People’s Republic of Seattle

They can’t be serious. Or can they? Short of San Francisco, one of the growing stealth zones of the far Left has to be Seattle. The ’98 riots to disrupt the WTO meeting in that city were the proverbial canary in the coal mine to enlighten us as to the direction of the city and its residents. We now see the true Marxist (or is it neo-Marxist these days?) thought popping up in the school system courtesy of Capitalism Magazine.

Take a look at this definition of ‘cultural racism’ from the school system’s web page.

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.

Let’s examine that language briefly. Racism is apparently defined as anything too “white”. Well, I suppose that goes along with the current preferred train of thought on the Left that only whites can be racist. Where this notion was a bit absurd even a decade ago, it is stepping up to become a major paradigm. That in itself could serve as a warning that even the most ridiculous notions should be challenged, because one never knows what fertile ground in which they might take root.

And people being “different” is a crime? Well, all the separate graduation ceremonies for minority groups in other parts of the country (read: California) would definitely violate that rule. No, I suppose they wouldn’t, since only whites can be racist and minorities run those separate but equal ceremonies. Didn’t people like Martin Luther King march to stop this garbage? I wonder also, since white skin tones can’t be “flesh colored” or “nude”, can other skin tones? What if it’s a very tan white person? What if they used that spray on tan and look a bit orange? Moronic really doesn’t begin to describe the people that wrote this code. Well, I suppose they could be comedy writers.

I don’t argue the “one race” as all great writers or composers, although it’s been my experience that in such instances, great writers are occasionally ignored because they are white by such multiculturalists so that a more diverse pool of literaries can be presented to the student body. It’s a good thing minorities can’t be racist, because that sounds pretty racist to me. Time to face reality on the language issue. There is only one accepted form of English. Ebonics and anything remotely like it, well they’re fine for dialect studies, but we only teach one kind of English and it needs to stay that way. To define that as racist is to define that you have zero common sense and even less in the way of intelligence.

Oh and here’s the one that’s got the right side of the blogosphere just churning.

emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology

You’ve got to be pretty sure of your population (and Seattle is) when you put in the straight Marxism right there in the school code. Collectivist = good, individual = bad, except when it comes to sex and abortions. Do that whenever you want, I think. Why don’t they just write in a paragraph about how to properly celebrate May Day or about saying their pledge to Stalin before they start class every morning? I mean, if you’re going to go for broke, why not go all out? Quit playing around with it and just throw the hammer & sickle up the flag pole at Mao Elementary. Put the Little Red Books in the text book rental list and you can call it a day.

Defining individualism as racism, likely along with individual or natural rights, is the first step towards instilling the supremacy of the State over the individual. Is that what Seattle residents want their kids to believe or how they want them taught? God help us all if that’s the case.

Hat tip to Right Thinking Girl for the story.