If I were to put a year on it, I would say 1968. Prior to that, the established religion was American nationalism, featuring belief in progress, freedom, democracy, fair play, and a down-home style. That was a religion too, with its own faults, but it did have the virtue of being inclusive of all reasonably loyal Americans.
If I were to put a year on it, I would say 1968. Prior to that, the established religion was American nationalism, featuring belief in progress, freedom, democracy, fair play, and a down-home style. That was a religion too, with its own faults, but it did have the virtue of being inclusive of all reasonably loyal Americans.
The Social Justice religion was one I instinctively loathed, even as a child. Its takeover wasn't instantaneous, and there remained outspokenly conservative teachers even into the 1970s. But one by one, you noticed its poisonous tendrils inserting themselves into our institutions, choking off the roots of our culture. Suddenly, every want-ad in the newspaper concludes with the obligatorily-asserted oxymoron of being an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Now, at the start of a new year, the school has dropped our old children's book club vendor that sold warm, broadening, exciting stories, histories, science, and humor, in favor of a new one that sells nothing but disheartening accounts of discrimination and suffering. In the cartoons and movies, every featured circle of white people must now contain a token black person, as a hat on the pole, to cow any organic community feeling into nonexistence. Heroes that used to be fun and hearty have all turned into cold, resentful SJWs.
Since the end of the 1960s, it's been pretty much all imposed 'woke'. What David describes from elementary school in the 1980s sickens me, but doesn't surprise me. Being out of school, I could no longer see it directly, and could only hope that it wasn't that bad.
Agree. Larry Fink, of BlackRock went to high school in a suburb of Los Angeles. The same school I went to and I can't find my yearbook. IF I am remembering correctly, he was one of a few kids who were *obsessed* with Nixon, and then, Watergate. By "obsessed" it was this groups ONLY topic of discussion and not even "Earth Day" (April, 1970) mattered to them - then. Now, ESG to install Socialism is what Fink is all about.
If I were to put a year on it, I would say 1968. Prior to that, the established religion was American nationalism, featuring belief in progress, freedom, democracy, fair play, and a down-home style. That was a religion too, with its own faults, but it did have the virtue of being inclusive of all reasonably loyal Americans.
The Social Justice religion was one I instinctively loathed, even as a child. Its takeover wasn't instantaneous, and there remained outspokenly conservative teachers even into the 1970s. But one by one, you noticed its poisonous tendrils inserting themselves into our institutions, choking off the roots of our culture. Suddenly, every want-ad in the newspaper concludes with the obligatorily-asserted oxymoron of being an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Now, at the start of a new year, the school has dropped our old children's book club vendor that sold warm, broadening, exciting stories, histories, science, and humor, in favor of a new one that sells nothing but disheartening accounts of discrimination and suffering. In the cartoons and movies, every featured circle of white people must now contain a token black person, as a hat on the pole, to cow any organic community feeling into nonexistence. Heroes that used to be fun and hearty have all turned into cold, resentful SJWs.
Since the end of the 1960s, it's been pretty much all imposed 'woke'. What David describes from elementary school in the 1980s sickens me, but doesn't surprise me. Being out of school, I could no longer see it directly, and could only hope that it wasn't that bad.
Agree. Larry Fink, of BlackRock went to high school in a suburb of Los Angeles. The same school I went to and I can't find my yearbook. IF I am remembering correctly, he was one of a few kids who were *obsessed* with Nixon, and then, Watergate. By "obsessed" it was this groups ONLY topic of discussion and not even "Earth Day" (April, 1970) mattered to them - then. Now, ESG to install Socialism is what Fink is all about.
Nailed it