching, but what it does is always of interest. It’s still the home of blatant right-wing propaganda.
Maria Bartiromo used to be a business reporter with a following on the normal Fox Business schedule. Now, she’s been inexplicably booted from Fox. It is always interesting to watch the back-and-forth relationships between the network that flies its freak flag continually and what’s going on in the current West Wing. This is so weird that I can’t help but follow it.
This head line comes from Status News. It’s written by Oliver Darcy, a former CNN senior Media Reporter. “Bartiromo’s Fox Betrayal. Fox News offered no explanation for Maria Bartiromo’s abrupt firing. But Status has learned what happened behind the scenes and why it put the longtime host at odds with her own network.”
On Thursday afternoon, Fox News issued a press release that reverberated through the media and political worlds. In a terse statement, the network announced that it had severed ties with Maria Bartiromo, the once-respected business journalist who in recent years became consumed by right-wing conspiracy theories. “We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 ½ years and wish her all the best on her next chapter,” Fox News said.
That was it. The Rupert Murdoch-controlled network offered no explanation for parting ways with the high-profile host, who is known to be very close to Donald Trump. It didn’t even explicitly say that Bartiromo had been fired—though make no mistake, she was. In the hours that followed, insiders wondered what had gone awry. What had Bartiromo done to get pink-slipped by the outlet she had called home for more than a decade?
Status has learned that Bartiromo’s termination stems from an incident, which has not previously been reported, that occurred in July. After Trump delivered his unhinged prime time speech in which he pushed more conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, this time making a number of allegations against China, I am told that Fox issued guidance to senior employees instructing them to steer clear of giving credence to Trump’s delusional claims. I’m told that the guidance was issued in writing.
Indeed, the day after Trump’s prime time address, Fox conspicuously avoided covering the debunked claims the president had pushed. The lack of coverage raised eyebrows among media observers at the time. It also appears to have caught the attention of the White House.
It’s unclear whether Trump or someone at the White House inquired with Bartiromo about the lack of coverage. But ultimately Bartiromo spilled the secret, Status has learned, divulging to the White House that Trump’s speech had received scant coverage on the channel because network bosses had ordered it so. I’m even told the text message in which Fox Business brass offered their guidance was shared by Bartiromo with the White House. In doing so, Bartiromo not only effectively betrayed her employer, but also disclosed confidential company information, violating the terms of her employment agreement.
Well, isn’t that interesting. The Hill has this analysis. “Trump: Fans ‘will not be happy’ Bartiromo out at Fox News.” The reporter on this story is Mira Bhakta.
President Trump said late Thursday that Maria Bartiromo’s fans will not be happy that the host is out at Fox News.
“I can’t believe Maria Bartiromo is no longer going to have her great show(s) on FoxNews/Business,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “Three different shows, always number one. Maria is a total professional, and a true warrior.”
“Her fans, of which there are many, will not be happy. God bless you, Maria,” he added.
Bartiromo worked at Fox Business for just more than 12 years and grew to be one of Trump’s most vocal supporters on the network. Before that, she worked as a financial journalist for 20 years at CNBC, where she won an Emmy Award for a documentary about Google.
Fox abruptly announced that the final episode of “Mornings with Maria” aired Thursday morning and that the show would be called “Mornings with Fox Business” beginning Friday and feature rotating hosts.
The network will also rename “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street” to “FBN’s Wall Street,” with a new host.
Fox News gave few details on what led to Bartiromo’s departure.
Hot Air‘s Ed Morrissey has this new headline up this afternoon. “War? Bartiromo Gets Boot From Fox, Lawyers Up.”
Reporters live by the leak. Sometimes, they die by the leak too … if they’re the leaker. Allegedly.
“Word leaked out yesterday that Fox Business Channel and longtime host Maria Bartiromo had parted ways. At first, observers expected to hear that she had left to replace Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary. However, her former booking producer Breanna Morello made it sound as though Fox cut ties with Bartiromo rather than the other way around:
@Breanna MorelloFox Corp is parting ways with Maria Bartiromo. As her former booking producer, I can say she is the hardest-working journalist at the company. Bartiromo has given everything to her 12 years of work at Fox Corp. She worked six days a week and has a presence on their platforms seven days a week. She was always a class act and embodied what journalism should be. I look forward to seeing what she does next. As I noted in last night’s Final Word, the situation was confusing enough to become a topic in Vice President J.D. Vance’s press briefing at the White House. When asked about it, Vance seemed surprised to hear the news, calling her a “very very dear friend.” Vance also said he didn’t think she would be coming into the White House …
Well, more of the worst economic policy ever is likely on the way. This is from CNBC. “Trump doubles down on threat to halt trade with top partners unless Fed cuts rates.” This story is reported by Kevin Breuninger.President Donald Trump on Friday doubled down on his threat to cut off trade with countries that have surpluses with the U.S. unless the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates.
“What I’m saying, very simply, is that we should be paying the lowest interest rate in the world,” Trump said in the Oval Office Friday afternoon. He had been asked about his Truth Social post earlier in the day declaring, “LOWER THE RATE OR I’LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT.”
Trump issued that sweeping ultimatum after urging the Fed and its chairman, Kevin Warsh, to “get smart” and cut rates following a much-stronger-than-expected monthly jobs report.
Read Trump’s full post:
Great jobs number just announced, breaking all estimates (except mine!) by double and triple – And you haven’t seen anything yet! EMPLOYERS ADDED 162,000 JOB IN AUGUST. Lower the interest rates because the U.S.A. is a much stronger credit than it was just a short time ago! A STRONG COUNTRY MEANS A LOWER INTEREST RATE – IT’S A BETTER CREDIT…Very simple! We should have the LOWEST RATE of any country in the World, like “the old days.” Without the United States agreeing to allow them their big surpluses, and we could stop that immediately, they would no longer be considered financially ELITE! LOWER THE RATE OR I’LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT, which the U.S. Supreme Court, in its ridiculous and very costly Tariff decision, strongly acknowledged “the President” has an absolute right to do. IT’S BETTER THAN TARIFFS! The Fed Board, with its great new leader, must get smart – BE PATRIOTS for a change. High interest rates put the U.S.A. at a very unfair disadvantage, and I won’t allow that to happen! President DONALD J. TRUMP
The Fed declined to comment on Trump’s post.
It’s likely also one the reasons for this phenomenon. This story is reported by Catherine Rampell writing at The Bulwark. “Europe’s Gold Fled the Nazis. Now It’s Fleeing Trump. Our allies once trusted America to safeguard their reserves. Now they worry the president might freeze them.”
NEARLY A CENTURY AGO, our European allies evacuated their gold to America to safeguard it from the Nazis. Today, some European countries are taking it back—apparently to protect it from Donald Trump.
I wish this were a gag about our president’s garish tastes.
It is not.
In a frightening sign of just how much trust has been lost between the United States and its erstwhile allies, billions of dollars of gold reserves are being repatriated or otherwise moved out of Trump’s reach.
Yesterday, the Dutch central bank announced that it had shifted about $12 billion of gold reserves held mostly in New York over to London vaults instead.1 This follows a similar move by France’s central bank, which recently sold off about $15 billion of bullion held in New York, replacing it with gold bars stored in Paris instead. And for the past year, Germany and Italy—the second- and third-largest holders of gold reserves, respectively, after the United States—have been debating whether to pull their gold from U.S. vaults, too.
Paul Krugman has even more frightening details to outline on his SubStack. “Ingots We No Longer Trust. America’s word is as good as gold — that is, unreliable.” This really sends a bad signal to every one.
For the most part, monetary gold — gold held as reserves by national central banks — is a lot like the stones of Yap. Central banks own trillions of dollars’ worth of gold, which they sometimes sell to each other to settle international payments. But these transfers rarely involve physically moving gold across borders. A large fraction of the world’s gold reserves actually sits in a vault underneath the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, although the New York Fed does move ingots between compartments when transfers take place.
And why not? The sanctity of nations’ ownership of gold stored in New York is guaranteed by the word of the U.S. government — a government that is utterly reliable, because it honors the role of law.
Or anyway, that’s the country we used to be.
“Rule of law” is not a phrase often applied to the Trump administration. And the administration has special contempt for international law. Many of Trump’s tariffs have been ruled illegal under U.S. law, but more or less all of those tariffs were and are in clear violation of past agreements solemnly signed by previous U.S. presidents, including Trump himself.
So the idea that the U.S. government might devise some excuse to seize gold held in the Fed’s vault is no longer far-fetched. And nations are taking precautions. Earlier this week the Dutch central bank announced that it was shifting about $12 billion in gold from the vault in New York to the Bank of England’s vault in London. This follows a move by the French central bank to shift an even larger sum from New York to Paris. Other countries are considering similar moves.
The direct economic or financial impact of these actions will be minimal. There won’t even be large trans-Atlantic gold shipments: foreign central banks will sell their New York gold to private buyers in America and replenish it with purchases from private sellers in Europe.
But the symbolism is chilling. America is no longer trusted. Foreign governments can no longer count on us to obey the most basic rules, like the commandment that thou shalt not steal other people’s gold.
A federal prosecutor investigating the murder of a man by an ICE office is under investigation. This is scary and shows how out of control the DOJ has become. This is from CBS News. There a quite a few reporters on this story. “Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say.” Violating civil rights of people is evidently A-OK with the Trump Regime’s war on the U.S. Constitution.
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Evans was investigating ICE officer Christian Castro over the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant earlier this year. The Justice Department ultimately charged Castro this week with making false statements about the incident, but the indictment remains sealed, CBS News has previously reported.
Earlier this week, ProPublica reported that Evans told attorneys for the man who was shot, Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, and other victims to prepare for Castro to only be charged with making false statements, which would carry lesser penalties than criminal charges that he violated people’s constitutional rights under color of law.
ProPublica quoted directly from an email it said Evans had sent to the attorneys.
“This is being directed by the Main Justice and the US Attorney,” the email from Evans reportedly said. “I objected in the strongest possible terms and fought it as hard as I could. It wasn’t enough.” (CBS News has not obtained the email reviewed by ProPublica.)
Three sources told CBS News that Evans is under investigation by the Justice Department. Two sources said the investigation focuses on allegations of leaking.
This country is a cesspool. The elected officials that we vote for and count on to ensure the Constitutionality of actions taken here are sadly missing. But the, look at this headline, and you’ll see that clearly. This is Politico‘s take on a Wall Street Journal Investigation. “‘Too lazy to do the job’: Democrats dump on Fetterman after WSJ report. The Wall Street Journal’s story recounted multiple instances of Sen. John Fetterman refusing to meet with constituents in Washington even for scheduled meetings.” Gregory Svirnovskiy has the lede.
A swath of Democrats denounced Sen. John Fetterman in the aftermath of a Wall Street Journal report that showed the Pennsylvania Democrat routinely ducking meetings with constituents, skirting committee hearings and contemplating skipping a police funeral in his home state.
“John Fetterman is a disgrace,” Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) wrote Thursday night on X. “Our state deserves better than a lazy trust fund baby who is too lazy to do the job.”
“There is a lot I could say about this report of John Fetterman’s pathetic behavior as a Senator,” Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) wrote on the platform Friday morning. “But between the laziness, disrespect, and willingness to carry water for a foreign government, it shows us something we already know: this man has no sense of duty. He is not up for the high office he was elected to — and we in Pennsylvania will do something about it in 2028.”
The Journal’s story recounted multiple instances of Fetterman refusing to meet with constituents in Washington, even for scheduled meetings. In one case, he canceled on three paralyzed military veterans in his office, telling his staff that he was feeling unwell. But Fetterman came into the office shortly thereafter to prepare for a live hit with Fox News.
I have a feeling he’s not alone. Many of our elected officials are not doing their jobs. I certainly hope the midterms are based on change. I’d like to believe our democracy is still recoverable.
What’s’ on your Reading, Action, and Blogging list today?
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Blog: I Said There are no Secular Schools and that Public Schools Should be Banned…and the Atheist Leftists are Angry.
A little bit ago, I posted an article on here about how there are no secular schools. In that article, I pointed out that no school is truly free of religion or worldviews, and, in the case of public schools, they mainly subscribe to atheism or other forms of secular humanism. As such, in many ways they operate as something with which to mass convert the youth to atheism/secular humanism, and if we actually want this problem solved, then we should abolish the public school system, make private schools and homeschool more accessible, and allow more school choice.
Naturally, however, there are people who vehemently disagree with this position: atheist leftists (who also claim to be anti-fascist, but that’ll come up later.)
But what arguments do the Leftists have to defend the public school system? What airtight defenses do they have for it?
The first defense is, of course, that secularism isn’t a religion, nor is it connected to religion or spirituality. While that might be true in part, it is a worldview that makes many claims that are treated as fact that are in conflict with other worldviews and religions. For instance, secularists often take an atheistic stance on how the world works. However, the issue with this is that the claims made and treated as fact are really theories.
The most obvious example of this is evolutionary theory, which has been challenged in schools for decades. Evolutionary theory is just that – a theory – yet it is treated as fact in every level of academia, with hardly any room for disagreement. When Christians try to teach their theory about how the world was created and support it with evidence, they’re often shot down, threatened with their jobs, and accused of trying to force religion on students. We Christians are accused of indoctrinating students (and, thus, abusing them, according to some people) even though we’re doing just what the secularists are doing – presenting a theory and supporting it with evidence. We believe that creation is a fact just as secularists believe evolution is a fact. So why aren’t we allowed to teach it as a theory in academics? Why can’t we present both sides and let the students make up their own minds? Why is it abuse when we Christians present what we believe as fact as a theory in an academic context, but it’s not abuse when secularists do it and take it so far as to say that it is fact?
The second defense is that religion is essentially just a fairytale, and is not based in fact, so anyone who teaches from a religious point of view should be fired. The first issue with this argument is what do we define as a fairytale? I can just as easily say teaching from a secular worldview is teaching kids a fairytale about how we just randomly came from nothing, and thus, secular teachers should be fired. I could say that teaching that you can be the opposite gender is a fairytale, and anyone who teaches that should be fired. What definition are we working with here?
The second issue with this defense is, of course, the history of how the public school system even started. While we all know about John Dewey and Horace Mann as being some of the most influential figures in the making of our modern public education system, Protestant Christians did a great deal to build it as well. As the Christian Heritage Fellowship writes:
The foundation for public education, however, was first laid in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the years 1642, 1647, and 1648. The three legislative acts of these three years are known as the Massachusetts School Laws and was the first step toward compulsory government-directed public education in the United States. Not long after these three laws were enacted, similar laws were drafted in the other New England colonies. Following the lead of the New England colonies, most mid-Atlantic colonies enacted similar legislation, though in some Southern colonies nearly a century passed before publicly funded schools were established there. The first law regarding education in the New World was passed by evangelical Christians only twenty-two years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
Why did the Protestant settlers do this? It was because they wanted kids to be well versed, not just in studies like reading, writing, arithmetic, etc. but also in the Bible. They recognized that the ignorance of what the Bible teaches that could be found in the Old World (which was still predominately Catholic at the time) lead in part to various atrocities. They believed that teaching kids the Bible would prevent that. In doing so, Christians literally laid the groundwork for the school system we have today. Had those people who taught “fairytales” as fact never been allowed to teach, perhaps we would not have the system we have today, severely flawed though it is.
Speaking of how flawed the system has become, we get to our third defense: the idea that public schools are good because it shows the world as it is and prevents kids from being brainwashed by their parents, who might not know everything. However, while that sounds good, we should all be wondering what bias our children are taught to view the world through.
It is a well-established fact that everyone has a bias. Our parents have a bias. We have a bias. Our teachers have a bias. Sure, some biases might be rooted more in fact than others, but when one group controls the education and is in charge of teaching your kids their bias, then what happens? Well, more often than not, when your kids spend 8-10 hours a day in school, another several hours on homework, a couple hours on the phone, and maybe thirty minutes chatting with their parents per day, they’re going to adopt the school’s bias.
We have only to take a quick look at the origins of the public school system to see this. Going back to the Protestant origins of our education system, while well-intentioned, the Protestant teachers taught from a Calvinist-leaning viewpoint. While some of this could be chalked up to being what they had, a lot of this was done for a different reason. They sought to lead their Catholic students to Protestantism in the hopes that it would prevent the atrocities committed in the Old World from happening in America. In other words, their schools weren’t just there for learning, but for converting Catholic kids into Protestantism and even back then, it worked.
However, this system worked so well that it had dire consequences. Fast forward to the 20th century. Totalitarianism is on the rise, with communism taking over Russia and fascism becoming popular in Spain, Italy, and Germany. In every case, one of the first things to be taken over were the education systems. In Nazi Germany, for example, homeschooling was outlawed and parents were forced to send their kids to state-run or approved schools. There, their children were indoctrinated into Nazism, and, starting in 1939, all eligible children were required to join the Hitler Youth. Any parents who objected were heavily fined or thrown into prison.
Today, while parents still have school choice, we see disturbing parallels between the two examples I presented and our current system. The main worldview that our public schools teach from is secular, but it’s further mixed with Leftism. Schools have a particular interest to do this as the Teacher’s Union and the Democrat Party have a you-scratch-my-back-I-scratch-yours type of relationship. They donate to the Party (more than any other group), and the party passes laws to benefit them, and many of those laws are meant to restrict school choice, especially for homeschoolers. We have just to look at a recent law in Conneticut to see this.
Funny how the supposedly anti-fascist group wants to continue and strengthen something that while starting out with good intentions, has historically been used quite effectively to indoctrinate entire generations into supporting things that have been detrimental to society.
This leads to the fourth argument that public schools give an even playing field for everyone, and therefore, should remain the standard. If by even playing field, supporters of public education mean that it makes everyone equally dumb and controllable, then their defense is true.
It has been shown over the past several years that kids who go to public school are becoming dumber. One in four young adults in the U.S. are functionally illiterate yet are still graduating with a high school diploma. Half of the U.S. population cannot read at an 8th-grade level. About 45% of U.S. high school seniors lack basic math skills. Only 37% of high school students were proficient in science. Only 13% of 8th-graders were proficient in history and 22% were proficient in civics. Yet they’re being passed through the public school system, and graduating, something that teachers are increasingly raising the alarm about.
Meanwhile, private school students and homeschool students have consistently scored better on all points, with homeschoolers scoring above average on academic achievement tests regardless of their parent’s level of education or household income. To illustrate this difference, a friend of the family who is an English professor once said that he could tell immediately who went to public school and who was homeschooled or sent to private school because the public-school kids had no idea what parts of speech were. Meanwhile the homeschooled and private schooled kids understood the assignment and could name various parts of speech.
If you’re worried about society getting dumber, then you should be on the side of school choice and making private and homeschool options more acessible to parents. Not only would everyone have a better education, but it would make the playing field truly equal because there would be more competition. As it is, the private schooled and homeschooled have an advantage in many ways over the public schooled since we actually know how to read, write, do math, understand science, communicate, etc.
But, if you want an “equal playing field” for people at the expense of making society stupid and creating a group of people that can’t critically think and has no diversity of thought, then sure, go for public schools.
Until next time,
M.J.
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Blog: I Said There are no Secular Schools and that Public Schools Should be Banned…and the Atheist Leftists are Angry.
A little bit ago, I posted an article on here about how there are no secular schools. In that article, I pointed out that no school is truly free of religion or worldviews, and, in the case of public schools, they mainly subscribe to atheism or other forms of secular humanism. As such, in many ways they operate as something with which to mass convert the youth to atheism/secular humanism, and if we actually want this problem solved, then we should abolish the public school system, make private schools and homeschool more accessible, and allow more school choice.
Naturally, however, there are people who vehemently disagree with this position: atheist leftists (who also claim to be anti-fascist, but that’ll come up later.)
But what arguments do the Leftists have to defend the public school system? What airtight defenses do they have for it?
The first defense is, of course, that secularism isn’t a religion, nor is it connected to religion or spirituality. While that might be true in part, it is a worldview that makes many claims that are treated as fact that are in conflict with other worldviews and religions. For instance, secularists often take an atheistic stance on how the world works. However, the issue with this is that the claims made and treated as fact are really theories.
The most obvious example of this is evolutionary theory, which has been challenged in schools for decades. Evolutionary theory is just that – a theory – yet it is treated as fact in every level of academia, with hardly any room for disagreement. When Christians try to teach their theory about how the world was created and support it with evidence, they’re often shot down, threatened with their jobs, and accused of trying to force religion on students. We Christians are accused of indoctrinating students (and, thus, abusing them, according to some people) even though we’re doing just what the secularists are doing – presenting a theory and supporting it with evidence. We believe that creation is a fact just as secularists believe evolution is a fact. So why aren’t we allowed to teach it as a theory in academics? Why can’t we present both sides and let the students make up their own minds? Why is it abuse when we Christians present what we believe as fact as a theory in an academic context, but it’s not abuse when secularists do it and take it so far as to say that it is fact?
The second defense is that religion is essentially just a fairytale, and is not based in fact, so anyone who teaches from a religious point of view should be fired. The first issue with this argument is what do we define as a fairytale? I can just as easily say teaching from a secular worldview is teaching kids a fairytale about how we just randomly came from nothing, and thus, secular teachers should be fired. I could say that teaching that you can be the opposite gender is a fairytale, and anyone who teaches that should be fired. What definition are we working with here?
The second issue with this defense is, of course, the history of how the public school system even started. While we all know about John Dewey and Horace Mann as being some of the most influential figures in the making of our modern public education system, Protestant Christians did a great deal to build it as well. As the Christian Heritage Fellowship writes:
The foundation for public education, however, was first laid in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the years 1642, 1647, and 1648. The three legislative acts of these three years are known as the Massachusetts School Laws and was the first step toward compulsory government-directed public education in the United States. Not long after these three laws were enacted, similar laws were drafted in the other New England colonies. Following the lead of the New England colonies, most mid-Atlantic colonies enacted similar legislation, though in some Southern colonies nearly a century passed before publicly funded schools were established there. The first law regarding education in the New World was passed by evangelical Christians only twenty-two years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
Why did the Protestant settlers do this? It was because they wanted kids to be well versed, not just in studies like reading, writing, arithmetic, etc. but also in the Bible. They recognized that the ignorance of what the Bible teaches that could be found in the Old World (which was still predominately Catholic at the time) lead in part to various atrocities. They believed that teaching kids the Bible would prevent that. In doing so, Christians literally laid the groundwork for the school system we have today. Had those people who taught “fairytales” as fact never been allowed to teach, perhaps we would not have the system we have today, severely flawed though it is.
Speaking of how flawed the system has become, we get to our third defense: the idea that public schools are good because it shows the world as it is and prevents kids from being brainwashed by their parents, who might not know everything. However, while that sounds good, we should all be wondering what bias our children are taught to view the world through.
It is a well-established fact that everyone has a bias. Our parents have a bias. We have a bias. Our teachers have a bias. Sure, some biases might be rooted more in fact than others, but when one group controls the education and is in charge of teaching your kids their bias, then what happens? Well, more often than not, when your kids spend 8-10 hours a day in school, another several hours on homework, a couple hours on the phone, and maybe thirty minutes chatting with their parents per day, they’re going to adopt the school’s bias.
We have only to take a quick look at the origins of the public school system to see this. Going back to the Protestant origins of our education system, while well-intentioned, the Protestant teachers taught from a Calvinist-leaning viewpoint. While some of this could be chalked up to being what they had, a lot of this was done for a different reason. They sought to lead their Catholic students to Protestantism in the hopes that it would prevent the atrocities committed in the Old World from happening in America. In other words, their schools weren’t just there for learning, but for converting Catholic kids into Protestantism and even back then, it worked.
However, this system worked so well that it had dire consequences. Fast forward to the 20th century. Totalitarianism is on the rise, with communism taking over Russia and fascism becoming popular in Spain, Italy, and Germany. In every case, one of the first things to be taken over were the education systems. In Nazi Germany, for example, homeschooling was outlawed and parents were forced to send their kids to state-run or approved schools. There, their children were indoctrinated into Nazism, and, starting in 1939, all eligible children were required to join the Hitler Youth. Any parents who objected were heavily fined or thrown into prison.
Today, while parents still have school choice, we see disturbing parallels between the two examples I presented and our current system. The main worldview that our public schools teach from is secular, but it’s further mixed with Leftism. Schools have a particular interest to do this as the Teacher’s Union and the Democrat Party have a you-scratch-my-back-I-scratch-yours type of relationship. They donate to the Party (more than any other group), and the party passes laws to benefit them, and many of those laws are meant to restrict school choice, especially for homeschoolers. We have just to look at a recent law in Conneticut to see this.
Funny how the supposedly anti-fascist group wants to continue and strengthen something that while starting out with good intentions, has historically been used quite effectively to indoctrinate entire generations into supporting things that have been detrimental to society.
This leads to the fourth argument that public schools give an even playing field for everyone, and therefore, should remain the standard. If by even playing field, supporters of public education mean that it makes everyone equally dumb and controllable, then their defense is true.
It has been shown over the past several years that kids who go to public school are becoming dumber. One in four young adults in the U.S. are functionally illiterate yet are still graduating with a high school diploma. Half of the U.S. population cannot read at an 8th-grade level. About 45% of U.S. high school seniors lack basic math skills. Only 37% of high school students were proficient in science. Only 13% of 8th-graders were proficient in history and 22% were proficient in civics. Yet they’re being passed through the public school system, and graduating, something that teachers are increasingly raising the alarm about.
Meanwhile, private school students and homeschool students have consistently scored better on all points, with homeschoolers scoring above average on academic achievement tests regardless of their parent’s level of education or household income. To illustrate this difference, a friend of the family who is an English professor once said that he could tell immediately who went to public school and who was homeschooled or sent to private school because the public-school kids had no idea what parts of speech were. Meanwhile the homeschooled and private schooled kids understood the assignment and could name various parts of speech.
If you’re worried about society getting dumber, then you should be on the side of school choice and making private and homeschool options more acessible to parents. Not only would everyone have a better education, but it would make the playing field truly equal because there would be more competition. As it is, the private schooled and homeschooled have an advantage in many ways over the public schooled since we actually know how to read, write, do math, understand science, communicate, etc.
But, if you want an “equal playing field” for people at the expense of making society stupid and creating a group of people that can’t critically think and has no diversity of thought, then sure, go for public schools.
Until next time,
M.J.
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Blog: I Said There are no Secular Schools and that Public Schools Should be Banned…and the Atheist Leftists are Angry.
A little bit ago, I posted an article on here about how there are no secular schools. In that article, I pointed out that no school is truly free of religion or worldviews, and, in the case of public schools, they mainly subscribe to atheism or other forms of secular humanism. As such, in many ways they operate as something with which to mass convert the youth to atheism/secular humanism, and if we actually want this problem solved, then we should abolish the public school system, make private schools and homeschool more accessible, and allow more school choice.
Naturally, however, there are people who vehemently disagree with this position: atheist leftists (who also claim to be anti-fascist, but that’ll come up later.)
But what arguments do the Leftists have to defend the public school system? What airtight defenses do they have for it?
The first defense is, of course, that secularism isn’t a religion, nor is it connected to religion or spirituality. While that might be true in part, it is a worldview that makes many claims that are treated as fact that are in conflict with other worldviews and religions. For instance, secularists often take an atheistic stance on how the world works. However, the issue with this is that the claims made and treated as fact are really theories.
The most obvious example of this is evolutionary theory, which has been challenged in schools for decades. Evolutionary theory is just that – a theory – yet it is treated as fact in every level of academia, with hardly any room for disagreement. When Christians try to teach their theory about how the world was created and support it with evidence, they’re often shot down, threatened with their jobs, and accused of trying to force religion on students. We Christians are accused of indoctrinating students (and, thus, abusing them, according to some people) even though we’re doing just what the secularists are doing – presenting a theory and supporting it with evidence. We believe that creation is a fact just as secularists believe evolution is a fact. So why aren’t we allowed to teach it as a theory in academics? Why can’t we present both sides and let the students make up their own minds? Why is it abuse when we Christians present what we believe as fact as a theory in an academic context, but it’s not abuse when secularists do it and take it so far as to say that it is fact?
The second defense is that religion is essentially just a fairytale, and is not based in fact, so anyone who teaches from a religious point of view should be fired. The first issue with this argument is what do we define as a fairytale? I can just as easily say teaching from a secular worldview is teaching kids a fairytale about how we just randomly came from nothing, and thus, secular teachers should be fired. I could say that teaching that you can be the opposite gender is a fairytale, and anyone who teaches that should be fired. What definition are we working with here?
The second issue with this defense is, of course, the history of how the public school system even started. While we all know about John Dewey and Horace Mann as being some of the most influential figures in the making of our modern public education system, Protestant Christians did a great deal to build it as well. As the Christian Heritage Fellowship writes:
The foundation for public education, however, was first laid in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the years 1642, 1647, and 1648. The three legislative acts of these three years are known as the Massachusetts School Laws and was the first step toward compulsory government-directed public education in the United States. Not long after these three laws were enacted, similar laws were drafted in the other New England colonies. Following the lead of the New England colonies, most mid-Atlantic colonies enacted similar legislation, though in some Southern colonies nearly a century passed before publicly funded schools were established there. The first law regarding education in the New World was passed by evangelical Christians only twenty-two years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
Why did the Protestant settlers do this? It was because they wanted kids to be well versed, not just in studies like reading, writing, arithmetic, etc. but also in the Bible. They recognized that the ignorance of what the Bible teaches that could be found in the Old World (which was still predominately Catholic at the time) lead in part to various atrocities. They believed that teaching kids the Bible would prevent that. In doing so, Christians literally laid the groundwork for the school system we have today. Had those people who taught “fairytales” as fact never been allowed to teach, perhaps we would not have the system we have today, severely flawed though it is.
Speaking of how flawed the system has become, we get to our third defense: the idea that public schools are good because it shows the world as it is and prevents kids from being brainwashed by their parents, who might not know everything. However, while that sounds good, we should all be wondering what bias our children are taught to view the world through.
It is a well-established fact that everyone has a bias. Our parents have a bias. We have a bias. Our teachers have a bias. Sure, some biases might be rooted more in fact than others, but when one group controls the education and is in charge of teaching your kids their bias, then what happens? Well, more often than not, when your kids spend 8-10 hours a day in school, another several hours on homework, a couple hours on the phone, and maybe thirty minutes chatting with their parents per day, they’re going to adopt the school’s bias.
We have only to take a quick look at the origins of the public school system to see this. Going back to the Protestant origins of our education system, while well-intentioned, the Protestant teachers taught from a Calvinist-leaning viewpoint. While some of this could be chalked up to being what they had, a lot of this was done for a different reason. They sought to lead their Catholic students to Protestantism in the hopes that it would prevent the atrocities committed in the Old World from happening in America. In other words, their schools weren’t just there for learning, but for converting Catholic kids into Protestantism and even back then, it worked.
However, this system worked so well that it had dire consequences. Fast forward to the 20th century. Totalitarianism is on the rise, with communism taking over Russia and fascism becoming popular in Spain, Italy, and Germany. In every case, one of the first things to be taken over were the education systems. In Nazi Germany, for example, homeschooling was outlawed and parents were forced to send their kids to state-run or approved schools. There, their children were indoctrinated into Nazism, and, starting in 1939, all eligible children were required to join the Hitler Youth. Any parents who objected were heavily fined or thrown into prison.
Today, while parents still have school choice, we see disturbing parallels between the two examples I presented and our current system. The main worldview that our public schools teach from is secular, but it’s further mixed with Leftism. Schools have a particular interest to do this as the Teacher’s Union and the Democrat Party have a you-scratch-my-back-I-scratch-yours type of relationship. They donate to the Party (more than any other group), and the party passes laws to benefit them, and many of those laws are meant to restrict school choice, especially for homeschoolers. We have just to look at a recent law in Conneticut to see this.
Funny how the supposedly anti-fascist group wants to continue and strengthen something that while starting out with good intentions, has historically been used quite effectively to indoctrinate entire generations into supporting things that have been detrimental to society.
This leads to the fourth argument that public schools give an even playing field for everyone, and therefore, should remain the standard. If by even playing field, supporters of public education mean that it makes everyone equally dumb and controllable, then their defense is true.
It has been shown over the past several years that kids who go to public school are becoming dumber. One in four young adults in the U.S. are functionally illiterate yet are still graduating with a high school diploma. Half of the U.S. population cannot read at an 8th-grade level. About 45% of U.S. high school seniors lack basic math skills. Only 37% of high school students were proficient in science. Only 13% of 8th-graders were proficient in history and 22% were proficient in civics. Yet they’re being passed through the public school system, and graduating, something that teachers are increasingly raising the alarm about.
Meanwhile, private school students and homeschool students have consistently scored better on all points, with homeschoolers scoring above average on academic achievement tests regardless of their parent’s level of education or household income. To illustrate this difference, a friend of the family who is an English professor once said that he could tell immediately who went to public school and who was homeschooled or sent to private school because the public-school kids had no idea what parts of speech were. Meanwhile the homeschooled and private schooled kids understood the assignment and could name various parts of speech.
If you’re worried about society getting dumber, then you should be on the side of school choice and making private and homeschool options more acessible to parents. Not only would everyone have a better education, but it would make the playing field truly equal because there would be more competition. As it is, the private schooled and homeschooled have an advantage in many ways over the public schooled since we actually know how to read, write, do math, understand science, communicate, etc.
But, if you want an “equal playing field” for people at the expense of making society stupid and creating a group of people that can’t critically think and has no diversity of thought, then sure, go for public schools.
Until next time,
M.J.
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Blog: I Said There are no Secular Schools and that Public Schools Should be Banned…and the Atheist Leftists are Angry.
A little bit ago, I posted an article on here about how there are no secular schools. In that article, I pointed out that no school is truly free of religion or worldviews, and, in the case of public schools, they mainly subscribe to atheism or other forms of secular humanism. As such, in many ways they operate as something with which to mass convert the youth to atheism/secular humanism, and if we actually want this problem solved, then we should abolish the public school system, make private schools and homeschool more accessible, and allow more school choice.
Naturally, however, there are people who vehemently disagree with this position: atheist leftists (who also claim to be anti-fascist, but that’ll come up later.)
But what arguments do the Leftists have to defend the public school system? What airtight defenses do they have for it?
The first defense is, of course, that secularism isn’t a religion, nor is it connected to religion or spirituality. While that might be true in part, it is a worldview that makes many claims that are treated as fact that are in conflict with other worldviews and religions. For instance, secularists often take an atheistic stance on how the world works. However, the issue with this is that the claims made and treated as fact are really theories.
The most obvious example of this is evolutionary theory, which has been challenged in schools for decades. Evolutionary theory is just that – a theory – yet it is treated as fact in every level of academia, with hardly any room for disagreement. When Christians try to teach their theory about how the world was created and support it with evidence, they’re often shot down, threatened with their jobs, and accused of trying to force religion on students. We Christians are accused of indoctrinating students (and, thus, abusing them, according to some people) even though we’re doing just what the secularists are doing – presenting a theory and supporting it with evidence. We believe that creation is a fact just as secularists believe evolution is a fact. So why aren’t we allowed to teach it as a theory in academics? Why can’t we present both sides and let the students make up their own minds? Why is it abuse when we Christians present what we believe as fact as a theory in an academic context, but it’s not abuse when secularists do it and take it so far as to say that it is fact?
The second defense is that religion is essentially just a fairytale, and is not based in fact, so anyone who teaches from a religious point of view should be fired. The first issue with this argument is what do we define as a fairytale? I can just as easily say teaching from a secular worldview is teaching kids a fairytale about how we just randomly came from nothing, and thus, secular teachers should be fired. I could say that teaching that you can be the opposite gender is a fairytale, and anyone who teaches that should be fired. What definition are we working with here?
The second issue with this defense is, of course, the history of how the public school system even started. While we all know about John Dewey and Horace Mann as being some of the most influential figures in the making of our modern public education system, Protestant Christians did a great deal to build it as well. As the Christian Heritage Fellowship writes:
The foundation for public education, however, was first laid in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the years 1642, 1647, and 1648. The three legislative acts of these three years are known as the Massachusetts School Laws and was the first step toward compulsory government-directed public education in the United States. Not long after these three laws were enacted, similar laws were drafted in the other New England colonies. Following the lead of the New England colonies, most mid-Atlantic colonies enacted similar legislation, though in some Southern colonies nearly a century passed before publicly funded schools were established there. The first law regarding education in the New World was passed by evangelical Christians only twenty-two years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
Why did the Protestant settlers do this? It was because they wanted kids to be well versed, not just in studies like reading, writing, arithmetic, etc. but also in the Bible. They recognized that the ignorance of what the Bible teaches that could be found in the Old World (which was still predominately Catholic at the time) lead in part to various atrocities. They believed that teaching kids the Bible would prevent that. In doing so, Christians literally laid the groundwork for the school system we have today. Had those people who taught “fairytales” as fact never been allowed to teach, perhaps we would not have the system we have today, severely flawed though it is.
Speaking of how flawed the system has become, we get to our third defense: the idea that public schools are good because it shows the world as it is and prevents kids from being brainwashed by their parents, who might not know everything. However, while that sounds good, we should all be wondering what bias our children are taught to view the world through.
It is a well-established fact that everyone has a bias. Our parents have a bias. We have a bias. Our teachers have a bias. Sure, some biases might be rooted more in fact than others, but when one group controls the education and is in charge of teaching your kids their bias, then what happens? Well, more often than not, when your kids spend 8-10 hours a day in school, another several hours on homework, a couple hours on the phone, and maybe thirty minutes chatting with their parents per day, they’re going to adopt the school’s bias.
We have only to take a quick look at the origins of the public school system to see this. Going back to the Protestant origins of our education system, while well-intentioned, the Protestant teachers taught from a Calvinist-leaning viewpoint. While some of this could be chalked up to being what they had, a lot of this was done for a different reason. They sought to lead their Catholic students to Protestantism in the hopes that it would prevent the atrocities committed in the Old World from happening in America. In other words, their schools weren’t just there for learning, but for converting Catholic kids into Protestantism and even back then, it worked.
However, this system worked so well that it had dire consequences. Fast forward to the 20th century. Totalitarianism is on the rise, with communism taking over Russia and fascism becoming popular in Spain, Italy, and Germany. In every case, one of the first things to be taken over were the education systems. In Nazi Germany, for example, homeschooling was outlawed and parents were forced to send their kids to state-run or approved schools. There, their children were indoctrinated into Nazism, and, starting in 1939, all eligible children were required to join the Hitler Youth. Any parents who objected were heavily fined or thrown into prison.
Today, while parents still have school choice, we see disturbing parallels between the two examples I presented and our current system. The main worldview that our public schools teach from is secular, but it’s further mixed with Leftism. Schools have a particular interest to do this as the Teacher’s Union and the Democrat Party have a you-scratch-my-back-I-scratch-yours type of relationship. They donate to the Party (more than any other group), and the party passes laws to benefit them, and many of those laws are meant to restrict school choice, especially for homeschoolers. We have just to look at a recent law in Conneticut to see this.
Funny how the supposedly anti-fascist group wants to continue and strengthen something that while starting out with good intentions, has historically been used quite effectively to indoctrinate entire generations into supporting things that have been detrimental to society.
This leads to the fourth argument that public schools give an even playing field for everyone, and therefore, should remain the standard. If by even playing field, supporters of public education mean that it makes everyone equally dumb and controllable, then their defense is true.
It has been shown over the past several years that kids who go to public school are becoming dumber. One in four young adults in the U.S. are functionally illiterate yet are still graduating with a high school diploma. Half of the U.S. population cannot read at an 8th-grade level. About 45% of U.S. high school seniors lack basic math skills. Only 37% of high school students were proficient in science. Only 13% of 8th-graders were proficient in history and 22% were proficient in civics. Yet they’re being passed through the public school system, and graduating, something that teachers are increasingly raising the alarm about.
Meanwhile, private school students and homeschool students have consistently scored better on all points, with homeschoolers scoring above average on academic achievement tests regardless of their parent’s level of education or household income. To illustrate this difference, a friend of the family who is an English professor once said that he could tell immediately who went to public school and who was homeschooled or sent to private school because the public-school kids had no idea what parts of speech were. Meanwhile the homeschooled and private schooled kids understood the assignment and could name various parts of speech.
If you’re worried about society getting dumber, then you should be on the side of school choice and making private and homeschool options more acessible to parents. Not only would everyone have a better education, but it would make the playing field truly equal because there would be more competition. As it is, the private schooled and homeschooled have an advantage in many ways over the public schooled since we actually know how to read, write, do math, understand science, communicate, etc.
But, if you want an “equal playing field” for people at the expense of making society stupid and creating a group of people that can’t critically think and has no diversity of thought, then sure, go for public schools.
Until next time,
M.J.
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Blog: I Said There are no Secular Schools and that Public Schools Should be Banned…and the Atheist Leftists are Angry.
A little bit ago, I posted an article on here about how there are no secular schools. In that article, I pointed out that no school is truly free of religion or worldviews, and, in the case of public schools, they mainly subscribe to atheism or other forms of secular humanism. As such, in many ways they operate as something with which to mass convert the youth to atheism/secular humanism, and if we actually want this problem solved, then we should abolish the public school system, make private schools and homeschool more accessible, and allow more school choice.
Naturally, however, there are people who vehemently disagree with this position: atheist leftists (who also claim to be anti-fascist, but that’ll come up later.)
But what arguments do the Leftists have to defend the public school system? What airtight defenses do they have for it?
The first defense is, of course, that secularism isn’t a religion, nor is it connected to religion or spirituality. While that might be true in part, it is a worldview that makes many claims that are treated as fact that are in conflict with other worldviews and religions. For instance, secularists often take an atheistic stance on how the world works. However, the issue with this is that the claims made and treated as fact are really theories.
The most obvious example of this is evolutionary theory, which has been challenged in schools for decades. Evolutionary theory is just that – a theory – yet it is treated as fact in every level of academia, with hardly any room for disagreement. When Christians try to teach their theory about how the world was created and support it with evidence, they’re often shot down, threatened with their jobs, and accused of trying to force religion on students. We Christians are accused of indoctrinating students (and, thus, abusing them, according to some people) even though we’re doing just what the secularists are doing – presenting a theory and supporting it with evidence. We believe that creation is a fact just as secularists believe evolution is a fact. So why aren’t we allowed to teach it as a theory in academics? Why can’t we present both sides and let the students make up their own minds? Why is it abuse when we Christians present what we believe as fact as a theory in an academic context, but it’s not abuse when secularists do it and take it so far as to say that it is fact?
The second defense is that religion is essentially just a fairytale, and is not based in fact, so anyone who teaches from a religious point of view should be fired. The first issue with this argument is what do we define as a fairytale? I can just as easily say teaching from a secular worldview is teaching kids a fairytale about how we just randomly came from nothing, and thus, secular teachers should be fired. I could say that teaching that you can be the opposite gender is a fairytale, and anyone who teaches that should be fired. What definition are we working with here?
The second issue with this defense is, of course, the history of how the public school system even started. While we all know about John Dewey and Horace Mann as being some of the most influential figures in the making of our modern public education system, Protestant Christians did a great deal to build it as well. As the Christian Heritage Fellowship writes:
The foundation for public education, however, was first laid in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the years 1642, 1647, and 1648. The three legislative acts of these three years are known as the Massachusetts School Laws and was the first step toward compulsory government-directed public education in the United States. Not long after these three laws were enacted, similar laws were drafted in the other New England colonies. Following the lead of the New England colonies, most mid-Atlantic colonies enacted similar legislation, though in some Southern colonies nearly a century passed before publicly funded schools were established there. The first law regarding education in the New World was passed by evangelical Christians only twenty-two years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth.
Why did the Protestant settlers do this? It was because they wanted kids to be well versed, not just in studies like reading, writing, arithmetic, etc. but also in the Bible. They recognized that the ignorance of what the Bible teaches that could be found in the Old World (which was still predominately Catholic at the time) lead in part to various atrocities. They believed that teaching kids the Bible would prevent that. In doing so, Christians literally laid the groundwork for the school system we have today. Had those people who taught “fairytales” as fact never been allowed to teach, perhaps we would not have the system we have today, severely flawed though it is.
Speaking of how flawed the system has become, we get to our third defense: the idea that public schools are good because it shows the world as it is and prevents kids from being brainwashed by their parents, who might not know everything. However, while that sounds good, we should all be wondering what bias our children are taught to view the world through.
It is a well-established fact that everyone has a bias. Our parents have a bias. We have a bias. Our teachers have a bias. Sure, some biases might be rooted more in fact than others, but when one group controls the education and is in charge of teaching your kids their bias, then what happens? Well, more often than not, when your kids spend 8-10 hours a day in school, another several hours on homework, a couple hours on the phone, and maybe thirty minutes chatting with their parents per day, they’re going to adopt the school’s bias.
We have only to take a quick look at the origins of the public school system to see this. Going back to the Protestant origins of our education system, while well-intentioned, the Protestant teachers taught from a Calvinist-leaning viewpoint. While some of this could be chalked up to being what they had, a lot of this was done for a different reason. They sought to lead their Catholic students to Protestantism in the hopes that it would prevent the atrocities committed in the Old World from happening in America. In other words, their schools weren’t just there for learning, but for converting Catholic kids into Protestantism and even back then, it worked.
However, this system worked so well that it had dire consequences. Fast forward to the 20th century. Totalitarianism is on the rise, with communism taking over Russia and fascism becoming popular in Spain, Italy, and Germany. In every case, one of the first things to be taken over were the education systems. In Nazi Germany, for example, homeschooling was outlawed and parents were forced to send their kids to state-run or approved schools. There, their children were indoctrinated into Nazism, and, starting in 1939, all eligible children were required to join the Hitler Youth. Any parents who objected were heavily fined or thrown into prison.
Today, while parents still have school choice, we see disturbing parallels between the two examples I presented and our current system. The main worldview that our public schools teach from is secular, but it’s further mixed with Leftism. Schools have a particular interest to do this as the Teacher’s Union and the Democrat Party have a you-scratch-my-back-I-scratch-yours type of relationship. They donate to the Party (more than any other group), and the party passes laws to benefit them, and many of those laws are meant to restrict school choice, especially for homeschoolers. We have just to look at a recent law in Conneticut to see this.
Funny how the supposedly anti-fascist group wants to continue and strengthen something that while starting out with good intentions, has historically been used quite effectively to indoctrinate entire generations into supporting things that have been detrimental to society.
This leads to the fourth argument that public schools give an even playing field for everyone, and therefore, should remain the standard. If by even playing field, supporters of public education mean that it makes everyone equally dumb and controllable, then their defense is true.
It has been shown over the past several years that kids who go to public school are becoming dumber. One in four young adults in the U.S. are functionally illiterate yet are still graduating with a high school diploma. Half of the U.S. population cannot read at an 8th-grade level. About 45% of U.S. high school seniors lack basic math skills. Only 37% of high school students were proficient in science. Only 13% of 8th-graders were proficient in history and 22% were proficient in civics. Yet they’re being passed through the public school system, and graduating, something that teachers are increasingly raising the alarm about.
Meanwhile, private school students and homeschool students have consistently scored better on all points, with homeschoolers scoring above average on academic achievement tests regardless of their parent’s level of education or household income. To illustrate this difference, a friend of the family who is an English professor once said that he could tell immediately who went to public school and who was homeschooled or sent to private school because the public-school kids had no idea what parts of speech were. Meanwhile the homeschooled and private schooled kids understood the assignment and could name various parts of speech.
If you’re worried about society getting dumber, then you should be on the side of school choice and making private and homeschool options more acessible to parents. Not only would everyone have a better education, but it would make the playing field truly equal because there would be more competition. As it is, the private schooled and homeschooled have an advantage in many ways over the public schooled since we actually know how to read, write, do math, understand science, communicate, etc.
But, if you want an “equal playing field” for people at the expense of making society stupid and creating a group of people that can’t critically think and has no diversity of thought, then sure, go for public schools.
Until next time,
M.J.
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