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The woke have taken over education, and it's worse then you think.

This teacher, who doesn't know when America was founded, says she teaches students about Protesting and Black Lives Matter, but won't teach the official curriculum

The woke education take over explained: A🧵
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Isaac Gottesman (an advocate of Critical Social Justice/wokeness) wrote the book "The Critical Turn in Education," and explains how the 1960's radical leftist brought Marxism into universities - in the 1970's, and took over the field of education in the 70's and 80's. Image
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Gottesman also explains that in the 70's and 80's the marxists actually pushed the original Marxist ideas past where Marx took them amking them even more radical. He also freely admits that the marxists "radicalized" the field of education.

Don't take my word for it👇👇👇 Image
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Let's take a look at how they did it.

The story starts with Brazillian Marxist Paulo Freire.

Freire was influenced by Communist dictator Vladimir Lenin. But he was also influenced by "Critical Theory" a method of engagement created by neo-marxists at the "Frankfurt School" Image
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Critical Theory is a method of critiquing society. Critical Theorists have a vision for society, and use critical theories to say whatever disagrees with their neo-marxist vision is oppressive and evil

I did a full explanation of Critical Theory here:
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Paulo Freire used Critical Theory to create what he called "Critical Pedagogy," a theory he laid out in his book "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." (pedagogy = a theory of how to teach)

Freire says the goal of Critical Pedagogy is the marxist transformation of all of society: Image
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Freire is not an obscure theorist, he's the most cited Scholar in education. Citations are one way to measure of how influential someone's work is, and Friere has *530216* citations.

Albert Einstein, the greatest physicist ever, has 155,730 citations. Less then half of Freire
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Freire became so influential because a number of theorists in the 80's decided to pick up on his work, and launder his ideas into colleges of education.

Henry Giroux is probably did more then anyone else to radicalize the field of education by bringing in Freire's work.
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Giroux began as a neo-marxist (see below, From "teachers as Intellectuals") who was dedicatd to using a neo-marxist framework to transform schools into a place where he could teach his radical leftist values to students and create a revolution.

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Giroux began to realize that our enlightenment liberal vision of education that believes in objective truth, knowledge, rigor, quality, and so on was not going to be taken over by the failed ideology of neo-marxism. So he needed something a little stronger to do the job...
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So in his book "Border Crossings" Giroux turned to POSTMODERNISM and argued:

"what has been presented in our social-political and our intellectual traditions as knowledge, truth, objectivity, and reason are actually merely the effects of a particular form of social power" Image
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The reason Marxism failed is because it wasn't true. So, in order to get around that problem, the radicals attacked reason, objectivity, and truth.

If reason, truth, and objectivity get in the way of Neo-Marxism, the Marxists get rid of...truth, reason, and objectivity.
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This mixture of Postmodernism and Critical Pedagogy has, according to education theorist Michael Apple, become embedded in education literature.

Apple also says teachers should implement ideas from Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci.

This is where we are in education now...
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There is one other concept we need to look at before we finish

That is the idea of "Critical Constructivism."

Critical Constructivism was an idea that was developed by Joe Kincheloe, who believes that education was always inherently political.
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Critical Constructivists deny objective, absolute, universal truth. As such, Critical Constructivists believe the standard by which we judge knowledge is not truth...its politics.

In other words, we decide what is true on the basis of politics, not what is actually true.
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According to Kincheloe The main goal of Critical Constructivism in the classroom is to analyze knowledge claims in terms of which people/groups gains social and political power as a result of those claim...not by whether or not those claims are true!
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In other words, they want us to construct our knowledge and truth claims using the marxist vision of social liberation as the ultimate standard of what we believe, rather then using truth as the ultimate standard for what we should believe.
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In a 1990 NY Review of books article, John Searle captured the goal of both Critical Pedagogy and Critical Constructivism in a single sentence:
"Notwithstanding its opaque prose, Giroux’s message should be clear: the aim of a liberal education is to create political radicals" Image
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These radical left wing theories of education which say the goal of education is to create political radicals are entrenched in our colleges of education. The result is now that we get teachers like the ones in this video who think teaching is all about leftist politics:
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The solution is not clear.

But one thing is clear, that political radicals have taken over our colleges of education, and are using them as a way to indoctrinate students into leftist ideology.

The first step is to get involved. Join your local @Moms4Liberty chapter...
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Getting involved in your local school board is another great way to make progress.

Finally, make an effort to be involved in the education of your kids. Know what they are being taught in school, and know what their teachers are telling them.

One last thing....
@Moms4Liberty 22/
Follow people like @ConceptualJames @realchrisrufo @Moms4Liberty @4TiffanyJustice and learn about what is going on so you can fight it effectively.

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As I've said for years:

1. There is no such legal category as "hate speech"
2. You don't defeat ideas by banning them
3. Adopting a leftist frame ("hate speech" is leftist framing) is always a losing proposition.
The idea of "hate speech" was given academic backing by a group of Critical Race Theroists in the book "words that wound."

There is no way of picking up that term without legitimizing all of the leftist intellectual machinery that comes with it.

The entire literature on hate speech was created by leftists, and is embedded with leftist assumptions. There is no way to appropriate that body of work without rehabilitating and legitimizing leftist arguments against free speech and in favor of censorship.
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Repeat after me:

People who celebrate the murder of their political opponents are not participating in the marketplace of ideas, they are encouraging deadly political violence by building a permission structure to legitimize and justify the murder of those they disagree with.
My freedom of speech means I get to clearly and succintly explain to the whole world that if you call for the assassination of your rivals this is not free speech, it is a direct incitement to political violence.
John Stewart Mill gave a famous example where he said that if someone claims corn dealers are starvering the poor this can be allowed if circulated through the press, but is not allowed when shouted in front of an excited mob assembled outside the house of a corn dealer....
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Sep 11
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The Radical Left has used political violence to advance their cause for decades. What's new is the progressive left's professional class building a permission structure to justify the use of political violence

It's called Assassination Culture, and we need to talk about it
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To understand what's happening, you need to understand that the line between progressive-left professional class and radical left has been blurred. The extremist radical left and the socially progressive "bluesky left" are increasingly intertwined both socially and politically
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This is because many of the extremist radical from the 60's and 70' who advocated for, and participated in, the use of political violence have been welcomed into the mainstream institutions that are run by the progressive left professional class.

Let's look at examples:
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Sep 11
Look at the number of pro-athletes posting condolences about Charlie Kirk, and you'll see what a huge cultural figure he was.

He wasn't just famous in conservative circles, his clips debating college students were a loadbearing pillar of online political pop-culture
His willingness to calmly and politely debate all comers on any issue (at the very moment when cancel culture was strongest and people were afraid to say what they think) made him a sort of lovable internet folkhero.

He was an indelible piece of the online landscape.
Charlie was not quarantined to the "conservative ghetto" of online content; he broke contain and became a mainstream cultural figure.

Charlie became the cultural symbol of free debate, free speech, and settling differences in public with words
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What he is describing here is the deconstruction of America as an ideal. The goal is to destroy America by subverting the conception of America as a force for good which sustains American confidence, and attacking the founding narrative from which America derives it's legitimacy.
They will try to redefine America in a way which subverts the legitimacy of America as a national project. They want to erase the current American narrative, and replace it with a new one which grants them the right to inherit America's wealth, power, prestige, and influence.
They will attack America the same way they attacked Universities: by undermining legitimacy, authority, and self-confidence by asserting that the whole project is just racism, colonialism, and oppression in disguise.

John Searle explains it here:
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