Christopher Rufo has brought us another chilling example of how a county in California intends to indoctrinate students with this woke garbage of how America is a “parasitic system” and how it must be dismantled:
SCOOP: 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.
Here’s the story.🧵
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 13, 2021
Last year, Santa Clara County held a teacher training on how to deploy “ethnic studies” in schools. The leaders began the presentation with a “land acknowledgement,” claiming that the public schools “occupy the unceded territory of the Muwekma Ohlone Nation.” pic.twitter.com/VLVSB9u2gO
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 13, 2021
The presenters claimed that America is a “system of oppression” based on the “invasion” of “white male settlers” and “exists as long as settlers are living on appropriated land.” White males brought “white supremacy, patriarchy, classism, genocide, private property, and God.” pic.twitter.com/3PoE2a8YKj
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 13, 2021
This is where it starts looking dangerous:
Jorge Pacheco, an adviser for the state ethnic studies curriculum, said that teachers must “awaken [students] to the oppression” and lead them to “decodify” and eventually “dismantle” the dominant political structures, which enable “white people [to exploit] people of color.” pic.twitter.com/t5ut4mYS8i
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 13, 2021
The language in the presentation is pure Marxist conflict theory—oppressor-oppressed, praxis, synthesis. Pacheco acknowledged that the Marxist underpinnings “scare people away,” but insisted that teachers must be “grounded in the correct politics to educate students.” pic.twitter.com/2gUUruIIaM
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 13, 2021
They know how toxic this curriculum is, so they are telling teachers to hide it from parents:
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].” pic.twitter.com/jgq8A7RGL6
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 13, 2021
This isn’t just about one county. It’s about to be taught in the entire state:
This curriculum will soon become commonplace for millions of California schoolchildren. Earlier this year, the state Department of Education approved a “model ethnic studies curriculum,” championed by Pacheco and colleagues, who encourage recruiting kids beginning in first grade. pic.twitter.com/KPqUpDGdnx
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 13, 2021
Though they are coy about their ultimate intention, the ethnic studies activists seek, at a minimum, a moral revolution—and, out of such tumults, political revolutions often follow.
Read my full coverage in City Journal: https://t.co/N29tlJi9Zy
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 13, 2021
Remember what I said this morning about the country looking totally different in another decade or so? It’s this kind of toxic and highly divisive anti-American indoctrination that will be the death of this country and the liberty for which it has stood for centuries if we don’t stop it. And honestly, in a place like California, I don’t know if it can be stopped. But shining sunlight on it is a good place to start.