Lucy, there is a lot of power in your article. I felt that these few lines, in particular, summarized one important aspect you discussed here so it’s worth repeating,
“The inconvenient fact that only biological women are physiologically equipped for breastfeeding and that even women can’t breastfeed if they’ve had their healthy breasts amputated is just ignored because it doesn’t align with the SJW story that has been created.”
So many years of loving work by thousands of LLL Leaders everywhere, and of course the vision, energy and huge heart devoted by the Founding Mothers...All that is being carelessly destroyed by mixing causes. It’s heartbreaking.
It's the concept of intersectionality that fuels this. Every "oppressed" group should be in solidarity with each other, regardless of their policy goals align or not.
It's reminiscent of the Marxists talking about false consciousness.
The result of using intersectionality as your guiding light is that women never make it to the top of the 'must be fixed' list. There is always some other category more "deserving" of the time and effort of activists.
John Lennon had a quote that fits here, but I won't use it. You do have to put it in the perspective of someone who was in their teens in 1964. Flawed a person as he was "imagine" is about as Marxist ad possible in the West. He wasn't wrong when he said "women are the.... of the world "
So often the goals are to drag everyone down together rather than build people up. San Francisco decided that equity required math instruction to be dumbed down because some demographic groups don't perform as well as others. The result was predictable.
Starting in 2014, the San Francisco Unified School District made a controversial, equity-focused mathematics reform to delay offering Algebra 1 until ninth grade, for all students.
The district made the reform in response to racial gaps among students passing algebra and progressing to higher level courses, such as AP calculus and AP statistics. EdWeek wrote that the district’s strategy aimed to “avoid the early sorting of students into high and low math tracks, a practice that disproportionately disadvantaged Black and Latino students.”
Nope, they didn't create policies to improve Black and Latino performance, they created policies to make that level of performance the standard for everyone.
Lucy, there is a lot of power in your article. I felt that these few lines, in particular, summarized one important aspect you discussed here so it’s worth repeating,
“The inconvenient fact that only biological women are physiologically equipped for breastfeeding and that even women can’t breastfeed if they’ve had their healthy breasts amputated is just ignored because it doesn’t align with the SJW story that has been created.”
So many years of loving work by thousands of LLL Leaders everywhere, and of course the vision, energy and huge heart devoted by the Founding Mothers...All that is being carelessly destroyed by mixing causes. It’s heartbreaking.
It's the concept of intersectionality that fuels this. Every "oppressed" group should be in solidarity with each other, regardless of their policy goals align or not.
It's reminiscent of the Marxists talking about false consciousness.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/false-consciousness
The result of using intersectionality as your guiding light is that women never make it to the top of the 'must be fixed' list. There is always some other category more "deserving" of the time and effort of activists.
John Lennon had a quote that fits here, but I won't use it. You do have to put it in the perspective of someone who was in their teens in 1964. Flawed a person as he was "imagine" is about as Marxist ad possible in the West. He wasn't wrong when he said "women are the.... of the world "
good point pam!
So often the goals are to drag everyone down together rather than build people up. San Francisco decided that equity required math instruction to be dumbed down because some demographic groups don't perform as well as others. The result was predictable.
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/san-francisco-public-school-students-are-falling-behind-in-math-coalition-says/
Starting in 2014, the San Francisco Unified School District made a controversial, equity-focused mathematics reform to delay offering Algebra 1 until ninth grade, for all students.
The district made the reform in response to racial gaps among students passing algebra and progressing to higher level courses, such as AP calculus and AP statistics. EdWeek wrote that the district’s strategy aimed to “avoid the early sorting of students into high and low math tracks, a practice that disproportionately disadvantaged Black and Latino students.”
Nope, they didn't create policies to improve Black and Latino performance, they created policies to make that level of performance the standard for everyone.