23 June 20
This date the Hamilton Spectator published an op-ed written by Kojo Damptey, a local race hustler who presently gets paid to be Interim Director of Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion. Her piece was headlined, "The silenced plight of Hamiton's racialized students." It was really a bizarre rant, and it's going to take a series of posts to address it.
If one can characterize Kojo Damptey’s rant on racism in Hamilton’s high schools, the words would be juvenile, ignorance, arrogance, and hypocrisy. In the entire piece, Kojo did not offer a single fact; what we got were allegations, impressions, and overwrought expressions of feelings. The only solution seemingly offered to end racism in high schools was to destroy the systems.
Ignorance is not surprising, because knowledge of hard facts is no longer important in high school. History is no longer taught; instead, they offer social studies, which can be described as opinion built upon constructs. Instead of a history of the 20th century, i.e. a body of facts, students are taught “globalization” in social studies. Geography is no longer taught – ironically. English spends too much time on creative writing, and not enough on simple expository prose. Students learn to express their feelings, because they have so little hard knowledge to convey. An arrogance develops from the certainty of their feelings, and because they are never challenged to analyze and to defend their position. The coddling of the emotions of students leads to a prolonging of the period of juvenility, as we witness here.
Kojo and friends are yet another example of the Marxism-Anarchism-Nihilism phenomenon. Marxist because people are divided into classes: black, Queer, racialized, Muslim, and the evil whites. Anarchist and Nihilist because the only solution is to destroy the irredeemable system, and replace it with – nothing.
As serious as a toddler with a loaded gun.
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