Thread by @knrd_z

Someone posted this in a group chat last night so, naturally, "can't work today boss, have to research RACE WAR." Let's go

Starts out with a short narrative, in 1969, of a beloved chemistry teacher who confronted a few black students about breaking his window. They sucker punched him and attempted to burn him alive

After the 1968 Great School Strike, armed gangs took over schools for a time. Mostly it was because teachers and admin didn't adapt to the new realities (partly due to ideology). Schools didn't always have metal detectors and a small army of security staff. . . .

At least one incident of a teacher being raped. An interesting parallel: the only places I've read this being systematic are a) Cultural Revolution and b) certain periods in the USSR. Draw whatever parallels you might

One reason this went largely unrecorded (ref to another sexual assault) is craven administrators and bureaucrats didn't want to publicize negative events that might hinder their advancement. Hmm, this sounds familiar

Important subtext here: despite multiple violent & sexual assaults, school overrun with armed gangs, _parents did not know and publicizing it was de facto prohibited_. You know all those terrible TikTok videos? It's been like that for decades, you're only seeing it now

Different teacher beaten by dozens of students: "[a]nd these were kids I've known a long time . . . I thought I had a close rapport." Same in every revolutionary situation: neighbor against neighbor, student against teacher-- the closer the relation, more exceptional the violence

Classics of Ghetto Inner-City Poetry, vol I. "Hey Jew boy, wish you were dead." Interesting parallels: this poem was used as pretext to crack down on "racism", including the call to reverse some of the integration that caused this mess in the first place. . . .

Journos and social scientists already compromised by 1970. Parents started noticing their kids had black eyes and withdrew, often to private schools. Has anything changed since or are we still in the long 1970s?

I like that a student causally mentions a bomb went off and, indeed, a quick search brings up Molotov cocktails, at least. How many of these events go unrecorded? It becomes commonplace to a student-- thinking back on high school, "come to think of it, there were rapes & bombs"

Read, and know that we've never left the 1960s-- this has been the dominant regime, ideology, and social situation since then--

Jewish Defense League is now known only as a minor 'terrorist organization' in the '60s and '70s-- some reason in these statements. I didn't know Cornell was taken over for a time by armed black militants

Professional struggle sessions on racism are also as old as the '60s. Meanwhile, militants made ominous demands and entire streets had to shut off with police barricades.

Let's just check the history. High school collapses, is "racially rebalanced" (less black), performs well for a time, reverts again to become NYC's worst school, is closed down, and is used as an Avengers movie set. Perhaps the whole history of modern America is contained here