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Thursday, April 24. 2008

"Education:" A cruel (Gramscian) hoax

"Teaching for "social justice" is a cruel hoax on disadvantaged kids." Sol Stern on Bill Ayers and his ilk, at City Journal. This Ed School stuff is straight from Gramsci's handbook, and it represents a conspiracy to keep the "masses" poor and stupid - and angry, hopeless, and helpless.

In other words, ripe for "rescue" by The State.

Speaking of Gramsci and Ayers, we did a piece a while ago about Hillary and Obama and their Alinsky connection.

Posted by The Barrister in Our Essays, Politics at 09:45 | Comment (1) | Trackback (1)

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"A deep threat to all that is human"
Babe makes a strong case for the utility of long catnaps as a survival skill on the studio couch this afternoon. [Theodore] Dalrymple makes a strong case for the utility of morality as a survival skill, wrote Wretchard of Belmont
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You've got their number, for sure, B.

i don't think ''cruelty'' is a goal, it's just collateral damage from the crushing of ''false consciousness'' (which is, of course, the consciousness that comes through the intellect's interaction with the five--or six-- senses).

Reds, at bottom, are at war with nature.
#1 buddy larsen on 2008-04-24 11:53 (Reply)

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