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Obama High: No child left benign
...Yet no American journalist covering the presidential race has queried the Chicago-based Sen. Barack Obama about this radical development in education reform: a key issue to which the young senator has committed much of his public life and all of his executive experience.
...Nor has any intrepid mainstream-media reporter looked into a greater trend across the United States in segregating public school students by politically correct “victim” class for the explicit purpose of indoctrinating children in “social justice.”
...So what exactly is “social justice”? This past Martin Luther King Day, a group of social-welfare students at the University of California at Berkeley got together and took a stab at defining it:
“Social justice is a process, not an outcome, which
(1) seeks fair (re)distribution of resources, opportunities and responsibilities;
(2) challenges the roots of oppression and injustice;
(3) empowers all people to exercise self-determination and realize their full potential;
(4) and builds social solidarity and community capacity for collaborative action."
Ok - I got a coupla questions: but first I gotta set up a couple of terms.
How does someone create wealth? How does someone earn the wherewithal to pay their way; rent/food etc.? They trade their energy, their talents/skills and their time for it. What does time really come down to? Heartbeats. That’s what we trade for the income we need or desire. Heartbeats.*
1) How is taking Heartbeats from one man and giving them to another fair? We have a pretty level playing field of opportunities in this country; it’s kinda definitional. OTOH, this idea seems to un-level the whole responsibilities thing. Now some folks are going to be responsible not only for making their own way, but some part of someone else’s way, according to government demands. Is that their definition of fair?
2) what I’m doing here.
3) I’m not sure how they’re defining “self-determination,” but I’m pretty sure that whatever the situation is, I am in charge of how *I* respond to it [limited only by my own lack of self awareness or insight.] [which is still, erm… mine.] It seems the same would apply to the whole “realizing their full potential” thing.
4) Yanno what builds “social solidarity?” Common Values as expressed in common language and culture. And by “culture” I don’t mean ‘who won American Idol,’ though that is a part of it. I mean an ability to discuss the ideas in, for example, Shakespeare, Dickens, Lewis, Faulkner, Steinbeck and Rand. Or Ayers, Marx, Hayek, Rousseau and Davis. [names that just popped off the top of my head]
That whole “collaborative action” thing is such a red herring I cannot even find words to describe it. The entire history and success of America is a testament to “collaborative action” by people who originally came from all parts of the globe.
At least we can feel reassured by this:
It’s not a conspiracy because conspiracies are actually hidden.
*can’t claim credit for this one—it came from Boortz. Not as well phrased as his version, I’ll grant; but the core concept I heard from him.
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