Giroux’s latest abomination

Vincent J. Curtis

16 June 23

RE: There’s no democracy without education.  Op-ed by Henry A. Giroux.  The Hamilton Spectator 16 June 23

Along King Street, across from Gore Park, you’ll often find men sitting cross-legged, talking loudly to themselves, gesticulating occasionally, and expostulating at the sidewalk.  You’d be forgiven if you thought you has stumbled into the McMaster University faculty lounge, for that was my impression upon reading Henry A. Giroux’s latest abomination.

Who knew that Gender Identity Theory and Critical Race Theory were “far-right assaults on education?”  Who knew that we were on the cusp of authoritarianism in Trudeau’s Canada, and Joe Biden’s America?  You mean those crazy far-right conspiracy theories are true??

Who knew the ‘history of trans students were under attack as their history is being erased from school curricula’ when trans students don’t exist, and sex change operations for kids only started three years ago – maybe? Who would have thought that education was a “moral and political project rooted in the goal of emancipation for all people.” Whatever became of reading, writing, and arithmetic?

Democracy is a means of making political decisions.  An educated electorate in nice, but no more wise than the electorates of 1265, 1628, 1689, 1789, and 1867.  It’s not education that’s essential in an electorate; it’s wisdom.  A point Professor Giroux completely missed in his latest expostulation to the sidewalk.

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