Social Justice is Driving Much of the Insanity in Our Schools
“It’s obvious to any individual with a modicum of common sense that students who threaten the lives of others should be suspended or expelled.”
Writing at the Daily Signal, Tony Kinnett writes about the recent anti-Israel mob action at a New York school and its implications:
Cowardice Fuels Violent Mobs: How ‘Social Justice’ Brings Anti-Jewish Pogroms to New York City
A mob of pro-Palestine students at a Queens high school who screamed for retribution against a Jewish teacher with the gall to attend a pro-Israel rally is another warning siren that America is devolving quickly into chaos reminiscent of the French Revolution.
The response so far to this disturbing incident from New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has been nothing less than reprehensible and cowardly.
Here’s what happened: After a photo of a health teacher at Hillcrest High School in Queens was shared in a TikTok video, showing the teacher holding an “I Stand With Israel” sign, students organized a protest Nov. 20 outside her classroom door, demanding that the school fire her.
The protest, like so many others associated with social “justice,” quickly whipped into a riotous frenzy. Students screamed and attempted to enter the teacher’s room for over two hours.
Students admitted to vandalizing the school during this riot, including ripping a water fountain from a wall and shattering tiles in a boys’ restroom.
After two hours of terror, the New York Police Department finally responded, including its counterterrorism bureau, to investigate possible threats “against the school,” according to New York City Council member James Gennaro, D-Queens.
The 23-year veteran teacher, whose name was omitted by the New York Post from its coverage for her safety, told the Post that she was “shaken to [her] core by the calls to violence against [her] that occurred online and outside [her] classroom last week.”
Adams announced that New York City Public Schools had begun an investigation into the origins of the riot. The mayor then wrote that “Project Pivot teams” from a diversity, equity, and inclusion organization would lecture students on why such behavior is “unacceptable.”
It’s obvious to any individual with a modicum of common sense that students who threaten the lives of others should be suspended or expelled. This used to be the case nationwide, but teachers unions and leftist professors deemed consequences “inequitable.”
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This high school is in a. o. c.’s congressional district.
Correction: It’s a few blocks from her district. It’s actually George Santos’s district.
Actually, it’s Progressivism that is driving the insanity. “Social Justice” is just one part of it (but it’s a big part of Progressivism).
Remember that Progressivism is about hedonism, perfect equality (equity), transhumanism, and therapeutic answers to human sin. Then look around and see what that all has wrought, everywhere.
There is no greater evil in the world today than that of a modern American Democrat