Race-based Defund the Police sabotages public order!
Ross Douthat of the New York Times gets it! The Times columnist says the policies of many progressives “are sabotaging basic civic goods … deepening America’s racial inequalities even if Trumpism goes down to defeat.”
‘Sire Gq, aka Marquan Clark, charged today with fire-bombing the City County Bldg June 23/4 is a hero to the Left. Go figure.
Like not reopening public schools. Does anyone really think that troubled minority students are sitting down in front of their laptops on the kitchen table, learning algebra this fine weekday in October? Douthat condemns the “no enemies to the Left” liberals (Joe Biden, anyone?) “lest they vindicate the president’s flailing attacks in any way.” Douthat writes:
The consequence has been that various forms of naïveté, utopianism and outright idiocy have hijacked liberal politics, marching under the banner of anti-racism while leading progressive policy astray. This happened with the push for police reform, which was often diverted from reasonable proposals into unreasonable abolish-the-police fantasies, creating public paralysis in cities like Minneapolis even as public order deteriorated.
It happened with some of the George Floyd protests, which were redirected toward futile insurrectionary violence by a network of mostly white anarchists, whose very existence was hard for liberals to acknowledge even as their depredations did particular damage to minority and immigrant neighborhoods.
And it’s happening within the educational bureaucracy, where there’s a Trump-era vogue for attacks on “whiteness” that often seem to double as attacks on standards, discipline and rigor — with urban schools as the most likely laboratory for whatever educational alternatives the new progressivism dreams up.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Sounds like Madison’s public schools, does it not? And city hall! When will the Wisconsin State Journal, the Chamber of Commerce, the Democrat(ic) party call out Progressive Dane and its BLM/Marxist allies?
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Blaska Policy Werkes 
Chamber of Commerce and Realtor’s Assn. should think up some explanations for of the Chicagoization of Madison. Failing schools, boarded up downtown, empty plinths on the Square. Shooting and looting.
Madison was always far better than that but no more and its trending bad to worse
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They are weak, cowardly.
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Great virtue of Progressive Utopians — they will remain prisoners of their own myths.
OT… George Floyd police cam compilation. Shocking. Police will be acquitted.
Oh, the beauty of Progressive emotionalism, in contradistinction from the facts.
https://t.co/ORKI2w3rvQ?amp=1
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“And it’s happening within the educational bureaucracy, where there’s a Trump-era vogue for attacks on “whiteness” that often seem to double as attacks on standards, discipline and rigor — with urban schools as the most likely laboratory for whatever educational alternatives the new progressivism dreams up.”
True, of course, and we see it up close here in Madison. The educational bureaucracy is racist to
its core. It sees “students of color,” so long as this isn’t due to the tanning salon or vacations to Mexico, as inherently inferior due to the pigmentation of their skin. This is the undeniable subtext of the entire equity movement, so long as it is focused on skin color and not personal responsibility combined with genuine opportunity. (I think that comfortable white people who preach black “responsibility” without supporting the societal means- starting with a genuine access to good education- are a key part of the problem.)
In order to ensure its systemic racism, the educational bureaucracy fights any escape from the plantation with every tool at its disposal. It fights an equitable voucher system, tooth and nail.
And by “equitable” I’m not including the current watered-down one from the state which puts teachers on poverty wages. An equitable voucher system – actually matching the amount which public schools spend per student – would allow students of any color who are not rich to explore alternatives to what is increasingly turning into an institution of ideological brain-washing.
Currently, this kind of liberation is a right which is only reserved for the masters and their hired hands. If there is anything more hypocritical than a Madisonian who has the means to send their own children to a private school, but then opposes vouchers for families who are not so fortunate due to circumstances beyond their control, I’d like to hear it.
Equitably-funded voucher schools, uncontrolled by the state, could give everyone, white/black/rich/poor the opportunity to break free from a plantation mentality which is destroying our country. There is a HUGE pent-up source of energy and creativity regarding how best to help children by the most passionate, informed and committed people in education. But what do we have instead? We have a system by which our taxes are being used to successfully establish a new form of slavery in this country. All in the name of mindlessly repeating “public education” over and over again, without trying to understand what that really should mean. In fact, it seems to me that a public voucher system is by definition “public education!” When you build a public highway, do you then also pass laws telling motorists who are using it where they can and can’t travel?
To those who are now mindlessly talking about “atonement for slavery” I ask what’s worse: enslavement of the body, or enslavement of the mind and spirit? This isn’t just about “people of color.” Far from it. I think we’re all slaves enslaved within this madness, regardless of the color of our own skin. Yes, I think it’s the most brutal for POC, but every day that this goes on, we are all paying the price more and more.
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“a Madisonian who has the means to send their own children to a private school, but then opposes vouchers for families who are not so fortunate due to circumstances beyond their control”
See: Muldrow, Ali.
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I have heard that Ali Muldrow sent her kids to Isthmus Montessori, which is a public charter school (as if 2018). It is not a private school. http://isthmusmontessoriacademy.org/about/visionmission/
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“(Isthmus Montessori) is not a private school.”
You don’t say?
“After being turned down by the Madison school board, Muldrow went to Scott Walker to get state approval for her INDEPENDENT CHARTER SCHOOL, Isthmus Montessori. She sends her own children to that school. But Ali Muldrow doesn’t think other parents should be able to make the same choice.” (bolds/caps/italics mine)
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Yes, Ali has been a poster child for the hypocrisy that I’m talking about. It’s also disturbing to me that Kaleem Caire never strayed too far from the plantation when he ran for school board. I understand his calculated “justifications” but at some point you just need to become a real leader and not try to please the Plantation masters. This includes not doing things like doxing white men out of their jobs for expressing disagreement with your daughter or supporting the firing of teachers under completely bogus charges of racism.
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I’ve always been on the fence about Kaleem. While I think he genuinely cares about bettering Black lives, I also see him falling back on leftist talking points, and that’s a huge turnoff.
This last incident in which he doxxed that man for expressing an OPINION and caused him to lose his job? I’ve lost all respect for him and can’t trust him.
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Yet her supporters don’t seem to mind this double standard.
I suppose being able to talk a good game and strike all the liberal talking points is more important than what a candidate actually does.
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So what school do they go to? What difference does it make? For god’s sake talk about something that makes an impact on our state. Vos, Fitzgerald, Covid, the lawsuits, WILL; these are things people want to hear about. Not this total BS day after day.
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Richard – Well, I don’t think this subject is “total BS.” If education isn’t important, then what is?
But I do agree with you about Covid. AIER.com (American Institue for Economic Research) has been working on this heavily since day one and is the single best source of factual information I know of. Have you read the articles in there that Jeffery Hughes and a number of other writers have published over since early Spring?
That said, the 9/4/20 “Open Letter from Medical Doctors and Health Professionals to all Belgian Authors and all Begian Media” is IMO the single best synopsis of COVID 19, and the absolutely insane world response to this virus, that I’ve yet found. Find it here: 4opendebate.be/en/open-letter/
I would be interested in your (and others) thoughts regarding this open letter along with the many other excellent and non-hysterical articles which AIER has been publishing about this issue which has ruined so many people’s lives around the world.
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Blaska is one of the few in this city who genuinely cares whether or not Black students succeed. Unlike the rest of the pandering cowards, he actually stands up for what he knows will further the education and benefit of Blacks.
The good news in all of this is that Black Americans have started to rise up against this. Recent polling shows that Trump is poised to gain at least 18% of the Black vote, which is huge.
I find hope when I see strong Black voices rising up en masse. When I see Larry Elder getting called to join the Commission of Black Men and Boys, when I read Candace Owens’s book “Blackout”, when I listen to people like Leo Terrell, Vernon Jones, Kim Klacik, Joy Villa, Gianni Caldwell (the list is long) rise up against the Democratic plantation.
My hope is that every Black American comes to understand how leftist policies keep them back, and that the rest of us very much want them to succeed not just for themselves, but for the good of this country.
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“My hope is that every Black American comes to understand how leftist policies keep them back”
Jason L. Riley: Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed
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There are a host of new books out by Black conservatives that I’m looking forward to reading, including the title you mention.
I’m currently reading Candace Owen’s new book “Blackout.” Highly recommend!
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Amen, Liberty. Black students and families in Madison do indeed especially owe a debt to David Blaska. That said, I also wait for the day when local black “leaders” decide to embrace his message which is frankly about black empowerment to the very core. Or at least, much more likely, the day when new black voices have the courage to step up to the plate. I am certain that most Madisonians, whatever their color, are STARVING to see that day
In your list of strong national black voices, coming from all different approaches and with all different politics (who woulda thunk it?!), there are really far too many to name at this point. For someone with conservative politics, the highly censored ET Williams (aka Doctor of Common Sense) is hilarious IMO. One of my favorites, which I just discovered recently are Aba&Preach. Highly entertaining as well as truckloads of common sense dealing with all kinds of issues. These guys are good. And then there is Officer Tatum, about as level-headed as you can get, at least from all the vids I’ve seen. Here’s one about “White Privledge.” Also thinking of another guy, very mild-mannered commentator, who I can’t think of right now. He comments on all kinds of stuff with a low-key kind of analysis that will probably make him one of the last to be banned by the tightening noose of Google-owned YT. Tree of Logic, whom I haven’t listened to for several years, is a beautiful person in every sense of the word. She actually had the best take-downs of BLM that I’ve heard, I think it was back in 2016. It has since been banned from YT, no time to hunt it down.
Like I say, too many voices to ever name them all. And not a single one of them is from Madison.
Finally, check out Eric Thomas’s “Nothing Funny.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsTCsmqkezQ Alas, can’t find the version that I liked the best – intro had footage from bombed out St Louis or wherever – but watch this one and tell me you didn’t cry anyway. This one is off-script so much more moving to me than so many of his other canned inspirational videos.
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I noticed after posting my comment on strong black voiced, that my link to Officer Tatum’s “White Privledge My A**” did not take. Searched for it again and had the devil of a time finding it through the normal means of searching YT. All I could initially find was a response to it, with nearly as many down votes as up votes. Finally found it – hopefully this works this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhy-NvXt0-U
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This is nothing compared to those gop morons in the capital. Nice to know that our tax dollars are keeping those bozos at WILL fat and happy.
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Illegal is illegal, Dick.
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Take off your mask and march.
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Only real…REAL imbecilically clueless morons believe that the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty receives tax dollars.
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Vos and Fitzgerald spend OUR money on these lawsuits. Who are the 3 people WILL is representing? Why them? Why don’t we know how much money is being spent? What is their plan if they win? This is total crap and you have no answers. So; as your so fond of saying STFU.
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Four directors. Sixteen lawyers. Offices, etc. Where do they get all the money to support this? Give me facts and figures; not stupid insults. Why is it that the Wis. gop and Will are constantly working hand in hand?
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Reality 2.0:
Only real…REAL imbecilically clueless morons believe that the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty receives tax dollars.
The Gotch
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Are your cities set ablaze by Illiterate barbarians? THANK A TEACHER.
DEFUND?! YES, It is time to DEFUND ……………….. Public “Schools”
SUE the schools, unions & teachers for FRAUD and taking money under false pretences.
We are getting a full on display of the Liberal Educator concept of “DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, and TOLERANCE” Burning cities are their vision of the future.
For decades the Nation’s teachers have been infusing false concepts of entitlement, oppression, as we see in Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland today. Teachers have been attacking the self-image, self-esteem of their White pupils with the Racist Hate message of mythical White privilege”. Teachers have rabidly attacked the foundations of the Nation to sooth their “Daddy issues”.
Gov. Gretchen Whitless has agreed to a settlement in a case, which sought a historic court order ruling students have a constitutional right to literacy. You do NOT have a “right” to literacy. That is S-T-U-P-I-D. You have to LEARN to read and write ….. you RETARDS.
Well these teacher’s unions have been quietly stuffing their pockets with overly LIBERAL pensions and benefits at the expense of the oppressed People of Color. Therefore in the spirit of Equality and Reparations which the teachers have LIBERALLY preached for so long it is only proper that 75% of those FAT pensions be LIBERALLY distributed to the Elderly People of Color who were denied the opportunities the privileged teachers milked for all they could.
The Teachers want SOCIALISM? SOCIALIZE their pensions & perks.
Stop the RACISM? Equalize the retirements.
The “Graduates” of American education should be suing their teachers and school administrators for fraud and MISeducation.
As Charlotte Iserbyt claims in her book, ‘The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America’, our educational disaster is by design. ‘They’ do not want critical thinkers.
They DEMAND raises for their FINE work:
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/65-public-school-8th-graders-not-proficient-reading-67-not-proficient
Amazing— they choose Communist RED as their color — A wave of red-clad teachers …
The end result of their Great Teaching was on parade this weekend across America . ….. Monuments torn down and cities aflame as EXTREMIST VIOLENCE is everywhere.
They Really deserve raises — ‘I was a teacher for 17 years, but I couldn’t read or write’ http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-43700153 and the teachers just “moved him on”
Teacher pay raises HELL! Give the Taxpayers a REFUND. The little idiots cannot read or write, and have NO concept of the Constitution, Law, History. ………..The Teacher Unions should be paying DAMAGES to the Kids and America —- A Third Of Millennials Aren’t Sure The Earth Is Round, Survey Finds http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/04/05/…-flat-earth-survey/
take their HUGE pension funds and use it to actually educate the kids.
The same “teachers” who taught nothing about economics taught nothing about history or the Constitution …. what they DO teach is “Be PROUD of being stupid and knowing squat …… history is BOOOORING” So the Kids learn nothing about the Bolshevik Holodomor and 66 Million dead Christians and now are bringing the HOLODOMOR here..
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YES !
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Thanks for your recommendation of “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America” by Charlotte Iserbyt. Not sure if I’d agree with its main conspiratorial thesis or not, as I’m not convinced that people involved in such a large society-wide problem don’t actually evolved more as a case of the blind following the blind as they follow their own often petty and perceived “self-interests” as cogs in a machine. That said, her decade-by decade account of the development of US education in this 800 page book sounds very interesting. But looks like I may never know, given that used copies of this self-published book start at over $200. It also sounds like libraries don’t have it although I haven’t confirmed this for sure yet. I read comments that it’s downloadable in pdf for free but can’t find where. Help?
I’m actually responding to your post because it brings up a book with a similar title: “Dumbing Us Down: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling” by John Taylor Gatto. Only 150 pages of large print, and gracefully written by a master teacher, this is the single best book on public education in America that I’ve ever read. Would HIGHLY recommend this book to anyone who has not read it yet. https://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Curriculum-Compulsory-Schooling/dp/0865718547/ref=pd_sbs_14_1/136-7044213-8462542?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0865718547&pd_rd_r=5df65c61-55d0-48f8-bbcf-879fb4d2d629&pd_rd_w=Jxd99&pd_rd_wg=EmnVo&pf_rd_p=b65ee94e-1282-43fc-a8b1-8bf931f6dfab&pf_rd_r=A0JHFPA9MYB2E2GT730T&psc=1&refRID=A0JHFPA9MYB2E2GT730T#customerReviews
Quoting from Wikipedia:
“Gatto asserts the following regarding what school does to children in Dumbing Us Down:
It confuses the students. It presents an incoherent ensemble of information that the child needs to memorize to stay in school. Apart from the tests and trials, this programming is similar to the television; it fills almost all the “free” time of children. One sees and hears something, only to forget it again.
It teaches them to accept their class affiliation.
It makes them indifferent.
It makes them emotionally dependent.
It makes them intellectually dependent.
It teaches them a kind of self-confidence that requires constant confirmation by experts (provisional self-esteem).
It makes it clear to them that they cannot hide, because they are always supervised.[12]”
Read this superb book and weep.
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Deserving of mention in the What Are They Thinkin’ category would be the Dr. Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff offering: <a href="https://heterodoxacademy.org/coddling-of-the-american-mind/"The Coddling of the American MindHow Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure
The Gotch
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Make that: The Coddling Of The American Mind: How Good Intentions And Bad Ideas Are Setting Up A Generation For Failure
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I have the pdf. If I could figure out a way to send it to you, I would be happy to do so….
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Love your hard-ass core truth remarks Alberticus, but who do you envision enforcing your remediation?
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This is another load of deflection crap. Vos and Fitzgerald are having Will sue Evers. When asked for their plan if they win in court they said they will sit down with Evers to get his input. WHAT? ARE YOU SH#$tING ME> You sue. You win. Then you want the guy you beat to help set a plan because you don’t have one? WTF. There’s a lot going on in our state besides the daily axe grinding that is printed here day after day. Is this on purpose? People are dying. Cases are rising. Hospitals are over flowing. And all we get is where some dame is sending her kids to school. Holy Mary on a stick.
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Richard – I sent you a longer response regarding COVID but it apparently disappeared into the ether. Please read this “Open Letter From Medical Doctors and Health Professionals to the Belgium Government and Belgium Media,” dated 9/4/20. https://docs4opendebate.be/en/open-letter/ Personally, I think it’s the single best analysis of COVID and world response to it that I’ve seen. (AIER.com also had been publishing many excellent articles on this issue since it first hit the news.)
I’d be interested in hearing your own thoughts.
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“People are dying. Cases are rising. Hospitals are over flowing. ” ? Your right about the Bait-n-switch tactics that attempt to blind people to their ACTUAL Neighbors, and community goings-on. “Is this on purpose ? ” good question. (Nice “folksy” use of “dame” though. and the obscene reference to the mother of God;”Gritty” )
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Illegal is illegal, Dick. Just out of curiosity, please lay out your logical, coherent and calm facts to support your theory the GOP is funding WILL. I’ll wait.
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Still waiting, Dick.
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People are dying and cases are rising because of the EPIC FAIL of Ichabod Evers.
Ichy needs to be RECALLED and everyone idiotic enough to help get him elected needs to be SHAMED to the fullest extent of the blogosphere.
One more thing; PROGRESSIVE IDIOCY is the ultimate oxyMORON!
And THAT, the Caped Crusader would intone, is a WRAP!
The Gotch
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Except people aren’t dying. hospital are not “Overflowing”, and with MORE crap “testing”, “cases” (?) are going up. (many false positive ,which the Inventor of the PCR test (Kary Mullis) had said himself that the test should NOT be used for this purpose, And because this SPECIAL “new” Flu has NOT been rigorously isolated , “positives” can be detected in Fruits . The response to this ? More TESTS $$ for big pharma, “CASES” are what they call “positives”. Oh, Who benefits ? “Positives”= equal Vaccine Marketing. Abbott Labs just got $5 million , per person, per test $760 Million (tax payer debt certificates) for 20 million individual “Tests”.
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Yes, Evers needs to be exposed for Fear-porn extortions on various levels. Policies (* not the “Covaids” as Dollar Vigilante calls it ) Policies that decimate the mom-n-pops, smother children, and elderly in their own carbon exhalations, with mandates POINT-OF-GUN “self” imprisonment , and further Bankrupting (along with ALL the Bolshevik Banker Cronies in this country, “left” and “right”) this FORMER Constitutional Republic. (not “democracy” two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner, or mob-rule) w. the traitorous “leaders” (and the minion who parrot this lie like zombies) who perjure themselves over and over again ,saying they “speak FOR the peolple”.
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