The problem became intense during the COVID wars as true science was blocked from public access by government and a coalition of private interests working with the government, in direct violation of the First Amendment.
We should be able to accept that, just because conservatives use ‘woke’ as a catch-all insult, does not mean that a distinct and peculiar version of leftism did not grow up in American universities at the beginning of the century and then went on to take over large sections of the rich world’s left in the 2010s.
British educator Katharine Birbalsingh used to look to America for inspiration. Now she sees the U.S. as a threat to schools in her own land. American ideas on race and identity are making “alarming inroads” in British education, she says, with activists demanding that “white privilege” be rooted out of the curriculum, the teaching of history be “decolonized,” and “systemic racism” be acknowledged as the primary cause when minority students fail.
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