This isn't a right wing blog!
"Right Wing" is just what the leftists label anyone that isn't pro-Diversity Day.
This is a place of nuance, not political points.
I understand that I can't choose what readers will label my blog, but I can resent being labelled "right wing" for much the same reason the student body resents "Diversity Day:"
At SHS the leftist faculty had a wonderfully "exclusive" idea for their 95% White student body and dubbed this idea "Diversity Day." (Does anyone say WASP anymore?)
I groaned. This is as corny as it gets.
I am going to be completely honest: I don't know what "Diversity Day" entails, but I can guarantee that it is going to be boring at best, and preachy at worst.
And it doesn't matter what "Diversity Day" entails, because as I predicted, parents hated it!
According to sources within the school district, there was a 'racist' threat of hatred toward White liberals in the form of an anonymous phone call!
And the parents of some 120 kids wouldn't let them attend school! (That's more than half of a single grade!)
The teachers were shocked, appalled and humiliated: What could we have possibly done wrong by bringing diversity to students?
"Some parents must hate diversity!"
No. Wrong. I'm sorry to sound like a crabby atheist with my ad hominem smears, but that is just so stupid and the words are just so loaded that no one has time for any of this.
(The leftists will think whatever they want to think about anyone not willing to think exactly like them. Let them think it. They are a lost cause....with power of popular opinion. Sigh.)
Here is where you went wrong, leftist teachers: you called it Diversity Day.
'Diversity' is one of those words that has been weaponized by the political left. You cannot reach across the aisle with it. Sorry.
The truth is, you can't call it Different Cultures Day, or even MultiCultural Day, without giving off red flags to "right wing" parents that weren't born yesterday. 'Diversity' will never be more than a stunt by politicians of major parties.
If Diversity Day is going to mean what it says, then avoid the loaded political lingo and call it something like: Love Thy Neighbor As Thy Brother Day. That's what you really want, isn't it? For brown cultures to be treated equally with white cultures? Whatever that means?
That's fine, so long as the 'diverse' cultures we celebrate have similar, universal values to our own. We can't welcome cultures without holding them to similar standards. And we shouldn't whitewash cultures for the sake of "diversity," economic controversies aside.
And it's not because "the parents hate diversity" either. It's because they hate your version of Diversity! They hate the political grandstanding and the misrepresentation of their beliefs for some party hack to win a major election.
The political right sees this and knows they are going to be lectured, so they keep their kids out of school for the day in protest. The political middle knows that they are going to be bored, and they put up with the lecture because they can doodle, or work on other assignments.
Now for a dash of old guard right wing: Today, grandparents can remember when they weren't the 'white' in liberal. They were more than just 'white, middle class'; they were Catholic, or Anglo, or Protestant. They were from Italy, Poland, Germany. They weren't just white, middle-class from Westchester and Coram.
The secularizing of society has made the children's children identity-less, and the children's parents bitter. The culture of their parents has been used and left by the wayside. All that matters now is weaponized Diversity of the "new culture" for some globalist hack.
There is no old Country. Why would there be? This is an Empire now! Leave old identities in the past. What matters is the illusion of electing new power seekers.
That's why the parents are mad!Understanding that means starting the process of not being a political tool anymore.
