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The culture wars are reaching a fevered pitch. What has been referred to as the woke mind virus has unquestionably affected many children and young adults within the educational system.
What is far more terrifying, in this writer’s opinion, is that this virus has not only affected many teachers in the profession, but appears to be in a rather advanced and intellectually terminal stage.
The word indoctrinate has been thrown around a lot, it hasn’t really been carelessly and it certainly hasn’t been without merit. Many can think of their own favorite example of this. Well, here is another to add to the stock of insanity.
It has recently been reported by The Post Millennial that:
The California teacher who was exposed in a 2021 Project Veritas report for attempting to radicalize his students into Marxist “revolutionaries” is receiving three years of salary in exchange for his resignation, after the school district said he would be fired.
According to KCRA3, the district agreed to pay Gipe three years of salary, or $190,000 in exchange for his resignation, a settlement between the two that was reportedly reached in January.
The payment was taxed, with the final payment amount made to Gipe totaling $100,390.90, and was broken into two checks.
Last September, parents of Inderkum High School in Sacramento called on the Natomas Unified School District to fire AP Government teacher Gabriel Gipe after he was caught on video discussing his strategies to indoctrinate his students, including flying an Antifa flag in his classroom and giving out extra credit for attending left-wing “community events.”
“I have 180 days to turn them [students] into revolutionaries … Scare the f*ck out of them,” said Gipe in the undercover footage filmed by Project Veritas, which was published in late August of 2021.
“I post a calendar every week… I’ve had students show up for protests, community events, tabling, food distribution, all sorts of things … When they go, they take pictures, write up a reflection—that’s their extra credit,” he added.
Gipe, who identified himself as a member of Antifa, bragged to the undercover journalist about making a student feel uncomfortable.
“I have an Antifa flag on my [classroom] wall and a student complained about that — he said it made him feel uncomfortable,” Gipe said.
“Well, this [Antifa flag] is meant to make fascists feel uncomfortable, so if you feel uncomfortable, I don’t really know what to tell you.”
The toxic combination of smugness and insouciance really seems to permeate with that last statement. There is an insane language game that the Left likes to play.
We see this with Black Lives Matter when they say “do you not think black lives matter?” as if that is an instant and righteous dismissal of any criticism levied towards it.
We see the same with their favorite religion, Islam. “Oh, c’mon, it’s a religion of peace”, they say. Finally we certainly see the same with Antifa as was just shown in the last paragraph. It’s pathetic and it is otherworldly that anyone ever falls for it, let alone tries to convince anyone else of it.
