Reparations, Aztec Chants, and the 'Miseducation' of America's Elites
Amidst a building onslaught of Critical Race Theorists spreading their invective into America's institutions from Congress, the military, and now our elementary schools, Charlie tackles three of the most outrageous case studies from across the nation. Far from being exceptions to the rule, these examples are harbingers of more radical ideologies to come. From government sanctioned reparations in Illinois, to public school kids being forced to sing chants to an Aztec god of human sacrifice to decolonize America's youngest generation from "whiteness" in California, to the "miseducation" of America's most elite families, now is the time to find our collective courage and fight back against these crazed activists. Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, everybody.
In a very interesting episode on the Charlie Kirk show, we get into the new proposed curriculum in California about how your children are going to be forced to worship the Aztec deity of human sacrifice and cannibalism.
This is not the onion.
We also talk about Evanston pushing forward reparations, Chicago suburb becoming the first city to give black residents reparations.
And we also talk about at length Barry Weiss's article about the miseducation of America's elites, how America's ruling class is now freaking out that their children are learning critical race theory.
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Reparations, Aztec gods, and more.
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Here we go.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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His spirit, his love of this country.
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We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
That's why we are here.
I've been in Chicago the last week, and it's always fun seeing family and friends and catching up with what's happening in the once great state of Illinois.
But in some ways, when I visit Chicago and Illinois after spending two weeks in Florida and a week in Arizona, I feel as if I'm entering the Eastern block.
Things are just so different.
Downtown Chicago, department stores on Monroe Street, right near Michigan Avenue, boarded up completely.
And I asked one of my friends that was helping drive us around, I said, what was at this store?
Jewelry store?
Was it a department store?
They said, oh, no, that was a corner bakery.
I said, oh, I guess the rioters and the looters needed to go steal a couple croissants in downtown Chicago, and it has not been repaired since last June.
Another friend of mine witnessed in broad daylight, 3:30 in the afternoon on Oak Street in downtown Chicago, a mugging, wide open daylight, Oak Street.
If you know Chicago, you know that is a very nice area.
A mugging right there.
There are shootings on Michigan Avenue.
Now, none of this gets covered in the national activist media.
Chicago was a decent city, and there's still unbelievable people in the state of Illinois.
I always say that Illinois does not do a lot right, but it has the best people in the country, hardworking, Midwestern patriots.
So, how is Chicago handling the rise in crime?
How is Chicago handling the lawlessness?
Where, just so we understand The numbers we're dealing with here.
In 2021, there have been 102 people shot and killed in Chicago, 427 shot and wounded, 529 total shot with 107 total homicides.
A person is wounded in Chicago every three hours and eight minutes, and a person is murdered every 15 hours.
Just so we understand the year that Chicago had last year, in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus with Laurie Lightfoot riding around on a horse, Chicago experienced record homicides.
Record.
And yet, most of the activist media could not care less to what happens in Chicago.
It is a slaughter in our streets.
So in Chicago in 2020, a person was shot every two hours.
A person was murdered every 11 hours.
There were 719 people shot and killed in Chicago in 2020, and 792 total homicides, and 4,174 people total shot.
So where is Chicago focusing their attention?
So this story is somewhat deceiving.
It's from NBC News and somewhat being an understatement.
Where it says, Chicago suburb to become the first city to give black residents reparations as vote on housing assistance draws close.
First of all, Evanston is technically a suburb, but it is very much on the border of the city.
It's not your traditional Chicago suburb.
Nevertheless, Safiya Sami Ali writes: A suburb of Chicago is setting a precedent for racial equality.
I have to stop right there.
See how they're already framing reparations?
NBC, to their millions of readers, frames reparations as a precedent for racial equality as it moves forward in becoming the first city in the country to fund reparations for its black residents.
But some residents say it doesn't go far enough.
So the idea of reparations is rooted in a belief that black people were institutionally and systemically discriminated against to such a great degree that any decisions that they made over the last couple decades really never mattered.
And the only way to possibly right this wrong is through cash-based payments to the descendants of the people that were discriminated against, not the people themselves.
This idea of reparations has been made more popular by Tahanisi Coates, who is not a very smart person, very good at branding, but not very, he has no wisdom.
And I'd love to talk to him someday because he's made some such unbelievably broad generalizations on a lot of his work.
But Tahanitsi Coates floated out this idea of reparations years ago.
And of course, the New York Times and The Atlantic loved it.
And Tahanitsi Coates and Alexandria Acasio-Cortez have something in common.
They both dramatically moved the Overton window in the quickest amount of time I've ever seen in my life.
Now, what is the Overton window?
The Overton window is a theory that basically there's a spectrum of which all political ideas operate on.
And the spectrum goes from things that are unthinkable to public policy.
So it goes from unthinkable to basically something that is debatable to something that is proposed to policy.
Basically, the Overton window is the spectrum of which we move certain ideas into the zeitgeist, into the public sphere, into the narrative or into the conversation.
A great example of this would be the defund police.
Years ago, talking about defunding the police or abolishing the police, you would be laughed out of a room.
Now it is public policy in Minneapolis and it is widespread conversation all across the country.
Alexandria Casio Cotez did this with the Green New Deal.
She intentionally aimed for $127 trillion for the Green New Deal, was laughed and mocked, but moved the Overton window.
Where all of a sudden we're talking about a multi-trillion dollar stimulus bill because we grew desensitized to this idea of trillion-dollar spending packages because, well, $127 is insane, but $2 trillion sounds just enough.
Tahaniti Coates did something very similar with the conversation around reparations.
So instead of Chicago or Chicago suburbs, and Evanston, I guess, is technically a suburb, but it's very close to being in Chicago, focusing on the rise of rapes, assaults, violent crime, murder, or battery, and even kidnapping, Chicago and its adjacent suburbs are more focused on redistribution reparations.
And even black residents say that it doesn't go enough, go far enough.
Now, this doesn't count, by the way, housing and urban development, potential food stamp usage, social security benefits.
It doesn't count the massive multi-trillion dollar welfare state that already exists.
You see, this entire NBC news piece that is written by Safai Sami Ali makes it sound as if there is no social safety net at all whatsoever for anyone in this country.
And in Evanston, Illinois, it's not just terrible, it's we have abandoned these people.
And in fact, the opposite is true.
We have helped urban communities too much.
The heavy hand of government through the Great Society program, through subsidizing single motherhood, has resulted in permanently government-addicted communities all across the country.
You know, I was talking the other day as I was going around Chicago how amazing of a city it really was.
In the 1990s, it was a place that if you wanted to make something of yourself, you came to Chicago.
Six championships by Michael Jordan, some of the most booming businesses imaginable.
Entrepreneurs from all over the world came to Chicago.
It was a great place to grow up, and it's been a real tragedy to see what these people have done to it, the leftist activists.
Evanston, a place that used to be a wonderful city, home to Northwestern University, so it makes perfect sense that these ideas are incubated there, are now passing reparations for black people.
So I have a very simple question for the Evanston City Council.
Do they plan on passing reparations for Irish families that were descendants of racial discrimination, of the no Irish need apply signs?
Do they plan to pass reparations to the Jewish families in Skokie or even in Evanston itself that were not just victims of discrimination but fled the Holocaust and came here with nothing?
Probably not.
Robin Rue Simmons, an alderman, says, quote, reparations is the most appropriate legislative response to the historic practices and the contemporary conditions of the black community.
Let me stop there.
Do you see how that quickly went from what was to what is?
This is not a conversation about housing practices in the 1960s.
Instead, it's about what's happening currently.
And Robin Rue Simmons says, quote, contemporary conditions of the black community.
Why are blacks more likely to be in poverty in America?
Is it because of racism?
Is that the reason?
Because that is the conventional wisdom.
Black people in poverty must be racism.
Well, why is it then that Nigerian immigrants are the most, if not one of the most, wealthiest immigrant groups in America?
If America is so racist, how do Nigerian Americans succeed?
If America was so racist, why is it that more blacks have come to this country legally than ever came here as slaves?
So why is it that the black community is struggling so much?
Reason number one, fathers.
Fathers are not in black households.
According to the Washington Examiner, over 77% of black families do not have a stable father figure.
The single motherhood epidemic increased dramatically once the Great Society Act was passed by Lyndon Baines Johnson, a bitter, bigoted racist, might I add.
We have allowed the public sector teacher unions to run our cities.
The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers have run the inner cities of our country for years.
Black Americans are struggling not because of white racism.
Black Americans are struggling because fathers are not in the homes.
Police officers have been told to retreat and not actually do their job in the streets of the inner cities of America.
And the schools are not even teaching kids to read.
You have these factors play into people's lives over a couple decades.
You are going to see different results.
Do you know that a black child born to a mother and a father is more likely to succeed than a white child that is born to a single mother?
I believe that's the Brookings Institution that came out with that study.
We'll get the exact citation.
We just mentioned it the other week.
But if all of a sudden, if America was so racist, wouldn't a white kid raised by a single mother be more likely to succeed?
So this reparations bill is just the beginning of what's going to be happening in city, state, and soon to be federal governments.
So I have a question.
If you're half black and half white, how does that work?
Do you pay reparations to yourself?
Does Obama owe money to himself because he's half black, half white?
It's far too logical.
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We've actually done reparations before.
And the one test case of reparations that we have in our country is an absolute unmitigated, reprehensible disaster.
So, first of all, we did not do targeted reparations for black Americans that were descendants of slaves.
Instead, we expanded the Great Society Act and we declared war on poverty, and poverty won.
Two parent households always should have been the focus and said we subsidized single motherhood.
We took police off the streets and destroyed our inner cities or our schools.
But that's not even the example I'm going to focus on.
Instead, we have had a reparation push before in our country.
And I think everyone is missing it.
And every Republican out there, every conservative out there, listen carefully and closely because it's right in front of our eyes.
And that's Native Americans.
Our treatment of Native Americans was terrible.
So what did we do to try and fix our treatment of Native Americans?
We started the Bureau for Indian Affairs.
We started one of the most massive, overbearing, generous welfare programs in the history of the Western hemisphere.
Are Native Americans doing better now than before?
No, they're doing worse.
Highest suicide rates in the entire country are Native American reservations.
Highest drug usage.
Highest alcoholism rates.
Highest unemployment.
The most miserable, hopeless places in America.
I visited them myself.
And so instead of creating programs that were about literacy, education, empowerment, business creation, entrepreneurship, our entire public policy approach to Native Americans to try and give reparations was say, we're going to give a bunch of stuff.
And how's that worked?
Native Americans are in a state of perpetual government dependence.
We also know this from our work overseas.
Anyone who has worked in international missions knows that just giving money to impoverished people doesn't work.
It doesn't.
It breaks their spirit.
Instead, education, family formation, values, and morals.
That's the best way to help people.
Give them a set of ideas or guidelines or a framework of which they can live a successful life.
And we call these Western values.
You can call them Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman values, which are the four words that founded Western civilization.
I'm actually going to give a speech on that in a couple of days.
You must know the significance of those four words, Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman.
And so now Evanston is going out of their way to say what we need is more reparations.
Now, by the way, none of this counts, even factors in the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill.
None of this even factors in the multi-trillion dollars we spend on social welfare every single year.
It doesn't even factor in the Medicaid distribution on the state level.
It doesn't even factor in, by the way, all the church and charity work that happens locally in Evanston.
So what basically the argument is, and this is the racist and the bigotry of low expectations, to use a quote from the great Clarence Thomas.
Do you know what this really tells me now that Evanston is passing reparations?
They think black people are so stupid and so dumb and so unable to succeed absent more government help that they think the only way that blacks in Evanston can see a better tomorrow is through cash redistribution.
You see, I actually think much higher of the human potential than that.
I think with safer streets, stronger families, and better schools, all Americans can succeed.
We have a blueprint for that.
So where's the reparations, by the way, for all of the Chicago residents in Chinatown or in the Asian American community in the Japanese neighborhood?
Japanese Americans were put in internment camps, literal concentration camps by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Democrat.
Do they deserve reparations?
Irish need not apply.
Jews were widely discriminated against here in this country in the 40s and 50s.
Do they deserve reparations?
Of course not.
Instead, what Asian Americans, Jews, and Irish did because of cultural norms or assimilating to the American culture is they got married before they had kids, they found a work, they started businesses, they graduated high school, and they had tight-knit communities.
And you might say to yourself, well, why didn't blacks do that?
Isn't it racist to say they didn't?
They actually did for quite a while.
Do you know that black wage growth was outpacing white wage growth right after World War II in most cities in Chicago?
What happened was not racism.
It wasn't.
Instead, it was a massive public policy program targeted the inner cities of our country, which were predominantly black neighborhoods.
And some people say, but Charlie, the discrimination that blacks received was obviously much worse.
This is an email we got.
Didn't we break apart their families when they came to America on slave ships, albeit hundreds of years ago?
But to all of a sudden try and say that to be true, then why were black women married at such higher rates before the Great Society?
And so if you want to attribute some form of intergenerational systemic racism to marriage rates, the single motherhood rate was about 23% before the Great Society.
Then it went up to 77% where it is today, a 50% increase, 50-point increase.
As America got less racist, black America got more relatively poor.
How's that possible?
You see, so the leftist conspiracy theorists like Taha Nisi Coates and Robin DiAngelo, they say it's because the racism disguised itself all throughout society.
There's no evidence of this at all whatsoever.
Instead, there's evidence to the opposite, that America just became more pluralistic and multicultural and more willing to allow anyone to succeed regardless of skin color.
That's why Nigerian Americans do so well.
That's why Haitian Americans do so well.
That's why Dominicans do so well.
That's why Indian Americans do so well and Asian Americans do so well.
And so what Evanston is doing here is basically saying, we don't think black America can do it.
That is the Democrat position.
We've given up on you.
You see, the Republican and the conservative position needs to be, we think your best days are ahead.
We think with proper education, formed families, Judeo-Christian morals, access to work, and our trade deals played a big role in this too, by the way, as we deindustrialized the American economy, then we believe that you can succeed.
This entire argument around reparations, it's actually more sinister than that by the people that are pushing it.
They want to create another welfare program that can keep people voting for them and say the other side opposes it because they have racial resentment.
Let me be very clear.
I oppose reparations because reparations are bigoted.
That's why I oppose them.
I also oppose them because they will not make the targeted group any wealthier.
The only way to make people wealthier in America is to empower them.
And then you can fix other structural issues.
Police.
We need more police on the streets.
Families.
And manufacturing facilities.
That I agree with.
And also immigration policies.
You want to know why blacks in Evanston are having a difficult time finding work?
Well, maybe if Illinois was not a sanctuary city and Chicago was not a sanctuary county, or Cook County is not a sanctuary city, and Illinois is not a sanctuary state, and Chicago is not a sanctuary city, then maybe the blacks in Chicago wouldn't be disenfranchised from the labor force.
So the calculus is this: the Chamber of Commerce Republicans, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, say, open the borders so we can have Nicaraguan, Honduran, and Mexican labor bring down the average wage so that we can maximize our profits.
Where the Democrats say, that's fine, because then we will be able to expand the welfare state for black Americans so they'll vote for us.
This is all part of a uniparty in our country.
A uniparty where Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney privately might disagree on social issues.
They might disagree on certain things, but they agree on the big stuff: endless war, open borders, and internationalist globalist trade.
And it's black Americans that have suffered under those policies.
And reparations will do nothing but actually worsen that problem.
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I have people commonly tell me, you know, Charlie, they don't teach that stuff in schools anymore.
Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, John Locke, George Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, James Madison.
And I say, oh, you're right.
But guess what?
If your child goes to a California public school, they might not know what the U.S. Constitution is, the Declaration Abraham Lincoln, George S. Patton, Winston Churchill, or Ronald Reagan is, but they will know something.
According to a new California Department of Education ethic study, ethnic studies curriculum, students will be required to be involved in a series of indigenous songs,
chants, and affirmations from the Aztec tradition, as if the Aztec culture is one worth respecting or appreciating.
I suppose there's some things the Aztecs did right, including the INLAC-Ek affirmation, which appeals directly to the Aztec gods.
Students will be required to first clap and chant to the god Tez Calapoca, whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism, asking him for power to be warriors for social justice.
Next, the students chant to the gods, Ke Zalcotal, or Hutzil Opictil, or Jipi Potec, seeking Healy epistemologies and a revolutionary spirit.
Hutzil Poquitel, in particular, is the Aztec deity of war, inspired hundreds of thousands of human sacrifices during Aztec rule.
Now, if you think I'm making this up, I'm literally reading this word for word from Christopher Ruffo from City Journal, who, by the way, will be on our podcast.
Finally, the chant comes to a climax where students will request from the Aztec gods liberation, transformation, and decolonization.
After which students, moved by the pagan ceremony, will shout, Panche Be, Panche Be, in pursuit of ultimate critical consciousness.
This is just part of what is now going to be passed in the California Department of Education.
Now, of course, instead of worrying about Californians' literacy or mathematic skills, which by the way, only half of California students meet English standards, and only four in 10 are proficient in math.
Only 32% of fourth graders are reading proficiently.
These results put California well below the national average and behind 25 other states.
So where is the California Department of Education focusing their time, attention, resources?
They believe that California students, instead of learning math, they should pray and worship the pagan Aztec god of human sacrifice and cannibalism.
There is not enough time to go into this, but to put the American civilization on a moral equivalent of the Aztec civilization is reprehensible.
But according to the postmodernists, well, maybe human sacrifice and cannibalism, there is something worth learning there.
And the children in California funded by your tax dollars will soon be required to be involved in the INLA-Ek affirmation.
It's in the curriculum.
Read it for yourself.
Christopher Rufo says, this, in essence, is a revenge of the gods and a restoration of the indigenous gods to their rightful place in the social justice cosmology.
This is what happens when parents don't get involved in school boards or local elections.
Maperville School District 203 went through how children in the Chicago suburbs are learning similar but different views of critical race theory, Illinois School Board of Education.
And soon, the children in California, they won't be able to read the Constitution.
They won't be able to do two plus two equals four, but they will be able to pray to the God of child sacrifice.
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Got some really good pieces of feedback and people asking questions about what they can do at their local schools.
And of course, running for school board is a good step.
How about just knowing your school board members and sending them an email and saying, I'd like to get you on the record what you think about critical race theory.
And if you don't know what critical race theory is, it is a moral imperative that every parent across the country knows what critical race theory is.
It is a bigoted, racist school of thought that was mostly started by Jacques Derrida, Erbert Marcuse, Michelle Foucault, amongst others.
And to just put it in very simple terms, they believe skin color matters.
They believe racism is everywhere and that your decisions don't matter.
It is not a fringe theory.
It is widespread.
It is a pathogen.
It is a virus.
We've been warning against this for months and for years.
For anyone who will listen, we were called alarmists.
Some people call this fearmongers.
We saw the ever-so constant invasion of critical theory or what's otherwise known as wokeism into institutions that otherwise would be rather respectable.
This has taken many different forms.
It's in our movies.
It's in our music.
Growing up, these sort of ideas were dismissed immediately.
There was an idea of believing that America was a meritocracy, that who you are was not your skin color, but it was on your actions.
And it seems as if Democrats in the left realized that as long as the terms of the debate were around that of who is going to create an America better for rewarding good choices, the people that desired power above everything realized we're not going to win that permanently.
We could win every so often.
We can win with Obama, but eventually we will have political liabilities.
And so first they tried a class war, Occupy Wall Street, then a gender war, me too.
And then they realized that a racial, woke revolution is more possible than they ever thought.
The Chinese coronavirus is raging across the world.
It has been at least for a year.
But the woke virus is not slowing down.
People ask me, they say, how do I vaccinate myself against the woke virus?
I actually have an answer to that.
Barry Weiss, who's very talented, she used to be at the New York Times.
She wrote a scathing exit piece against the New York Times and what they have become.
As Cheryl Atkinson called it on our podcast, the new woke times.
She has a piece that has been sent to me, emailed to me, I kid you not, well over 30 times in the last couple days.
So around the 24th time, I said, all right, I'm going to read this thing.
From friends, from family, people that you would recognize on TV.
They said, Charlie, have you read this?
I said, okay.
Busy couple days running around Chicago.
And I sat down and I read this piece, and it is absolutely phenomenal.
I'd love to have Barry on the show.
I know she's very busy.
Not sure we'll be able to make that happen.
It's from the City Journal, which again, the City Journal is what I want to say the Wall Street Journal editorial page used to be, but they're fallen.
It's where all the important conversations are happening thoughtfully.
I think that's a fair way to say: Heather McDonald, Barry Weiss, Christopher Ruffo, who, of course, is coming on our podcast.
The miseducation of America's elites.
I'm going to say one thing: the title is not a good title.
That is not at all what the piece is about, in my opinion.
The title actually does the piece a disservice.
A better title would be The Secret Society Playing and Take Back Private Schools.
That's a much better title.
Why is that important?
Because I get sent 5,000 articles a day.
I already know America's elites are, you know, not educated.
But then I dove into it.
Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in children's private schools, organize in secret.
So here's what this piece is all about.
And I'm going to read from it parts of it.
In essence, Barry Weiss was invited to an underground meeting, similar to one that would happen in East Germany, one that would happen today in North Korea, where dissidents, rebel rousers, would meet and plot on how they would take back a little bit of terrain, how they would push back against the Stasi, how they would push back against the KGB.
And the National Socialist Worker Party, plenty of people did this against them.
Barry Weiss writes in City Journal: So, one recent weekend on a leafy street in West Los Angeles, these parents gathered in person and invited me to join.
They're usually coordinating soccer practice in carpools, but now they come together to strategize.
They say they could face profound repercussions if anyone knew they were talking.
In a backyard behind a four-bedroom home, 10 people sat in a circle of plastic Adirondack chairs eating bags of skinny pop.
It's well written.
Isn't that just well written?
These are the rebels, well-off Los Angeles parents who send their children to Harvard-Westlake, the most prestigious private school in the city.
By normal American standards, they're quite wealthy, but by the standards of Harvard-Westlake, they are average.
Continues by saying, The stories coming from Harvard-Westlake have grown since the summer, and they seem totally legitimate, says one of the fathers.
He says he doesn't have a problem with the school making greater efforts to redress past wrongs.
You see, this is where this father's wrong, including bringing more minority voices into the curriculum.
Never going to appease these people.
What he has a problem with, though, is telling his children that America is a bad country and they bear collective racial guilt.
This parent says, They're making my son feel like a racist because of the pigmentation of his skin, one mother says.
Well, where have you been the last decade?
Seriously, in Aspen?
All of us were getting spit at, things thrown at while we were fighting for your rights at UCLA down the street, and you were probably, oh, he's probably a racist.
Well, now your child's being called a racist.
And you say, Well, my kid's not a racist.
Yeah, well, neither are we.
The Harvard Westlake Parents Group is one of the many organizing quietly around the country to fight what is described as an ideological movement that has taken over their schools.
This story is based on interviews with more than two dozen of the dissenters, teachers, parents, and children at the elite prep school in one of the two bluest states in the country, New York and California.
The parents in the backyard say that for every one of them, there are many more, too afraid to speak up.
Quote, I've talked to at least five couples who say, I get it.
I think the way you do.
I just don't want to be the controversy right now.
I'm going to get into the real problem here in a second.
So I have to build this out.
So basically, here's what's happening.
You have parents that are earning four, five, six hundred thousand dollars a year.
They send their kids to $50,000 a year private school education at Harvard Westlake.
And this one woman says, They're making my son feel like a racist because the pigmentation of his skin.
That's what they've been doing to us the last six years.
But you in West LA have been either lazy or complicit in allowing this entire movement to gain strength.
The school can ask you to leave for any reason, said one mother at Brentwood, another Los Angeles prep school.
Then you'll be blacklisted from all the private schools and you'll be known as a racist, which is worse than being called a murderer.
I repeat myself.
This is not new.
And I hate to say that this is a good thing because it's not.
But good is actually going to come out of this because now the ruling class is going to have to live under the society that they themselves created.
The multi-millionaire families in West LA are now having their 14-year-old white kids being called racist.
Well, guess what?
Those are the rules of the engagement right now.
And while you guys sat idly by thinking this is going to pass like a hurricane, your children are now bearing that fruit.
And excuse my light-hearted chuckle through this whole story, because basically I'm kind of looking around.
I'm saying, Welcome to the party.
One of the students says, if you publish my name, it would ruin my life.
People would attack me for even questioning their ideology, social justice ideology.
I don't even want people to know I'm a capitalist, said a student at Fiddleston Fieldston School in New York City.
Very, very, very elite school.
In a comment echoed by other students I spoke with.
The kids are scared of other kids, says Harvard Westlake mother.
The atmosphere at Harvard Westlake is making their children anxious, paranoid, and insecure, and closed off to even their closest friends.
One Harvard Westlake mother says this, and I love these quotes: Barry Weiss has done such an unbelievable job because she has put together a narrative of this kind of underground, secret, confidential, you can tell me your secrets.
This is terrific.
So, this mother hits it perfectly.
This mother tells Barry Weiss why this is happening, and she doesn't even realize it.
She says, My son wants to go to a great university, and he told me that just one bad statement from me will ruin us.
The mother says, This is the United States of America.
Are you freaking kidding me?
No, this is the country that has existed for quite a while.
It just so happens that between the hedges, the gated communities, the chauffeured cars, and the private jets, you were immune to the virus for quite some time.
You see, the virus that was touching the working class of this country that was being pushed from the top-down, a top-down revolution, it didn't hit Harvard-Westlake until recently.
So now it's everywhere.
It's in the bloodstream.
Another quote from this piece, which is just terrific, and this is why it is happening, and this is why it's going to be unbelievably interesting to see how this plays out.
I've talked to at least five couples who say, I get it.
I think the way you do.
Essentially, saying that things have gone out of control at this school.
I just don't want the controversy right now, said one mother.
They're all eager for their story to be told, but not a single one would let me use their name.
They worry about losing their jobs or hurting their children in their opposition to this ideology were known.
George S. Patton famously said, the most necessary and absent characteristic in men is moral courage.
These baby boomer Gen X parents that have had some form of success in an American economy are cowards.
And the only way that this will be fixed is all of a sudden if they release themselves of their own ego, that maybe your child is not going to go to Yale, but you might be able to stand up for what's right.
And the children take after the parents.
This one quote: My son wants to go to a great university.
He told me that one bad statement will ruin us.
Yeah, you're probably right.
So what if your kid doesn't go to Brown?
So what if your kid doesn't go to Dartmouth?
Somehow that's going to be the thing that makes or breaks their entire trajectory.
For America's ruling class, it is.
And now there's a reckoning happening in America's ruling class because zero of the parents that Barry Weiss talked about have the moral courage to stand up and to defeat this, to stand up and call it out for the nonsense that it is, the hypocrisy and the doubled standard.
And we wonder why some of the great moral injustices were made possible over the last hundred years.
I am more convinced than ever that evil spreads easier than we ever believed.
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People ask all the time, Charlie, where can I find interesting pieces to read?
Well, cityjournal.org.
It's city-journal.org.
I don't know who funds them.
I don't know who's behind them.
All I know is that there's wisdom in this publication, of which there is none in the Washington Post or in the New York Times.
And so Barry Weiss was on assignment in this long piece.
It's an 11-page piece, which means this is at least a 9,000 to 10,000-word piece.
It's a serious, it's a serious investigation, where she talked to students, parents, faculty, and teachers at two different communities, one in New York, one in California, in Brentwood, talking about what's happening in America's schools.
And it's stunning to see how these parents are now complaining.
They've spotted the problem.
They say, and I quote, that I am tired of my child getting called a racist because of his skin color, which, of course, we know that is the new norm.
There's an entire American political party that is focused on that called the Democrat Party.
And I would just venture a guess.
A lot of the parents in these Adirondack chairs that are complaining about it, they had Joe Biden for president signs on their yard.
They had Black Lives Matter bumper stickers.
But just your white skin color is reason enough for these people to come after you.
I love this one part of the article.
Fluency in woke is an effective class marker and a key for these princelings to retain status in the university and beyond.
The parents know this.
And so woke is the now lingua franca of the nation's best prep schools.
As one mother in LA puts it, quote, this is what all the other colleges are doing, so we have to do it.
Ah, everyone else is doing it.
The thinking is Harvard does it, so it must be good.
The teacher, one of the teachers, who everyone in this piece is anonymous.
There's only like one name shared, and that's the author.
That's it.
Everyone's anonymous because they're all afraid.
There's no courage.
One of the teachers says, I'm in a cult.
Well, that's not exactly right.
It's that the cult is all around me, and I'm trying to save kids from becoming members.
He continues, quote, I studied critical theory.
I saw Jacques Derrida's speak when I was in college.
So when this ideology arrived at our school over the past few years, I recognized the language and I knew what it was, but it was in a mutated form.
The piece continues by talking about how science is being perverted.
And this is something that we've predicted for quite some time.
And if all of you listening, I hope that you record this and you write this down.
The woke movement is going after science and math very soon.
Your children will soon be taught that 2 plus 2 does not equal 4.
That is merely an opinion.
They will be taught that the quadratic equation is not able to be proven.
They'll be taught that physics, thermodynamics, do not have laws.
And how do I know this?
Because I know the left, but also look what they're being taught in Harvard Westlake.
Quote, we don't call them Newton's laws anymore.
We call them three fundamental laws of physics.
They say we need to decenter whiteness and we need to acknowledge that there's more than just Newton in physics.
Sir Isaac Newton, who is largely responsible for the beginning of the Enlightenment, who happened to be a white man and discovered, he did not invent the laws of physics.
They pre-existed Newton.
He merely discovered and articulated them and proved them.
One of the classmates say that fact, I try to take fact classes, not identity classes, quote, but I took U.S. history and I figured when you learn about U.S. history, maybe you structure it by time period where it happened under each presidency.
Instead, we trace different marginalized groups.
That's how it was structured.
I only heard about a handful of the president's names in class.
The piece continues with example after example.
A Fieldston student says, quote, if you're a white male, you are second in line to speak.
This is considered to be a normal and necessary redistribution of power.
At Harvard Westlake, the school recently administered a debunked implicit bias test to 10th graders and says, quote, mom, I just found out I'm a racist and I prefer white Europeans.
Her children is mixed race.
Quote, for my child to come home and be told this by the school, you're a racist.
I was aghast.
I was so, so angry.
Well, if you're so angry, parent, why didn't you put your name in this piece?
If you're so outraged, why do you hide behind your hedges in your chauffeured cars and complain about how the ruling class institution that you're funding for $50,000 a year, why are you not doing anything about it?
The answer is because we are ruled by a bunch of cowards.
It's that simple.
Courage is lacking all across the landscape.
People say, well, Charlie, how do I be courageous?
It's actually unbelievably simple, but very difficult.
You must choose to be courageous courageous.
You must choose to have it.
It's a conscious decision.
And for all of these parents and kids and families, first of all, they're all going to get discovered, just so we're clear.
I'm going to make a prediction right now.
Almost every single one of these parents that talked to Barry Weiss will be ratted out.
One person in those Adoradoc chairs is going to sing like a canary to the head of Harvard Westlake, and they will be found out and their children might be removed from the school.
I guarantee it.
I've seen this happen before.
We are already ruled by the woke left, and they wield all this soft power.
And now the parents who thought that they were going to be immune to this are living under that very same tyranny that they were endorsing.
And do you know what's so funny about all this?
I guarantee you that some of the parents that are complaining about this at Harvard Westlake, they work for the corporations that are funding these sorts of ideas all across the country that are supporting BLM Incorporated.
A Brentwood parent says she has tried in small ways to stand up to this.
Quote, they say I don't understand because my skin is white.
My child asking me obvious questions like, if I work really hard, shouldn't I get rewarded?
We know what this is.
This is an attack on meritocracy.
It's an attack on markets.
It's an attack on private property.
It's an attack on hard work.
We know this.
We've been warning against this.
But these parents have been asleep.
They've been complicit.
And if you're a parent out there and this is one of you, it's time to not just get into a little bit of action.
It's time for massive action.
But the real underlying problem of this is not the coward.
It's not just that they don't have courage.
It's that these parents are all egomaniacs.
All of them.
None of these parents would be okay with their kids working construction.
If you go to one of these Adirondack chair skinny pop popcorn meetings that Barry Weiss talks about and you ask them, 10 parents, how many of you would be okay if your child became a plumber?
They would laugh.
So these parents would much rather have their children be secular, angry, liberal wokesters than happy, fulfilled, loyally married, upper-middle-class plumbers, electricians, or carpenters.
So children, it says here in the piece, now learn how the new rules of woke work.
The idea of lying in order to please a teacher seems like a phenomenon from the Soviet Union.
But high schoolers I spoke with said they do versions of this, including parroting views.
They don't believe in assignments so that their grades don't suffer.
I mean, we've known about this for years.
The only way to get a good grade in college is to lie.
The only way.
15, 20 years ago, this was the case.
This is some sort of new phenomenon.
I'm telling you right now, the baby boomers, adults, what have you been doing on this landscape?
It's unbelievable.
Some teachers are rebelling, which in this case looks like becoming a Republican, but others go all in on the ideology, which has caused conflict with parents who don't.
Quote, the school has taken over as the moral guide, with me being the irritating person in the background who doesn't really get it.
Now, of course, all these parents, they're not going to take their kid out of Harvard Westlake because they want to be able to go to a cocktail party in 10 years in their second home in Malibu and say, yeah, my kid went to Stanford.
Not that, oh, yeah, my kid's a plumber in Irvine, employing 100 people, has no debt, loves his country, has a couple kids.
Instead, they need the social status.
All of this nonsense is because parents are living vicariously through the social status of their children, not caring if their children are becoming good people.
No.
In fact, do you have parents that are telling their kids, yeah, go lie on that assignment?
Not just lie, but institutionalize that lie.
Make it permanent.
Because you going to a place to get a piece of paper from a four-year school is far more important than your integrity.
This is a very good quote.
Sometimes the smartest people are the easiest ones to fool.
Phenomenal, says a father who recently moved his son from one school to the other.
No courage because he doesn't put his name.
Quote, if you made a decision to go on the board of Dalton, having espoused all these leftist views forever, and you want your kid to get into Harvard, do you notice how many times they mention getting their kids into Harvard?
That's all these parents care about.
It's as if they're a failure of existence if their child does not go to Harvard.
Not that they're a good person.
You're just not going to do it.
Most people want to be members of the club.
Yeah, yourself included.
You know why smart people are so easy to fool?
Because they have no wisdom.
Intelligence and wisdom are not the same thing.
This mother says, I don't mean to get emotional.
I just feel helpless as she fought back the tears.
I look at the public school and I'm equally mortified.
I can't believe what they're doing, everybody.
I'm too afraid.
I'm too afraid to speak too loudly.
I feel cowardly.
I just make little waves.
Another tells me, I fear of retribution.
Would it cause my daughter to be ostracized?
Guess what?
The fight for the country is difficult.
You might have to break out of your Yukon XL and sacrifice something.
As I've said, we are creating the most racist generation since slavery.
That is what our public schools are doing.
The most racist generation.
I will read this entire paragraph in its entirety.
I have a friend in New York who is a mother to a four-year-old.
She seems exactly the kind of parent these schools would want to attract.
A successful entrepreneur, a feminist, and a die-hard Manhattanite.
She's dreamed of sending her daughter to a school like Dalton.
One day at home, in the midst of the application process, she was drawing with her daughter.
Her daughter said offhandedly, quote, Mom, I need to draw in my own skin color.
Skin color, she told her mother, is, quote, really important.
She said that's what she learned in school.
And her mother of a four-year-old, those moms right now that have kids that are three, four, five years old, it's either going to have the courage to stand up to all of this, or you'll oversee the creation of the most racist, bigoted, backwards, and regressive generation since slavery.
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Posh New York City School wants students to stop using terms mom and dad to be more inclusive.
A private Manhattan school that charges $57,000 a year has issued a 12-page, quote, inclusive language guide to staff, students, and parents, which encouraged them to stop using the terms mom and dad.
Daily Mail reports, quote, Grace Church School in Noho has offered a 12-page guide to staff, students, and parents, encouraging them to stop using the terms mom and dad.
This is an Episcopal school, just so we're clear.
This is a Christian school.
Also offers schools and after courses for students that include single gender groups, the Roots of Empathy program, and a course called Allying Why, Who, How.
According to the guidelines, instead of using the words mom and dad, students should say grown-ups or folks or family.
And instead of husband, wife, or boyfriend, or girlfriend, they should be replaced with spouse, partner, or significant other.
Quote, while we recognize hateful language, hateful, saying mother and father is hateful in a Christian school.
Do you see kind of why we've been hesitant to say we should ban hate speech?
The terms husband, wife, boyfriend, and girlfriend are hateful.
I guess they won't be teaching the Ten Commandments.
Honor your mother and father.
I mean this as lovingly as I possibly can, and I can't wait for all the hate to come in.
I'm not surprised if this is an Episcopal school.
Just not.
I'm sure there's lots of good Episcopal institutions out there.
Most of them are like this.
He said the concept of the glossary stemmed from, quote, our desire to promote a sense of belonging for all of our students.
As part of our Episcopal identity, we realize the dignity and worth common to humanity.
Basically, Reverend Robert Pennoyer II, the assistant head of the school, said about the inclusion glossary that we must create welcoming and inclusive spaces, and we must fight against misogyny, homophobia, racism, and ban hateful language.
Well, I have a suggestion for Grace Church School.
You've probably already done this, but then under your own rules, have you banned the Bible?
God meet created man and woman, honor your mother and your father?
And that is a Christian school in New York City.
You see, the left is like a lidless eye.
It never blinks.
Imagine an eye that never blinks.
They're focused.
They're intense.
They take over everything they possibly can.
And the only way to push back against all of it, from the Barry Weiss story to the California mandatory Aztec worshiping for children or the Chicago reparations, is that decent people need to start being courageous.
They need to stop being so quiet.
The wokesters, they've been platformed, supported, and given confidence that they can destroy you.
It's now time for everyone to find a little courage within.
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