{"id":19550,"date":"2022-09-08T13:38:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19550"},"modified":"2022-09-08T13:38:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:38:30","slug":"quick-takes-required-wokeness-in-academia-required-to-condemn-the-constitution-required-integration-of-racial-consciousness-to-teach-required-pledge-to-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/09\/08\/quick-takes-required-wokeness-in-academia-required-to-condemn-the-constitution-required-integration-of-racial-consciousness-to-teach-required-pledge-to-social-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Required Wokeness in Academia: Required To Condemn The Constitution; Required Integration Of Racial Consciousness To Teach; Required Pledge To Social Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: You shall be required to choose wokeness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wOPp3__GxuM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Can\u2019t rely on students to tear down society unless they are forced to declare the Constitution to be evil\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/article?id=15801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">or else<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA Vanderbilt University assignment asked students whether the U.S. Constitution was \u2018designed to perpetuate white supremacy,\u2019 and the \u2018correct\u2019 answer to that question was \u2018true.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAccording to screenshots obtained by Young America\u2019s Foundation, students were asked, \u2018Was the Constitution designed to perpetuate white supremacy and protect the institution of slavery?\u2019 According to YAF, one student in the class lost points after answering \u2018false.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe screenshot of the online assignment shows that the correct answer was \u2018true.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA Vanderbilt student who is currently enrolled in the course and asked to remain anonymous told Campus Reform that the questions and answers came from a recorded lecture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018All of the quiz\u2019s answers would come directly from a recorded lecture&#8230;the questions were exact quotes from the lecture,\u2019 the student said.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Indoctrination must start when kids are young, and only those who have themselves been indoctrinated into \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/minnesota-teachers-could-face-racial-consciousness-standard-in-new-teaching-license-requirements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">correct thinking<\/a>\u201d will be allowed to teach the young.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTeachers in Minnesota may be facing new licensing requirements, with an emphasis placed on racial consciousness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Minnesota Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board is considering new rules for teacher licensing for the first time in two decades, replacing the ten existing \u2018Standards of Effective Practice\u2019 with eight new ones, including one standard on \u2018Racial consciousness and reflection.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe other standards \u2013 student learning, learning environments, assessment, planning for instruction, instructional strategies, professional responsibilities and collaboration and leadership \u2013 all include subsections focused on racism, cultural differences or bias.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cA subsection under \u2018learning environments\u2019 says teachers should foster \u2018an environment that ensures student identities such as race\/ethnicity, national origin, language, sex and gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical\/developmental\/emotional ability, socioeconomic class, and religious beliefs are historically and socially contextualized, affirmed, and incorporated into learning.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Just being indoctrinated is not enough. Now students are required to <a href=\"https:\/\/campusreform.org\/article?id=20051\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pledge allegiance to anti-racism and social justice<\/a>\u2026 just to be admitted to college!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe University of Richmond (UR) in Virginia is extending its implementation of anti-racist and social justice initiatives to admissions requirements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOne of the essay prompts for undergraduate admissions for the fall 2022 semester, for example, asked students to \u2018share one idea for actions or policies that you think would begin to address an issue of racial or social injustice.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUR\u2019s Equity page has a section on \u2018White Anti-Racism\u2019 that provides resources for students to \u2018assist members of our campus community in learning about race, racism, and the practice of anti-racism.\u2019 It argues that \u2018White people have important roles to play in anti-racism work.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Our focus on white anti-racism is an institutional effort to relieve pressure often placed on people of color to educate white people about race, as well as to support and be in solidarity with change efforts led by people of color,\u2019 the page reads.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Required Wokeness in Academia: Required To Condemn The Constitution; Required Integration Of Racial Consciousness To Teach; Required Pledge To Social Justice\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: You shall be required to choose wokeness.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: You shall be required to choose wokeness. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/09\/08\/quick-takes-required-wokeness-in-academia-required-to-condemn-the-constitution-required-integration-of-racial-consciousness-to-teach-required-pledge-to-social-justice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[19,65,25,46,24,42,69,48],"class_list":["post-19550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-doom","tag-higher-ed","tag-kyriarchy","tag-leviathan","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19551,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19550\/revisions\/19551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}