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	#Post#: 7644--------------------------------------------------
	Re: State subverters
	By: guest55 Date: July 21, 2021, 10:59 pm
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	Black Teacher Accused Of Bias For Teaching The Reality Of
	Slavery
	[quote]The critical race theory controversy which is really a
	rejection of anti-racism teachings has teachers like Rodney
	Pierce caught in the crossfire. Pierce is a social studies
	teacher at Red Oak Middle School in Battleboro, North Carolina
	and was social studies teacher of the year in 2019. Now, Pierce
	is facing resistance from parents saying that his teaching of
	history and race is biased.[/quote]
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxu1iXLFl5o
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	Re: Academic decolonization
	By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 4, 2021, 10:09 pm
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	Rightist media complains about woke WWII historians being
	increasingly pro-Axis:
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYSff9VRITs
	as we many years ago promised that they one day would be.
	See also:
	http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/blm-sides-with-third-reich/
	http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/when-history-is-written-by-leftists-co…
	http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/when-history-is-written-by-leftists/
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	Re: Academic decolonization
	By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 7, 2021, 11:47 pm
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	More people getting it:
	https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02288-x
	[quote]Too many scientists still say Caucasian
	...
	Of the ten clinical genetics labs in the United States that
	share the most data with the research community, seven include
	�Caucasian� as a multiple-choice category for patients� racial
	or ethnic identity, despite the term having no scientific basis.
	Nearly 5,000 biomedical papers since 2010 have used �Caucasian�
	to describe European populations. This suggests that too many
	scientists apply the term, either unbothered by or unaware of
	its roots in racist taxonomies used to justify slavery � or
	worse, adding to pseudoscientific claims of white biological
	superiority.[/quote]
	Thank you for using '' around "Caucasian". But you forget to do
	the same with "European".
	[quote]Many working in genomics do have a nuanced understanding
	of the issues and want to get things right. Still, I have been
	dismayed by how often the academics and clinicians I�ve
	encountered shy away from examining, or even acknowledging, how
	racism warps science.
	...
	In the United States, people with ancestry from the world�s two
	most populous countries, India and China, along with every other
	country on the continent, are collapsed into a single racial
	category called �Asian�. Similarly, the term �Hispanic� erases a
	multitude of cultural and ancestral identities, especially among
	Indigenous peoples of the Americas.[/quote]
	In reality, the vast majority of Indians have "Caucasoid"-type
	skulls (ie. ones which cannot be placed face down on a flat
	surface without tipping to one side). However, they are rarely
	labelled as "Caucasian".
	Still, thank you for at least putting "Asian" in ''. (No '' is
	needed around Hispanic, however; Spanish is a language.)
	[quote]Erroneous ideas about genetic �races� live on in the
	broad, ambiguous �continental ancestry� groups such as �Black,
	African� or �African American�, that are used in the US Census
	and are ubiquitous in biomedical research. These collapse
	incredible amounts of diversity and erase cultural and ancestral
	identities. Study participants deemed not to fit within such
	crude buckets are often excluded from analyses, despite the fact
	that fewer and fewer individuals identify with a single
	population of origin.[/quote]
	On the other hand, people from countries such as Libya are
	rarely called "African" despite Libya being part of the
	"continent" of "Africa" (and indeed the only true Africa:
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(Roman_province)
	). Because
	the real point is neither to consistently stick to "continental"
	ancestry nor to consistently stick to skull taxonomy, but to
	switch between the two as necessary in accordance with
	Eurocentrism.
	[quote]Approaches to genetic ancestry based on known reference
	populations are inadequate, in part because so much global
	diversity is missing from our data. I am working with the Human
	Pangenome Reference Consortium, which aims to generate a more
	accurate and inclusive resource for global genomic diversity. It
	will include communities, especially Indigenous peoples, in
	developing protocols for data collection, storage and use. This
	respects Indigenous data sovereignty, and makes for more
	accurate and inclusive studies.
	The more precisely we can measure genetic and non-genetic
	contributors to health and disease, the less researchers will
	rely on biologically meaningless designations that reinforce
	faulty assumptions and cause harm. The use of sequence data in
	clinical care could, for instance, facilitate recommendations
	for drug dosage that are genotype-based, rather than race-based.
	Simply picking another word to replace �Caucasian� won�t be
	enough to root out racism in research and medicine. But all
	should be aware of the harms the word represents.[/quote]
	Indeed:
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race#The_Caucasus_as_the_origin_of_huma…
	[quote]In the eighteenth century, the prevalent view among
	European scholars was that the human species had its origin in
	the region of the Caucasus Mountains.[22] This view was based
	upon the Caucasus being the location for the purported landing
	point of Noah's Ark � from whom the Bible states that humanity
	is descended � and the location for the suffering of Prometheus,
	who in Hesiod's myth had crafted humankind from clay.[22]
	In addition, the most beautiful humans were reputed to be the
	stereotypical "Circassian beauties" and the Georgian people;
	both Georgia and Circassia are in the Caucasus
	region.[23][22][/quote]
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circassian_beauty
	[quote]Here the majority of the women were Circassian, who
	without any doubt are much more distinguished in appearance. ...
	This natural superiority was the cause of a good deal of
	ill-will and envy. One Circassian woman, favoured with an
	aristocratic appearance, was avoided and even hated by the
	chocolate-coloured African women through no fault of hers, but
	simply because she looked majestic.
	...
	By the early nineteenth century, Circassians were associated
	with theories of racial hierarchy, which elevated the Caucasus
	region as the source of the purest examples of the "white race",
	which was named the Caucasian race after the area by Johann
	Friedrich Blumenbach. Blumenbach theorised that the Circassians
	were the closest to God's original model of humanity, and thus
	"the purest and most beautiful whites were the Circassians".[27]
	...
	Bella Kukan, "Miss Circassia", 2013
	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Bella_Kukan.jpg[/quote]
	https://image.shutterstock.com/image-vector/emoticon-laughing-wiping-tears-away…
	More laughter material:
	https://twitter.com/sausruqo/status/1059225433353412613
	https://twitter.com/sausruqo/status/1060686262347141121
	https://twitter.com/lucinapshegubj/status/452035208251211776
	See also:
	https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/homo-hubris/
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	Re: Academic decolonization
	By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 8, 2021, 10:54 pm
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	https://www.ajc.com/news/emory-apologizes-for-campuses-displacing-native-americ…
	[quote]On Monday, the Emory board of trustees approved an
	official �Land Acknowledgment for Emory University� that
	�acknowledges the Muscogee (Creek) people who lived, worked,
	produced knowledge on, and nurtured the land where Emory�s
	Oxford and Atlanta campuses are now located.�
	In a statement issued by President Gregory L. Fenves, the
	acknowledgment �sheds light on a tragic chapter in the Emory
	story.�
	�It also reminds us of the important work that lies ahead to
	create a university community that is more inclusive of Native
	and Indigenous perspectives, learning, and scholarship,� Fenves
	said.[/quote]
	More importantly, the university should increasingly exclude
	Western perspectives, learning and scholarship. It is excluding
	Western learning, not including non-Western learning, which we
	need if we are to stop:
	https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/if-western-civilization-do…
	Note:
	[quote]Emory�s announcement came 10 years after the board of
	trustees adopted a formal statement of regret over the school�s
	historic involvement with African-American slavery.
	It also came ahead of the university�s �In the Wake of Slavery
	and Dispossession� symposium starting Wednesday. The three-day
	event will explore the school�s history with slavery and Native
	American land dispossession and examine through panels,
	performances and art installations how that history affects the
	present.
	...
	�This is a moment in which scholars, activists and artists of
	color have compelled a national conversation surrounding
	enduring legacies of anti-Black racism and, increasingly,
	colonialism, including overlaps between Indigenous dispossession
	and the enslavement of Black people in this country,� said Alix
	L. Olson, an assistant professor of women�s and gender studies
	at Oxford College.[/quote]
	The overlap is that both groups of victims were Americans while
	their common oppressors were Westerners.
	[quote]Fenves said the school will continue to recognize
	Indigenous Peoples� Day and take steps to establish a stronger
	connection with the Muscogee Nation.[/quote]
	But will it take steps to weaken its connection with Western
	civilization?
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	Re: Academic decolonization
	By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 14, 2021, 11:19 pm
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	https://us.yahoo.com/news/texas-school-administrator-told-teachers-005600802.ht…
	[quote]Texas school administrator told teachers to use books
	with 'opposing' views of Holocaust
	...
	"Make sure that if, if you have a book on the Holocaust, that
	you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives,"
	[/quote]
	Yes, it is fortunately legal do this in the US, unlike in
	numerous more Zionist countries:
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_Holocaust_denial
	https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Holocaust_Denial_Laws…
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	Re: Academic decolonization
	By: Zea_mays Date: October 17, 2021, 8:55 pm
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	There are not just laws against mere "denial", but there are
	also laws mandating that the sacred narrative is taught:
	[quote]As of April of 2021, laws mandating education about the
	Holocaust were on the books in Austria, France, Germany,
	Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and the
	United Kingdom, as well as in the U.S. states of Arkansas,
	California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois,
	Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon,
	Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Texas. In total, 16 states have
	mandatory Holocaust education.[1][/quote]
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_requiring_teaching_of_the_Holocaust
	I doubt that the teaching of the ethnic cleansing of Native
	Americans, US concentration camps for American citizens of
	Japanese heritage during WWII, etc. are mandated by law in most
	of those US states!!!
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	Re: Academic decolonization
	By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 23, 2021, 10:41 pm
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	Good takedown:
	https://news.yahoo.com/condoleezza-rice-crt-stance-proves-222000707.html
	[quote]Condoleezza Rice�s recent appearance on The View was
	offensive and disgusting for many reasons but she was who we
	thought she was: a soldier for white supremacy. Her thoughts on
	Critical Race Theory are completely white centric, as in, they
	revolve around the thoughts and needs of white people.
	Her primary argument against Critical Race Theory is that
	history should not be taught in a way that makes white kids feel
	bad. What? We should whitewash U.S. history to protect the
	feelings of white children? Excuse me, I misspoke � we should
	whitewash U.S. history even more than we already do in order to
	protect the feelings of white children?
	First of all, what about the feelings of Black children? What
	would their feelings be if they knew they were being taught a
	version of American history that was distorted to protect white
	kids? What message does that send to them? And what about the
	feelings they have when learning about the real American
	history?
	Also this � white children and adults should absolutely feel bad
	about the past atrocities committed by white Americans. They
	should feel guilty. They should cringe at what their ancestors
	did. They should also understand that modern white power is
	directly related to those atrocities. White people gained
	economic and institutional advantages from slavery and
	segregation and the long-term subjugation of Black people that
	continue to help them to this day.
	White people should know that American history is rated X and
	their relatives are the one who Black people had to fear. They
	didn�t arrive and have a nice dinner with the natives and buy
	Manhattan for a few trinkets.
	The Europeans who settled early America made treaties with
	American Indians and then violated those treaties and
	slaughtered the natives as rapidly as possible. They didn�t
	merely own slaves and treat them kindly. They had a cruel and
	peculiar institution that kidnapped and human trafficked and
	then beat and raped and subjugated humans for generations.
	Slavery was far more cruel and frightening than most people even
	know unless you read diaries written by former slaves. And the
	past is not done with us � slavery created the economy and the
	wealth that led to America becoming a global economic power. You
	didn�t have to own slaves in order to participate in that
	wealth-building but all of the wealth derived from it went to
	white people and was thus stolen from Black people.
	American history is a series of cycles where white people grow
	more powerful because of the legalized oppression of Black
	people. American history is a series of stories where white
	people knock us down and stand on our necks and then ask why
	we�re on the ground. If we don�t know history we don�t
	understand reality and how it was constructed. I really don�t
	care if learning this makes white kids feel bad � and if it
	doesn�t then they are too heartless.
	...
	Our classrooms should not be another example of white privilege,
	they should reflect the ugly reality of American history. But
	really the whole discussion is bizarre � we are debating about
	whether we should teach our children real American history or if
	we should lie to them and protect their fragile white hearts.
	I cannot accept a country that contorts itself to avoid causing
	white pain. I�m not here to help comfort white people. And Lord
	knows I am never, ever going to center them.[/quote]
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	Re: Academic decolonization
	By: 90sRetroFan Date: October 26, 2021, 9:28 pm
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	https://www.timesofisrael.com/swedish-agency-suggests-exercise-in-which-student…
	[quote]JTA � Sweden�s National Agency for Education recommended
	that teachers should make students try to prove that the
	Holocaust never happened, as part of a push to help them
	understand conspiracy theories.
	The recommendation came in a recently published handbook for
	high school teachers that the government�s institution in charge
	of scholastic issues had created, the Aftonbladet daily reported
	earlier this month.
	�Group 1 must find at least three arguments for the case that
	the Holocaust never happened, using facts and information from
	the internet. They can also ask others what they believe and
	why,� the suggested exercise read.[/quote]
	Only one argument is necessary: why do there exist laws
	criminalizing investigation about whether or not any "Holocaust"
	happened, if it really did happen? Trump claims he won the 2020
	election but had it stolen from him by election fraud. We,
	despite hating Trump, do not call for criminalizing
	investigation into the 2020 election, because we know the more
	audits are done, the more it will be proven beyond any doubt
	that no fraud occurred, and that he lost! So, if the alleged
	"Holocaust" really did happen, Jews should want us to
	investigate it as much as possible, since the more we
	investigate it, the more we will prove it did happen! So, given
	that in reality Jews don't want us to investigate it, what can
	we deduce about it?
	[quote]Sweden�s Jewish Central Council and other critics said
	asking students to consume and engage in Holocaust denial is
	offensive to victims and has questionable pedagogical value.
	�Even if it is well-intentioned, there is a danger in calling
	the Holocaust controversial,� Aron Verst�ndig, chairman of
	Sweden�s Jewish Central Council, told Aftonbladet. He called the
	exercise �bizarre.�[/quote]
	Yes, the danger is that the truth will come out.
	Who else is against this idea?
	[quote]Bj�rn S�der, a member of the Sweden Democrats party, a
	populist right-wing movement, queried Education Minister Anna
	Ekstr�m on the subject, asking her to explain how the exercise
	fits into the government�s policy of opposing antisemitism.
	[/quote]
	Of course!
	https://trueleft.createaforum.com/enemies/sd/
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	Re: Academic decolonization
	By: guest55 Date: October 27, 2021, 12:50 pm
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	And it's as simple as that isn't it. If it really did happen as
	Jews claim it did then why fear investigation? "The truth does
	not fear investigation" at all, ever! On another note, treachery
	and deception has been taking place since the dawn of
	civilization but Jews are completely incapable of it of course
	because the "chosen people" are perfect, this is why they're so
	pretty on the outside and on the inside and all non-Jewish women
	want to sleep with them! (Even though those women are often
	prostitutes!)
	[img width=1280
	height=909]
	https://media.newyorker.com/photos/59e0e6b8bfe09a1382f8848e/master/pass/Fry-Lin…
	https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/14BD5/production/_107794948_gettyim…
	[img width=766
	height=1280]
	https://c8.alamy.com/comp/dm7bf0/ron-jeremy-and-guest-rock-the-mansion-at-the-p…
	(When's the last time Ron washed those pants and T-shirt I
	cannot help but wonder?)
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	Re: Academic decolonization
	By: 90sRetroFan Date: November 2, 2021, 9:24 pm
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	A small passive defensive victory:
	https://www.yahoo.com/news/westminster-school-pulls-china-communist-203326340.h…
	[quote]Westminster School is to pull the plug on its China
	operation after a new Communist Party ruling stipulated that all
	lesson plans must be approved by Beijing.
	The school unveiled its plans in 2017 to set up a sister
	institution bearing its name in Chengdu in China�s Sichuan
	province.
	But on Tuesday, Westminster�s chairman of governors told parents
	that this project has now been axed following �recent changes in
	Chinese education policy�.
	Earlier this year it emerged that British-branded private
	schools in China will be forced to abandon their curricula and
	teach only lessons approved by Beijing as part of a broader push
	led by president Xi Jinping to ensure the �right� thinking.
	The new regulations mean that international schools must now
	teach the same lessons as China�s state-run public schools from
	kindergarten to grade nine.
	...
	Stephen Spriggs, the managing director at the consultancy firm
	William Clarence Education, said: �There was always a risk with
	schools viewing China as the land paved with gold. You are
	liable to a change in their government�s policy.�
	He said he suspects more British schools will pull out of China
	and instead target more �politically stable� countries.
	[/quote]
	"Politically stable" = academically colonized. Why should any
	country formerly colonized by Britain (or any other Western
	colonial power) tolerate British (or any other Western) schools,
	which were first introduced as a consequence of colonization?
	[quote]Some of the country�s leading private schools have set up
	campuses in the Far East over the past decade.
	The �42,630-a-year Wellington College has five schools in China
	and one in Thailand. It set up its first overseas school �
	Wellington College International Tianjin � a decade ago.
	Meanwhile, Harrow School runs 11 schools in China, Hong Kong,
	Japan, Indonesia and Thailand. North London Collegiate School
	has a satellite campus in South Korea, Dubai and
	Singapore.[/quote]
	Genuinely decolonized peoples would burn them all down. (I
	understand we are still far from reaching this point.) Beyond
	this, the local curricula themselves need to remove their own
	Western content (of which there is plenty). Above all,
	compulsory schooling itself (also a Western institution
	introduced during colonization) must end.
	[quote]Most private schools use a �franchise� model, where an
	investor or management company pays the school a fixed amount
	each year � similar to a royalty � in order to use their name,
	brand or expertise.
	Under this model, the British �mothership� school is often paid
	a percentage of the school fees each year, on top of the
	franchise fee.[/quote]
	Burning them all down would save far more money than it costs to
	keep them around!
	The mothership schools ultimately need the same treatment also.
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