For the past week I’ve been talking a lot about the economy.
Covering the Republican convention last week and the Democratic convention this week I’ve talked about how the economy is THE issue, the big issue.
In our coverage of the Quebec election I talked about how the economy was the issue that Quebec’s leaders avoided despite that province lagging when it should be leading.
For conservative minded people it is almost always about the economy. Some parts of the conservative movement want it only to be about the economy and when election time comes they want people like me to shut up about all the cultural issues.
Abortion. Don’t mention it.
A radical school curriculum teaching our kids things most parents don’t want to know about. Don’t mention that.
Global warming. Don’t mention it.
They really do want the only conversation to be about the economy. Even during the times between election we’re told not to worry about any other issue. Don’t push it.
How does that work out for you? Does the other side ever stop pushing their issues?
No.
Which means if our side shuts up then they win every time through sheer persistence. As I’ve said before, one day we will wake up and your kid’s math tests will ask the following question, “Khalid, a transgendered boy who was bullied for his gender fluidity wants to buy sun dresses for himself and his mother. Given that they are imported from a coal burning region of the USA, how much should the carbon tax on the dresses be?”
Think I’m crazy?
In British Columbia they are about to change the curriculum to put more emphasis on concepts and less emphasis on facts.
“A more flexible curriculum that prescribes less and enables more.”
You’ve heard about this before. Do they teach phonics in your local school? Our school does a bit of it but mostly focuses on what are called Word Wall Words and sight reading – you memorize words not how to sound them out.
Times tables. That’s a fact, that’s rote learning, that’s bad. Let’s teach kids how to learn, not what they should learn. More concepts, less facts.
You know if BC wants to go this route then maybe this story, which should outrage me and every single sane person, should actually be welcomed. Pole dancing lessons for five year-olds in BC. I mean I should be outraged at this but maybe this will be the only skill they learn that can get them a job under the new BC curriculum.
Of course when I raised concerns or you raised concerns about the over-sexualisation of our society and our children, we were told to shut up. Just to be clear, if you didn’t get my sarcastic tone – pole dancing for five year olds is a bad idea. A father’s job is to keep his daughter off the pole.
Who knows maybe one day there will be pole dancing lessons as part of the school curriculum, can’t be worse than what the co-parents in the school system already want to impose.
Did you also hear that there is another group that wants to be co-parents with you?
The folks at the Canadian Medical Association Journal want to take away the ability of parents to spank their children without prosecution of the law.
John Fletcher, editor of the journal, calls spanking bad parenting and writes.
“Parents need to be re-educated as to how to discipline their children.”
Fletcher is a doctor and academic who cites a flawed study that equates spanking and outright beating.
“To have a specific code excusing parents is to suggest that assault by a parent is a normal and accepted part of bringing up children. It is not.”
First off, no one supports beating and beating is not spanking whether John Fletcher understands that or not.
We’ve fought this battle before. We’ve won. Yet it keeps coming back. Why? Because the other side will not rest. This is why you cannot rest. This is why we need to ignore that part of the conservative movement that wants us all to sit down and shut up.
There is a culture war going on. We either engage or we lose.
And that’s the Byline.
Categories: Byline
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Since we lost the universities to “progressive” intellectuals the battle has been practically lost. They brainwashed the current crop of educators and produce students who are trained to ignore inconvenient facts that render questionable the progressive theories they adhere to in a religious fashion. For the case in point neither our testimony that we survived corporal punishment both at home and in school without being traumatized and that we had strong loving families that succeeded passing on key social values to us will be rejected without further inquiry.
What disturbs me most is the realization that these people make work for themselves and for others at the expense of trampling on real human beings and destroying real families in a state of automatism. If they were doing it consciously and with selfish bad intent – I could understand it. However, they are doing it automatically and are really hard to de-program. It does feel from time to time like battling the windmills.
I am afraid that the greatest service you provide has bery limited de-programing value (in the sense of encouraging progressives to no longer confuse thinking with feeling), but much value in supporting those of us who are beginning to feel lonely surrounded by brainwashed automatons very full of themselves.
I am afraid that the only chance we have to reverse this nightmare is to reach children and develop their analytical and thinking skills.
I have some moderate success in attempting to salvage a couple of adults, but it is incredibly laborious and, incidentally, only the fear of economic collapse appears to be working in terms of forcing them to try to think. They can be so comfortable that only the perception of a direct and immediate threat may cause them to fire some neurons. I wish I was jocking, but I am not. It may well be that only a dramatic and well deserved economic collapse would shake some people out of somnolence and make them suspect that some of this progressivism constantly fed on them through schools and mass media is in fact very one sided and profoundly harmful. In moments of anger and hopelessness I toy with the idea of attempting to accelerate the destruction by joining the choir. Unfortunately, my conscience does not allow me do do that and, like you, I have children.
Well as we did in my house I’ll just say. You need a time out Brian.