Looking at the Heterodox Academy's blog history, they seem mostly to be interested in advocating for a conservative viewpoint than anything else. To say that they're trying to 'break orthodoxy' comes across as ridiculous when they're based in a country where the current president and congress are the most right wing they've been for decades. The whole narrative of 'free speech' being under attack in academia has just been from right-wingers who really want nothing like free speech - they just want the ability to be racist and bigoted with impunity while shutting down speech in favour of equality.
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It's interesting how all these groups get absorbed by the Gramscians whether they want to or not. They can't maintain their focus with all the money from the big donors at stake who are not really dedicated to their original mission and instead want to amalgamate them into the big hegemony smashing coalition.
You could say that we're applying lean startup principles to to social engineering :-) There are still lots of dogmatic and theoretical Marxists of various flavors, but since the financial crisis the left has become more agnostic and pragmatic. Wait until you see the next phase of our cunning plan.
I think the Clinton Campaign was the epitome of cunning and pragmatic. At least that's the tone that generally pervaded the Podesta Wikileaks emails, especially the disastrous plan to elevate radical candidates like Trump to make it easier for Hillary to win. That might have worked in a more idealistic era, but people have really lost their idealism these days.
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You could say that we're applying lean startup principles to to social engineering :-) There are still lots of dogmatic and theoretical Marxists of various flavors, but since the financial crisis the left has become more agnostic and pragmatic. Wait until you see the next phase of our cunning plan.
I think the Clinton Campaign was the epitome of cunning and pragmatic. At least that's the tone that generally pervaded the Podesta Wikileaks emails, especially the disastrous plan to elevate radical candidates like Trump to make it easier for Hillary to win. That might have worked in a more idealistic era, but people have really lost their idealism these days.
I'll take your word for it. I'm not very interested in electoral politics. or the Democratic party.
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Teaching in Spanish inherently is advocating for something other than English, and is definitionally anti-assimilation. You can see the meta message in this article. Fewer Latinos are speaking Spanish, so teach them more Spanish in schools to preserve the language and culture. Whether you think that's a good idea or not, it is anti-assimilation. http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/article120912998.html
You need to do a lot better than Prop 58 before I can validate your anti-assimilation argument. #1 - At no point does the article you posted about prop 58 (from LA Times) say strictly English/Spanish bilingual education. Good idea or not, learning another language does not make it anti-assimilation. #2 Most European nations require learning another language. The French learn English, the Germans learn French. At no p…
#1 - the fact that they don't have to specify, and we both know they mean spanish says it all. We have immigrants from Africa, from Brazil, from Italy, from Poland, but where are the Polish "bilingual" classes, Italian, or Portuguese? Everyone should learn a second language, I learned Spanish in Middle and High School, and German in College. The problem with Prop 58, and the old system in California, is only learning one language, and that language not being English. We know kids learn languages faster when immersed in it. When you take a kid who only knows Spanish, and you teach them in Spanish, you are either crippling them, or you have an ulterior motive to put Spanish on an equal level as English. I believe the second is the intent, and the first is the outcome.
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You need to do a lot better than Prop 58 before I can validate your anti-assimilation argument. #1 - At no point does the article you posted about prop 58 (from LA Times) say strictly English/Spanish bilingual education. Good idea or not, learning another language does not make it anti-assimilation. #2 Most European nations require learning another language. The French learn English, the Germans learn French. At no p…
#1 - the fact that they don't have to specify, and we both know they mean spanish says it all. We have immigrants from Africa, from Brazil, from Italy, from Poland, but where are the Polish "bilingual" classes, Italian, or Portuguese? Everyone should learn a second language, I learned Spanish in Middle and High School, and German in College. The problem with Prop 58, and the old system in California, is only learning…
You still have to do better than prop 58. And you sound like you are contradicting your argument here.
"The problem with Prop 58, and the old system in California, is only learning one language, and that language not being English. We know kids learn languages faster when immersed in it."
From ballotpedia, make what you will of it; https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_58,_Non-Engli...
Supporters made the following arguments in support of Proposition 58:[2] -The proposition would allow all students to become proficient in English as soon as possible.
-The proposition would encourage schools to use instruction programs rather than expand multilingual education, thereby providing English speakers the opportunity to learn a second language.
-The proposition would restore local control for California schools.
-The proposition's changes would prepare students more effectively for the future.
-Multilingual education encourages "intercultural interactions and empathy."
You still have to do better than just Prop 58. You are tipping your hand with the quote "you have an ulterior motive to put Spanish on an equal level as English". I guess I'm happier that you are putting that in the open, but it definitely sounds xenophobic. Are there people who might feel that way? Perhaps, but you cannot put all those people in the same group. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a kid who was born elsewhere but is in a US school who isn't compelled to learn english.