Santa
Claus is banned. The Pledge of Allegiance is no longer recited.
“Harvest festival” has replaced Thanksgiving, and “winter
celebrations” substitute for Christmas parties. New principal
Eujin Jaela Kim has given PS 169 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a
politically correct scrub-down, to the dismay of teachers and
parents.... A memo last month from assistant principal Jose Chaparro
suggested a “harvest festival instead of Thanksgiving or a winter
celebration instead of a Christmas party.” He urged staff to “be
sensitive of the diversity of our families. Not all children
celebrate the same holidays.”
(NY
Post, December 13, 2015)
I'm
sure I've mentioned before how liberals are brain damaged. We see
yet another example in Public School 169 in NY where a new principal
has “banned” the Pledge of Allegiance, Thanksgiving, and now
Christmas. There's no secret about their motive; they've done in for
the sake of sensitivity and diversity. Blah, blah, blah. It's
typical liberalism: trampling the rights of everybody in order to be
fair. I guess they don't see how their move might be insensitive to
the families who do celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas, do they?
The
NY Post article says that “Ninety-five
percent of the 1,600 kids at PS 169 are Asian or Hispanic.”
Hmmm. Why do you think they would cite that statistic? Is it
because they assume most of the kids – or as least a large number
of them – don't observe these holidays anyway? “Asian” is a
very broad term because there are a lot of different kinds of Asians
including both Orientals and Indians. There are also a lot of places
where the natives could be called Hispanic – Spain, Mexico, Puerto
Rico, Cuba, and many Central/South American countries. These various
places all have people with different beliefs but wouldn't it be
stereotyping, for example, to assume someone of Asian descent –
living in the US – doesn't observe Christmas? Wouldn't a more
relevant statistic be how many of the 1,600 kids in the school
observe these holidays? But liberals are racists and so they assume
people of color don't (or shouldn't) celebrate “white people's”
holidays.
But
for the sake of argument, let's assume that only a tiny fraction of
the student's at PS 169 observe Thanksgiving or Christmas. In that
case, I might agree it's not necessary to organize special activities
geared toward holidays these students don't even recognize anyway.
But that's not what is happening. It's not that they're not
celebrating these days – there's an outright ban on anything
related to these days. The PTA president said in the article, “We
can’t even have a star because it can represent a religious system,
like the Star of David.”
The Business Manager for PS 169 said in a memo even Santa is banned
banned because he “is
considered an ‘other religious figure.”
So even if it were a tiny minority of students were Christians who
thanked God on Thanksgiving and celebrated the birth of Christ, the
staff can say or do nothing that might acknowledge those beliefs.
Remind
me again, aren't liberals the ones who want to educate kids in
cultural diversity? They talk about diversity and respecting people
of other cultures but that surely cannot mean all
cultures because they don't want to talk about American or Christian
traditions. I copied this from an
educator's blog:
How
can we celebrate diversity and help students build on positives while
paying special attention to disenfranchised students? The first way
is to open a dialogue on the topic. One of the first discussions I
have with teacher candidates is to explain what it means to be
culturally responsive in teaching. As an educator, you have to
understand how language and culture affects a student’s self-worth.
Am I right? Aren't they saying we should "celebrate" diversity but we have to be especially sensitive to the
disenfranchised (aka, “minority”) students? And in order to protect
their fragile “self-worth,” we have to have discussions about
their language, their cultures, and their beliefs – except
Christians of course. Christian traditions and beliefs like
Thanksgiving and Christmas are offensive.
Racists.
Hypocrites. Liberals. Yes, they're brain damaged.
Merry
Christmas.
Actually, I suspect that their behavior follows pretty logically from the idea that Western Civilization is grossly imperfect (and really, who's going to argue with that), and ought to be replaced with some non-Western alternative (which is sort of like arguing that you ought to trade your asthma for lung cancer). It's a long-range consequence of a lot of things, from the scientific revolution and Enlightenment that discredited a lot of traditional (medieval and ancient) thought, to the general disillusionment following the First World War, but a considerable fraction of modern intellectuals carry it to extreme and irrational lengths. The aspect of it that comes closest to brain damage is the juxtaposition of the idea that "all cultures are equally valuable and correct" and the idea "except for the one that produced me."
ReplyDeleteSteven J,
ReplyDeleteThe brain-damaged part is the ability of liberals to simultaneously hold two, diametrically opposed beliefs.
Liberals decry racism while they tediously count and report the numbers of every minority.
Liberals want to force diversity training on children and workers but refuse to allow even the mention of the traditions and beliefs observed by American Christians.
Liberals want to be “sensitive” to the minority by saying to the majority that its traditions are offensive.
To your own point, liberals want us to celebrate diversity while simultaneously wanting to blot out Western culture.
Brain damage.