Not all kids in cages are at the border
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Not all kids in cages are at the border
Not all kids in cages are at the border | Tuesday, March 09, 2021
Put kids in cages? Do that yourself, and you’ll get 25 to life. Do that as Obama, Trump, and Biden, and you get…a bye, condemnation, and a bye, respectively.
If you can’t identify with the cultural experience of an oppressed minority, so it goes, it’s off-limits to use anything reflecting that culture. Should whites, then, be banned from performing jazz, or the blues? What about gay actors playing straight roles; or blacks playing white roles (as in Broadway’s “Hamilton”)?
It’s nuts! Oregon’s Department of Education has developed a teaching resource entitled, “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction,” aimed at removing racism from 6th-8th-grade math. Seems that math + traditional teaching methods = white supremacy!
A wider frame raises yet another question: Which science should we be following? The science that has produced horrific nuclear weapons? Or untold tons of plastic polluting our oceans? Or the opioids that have devastated so many lives?