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Tacoma teacher against ethnic studies says diversity divides us
TurdBomber
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Diversity education is a divisive education BY MIKE JANKANISH
https://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/article227315034.html
A teacher in Tacoma says he is trying to have an open discussion about important issues, but other teachers say he is spewing hate. The conversation surrounds House Bill 1314, which is a proposal to make ethnic studies a required curriculum in Washington schools.
https://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/article227315034.html
A teacher in Tacoma says he is trying to have an open discussion about important issues, but other teachers say he is spewing hate. The conversation surrounds House Bill 1314, which is a proposal to make ethnic studies a required curriculum in Washington schools.
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Diversity is not what Lincoln was talking about when he said a house dived would fall and to use those words imparts a gross misunderstanding of the subject in which the speaker was referring to.
I don't want this teacher even speaking to my child, much less teaching him.
He is as outdated and harmful as the racist rhetoric he's pushing. Get him out. Now.
And why are you demonstrating the group-think mentality that possesses the left, i.e., where nobody thinks for themselves, but instead parrots a narrative?
HB 1314 is a bad idea and should not be approved. The great goal of the common neighborhood public schools was to provide an environment where children of immigrants would, over time, be welcomed into the common American culture.
Even immigrant adults would attend night schools to learn English as quickly as possible.
To become “American” did not mean immigrants had to forgo the language and ceremonial life of their country of origin. However, most made it their primary goal to enter into the common culture as quickly as possible.
Of course, this increasing emphasis on cultural diversity is not just about school curriculum but part of a larger agenda to implement the goals of identity politics.
This way of thinking is based on the assumption that certain groups of Americans are inherently marginalized in our society and are the victims of ongoing discrimination.
But the increasing emphasis on some identifying characteristic, such as race, gender, sexual orientation or nationality, undermines a historical American achievement:
Creating institutions, like broad-based political parties, has served to unite diverse groups around policy proposals that bond Americans to a common enterprise. Even if this goal has not always been realized, it was assumed the effort ought to always point toward its achievement.
The real problem is this: The proponents of measures like HB 1314 no longer support the American experiment. They don’t want to encourage new immigrants and new citizens to integrate. They think America is inherently racist and discriminatory at every turn.
Read more here: https://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/article227315034.html#storylink=cpy
I think you're missing the political tie-in.
Diversity of viewpoints is intolerable anymore. More than 1/2 the TNT commenters want the guy fired for disagreeing with the Far Left orthodoxy that says America is one big pile of shit.
I think he is correct in that people need to be Americans. So many aren't.
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This land was Mexican once,
was Indian always
and is.
And will be again.
Don't lecture me about assimilation.
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