Norbert
TSLA will win
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Because I'm really unaware of any schools that don't teach that Washington was the first POTUS and the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army (which is what I learned), so if he's going to make such a claim, he should give the names.
This. In so far as that little story actually happened (and it wasn't just a teenager reply to a right-wing father), might as well claim that happened as a result of anti-woke-ism turning racial issues into a divisive hotly debated topic. Otherwise it would be just an obvious part of history. Is it not remarkable that as a Founding Father, Washington was (still) engaged in slavery, that this wasn’t the point in history where slavery was abolished, and not the point in history where women were granted voting rights, that freedom wasn’t achieved in a single step 1776? Is it perhaps more about promoting the right wing meme that wokeness is not patriotic, than about a problem in education that might cause the end of civilization (which was part of Bill Maher’s question)?
I've heard about illiteracy and other shortcomings in US education long before wokeness became a thing, now suddenly wokeness is to blame?
Or wokeness is "anti-meritocratic”. Yes it is, however it is meant to balance the "anti-meritocratic" effects of racism itself, the long-term goal is to achieve an overall higher meritocratic level. Or is there a privileged part of society where minorities and women are already over-represented in general? Is that a real problem? If this isn't about denying the actual problem, then what is the real problem and what to do about it?
I can't see how any of that conversation can be considered substantial in any way. How any of that would be the words of a wise man.