"If you are not serious about being an agent of change that helps stifle the oppressive systems, go find another job. Because you are a political figure."The speaker was Kim Radersma, a former high school English teacher in California and Colorado. Radersma is currently working toward her Ph. D. in critical whiteness studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada.
Critical. Whiteness. Studies.
Radersma was leading a breakout session for educators at the National White Privilege Conference recently held in Madison, Wisconsin. Madison, an epicenter of white privilege, if there is such a thing. A city filled with white liberals who stifle racial integration at every opportunity.
Radersma argued that teachers must fight against the oppressive structure in education and society. She said anyone who is going into teaching and education must be a political figure.
"Teaching is a political act, and you can't choose to be neutral. You are either a pawn used to perpetuate a system of oppression or you are fighting against it," Radersma said during the session. "And if you think you are neutral, you are a pawn."
What sane parent would want his or her children in a class taught by Kim Radersma? Or any teacher, for that matter who believes this, and who thinks it mandatory that teachers must be political in what and how they teach children. It is leftist indoctrination writ large, increasingly a role held by public school teachers.
Radersma unwittingly makes an excellent argument in favor of home schooling and parochial schools, and against sending children to the indoctrination camps that some public schools have become.
"Being a white person who does anti-racist work is like being an alcoholic. I will never be recovered by my alcoholism, to use the metaphor," Radersma said. "I have to everyday wake up and acknowledge that I am so deeply imbedded with racist thoughts and notions and actions in my body that I have to choose everyday to do anti-racist work and think in an anti-racist way."Oh please. Spare us the self-heroism and false drama, Kim Radersma. And stay away from our children with your foolishness. And as for your PhD in critical whiteness studies, it's horsehit that passes for eduction in the humanities departments of universities that will teach anything in order to keep the tuition money flowing.
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She seems to have more self hatred than even our former resident raysis. And that's saying something.
All third rate intellects MUST find and then cling to a system, an explanation for everything. Once the system, the explanation, the ideology is found curiosity ends, the little intellect there was closes down, completely. Ergo this "teacher." Ergo Obama.
And you are helping to pay for it Haz! Those of us who pay Madison taxes, even more so.
Our children are not being taught - they are being indoctrinated.
Teaching is a political act, and you can't choose to be neutral. You are either a pawn used to perpetuate a system of oppression or you are fighting against it...
The problem is that she will get away with this stuff, and she will get tenure in the public schools & be impossible to remove.
It's not that the teaching world necessarily agrees with her. It's just that she isn't saying anything on the list of awful, terrible, things one must never say, which, strangely enough, give tremendous leeway to saying lots of left-wing nutjobbery (e.g. destroying blacks as a race --- BAD!, destroying the bourgeoisie as a class --- OK!).
One can hope that she's such a heavy handed loon that her kids take particular pleasure in tormenting her self-righteousness, and will reminisce years later: "Remember crazy ol' Ms Radersma, the commie? God, she had a pole up her ass, didn't she? Isn't she on a commune in New Hampshire now or somethin'?"
She's probably right that teachers can't be neutral. Education as some sort of objective process is a fantasy.
Not that she's right about a single point of what that *means*...
Consider the conflict of interest involved in *government* instructing our children...
Lazy, self-dramatizing fool.
Posturing as a heroine out to save the world is so much easier than the hard work of teaching basic skills.
There are always going to be fools like this around.
My daughter is a school teacher. She works hard at her actual job, which is educating the young in the skills they need to succeed.
I loved the interview with Freeman Dyson, mathematician. Never heard of him before. But my! What goes on in his brain!
Now that is worth admiring and respecting.
Q: You became a professor at Cornell without ever having received a Ph.D. You seem almost proud of that fact.
Response: Oh, yes. I’m very proud of not having a Ph.D. I think the Ph.D. system is an abomination. It was invented as a system for educating German professors in the 19th century, and it works well under those conditions. It’s good for a very small number of people who are going to spend their lives being professors. But it has become now a kind of union card that you have to have in order to have a job, whether it’s being a professor or other things, and it’s quite inappropriate for that. It forces people to waste years and years of their lives sort of pretending to do research for which they’re not at all well-suited. In the end, they have this piece of paper which says they’re qualified, but it really doesn’t mean anything. The Ph.D. takes far too long and discourages women from becoming scientists, which I consider a great tragedy. So I have opposed it all my life without any success at all.
I was lucky because I got educated in World War II and everything was screwed up so that I could get through without a Ph.D. and finish up as a professor. Now that’s quite impossible. So, I’m very proud that I don’t have a Ph.D. and I raised six children and none of them has a Ph.D., so that’s my contribution.
What kind of "research" is there these days in the humanities? The opinions (I hesitate to call it anything else) being studied (?) are so prone to producing piles of completely useless factitious crap pretending to be important.
Witness this nitwit Radersma.
She is a completely unhappy person and will die so, licking her Pharisaical wounds lovingly.
As a critical thinking w/m in my late 40's I returned to school in the late 90's to get my teaching certification @ UW-Whitewater. I continued my PI biz because I wanted to continue an income stream. I worked my ass off. You can't imagine what a threat I was to the PC professors who were never challenged. You cannot know how pernicious the mindset of the education industry is until you are immersed in it. I would have moderate and conservative fellow students, in their early 20's, smiling w/ hands over their faces as I shot down the propaganda. I had students follow me w/ glee in their voices after class. I stay in touch w/ some on their journey through the public education gulag as teachers. PC must be fought on EVERY level on a daily basis. This is the fundamental First Amendment issue of our lifetime. It must, and will be won!
This propagandist..err professor, is preachin' to the choir. They get hard and moist doing it.
That conference proclaimed white supremacy about as much as any skinhead meeting would have.
Now that nonsense is influencing how public school kids are disciplined.
Discipline in Madison's public schools is harsh for African-American kids, many of their parents say. They insist the system targets black children, setting them up to be exiled from class, written up, suspended, even expelled. Schools push out the very students who are falling behind their white classmates, according to test scores and graduation rates.
Read more here.
Sounds like she ought to hook-up with Crack. Match made in Heaven.
April Fool dude.
"Critical Whiteness Studies?"
That was a dead giveaway.
Nice try though.
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I know it is hush hush.
She wrote her new single "I Luv you Papi" about him.
What made me angry about the article and the seminar it describes is this: The pre-supposition made by the proponents of the white privilege concept is that all white-skinned people are inherently racist. And further, that white children have to be taught that they have skin color related privilege, and that they should be held to account for the accident of their birth.
These ideas are bullshit. And the people who teach this nonsense to children are engaging in a form of child abuse that renders them unfit to be in the classroom.
I feel the same way about other forms of child indoctrination, like the cult of global warming, and pushing of vegan/vegetarian eating in grade school classes.
We were talking about this at home last night.
In the school where Mrs. Haz taught until last year, the progressive nonsense has slowly crept into the classroom, as has the dumbing down of expectations. The parts of speech are no longer taught. Punctuation and spelling are no longer taught. No student is to receive less than a C, per the central office, even if that student does F work. And on and on and on.
Tech ed has been droppe3d because the Supt believes that in 21st century America, no one works with their hands anymore. And the classroom study materials are now populated with sex ed, social media, gaming, social studies, etc.
The white privilege nonsense is just another vile part of the mess that some public schools are becoming.
"I cant teach students of color nearly as well as a person of color can"
I was under the impression that this was what MLK had fought against. A little confused. But not surprised.
What's the matter with Madison.
...pushing of vegan/vegetarian eating...
Not healthy for you!
I think there's still evidence to support that it might contribute to longer life in the way that a semi-starvation diet also does, but wouldn't you trade a few sickly years for more happier, healthier years?
Are you sure this isn't an April Fool's parody? Talk about over the top.
You see Haz?
Even a cretin like Rev could figure it out.
You have to up your game dude.
How about a link to the Crack Emcee's Youtube channel where he sings Elvis Costello's hit "What So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding."
The funny part is Crack carrying a tune.
Now that's comedy gold right there.
Well, the Madison WP Conference was real and Kim Radersma appears to be a real person.
I'd be pissed if I were she, if she didn't really attend and was parodied.
I don't know. Don't you think the MacGyver Institute might have been cobbled together with a matchstick and gum?
Don't you think the MacGyver Institute might have been cobbled together with a matchstick and gum?
They've been around a while. They reported a lot during the Walker recall.
Sounds like she would have been right at home in the Viet Cong.
PS If whiteness is critical, you'd think they'd be more in favor of it.
lulz, white guilt studies.
"Pogo is Only Mostly Dead"...
Mostly dead is slightly alive.
Look at Bill Ayers. He was able to retreat back into his world of privilege and smug complacency. Don't tell me white privilege doesn't exist, but you have to know how to play it. That's what they're offering in Criticical White Studies--advanced bamboozling.
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