There shouldn't be an IF. Our education system has been hijacked and we have willingly allowed it in the names of equality, diversity, and because we simply didn't see it coming. There are a number of controversial issues such as Covid, the pronoun furor, indigenous arguments, creation vs. evolution, language standards, pass, fail or push on, Semitism vs. the Palestinians, and the decisions taken on all of them have reduced the quality of education for our kids. We pulled them our grandkids out of the public system and went searching for a private school that focused on academics and not political issues. But we are amongst the fortunate few that can afford it. The better solution is to support elected officials who will actively oppose the entrenched experts. They do exist.
The vibe shift, end of "wokeness"?
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Diversity, Equality and Inclusiveness are admirable.
But only if you agree with the proponents of the current iteration - in other words communist in everything but name only.
But only if you agree with the proponents of the current iteration - in other words communist in everything but name only.
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Calling a someone a savage is bad but calling someone a colonizer is acceptable. Sounds like a double standard.
We just need take back the word colonizer. Run a positive PR campaign about it and how it changed people's lives for the better, including ending slavery and reducing systemic sexual assault.
We just need take back the word colonizer. Run a positive PR campaign about it and how it changed people's lives for the better, including ending slavery and reducing systemic sexual assault.
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What kind of blows my mind about that is people left somewhere really warm, went past places that were equally warm and fertile, went past areas that were less warm and still fertile, then kept going until they hit essentially the end of the earth and settled in a wet, cold place where it's difficult to grow much of anything and decided to stay there. Also wondering how many generations did it take them to lose all their pigmentation when it was obvious that they wouldn't see the sun often, or have things like seasoning other than salt. Maybe it was a convoy of people that were really not fun at parties (until they discovered whiskey).
Not quite as confusing about people like the early Innuit and others that settled in the Artic tundra areas, but how bad were things that you just kept going and needed to figure out how to survive in such brutal conditions?
Plus lots of evidence there was competition between homo sapieans and neanderthals, as well as inter-species breeding, so kind of fascinating to think about.
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More likely people were pushed out of somewhere really warm, pushed out of places equally warm and fertile, pushed out of areas that were less warm and still fertile, and kept getting pushed until they hit essentially a place there was no one to push them out of.
Competition, war, following where the food was and weather. Nomadic people followed food ie animal herds etc.
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For sure, just seems like they had a series of really bad years to end up in northern Scotland.
@Remius Do you suppose early Scottish settlers were following a particularly confused group of sheep, and that sparked the legend of the wee hairy haggis?
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The walrus hunting was good and there was a fair few salmon and lots of hazel trees.
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Being outcast a lot can make a people very tough.
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OTOH,
A ‘Woke’ Military Won World War II
In the summer of 1940, the rapid defeat of Western European armies by Hitler’s forces prompted a campaign to initiate the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. This push, however, ran into vocal opposition from people like the eminent pastor of Riverside Church Harry Emerson Fosdick and President Franklin Roosevelt’s recently ousted Secretary of War Harry Woodring. They charged it was un-American, anti-democratic, and totalitarian, and they insisted the U.S. should have an all-volunteer force.
To overcome this opposition, proponents of the draft made equal opportunity to serve the guiding principle of the war mobilization effort. Testifying before Congress, Grenville Clark, the shadow statesman spearheading the draft drive, proclaimed, “We assert that nothing is more democratic or consistent with the American way of life than for everyone to share the risks and obligations of military service when the country needs men.”
This history shows that the narrative proffered by Hegseth and Trump of a fierce military that won war after war only to succumb to “wokeness” is false. In reality, military integration and the equal opportunity to serve helped the U.S. score its biggest victory—a victory demonstrating that, far from a hindrance, the country’s diversity was and remains its strength. Abandoning this war-tested principle promises not to build a stronger and more effective military. Rather, it could well do the opposite.
A "Woke" Military Actually Won World War II
President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth decry how 'wokeness' affects the military, but that idea is based on misunderstood history.
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That's a fantasy. A brief examination into the opportunities open to black men, or women of any kind, will dispel any notion of "equal opportunity to serve". I would invite anyone who favours the author's viewpoint to explain how, say, a restaurant hiring black people only to wash dishes could be characterized as "woke" for offering "an equal opportunity to be employed".
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