No Thanksgiving for for America’s Teachers

Along with the sad sacks known as journalists, teachers are on my list of the top 5 most reviled “professionals” for whom I harbor the utmost contempt. In a fine essay that you will relish should you, like I, have contempt for all things politically correct,the inimitable Victor Davis Hanson distills into one paragraph the gist of my disdain.

10. The K-12 public education system is essentially wrecked. No longer can any professor expect an incoming college freshman to know what Okinawa, John Quincy Adams, Shiloh, the Parthenon, the Reformation, John Locke, the Second Amendment, or the Pythagorean Theorem is. An entire American culture, the West itself, its ideas and experiences, have simply vanished on the altar of therapy. This upcoming generation knows instead not to judge anyone by absolute standards but not why so; to remember to say that its own Western culture is no different from, or indeed far worse than, the alternatives; that race, class, and gender are, well, important in some vague sense; that global warming is manmade and very soon will kill us all; that we must have hope and change of some undefined sort; that AIDs is no more a homosexual- than a heterosexual-prone disease; and that the following things and people for some reason must be bad, or at least must in public company be said to be bad in no particular order: Wal-Mart, cowboys, the Vietnam War, oil companies, coal plants, nuclear power, George Bush, chemicals, leather, guns, states like Utah and Kansas, Sarah Palin, vans and SUVs.

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Obama’s adoring electorate is proof positive of the enervating corrosive affect of “liberal” education in this country. The unraveling of America’s strength can be directly attributed to the dumbing down indoctrination delivered at the behest of the public school system.

And, trust me, the Obamanites want to make damn sure your kid is one of the indoctrinated. Along with speech and gun rights, another extremely critical battle that will have to be waged over the coming years is protecting the sanctity of the family and the inviolate rights of parents to determine their childrens education and belief systems.

A recent incident in California serves as one small illustration of why this battle has to be engaged.

“Racist” children celebrate Thanksgiving by “dehumanizing” American Indians

In yet another case of political correctness run amok, a forty year history of kindergartners dressed as pilgrims and native Americans celebrating Thanksgiving at school has been quashed in Claremont, California, due to four people who complained the celebration used “racist stereotypes” which were “dehumanizing”.
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“It’s demeaning,” Michelle Raheja, the mother of a kindergartner at Condit Elementary School, wrote to her daughter’s teacher. “I’m sure you can appreciate the inappropriateness of asking children to dress up like slaves (and kind slave masters), or Jews (and friendly Nazis), or members of any other racial minority group who has struggled in our nation’s history.” Continue reading….

No, Michelle, you PC addled miscreant, what is inappropriate is teaching a kindergartner that homosexuality is a lifestyle chice. What is inappropriate is denigrating this county’s heritage with your revisionist lies while actively promoting communism to American children. Funny thing is, communism has historically been no friend of homosexuality.

Ironic, isn’t it? In fact,the resurgent communists in Russia are dusting off some old laws that were on the books before the Soviet Union’s fall that would send the pink crowd back into their closets.

No, I don’t think I’ll be extending any thanks or kind wishes towards the multiculturalist zombies presently herding the sheeple through the halls of academia. In my mind, Thanksgiving can not truly be celebrated in this country until they and their progressive comrades recede back to the obscurity that shrouded their ugly presence in this country 100 years ago.

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