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OnlySubs: The CIA, DEI, and Sensitivity Training

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 18 Jul 24

OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 135 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members What we now call Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training in virtually any format, including “cultural competence” and “unconscious bias” trainings, derive from an earlier program more simply known as “Sensitivity Training.” Well, in 1974, the CIA published an internal memo about whether or not Sensitivity Training (or “Encounter Group” training) is appropriate for the agency, and they determined that it is not. The reasons are really something too: it creates groupthink, destroys independent thought,

OnlySubs with James Lindsay, Episode 135 This episode is available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms: Facebook Locals Odysee Patreon Subscribestar Substack YouTube Members What we now call Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) training in virtually any format, including “cultural competence” and “unconscious bias” trainings, derive from an earlier program more simply known as “Sensitivity Training.” Well,

How Woke Marxists Stole Reading: What is Critical Literacy?

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Jul 24

“We are what we say and do. The way we speak and are spoken to help shape us into the people we become. Through words and other actions, we build ourselves in a world that is building us. That world addresses us to produce the different identities we carry forward in life: men are addressed differently than are women, people of color differently than whites, elite students differently than those from working families. Yet, though language is fateful in teaching us what kind of people to become and what kind of society to make, discourse is not destiny. We can

“We are what we say and do. The way we speak and are spoken to help shape us into the people we become. Through words and other actions, we build ourselves in a world that is building us. That world addresses us to produce the different identities we carry forward in life: men are addressed differently than are women, people

Curiosity Is a Cult Killer

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 28 May 24

“What is culturally relevant teaching?” That is the question I set out to answer four years ago. Back in 2020, my wife and I were preparing to be parents and I had started researching the state of our educational system. I quickly realized that I knew essentially nothing about what was happening in our schools, despite attending them for the first twenty-two years of my life. The buzzwords were everywhere – “diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI),” “social-and-emotional learning (SEL),” “restorative justice (RJ),” and “culturally relevant teaching,” to name a few. I was completely lost, but I knew that some people

“What is culturally relevant teaching?” That is the question I set out to answer four years ago. Back in 2020, my wife and I were preparing to be parents and I had started researching the state of our educational system. I quickly realized that I knew essentially nothing about what was happening in our schools, despite attending them for the

Queer Theory is the Doctrine of a Sex-Based Cult

By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 12 Mar 24

The following is derived from the preparatory notes I made for my February 20, 2024, remarks to the University of Pittsburgh TPUSA chapter, as pictured, which was protested but very well received. I’m here to talk about Queer Theory. Some major points can be summarized very easily. Queer Theory is the doctrine of a religious cult; That religious cult is based on sex; That sex-based religious cult primarily targets children; and Almost none of it has anything to do with gay identity. Let’s address the last point first because it’s the least obvious. The term “queer” in “Queer Theory” gets

The following is derived from the preparatory notes I made for my February 20, 2024, remarks to the University of Pittsburgh TPUSA chapter, as pictured, which was protested but very well received. I’m here to talk about Queer Theory. Some major points can be summarized very easily. Queer Theory is the doctrine of a religious cult; That religious cult is

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