Tea at Trianon: Progressive Activist Indoctrination

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Progressive Activist Indoctrination

From Jan Greenhawk at The Easton Gazette:

While test scores plummet and a majority of the students can't do basic math, the Southern Poverty Law Center has stepped up to provide a curriculum to help students be...activists. Yes, that is correct. The SPLC, a group that designates anyone who doesn't go along with their Marxist agenda or donate to their cause, as domestic terrorists, white supremacists, and anything else nasty they can think of, has decided to help teachers develop student activists. It's not the only time the SPLC has sent materials to classrooms to subvert the teaching of academics and replace it with leftist propaganda that teachers can use to indoctrinate our children.

From October 2023:

Free Propaganda Lessons Delivered To The Mailbox Of Your Child's Teacher - Easton Gazette

The above is a magazine filled with articles that demean our country and anyone who disagrees with their Progressive mantras. This set of lessons comes from what appears to be a front group, called "Youth in Front." (youthinfront.org) The materials were published in 2021. They couch their lesson under the guise of "civics" lessons. That designation would be fine if the lessons truly addressed the full scope of civics including the Constitution, our rights, history etc. and had the context of living in a great country that allows freedom of speech and real rights. Unfortunately, the lessons in their handouts are mostly about identity politics, victimhood, and hating America. (Read more.)

From The Connecticut Sentinel:

Last week, we learned that Biden’s education department met with the progressive Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) a year before deciding to add parental rights groups, including Connecticut chapters of Moms for Liberty and US Parents Involved in Education (PIE), to its “hate map” suggesting those concerned about protecting children from progressive indoctrination in school are no different than groups like the KKK, the Aryan Nation and the Skinheads.

The education department also apparently hosted training sessions that described the parental rights groups singled out by the SPLC as the department’s “opposition”.

“We have known for some time the Biden administration has made it their mission to attack parents who publicly advocate for their children’s education,” said Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, in response.

It seems that the SPLC met with White House officials at least 11 times in the last three years, making the biased "attack dog” more like a “credible partner" to the Biden Administration than anything else.

But the SPLC is not just a “credible partner” to the Biden Administration, the group is also widely used to deliver identity, diversity, justice and action (IDJA) lessons for students in grades K-12 through its “Social Justice Standards” program. (Read more.)