News is that expensive private schools such as Harvard-Westlake in Los Angeles, and Brearley School in New York have an agenda of indoctrination. The intention is to teach the lie that all White People are superbly advantaged due to the accident of their birth - their skin color - and that deep prejudices exist in all White people - as if this were inborn - so that we don't even know we are racists! Even when we have voted for affirmative action, even when we have intentionally and personally given people of a race or ethnicity or religion other than what we identify with, opportunities, we are supposed to be unconsciously racist. Maybe we should be paranoid that we have this trait, as real as blood, and unseen and unknown - like a virus.
Further we White appearing (after all, it is a presumption) people all must apologize and make up for American history, even if our people immigrated long after slavery was abolished and we were not raised to be prejudiced. That some people are not further along in their cultural situation has nothing to do with their values, it's all us doing them in.
What a steaming pile of manure!
Some parents are taking their children out of these schools, and you know what? I'm all for it. A parent who is paying tuition of $30,000 - $50,000 a year tuition can afford to hire a teacher to work with their child full time, or several tutors who are experts at their subject. No more discussion about student - teacher ratio. There are teachers out there who would love the work to home school the children of rich people, children who never suffer for experientials, extracurriculars, travel, educational opportunities and sports outside of school, and usually have plenty of social life, learning young how to interact with adults as well as their peers.
One parent said that he wants his child to LEARN TO THINK rather than be TOLD WHAT TO THINK.
He's right. That used to be the reason one went to a liberal arts college. That used to be the purpose of writing papers, to not only prove you knew the material taught, but to take a position. That used to be why DEBATE was honored because we wanted to know the two (or more) sides to a question, and perhaps become enlightened or persuaded.
What about creativity, originality, individualism, and invention?
I'm wondering just when certain Americans lost the FEAR of THOUGHT INDOCRINATION. Of 1984. Of 1999. Isn't this one of the reasons we as a nation feared and opposed Communism because of the CONFORMITY necessary in Communist Countries? (We certainly spent enough on military occupations and lost enough lives to prove that.) Have we invalidated previous "American values" ?
I think there is DISCUSSION and that's the best way to teach things.
This issue falls into two categories I'm concerned with. One is parental rights. The other is parental responsibilities. A parent has the right to pass on their belief system and we can all come up with some worst case scenario with this, but we all have a heritage. How much influence our parents, our childhood religion, and so on has on us as adults is questionable. In fact, too harsh an indoctrination often becomes a reason for rebellion. For instance, I meet a lot of people explaining themselves claiming they had "Catholic Damage." (For them, this exists. For the rest of us, they're just want to do immoral or unethical things and not be responsible or feel guilty.)
And there is this. I personally do not feel responsible for anything any of my ancestors did in their lives, good or bad. How many people even know much about their ancestors? History has a funny way of both repeating itself and being rewritten. I can only try to imagine what it was for women who had no contraception, for instance. How can I really understand what it was to live in 1848 or 1942? Time travel? I'm aware that I'm different than many of my relations and I don't know how much is nature and how much is nurture. I cannot typecast my family.
Besides what happens in a classroom, there is what we personally experience and how we make sense of it. As a result of experience, things we are told are true we often decide are not. In life we change.
Students whose parents cannot afford private schools or home schooling really have to assert themselves to teach their children what they want them to know, what they are not getting in public school, where they are dictated to. That tends to fall into the category of religion and too many parents are letting the school do all the work, even treat teachers as babysitters, rather than spend quality time with their children and teach them these basics at home.
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I had the experience of Anti-White Racism in one class in college where I was downgraded as one of the few White students in a class full of Mexican-Americans and a Mexican-American teacher who basically preached Anti-White in his lectures. For instance, he passed out anti-White poetry by an Angeleno poet of Mexican descent. According to this professor Mexican-Americans were taking over neighborhoods in Los Angeles and would soon dominate - in a sense he was right- eventually, but he was part of the belief system that this was never the United States, that there was no illegal immigration because this really was Mexico. Never mind that the college was a short drive from the historical site where the Treaty was signed, making this part of California, American Territory. And never mind that the early Mexicans had land grants from Spain and chose not to be Spanish or Mexican but called themselves Californios. The Anti-White and Anti-United States belief system expressed in that classroom certainly took rewriting history. I could go on about this so called professor and what he was getting away with in the classroom, but let's just say that the only White students in the class who got an A agreed to volunteer for his political candidate - a Mexican American. I had no time, thought this was wrong, and wasn't for that candidate. I got a political B - this with an open book final. Did the Dean give a rats ass? Hell no.
I think this college educator was so Anti-White he imagined I had never experienced discrimination or prejudice myself - for being a woman or being of Polish heritage for instance - and thought he'd punish me with a "lesson" in what it feels like - such as when I saw that bullshit grade.
This wasn't the first time I was treated with distain, treated as White Woman - the Heiress of Advantage, by Hispanic people and by Black people, but hey, I know when I'm dealing with an Anti-White bigot and when I'm not. I've also been treated with basic respect by people of these ancestries and have sometime formed friendships that would be impossible if either party were racist.
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We cannot be afraid to see differences. Different doesn't always mean bad or wrong. So at a time when there are a dozen ways to label our sexuality there is only one way to label White.
We do have to look at how it is a person got to where they are - or are not.
An excellent EDUCATION at a SCHOOL should not the same experience as a RE-EDUCATION CAMP.
We need to see individuals as just that and get to know someone more deeply and decide if we like them or not based on their innards - their character, personality, their values - not their skin color. When schools try to impress upon White students that they should be apologizing for their assumed advantage, embarrassed by a heritage they took no part in, then the school administration, teachers, and educational philosophy is basically Anti-White racist. They are practicing exactly what they claim to be against.
C 2021 Christine Trzyna
