“When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Lev. 19:33-34).
2 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.
Job 29:15-16
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them; those who are being tortured, as though you yourselves were being tortured.
Hebrews 13:1-3
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2. "Here is a simple narrative that makes great intuitive sense: 'If you get vaccinated you have a small chance of catching COVID and virtually a nil chance of being hospitalized and dying, meaning life can go back to normal and you can stop wearing masks.'
3. "Here is a description of the message actually coming out of the CDC: “Everyone should get vaccinated because that will stop you from getting a serious case of the disease, and some vaccinated people who live in some areas can stop wearing masks... "
"These are more than scattered anecdotes, and *do seem to indicate a trend* — at least in a certain strata of schools."
But then I asked a question (which Andrew has not answered):
"But how widespread is this sort of thing in less elite, posh, rarefied precincts?"
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I agreed that "No school kid in this country should be coerced into confessing mortal sin because of their skin color."
But then asked: How often is this happening around the country?
Contra Cruz: I'm not defending CRT; I've been writing about critical theory for more than 30 years. (Read the piece).
The problem is using the blunt force of legislation to deal with a "theory."
FYI: Flashback. Me in 1990 -->
"A Republican congressman from Wisconsin introduced legislation this week that would ban D.C. schools from teaching critical race theory — the academic framework that examines the way policies and laws perpetuate systemic racism." washingtonpost.com/local/educatio…
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If we are banning this sort of thing, why stop there? If CRT derives from Marxism, why not ban Marxism too? (Or would that smack too obviously of censorship, cancel culture, and the attack on free speech?)
2. If critical race theory is beyond the pale, where are the bills banning or restricting all of the other criticals, like critical social theory, critical legal theory, (or anything developed by the Frankfurt School.)
3. If conservatives really want to take on political correctness in education, why not also ban post-modernism, deconstructionism, moral relativism, and anything written by Jacques Derrida?