Planning ahead is considered racist?

[Brian4Liberty]

Not only planning ahead, but also not being a collectivist. Are you opposed to socialism and communism? Are you an individualist? If so, you're a racist!


Planning ahead is considered racist?

Are you salting away a little money for your retirement? Trying to plan for your kids' education? If so, Seattle Public Schools seems to think you're a racist.

According to the district's official Web site, "having a future time orientation" (academese for having long-term goals) is among the "aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and Whiteness, and devalue, stereotype and label people of color."

Huh?

Not all the district's definitions of racism (and there are lots of them) are so cryptic. The site goes on immediately to say, "Emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology" is another form of "cultural racism."

Did I mention that the district thinks only whites can be racist in America?

Regardless of your color, your affinity for planning or your penchant for reading "Das Kapital" under Fremont's Lenin statue, does this make any sense to you?

See if this sounds familiar: a government agency redefining a highly charged word to advance a particular ideology. ... Um, note to the Seattle School Board and administration: George Orwell's novel "1984" was a cautionary tale, not a how-to book. And the folks trying to control people's thoughts through state manipulation of the language -- they were the bad guys.

More:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/opinion/article/Planning-ahead-is-considered-racist-1204942.php

[seyferjm]

WTF is wrong with people?!

[Brian4Liberty]

WTF is wrong with people?!

Ad-hominen attacks are the primary tool of the modern collectivists (Marxists, socialists and crony corporatists). Disagree with their latest idea, no matter how illogical, counter-productive, disproven, discredited or deceptive it may be, you are a racist!

[MRK]

Ad-hominen attacks are the primary tool of the modern collectivists (Marxists, socialists and crony corporatists). Disagree with their latest idea, no matter how illogical, counter-productive, disproven, discredited or deceptive it may be, you are a racist!

Syrians who protest being bombed by Obama are racist. They only don't want to get bombed because Obama is African American. That's racist.

[Lucille]

I was dying to see more so I went to the district site, but alas...

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/School-district-pulls-Web-site-after-examples-of-1205162.php


School district pulls Web site after examples of racism spark controversy

By DEBERA CARLTON HARRELL
P-I REPORTER

An outpouring of criticism forced Seattle Public Schools on Thursday to pull a Web site that viewed planning for the future, emphasizing individualism and defining standard English as examples of cultural racism.

The message had appeared under an "equity and race relations" section of the district's Web site and was mentioned Thursday in an opinion piece by a Libertarian writer in the Seattle P-I. Criticism of the site has been building in the world of blogs for weeks.

In its place Thursday was a message that the site will be revised to "provide more context to reader around the work that Seattle Public Schools is doing to address institutional racism."
[...]
But she may have stepped into a second controversy by saying the site also wasn't intended "to hold onto unsuccessful concepts such as melting pot or colorblind mentality."

Andrew Coulson, director of the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom, was the author of Thursday's opinion piece. Among other things, he drew from the site's definition of cultural racism.

"Those aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and whiteness, and devalue, stereotype, and label people of color as 'other,' different, less than, or render them invisible. Examples of these norms include defining white skin tones as nude or flesh colored, having a future time orientation, emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology, defining one form of English as standard, and identifying only Whites as great writers or composers," the definition said.

"It was very ideologically charged," Coulson said Thursday. "It was left of center by definition, criticizing individualism as racism and advocating a collective ideology. You can't get much more red versus blue than that; it's incredibly polarizing. That everyone who thinks in terms of individualism is racist?"

Coulson's piece was only the latest criticism of the site, and he said he tracked many others in the blogosphere. So even before his opinion piece appeared, the district had been "dealing with calls and e-mails for the last three weeks," said Peter Daniels, school district spokesman.

"It did not have enough context for people not working on this issue, and it was poorly written," Daniels said. "... It's about institutional racism, particularly in an educational setting. There are particular structures and practices in place that disadvantage other students who are not of the Caucasian or white majority. It's really examining our own practices and education, but that wasn't very clear."

So Hollins' memo appeared Thursday, saying that "the intended purpose of our work in the area of race and social justice is to bring communities together through open dialogue and honest reflection around what is meant by racism."

"It's a non-apology apology," said Coulson, an education history scholar and author of "Market Education: The Unknown History."

"My sense was that the definition was extremely offensive, but there was not much sympathy for those who were offended ...," he said. "The harm that can come from the Web site is the tarring of the ideal of individualism as racist, while the ideal of individualism is a central principle on which our nation was founded. Liberty is individual, not collective. So for our school district -- our official school organ of the state -- to tell children it's racist to believe in a principle on which our nation was founded -- is troubling."

[Tywysog Cymru]

I’m not a racist. As a matter of fact, Rosa Parks is one of my heroes, Martin Luther King is a hero — because they practiced the libertarian principle of civil disobedience, nonviolence.
Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist. The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.

-Ron Paul

[Brian4Liberty]

"It did not have enough context for people not working on this issue, and it was poorly written," Daniels said. "... It's about institutional racism, particularly in an educational setting. There are particular structures and practices in place that disadvantage other students who are not of the Caucasian or white majority. It's really examining our own practices and education, but that wasn't very clear."

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/School-district-pulls-Web-site-after-examples-of-1205162.php

This is their explanation? Someone forgot to tell all of the successful "non-white" students that they were supposed to fail.

[fr33]

It's simple and you can read such nonsense any time you browse through the comments on liberal sites. They claim ownership of your property and you holding onto any property is theft in their opinion.

[Neil Desmond]

It would make sense to me that racists would do things to trivialize what makes one a racist by trying to claim that things that have nothing to do with racism makes someone a racist.

[Victor Grey]

You see, you need to be more careless with your money, more prone to go into debt, and culturally not likely to invest in your future. You know like the black people do.

Now see when I say it, it sounds racist. Common misconception you see. When I'm instead a leftist progressive in academia, it's completely different. Completely. You're being racist now. Stop that. We're here to stop racism.

Check your normality, er I mean, privilege.


It would make sense to me that racists would do things to trivialize what makes one a racist by trying to claim that things that have nothing to do with racism makes someone a racist.

Well I guess it could work like that.

[fr33]

It would make sense to me that racists would do things to trivialize what makes one a racist by trying to claim that things that have nothing to do with racism makes someone a racist.

Well sure. Those that always focus on race are racists.

[Neil Desmond]

Well sure. Those that always focus on race are racists.
Yep.

[enoch150]

I was dying to see more so I went to the district site, but alas...

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/School-district-pulls-Web-site-after-examples-of-1205162.php

The articles are from 2006. Google says the expanded quote is this:

Cultural Racism
Those aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and whiteness, and devalue, stereotype, and label People of Color as "other," different, less than, or render them invisible.

Examples of these norms include defining white skin tones as nude or flesh colored, having future time orientation, emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology, defining one form of English as standard, and identifying only Whites as the great writers or composers.

Source: Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, and Pat Griffin, editors. Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge.

[susano]

The articles are from 2006. Google says the expanded quote is this:

Cultural Racism
Those aspects of society that overtly and covertly attribute value and normality to white people and whiteness, and devalue, stereotype, and label People of Color as "other," different, less than, or render them invisible.

Examples of these norms include defining white skin tones as nude or flesh colored, having future time orientation, emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology, defining one form of English as standard, and identifying only Whites as the great writers or composers.

Source: Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, and Pat Griffin, editors. Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge.


Head Start graduates, no doubt.

[twomp]

No you aren't a racist if you plan ahead. You are a terrorist.

[susano]

Yes, but if you plan ahead and you're white, you're a racist terrorist.

Lets bomb Utah!

[donnay]

Racist is now the new body snatchers catch phrase to shut people up. For a while there, it was anti-Semitism.


http://borgdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers.jpg?w=686&h=386

[Legend1104]

Hahahahahahaha....no.