The Exigent Duality
Radicalization in Action - 15:12 CST, 3/07/15 (Sniper)
My youngest brother is in the twelfth grade at DeLaSalle High School, in Minneapolis. A couple of years ago, the school's long-term president died, and the school's management was-- in absolutely incredible fashion and right before my brother's eyes-- taken over by radical leftists with a strong Statist agenda.

Practically every week he is telling me stories about how "this week, it's social justice week", or "this week they had me writing papers from either a Feminist or Marxist perspective-- I got to choose!" All of this culminated last week in a very "Hitler's youth" moment:

They arranged the students in circles-- so, facing each other, where each student can see each other student-- then handed out this "worksheet":



Anyone with half a brain could predict where the conversation was steered; clearly the kids disrupting the other patrons and throwing food, on private property, are merely crack-baby victims of circumstance, and so the rule of law shouldn't apply to them. And anyone who thinks differently needs to "reflect" a little more until they see things the "right" way.

After the guilt trip, and in true North Korean election-style, the teacher walked around and handed one of the following forms out-- asking each kid if they would take one, in clear sight of all of the other kids, so it was obvious to everyone who took one and who didn't:



The form, of course, was a government propaganda leaflet, for the kids to petition politicians-- even thanking the politicians at the end!-- to channel as much stolen tax money as possible into a State program. And where, of course, the students were coerced by peer pressure-- Crimean resolution style-- into formalizing their "support" for the program. Democracy in action, baby! The sad part is that my brother, seeing what was happening, was the only kid there who refused to take one of the forms.

And as if things couldn't get crazy enough, this sequence of events was followed by a special guest speaker, a fellow named "Chris Crass."



Chris Crass is a radical, socialist-style anarchist with a Lenin-esque goatee and a penchant for giving "bring down the evil pig-monster capitalist civilization" speeches. He is very manipulative, such as in this editorial, where he presents a false moral equivalency-- the brutal lynchings of innocent black men with the desparate self-defense act taken by George Zimmerman, who was being violently assaulted-- then presents an equally false dichotomy: "you're either on the 'right' side or the 'wrong' side." This coming from a supposedly "everything is shades of gray" moral relativist of course.

He's also the type that appears to have been living in a bubble for his entire life, having been born in 1973, yet having been engaged in what he calls "political activism" since the early 90s-- making him possibly not even twenty years old at the time, depending on which exact year he started. He also went to university and took a degree in "Race, Class, Gender and Power Studies". More bubble reinforcement right there. And besides that, only a State-created education cartel would even offer such a useless "degree" in the first place; not much of a positive ROI going on there.

Incidentally, I also don't see anything on his Wikipedia page that indicates he's ever even had a real job. If he wants to "eliminate poverty", why doesn't he start a business, offering valuable goods and services that people need, at low prices? That would have done a lot more good than standing on a street corner holding a cardboard sign and writing blatantly devious and circumspect editorials.

I have anarchist-leanings myself-- or at least, I think that authority should always need to be able to justify its legitimacy. Yet, I don't then contradict myself like people such as Chris Crass and Noam Chomsky do by encouraging the State to rape and pillage in the name of "justice", nor do I employ disingenous methods in my writing to manipulate people towards my perspectives, as do Chris Crass and fellow lefty Paul Krugman.

But beyond this fellow's rather questionable character, seing a Catholic high school-- which is nominally supposed to be devoted to indoctrinating people into Catholicism, not Statism-- inviting someone such as him is the most outlandish and bizarre event that my brother has yet relayed to me. What's next-- "optional" lunch hour "sleep teaching" tape sessions? "You'll feel so much more enlightened once you wake up after the session!"

So let this post serve as a warning to parents: unless you want your kid to become a rank-and-file peon-- the kind of person Stalin called a "useful idiot"-- for the State, or just as bad for coercive agencies blanketing themselves with harmless sounding terms like "feminism" or "anti-racism", avoid DeLaSalle High School like an ebola-soaked blanket.

Or, better yet, how about avoiding indoctrination altogether, and encouraging kids to develop their own perspectives through free thinking and the individual application of rational logic? Or wait-- is telling someone to think for themselves simply a form of indoctrination too, as manipulative leftists would comically try to argue?