Seattle School District Eliminates "Office of Equity, Race and Learning Support":
Whether this will have any effect on policy, or even the District's pronouncements, is hard to tell. Still, it seemed worth noting, especially given my comments two years ago on one aspect of the Office's work:
Seattle Public Schools' Web Site Says Individualism is a Form of "Cultural Racism":(The definition was taken down following complaints that were seemingly spurred by media coverage of the Web page.) Thanks to Rick Thiel for the pointer.From "Definitions of Racism":
Cultural Racism:
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.Also included: "Defining one form of English as standard," and "identifying only Whites as great writers or composers." I should say that assuming that only Whites can be great writers or composers is of course indeed racism; but providing a list of the greatest composers and writers that consists only of whites may be perfectly legitimate, depending on your criteria (which could be entirely fair, though not indisputable, criteria) of greatness.
It's a component of the Department of Redundancy Department. [Thanks, fixed. -EV]
As Revum Wright railed against "middleclassedness", future time orientation is a threat to the race hustlers and the poverty pimps.
To be controlled, the minorities must be convinced they're victims, helpless unless they give their money and power to....the poverty pimps and the race hustlers.
And nothing fixes victims like being middleclassedist and part of that is future time orientation.
With the forced-eyelid openers. Don't forget that little detail.
Microsoft is located in Redmond, a separate city from Seattle, which is part of the Lake Washington School District. I have no idea whether Lake Washington is any better, but it isn't the same as the Seattle School District.
Sheesh.
Perhaps the central govt could instead appoint group representatives who would each vote on behalf of their entire "community...."
Palestrina, Monteverdi, Bach, Purcell, Handel, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Weber, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendellsohn, Rossini, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Brahms, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Grieg, Nielsen, Sibelius, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Messiaen, Bartok, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Holst, Vaughn Williams, Britten, Ives, Copland.
No doubt a few have slipped my mind. But last I checked, all of these composers were white. The bastards. I bet they thought slavery was a good thing.
And my gosh, not a woman among them! How can that be?
Now O'Connell is complaining that California is losing too many teachers to other states with better education budgets. But if CA is losing mostly white teachers, isn't that a good thing? And O'Connell actually plans to run for Governor!
Or does the racist list actually mean "not identifying Ebonics as standard English."
If Mr. O'Connell knew more about black churches he would know that in addition to the lively services that many of them have, they also have Sunday school classes in which the children are required to listen quietly and attentively to the teacher. Those children are perfectly aware that different behavior is appropriate in different settings.
You omitted Couperin, Marais and Rameau.
Thanks for the agreement. Now, would you agree with the following:
The people who pitch this in order to keep minorities disadvantaged and thus controllable are the most despicable pieces of dysentery-ridden rodent turds you can imagine.
Having them in places where they have one kind or another of power over others is a very bad idea.
"A wuuuhhd in yoah eah."
I'm trying to improve my phraseology by reading Misha, The Idiotarian Rottweiler.
That's where I heard that Holger Danske is suspected of having one eye open. My wife knows an exchange student from Denmark. I'll see if she knows anything about it.
Anyway, the concept of working hard to maintain people in victim status for political or financial (Wright's retirement home is 10,000 square ft. + in a super upscale 'burb of Chicago which is 2% non-white) is despicable enough wrt the unfortunates themeselves. Vicious and inhuman. Doesn't do the rest of society much good, either.
Palmer and Colton, in A History of The Western World, made the point that the reformer is the deadly enemy of the revolutionary. Because if the reform works, the people won't bother to revolt. And, it was said, Franz Joseph was, in his strange way, a reformer in the Empire. Had to go.
Point is, revolutionaries and others like the race hustlers and poverty pimps not only need victims as cannon fodder, they work to create them.
If I made such a list, it would probably be nearly all white as well, but that's not because I'm racist, it's because I simply don't have much exposure to nonwestern classical music. Until then, I'll qualify my list as "great composers I've heard of" or "great western classical composers." To call my list "a small sampling of the best composers ever" would be quite silly indeed.