I'm a former history teacher, and in my last ten years of teaching saw all this coming. So, for two weeks at the beginning of the school year, I had high school sophomores and seniors read John Rawls on "The Original Position" often called ,The Veil of Ignorance. The second week, we went over The UN Declaration of HUMAN Rights. This cut …
I'm a former history teacher, and in my last ten years of teaching saw all this coming. So, for two weeks at the beginning of the school year, I had high school sophomores and seniors read John Rawls on "The Original Position" often called ,The Veil of Ignorance. The second week, we went over The UN Declaration of HUMAN Rights. This cut off a lot of the emerging- and divisive identity politics, instead focusing on civil rights for ALL human beings.
If you want to build a just society, John Rawls and the UN Declaration of Human Rights start by essentially saying we must ignore one's own identity and instead start from principles of a just society. By starting the school year this way, it tapped down 70% of the simplistic thinking of bad guys/good guys.
I so appreciate's FAIR's work, and articles like this one. Unfortunately and sadly, the school I worked at, now proudly lists all these group identity clubs: Jewish Student Union, Muslim Student Union, Christian Student Union, Black Student Union, Asian Student Union, Hispanic Student Union, India and Pakistani Student Union, Gender and Sexuality Alliance, and Women's Empowerment Association, the latter which I helped start, but bowed out of when the girls voted that boys who came to the meetings and disagreed with them....were barred from attending future meetings.
Honestly confounding. How can segregation lead to understanding and acceptance. What a missed opportunity for this. Creating echo chambers can only lead to entrenched bias to one's own group. I don't see how this works, frankly.
I'm a former history teacher, and in my last ten years of teaching saw all this coming. So, for two weeks at the beginning of the school year, I had high school sophomores and seniors read John Rawls on "The Original Position" often called ,The Veil of Ignorance. The second week, we went over The UN Declaration of HUMAN Rights. This cut off a lot of the emerging- and divisive identity politics, instead focusing on civil rights for ALL human beings.
If you want to build a just society, John Rawls and the UN Declaration of Human Rights start by essentially saying we must ignore one's own identity and instead start from principles of a just society. By starting the school year this way, it tapped down 70% of the simplistic thinking of bad guys/good guys.
I so appreciate's FAIR's work, and articles like this one. Unfortunately and sadly, the school I worked at, now proudly lists all these group identity clubs: Jewish Student Union, Muslim Student Union, Christian Student Union, Black Student Union, Asian Student Union, Hispanic Student Union, India and Pakistani Student Union, Gender and Sexuality Alliance, and Women's Empowerment Association, the latter which I helped start, but bowed out of when the girls voted that boys who came to the meetings and disagreed with them....were barred from attending future meetings.
Honestly confounding. How can segregation lead to understanding and acceptance. What a missed opportunity for this. Creating echo chambers can only lead to entrenched bias to one's own group. I don't see how this works, frankly.