Former inner-city public school teacher. Writer on education, culture, and politics. Occasionally funny. Pretend heir and spice magnate to McCormick Spices.
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My scary classroom social experiment demonstrating how tyrannies arise from democracies:
I gave a bunch of extra credit tickets to the first few students to arrive in class, then everyone else received 1-2 tickets.
The kids that came into class last were outraged by the “injustice” of those that came first getting a greater reward.
There were no rules or directions for this day in class. I just told them I’d act as an enforcer of whatever they decided to do in the 47 minutes.
The girl circled in red- Emily- was a genius.
She used her charisma and charm to court the majority of her peers that had less coupons, and played off their resentment of the minority that had earned more tickets for arriving to class early.
In the allotted time she convinced her peers that if they voted to give her absolute power, she would confiscate the 40+ coupons held by the minority and distribute them equally.
The minority of students were frustrated, but powerless against the majority vote.
Emily was elected to a “supreme ruler” position, and as promised she confiscated all of the tickets from the minority of students that arrived to class first.
That’s when things got interesting.
She kept the vast majority of tickets for herself, and distributed a few to some of her friends.
It was a microcosm of what has happened historically time and time again, and the danger our republic faces.
I asked the students to write a reflection on how they now viewed unrestrained majority-rules democracy, and their opinions has definitely changed from the day prior.
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Here’s one of my stories from an alternative school:
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Time to stock up on @McCormickCorp but I couldn’t find the brotherly sage spice! I guess the Ilhan bought it all. 💔🙄
Hey @CBHeresy help!
I don’t know how I did it, but I think I’ve managed to find the perfect balance of humor, satire, and political and education commentary with my account.
With that being said, one more joke about AOC’s weight tonight.
A serious post tomorrow.
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This is a problem across the West.
The question we need is WHY.
Immigrants used to love the West.
So what has changed?
Why do lots of young ppl including whites, hate their country?
Schools.
My book Diversity is not our Strength, explains how childhood matters.
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I knew America was in trouble when I surveyed my Black and Hispanic students and nearly 70% of them did not identify as American, despite being born here.
This was a "student led" protest in my district... Notice the flags.
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Diversity is not our Strength.
Strictly explores the idea - diversity or unity? Which makes for the ideal team?
youtu.be/KrizvhRospk?is=NeiS…
I know at Michaela, we believe in unity! 💪
Imagine explaining to your grandchildren in the Wasteland Federation, formerly the United States, that at the height of our prosperity and power, we looked at Somalia and Gaza and thought, “Congress could use some of that.”
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If I get cancer, my Make-A-Wish request is to put this hag on Ilhan’s flight to Somalia with printed MapQuest directions to Gaza stapled to her shirt.
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.@GadSaad, I think your "ride the coattail" comment was an unnecessary low blow.
My father, Shelby Steele, saw and lived white guilt firsthand in the 1960s and began defining it in his writings in the 1980s. I have fond memories of him discussing it with Tom Sowell in the 1990s. We started our "White Guilt" documentary before I'd ever heard of suicidal empathy. So I'm not sure what you mean by "cottage industry." Surely you don't consider disagreement a cottage industry.
You call white guilt an antecedent. But if collective guilt comes first and and is what drives the behavior, then guilt is the explanation. Your own book says people "feel guilty that they were born with white skin" and commit "Civilizational Seppuku" to "demonstrate their noble virtues." That is the search for innocence. Guilt over your own skin is not empathy for anyone else.
I think you have it backwards. Let's debate it.
There is now a cottage industry of folks who wish to ride the coattail of suicidal empathy by proposing some "alternate" mechanism that proves that it's not suicidal empathy. One such guy, @Hebro_Steele, is arguing that it is white guilt and not suicidal empathy that is the operative mechanism. White guilt is a pathway of being suicidally empathic. I have explained this on countless occasions. Hence, white guilt is an antecedent and not an "alternate" explanation of suicidal empathy.
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The most dangerous idea in public education is that there are no bad kids.
I had teenagers that molested children, robbed small businesses, shot people, brought guns to school, and tortured animals.
When you don’t take sociopaths seriously, you endanger the entire school.
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That’s a lot of attitude about your last name for someone whose wedding only needed one side of the aisle.
The pedophile protection party’s president is laundering right-wing conspiracy theories through the most corrupt DOJ in American history.
Whenever the news turns bad, this creep reaches for one name: mine. So let’s make it crystal clear. My name has always been Ilhan Omar.
Maybe you should focus on what your VP’s real name is.
