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The Cultural Revolution Comes to U-Minn Twin Cities

by tqcincinnatus ( 280 Comments › )
Filed under Liberal Fascism, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness at November 23rd, 2009 - 6:15 pm

You know how conservatives have been complaining that college campuses are often little more than thought-suppressing propaganda mills for the Left, where political correctness is used to control the expression, and even the minds, of students?  It really, really looks like we weren’t kidding,

Do you believe in the American dream — the idea that in this country, hardworking people of every race, color and creed can get ahead on their own merits? If so, that belief may soon bar you from getting a license to teach in Minnesota public schools — at least if you plan to get your teaching degree at the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus.

In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U’s College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of “the American Dream” in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching. Instead, teacher candidates must embrace — and be prepared to teach our state’s kids — the task force’s own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic.

The task group is part of the Teacher Education Redesign Initiative, a multiyear project to change the way future teachers are trained at the U’s flagship campus. The initiative is premised, in part, on the conviction that Minnesota teachers’ lack of “cultural competence” contributes to the poor academic performance of the state’s minority students. Last spring, it charged the task group with coming up with recommendations to change this. In January, planners will review the recommendations and decide how to proceed.

The report advocates making race, class and gender politics the “overarching framework” for all teaching courses at the U. It calls for evaluating future teachers in both coursework and practice teaching based on their willingness to fall into ideological lockstep.

The first step toward “cultural competence,” says the task group, is for future teachers to recognize — and confess — their own bigotry. Anyone familiar with the reeducation camps of China’s Cultural Revolution will recognize the modus operandi.

You know, the only thing missing from all of this is a down-ding button.

Death by Political Correctness

by tqcincinnatus ( 301 Comments › )
Filed under Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Jihad, Liberal Fascism, Political Correctness, Progressives at November 11th, 2009 - 4:32 pm

The right wing fanatic at Renew America responds to the Fort Hood shooting and to the trend of political correctness in general, and boy is he ticked,

Even beyond these examples, however, we see that political correctness has emerged, especially in the years following 9-11, as a deadly threat to Americans. How? By the fact that it hampers us from being able to defend ourselves against the existential threat to America posed by radical Muslim terrorists. Far from waking up and getting serious about dealing with the threat of Islamofascist terrorists, America has largely followed a course of politically correct head-in-the-sand relativism towards the people who would like nothing more than to destroy America and behead any who don’t convert to their particular version of lunar idolatry. Even in the midst of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — ostensibly being fought to destroy foreign supporters of terrorism — Bush was telling us “Islam is a peaceful religion.” The FBI — the people who are supposed to be investigating and stopping acts of terrorism on American soil — have relied upon the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group with high-ranking members who are known to have supported terrorist organizations, to train its field agents in “sensitivity.” The new watchword of the PC thugs is “Islamophobia,” which can be defined as “a willingness to speak the truth about the ugly aspects of Islam.”

So we see the PC infection having deadly results at Fort Hood, in Texas, where a Muslim terrorist masquerading as a U.S. Army Major ambushed and killed 12 unarmed American soldiers, and wounded 30 others. But wait — we can’t call it terrorism. Instead of calling a spade a spade, the news media concoct all kinds of stories to explain why Major Nidal Malik Hasan would have gone on his shooting rampage. Perhaps it was post-traumatic stress disorder — except that he had never been in combat. Maybe he just empathized with the soldiers with PTSD that he was counseling and broke from the stress — except that he reportedly spent many a counseling session berating them for participating in “the war against Islam” instead of trying to help them through their psychological difficulties. Perchance Maj. Hasan is really the victim here, since at one point several years ago, some guy in his apartment complex allegedly tore a pro-jihad bumper sticker off his car and keyed it? Sure, since we all know that a shooting spree is the entirely appropriate response to a stolen bumper sticker and a keyed car. One thing that the media and the commentators and apparently the President of the United States himself are all agreed on is that we can’t “jump to conclusions” that radical Islamic beliefs had anything to do with a guy shouting “Allah Akbar” while shooting unarmed people.

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Gov. David Paterson blames calls for him to step aside on race

by tqcincinnatus ( 71 Comments › )
Filed under Democratic Party, Political Correctness, Politics at August 21st, 2009 - 5:53 pm

New York Governour David Paterson thumbs through the entire deck until he finds the race card.  So he can play it. 

Gov. Paterson said Friday he knows the reason behind the “crescendo” of calls for him not to seek re-election next year: it’s because he’s black.

Speaking on a morning radio show hosted by Daily News columnist Errol Louis, an angry Paterson blamed the white-dominated media for pushing him to step aside next year.

“The whole idea is to get me not to run in the primary,” he said. Paterson complained there are not enough “black” media outlets to counteract the push.

And he suggested that Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, the country’s only other African-American governor, also is under fire because of his race.

“We’re not in the post-racial period,” Paterson said.

“The reality is the next victim on the list, and you can see it coming, is President Barack Obama, who did nothing more than trying to reform a health care system.”

I supposed it never occurred to the Governour that the calls for his resignation might be due to the fact that he’s an idiotic, incompetent buffoon who has managed to drive the Empire State into the hole even faster than any of his predecessors ever could? 

Of course not.  It’s all, only, solely because he’s a black guy, and the “white media” is picking on him.

Here’s a hint to the intelligence-impaired out there – we’re never going to enter a “post-racial” period so long as blacks continue to blame everything that goes wrong for them on “racism.”  Especially when the things that are going wrong for them are the result of poor decisions and incompetency on their own part.  And guess what?  You’ll know that we’re in a post-racial period when white people can criticise black people freely and not be accused of racism.    You know that you are NOT – as Governour Paterson correctly stated – in a post-racial period when incompetent racists accuse other people of racism as a means of averting the electoral consequences of their own policy failures.

In a post-racial period, people will look at the content of a person’s charactre and the actions that they do, and make judgments based on that.  Which is what conservatives and Republicans basically want. 

You’ll never enter a post-racial period so long as the very first thing people think of in each and every situation is the race of the people involved, and how they can play the race card to your own political advantage.  That’s what Democrats and Leftists do. 

And I might as well say this now to get the ball rolling, since we’re going to have to get the meme firmly established by Nov. 2012 – beating a black man in an election is not racist. 

New US battle rule: No fighting near Afghan homes

by tqcincinnatus ( 73 Comments › )
Filed under Afghanistan, Military, Political Correctness at June 22nd, 2009 - 2:07 pm

I can’t think of a better way to guarantee that more Afghan civilians will be taken as hostages by Islamofascist terrorists.

The top U.S. general in Afghanistan will soon formally order U.S. and NATO forces to break away from fights with militants hiding in Afghan houses so the battles do not kill civilians, a U.S. official said Monday.

The order would be one of the strongest measures taken by a U.S. commander to protect Afghan civilians in battle. American commanders say such deaths hurt their mission because they turn average Afghans against the government and U.S. and NATO forces.

Civilian casualties are a major source of friction between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the U.S. The U.N. says U.S., NATO and Afghan forces killed 829 civilians in the Afghan war last year.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who took command of international forces in Afghanistan this month, has said his measure of effectiveness will be the “number of Afghans shielded from violence,” and not the number of militants killed.

McChrystal will issue orders within days saying troops may attack insurgents hiding in Afghan houses if the U.S. or NATO forces are in imminent danger and must return fire, said U.S. military spokesman Rear Adm. Greg Smith.

“But if there is a compound they’re taking fire from and they can remove themselves from the area safely, without any undue danger to the forces, then that’s the option they should take,” Smith said. “Because in these compounds we know there are often civilians kept captive by the Taliban.”

I’m against collateral civilian casualties as much as the next guy, but this is one of the best ways I can imagine to cause even more Afghan civilians to be put into harm’s way by the Taliban.  This move basically rewards bad behaviour and will encourage even more of the same.   

Taliban – “The Americans won’t shoot at us because we have these civilian hostages with us?  Great!  We’ll take more, and take them with us everywhere we go!  Allah be praised!”

Maybe a better way to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan people is to remind them that the hostage-taking is why civilians are endangered in the first place?