One California county now, state-wide next fall, (already codified and enacted), nationwide within, I'd guess, two years
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raise high the bloody red banner
(The article I’ve linked to is from "Not the Bee”, and is an amalgamation of two separate Twitter sites (one of whom, Christopher Rufo, was “demonetized” last week, meaning he can no longer earn income from his writing). None of which follows (unless bracketed) is my own, so I’ve dispensed with quotation marks).
Santa Clara County Office of Education denounces the United States as a "parasitic system" based on the "invasion" of "white male settlers" and encourages teachers to "cash in on kids' inherent empathy" in order to recruit them into political activism.
About that invasion of "white male settlers..."
First, they weren't all male. If they were, they would have all died off by now, no matter what gender any of them identified as.
Second, they weren't all exactly "white." You would think they would have noticed this given they were providing this presentation in Santa Clara, just north of San Jose and south of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Palo Alto, and all located in the state of California a name derived from a16th-century Spanish romance novel.
I guess it must have been "white Hispanics" who were doing all the colonizing while the non-white Hispanics were somewhere busy being oppressed in-between creating one of the most powerful global empires the world had ever seen.
—snip—
So, white male settlers with an unexpected fondness for naming things in Spanish it is!
We then move on to the obligatory "Land Acknowledgement."
We've come across this before, and I typically point out that at best, we know who the most recent inhabitants of the land were prior to the arrival of the white-for-now Spaniards. To assume there were none of the wars, murderous raids, or tribal rampages prior to that in the multi-thousand-year history of the land's occupation by humans is to infantilize the indigenous people they purport to honor (and to know absolutely nothing about them to boot).
[CF] That’s just a taste of a very lengthy post, but well worth reading in its entirety, especially if you’re looking for something horrifying to keep you up tonight. Here’s one more, parting snippet]
The panelists advised local teachers to hide this political program from administrators and parents. "District guidelines and expectations are barriers," said one panelist. "[We] have to be extra careful ... now that we're in people's homes [because of remote learning]."