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Woke education activists have decided that during math class *5th graders* should learn to, and I quote: "challenge the hegemonic structure of marriage."
It's not just Critical Race Theory, they're bringing woke gender theory into k-12
Gender theory in k-12:
a thread🧵
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This comes from a paper by Christopher Dubbs, education professor at East Stroudsburg University.
Dubbs wants k-12 teachers to use queer pedagogy (teaching methods) and to engage in "Queering Mathematics."
The key words for the paper are, of course, "equity" and "diversity"
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I will explain everything going on here so you can understand exactly what's happening.
Most people think the goal of a math teacher in k-12 is to teach math: to teach students how to do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
That's now how woke professors think
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As you can see in this video, woke teacher/activists believe teaching "Woke" Social Justice" is fundamental to ALL education.
In their view, the main role of the teacher is not to teach skills, it is to inculcate students into the "woke" Social Justice ideology.
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Here we have a woke teacher who does not know when America declared independence, and who says she doesn't teach the curriculum. Instead she chooses to teach things that aren't in the curriculum, such as "How to be an Anti-Racist" (which is the name of a book by Ibram Kendi).
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So we have to keep in mind that woke activist teachers see their job as being a political act.
That is, they see their job as being first and foremost to spread awareness and acceptance of their woke political ideology, agenda, and activism.
They say this explicitly:
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Why do they think this way?
In "The Critical Turn in Education" Isaac gottesman, explains how leftist brought Marxism into universities and radicalized education in the 70's (pic 1) and brought in Postmodern feminist ideas and critical race theory in the 80's and 90's (pic 2)
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There isn't time in this thread for the whole story, for now it's enough to know that from the 70's to the 90's activists (most notably Henry Giroux and Paulo Freire) succeeded in radicalizing education, and bringing in postmodernism, neo-marxism, and Critical Race Theory.
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The result is that there is now an entire cohort of teachers, activists, and radical professors who believe that k-12 education is a "site of struggle" where they are to engage in political action and to teach students to accept a particular sort of social justice politics.
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This is how you end up with a guy like Christoper Dubbs who wants to engage in "queering mathematics" in the name of diversity and equity.
So what does it mean when a professor wants to "queer mathematics?" What is he saying?
Let's discuss...
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In "Saint Foucault" David Halperin wrote:"'queer' does not name some natural kind or refer to some determinate object; it acquires its meaning from its oppositional relation to the norm. Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant"
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This means that "queer" has no stable clear definition. In this context queer means to be opposed to and idea, concept, practice, or discourse that is seen to be dominant, legitimate, or normal. It is "an identity without an essence."
Read that again, then let's continue.
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On this view any idea seen as dominant, settled, correct, hegemonic, or socially legitimate needs to be challenged, undermined, subverted, and challenged. Why? because any idea that is dominant is though of as having power, and woke theorists want to undermine that power.
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This is why the woke ideas surrounding transgenderism are, in academic circles, referred to "queer theory."
They want to subvert and undermine our societies ideas about sexuality, and gender. They believe the idea that men and women are mutually exclusive categories...
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Is an oppressive social construct created by straight white men to oppress anyone who isn't a straight white man. They think that Straight white men used the ideology of "science" to legitimize their ideas about sexuality, and they did this in order to benefit themselves.
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The idea is that straight white men used their power to make the things straight white men become the standard by which all sexuality was to be judged, and that they used this power to oppress anyone who did not fit with their ideals. In other words, woke gender activists...
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Think the idea that there are differences between men and women, most people are straight, and this is a result of biology, is a set of ideas straight white men just made up in order to make everyone conform to their arbitrary standard of straight white male sexuality.
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As such they think all the institutions, ideas, practices, and customs that result from these ideas need to be "deconstructed" and "dismantled." As such we need to challenge everything from the legitimacy of marriage to the idea that men and women are biologically different.
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As Christopher Dubbs shows, they think the place to do this is in the grade 5 classroom...during math class.
And, as we have seen, from the perspective of the woke activist this makes perfect sense. They think that k-12 education is ought to be a site of political struggle
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And since they think teaching is a political act, they think a good place to begin to politically liberate themselves from the idea that men and women are biologically different, is the grade 5 classroom while they're supposed to be teaching your kids how to do multiplication
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This is what they are doing. They are not just trying to make gay students feel at home in the classroom, they want to challenge both the fundamental axioms of mathematics, and the structure of marriage as we understand it.
They are doing this to your children.
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Make no mistake, they are going to do this behind your back until you force them to stop. They won't back down, negotiate, or compromise. they think that to allow you to tell them "no" would make them "complicit" in the oppression of anyone who isn't a straight white male.
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Now that you know what is going on, the only question that matters is "what are you going to do about it?"
And you better do something or your kid is going to come home thinking there's no difference between men and women, and that 2+2=5
no, really:
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So, what are you going to do about it?
You better have a plan.
/fin.
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