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5/12/2010

Arizona Law Targets Ethnic Studies

Filed under: Education — DRJ @ 3:15 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has signed a law that targets divisive ethnic studies programs in schools:

” Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a bill targeting a school district’s ethnic studies program, hours after a report by United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure.

State schools chief Tom Horne, who has pushed the bill for years, said he believes the Tucson school district’s Mexican-American studies program teaches Latino students that they are oppressed by white people.

Public schools should not be encouraging students to resent a particular race, he said.

“It’s just like the old South, and it’s long past time that we prohibited it,” Horne said.”

Here’s how the article describes the impact of the new law:

“The measure signed Tuesday prohibits classes that advocate ethnic solidarity, that are designed primarily for students of a particular race or that promote resentment toward a certain ethnic group.
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The measure doesn’t prohibit classes that teach about the history of a particular ethnic group, as long as the course is open to all students and doesn’t promote ethnic solidarity or resentment.”

I’m curious how the law will apply in practice.

— DRJ

34 Responses to “Arizona Law Targets Ethnic Studies”

  1. Now that’s a measure that I can support for sure.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  2. It seems that what is transpiring in AZ is the political equivelant of the military’s battlefield preparation.
    Illegal Immigration…
    Ethnic Studies…
    There will be a war fought this Fall, and those who are on the wrong side of the prevailing public sentiment will find themselves cast onto the shoulder of the road, bloodied and bruised.

    AD - RtR/OS! (04f5c9)

  3. “It’s just like the old South, and it’s long past time that we prohibited it,” Horne said.

    That’s pretty Orwellian.

    It seems like Arizona is taking this ethnic cleansing thing seriously.

    nk (db4a41)

  4. nk…Methinks you have misconstrued what is happening in AZ.
    It would seem that they are attempting to discourage Unum, and to encourage a little Pluribus.

    AD - RtR/OS! (04f5c9)

  5. Its only a shame that the law does not require an improvement in the nonexistant scholarship of “ethnic studies”.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  6. No question that Mexicans have been ruling over Anglos, is there? Sheeit!

    nk (db4a41)

  7. Just what is the chance, nk, that you’ll criticize Arizona’s law for what it actually does?

    In contrast, that is, to criticizing it for what you wish it said – since the latter wish better fits the namecalling you feel obliged to indulge in.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  8. There’s a pattern of “change your skin or change or your residence” being put into effect, I think.

    nk (db4a41)

  9. He has brief flashes of lucidity, followed by great depths of head-shakenly stupid.

    AD - RtR/OS! (04f5c9)

  10. Hasten the day when this angry-studies prohibition spreads to the other 56 states of Obama’s presidency.

    Insufficiently Sensitive (8906ed)

  11. Nothing in these laws is anti-Mexican. They apply to criminal activity or bar discrimination based on race or ethnicity. These are already illegal, I think. Is a law against theft a racist law if a certain racial group has more likelihood to commit those crimes?

    Machinist (9780ec)

  12. nk, and you decided that how? Where did this feature of the law show up? By observing the quantum foam?

    SPQR (26be8b)

  13. nk’s not about to let a little thing like objective facts get in the way of hard wired political beliefs.

    that’s why i’m sure nk will be very successful as a lawyer, particularly as the kind Shakespeare was referring to.

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  14. I think that illegal voters, rather criminal aliens or ACORN members or homeless drunks gathered up and bussed around are starting to have a significant and growing effect on our elections. Combined with the more conventional Democratic cheating during recounts it gives some modicum of truth to your statement.

    Machinist (9780ec)

  15. I would only say that the Arizona “studies” law doesn’t go far enough. Cultural Studies classes are rooted in the class struggle dynamics of the Frankfurt School and teach that white males have created a transparent cultural hegemony that oppress other groups. The subject is neither academically rigorous, nor valuable. What it is in fact is a course in discontent. Studies courses in and of themselves aren’t problematic, were students required to take other points of view in contrast, it is the narrow focus of the classes that make them valueless.

    Imagine if political science were merely the learning of a particular political system advocated over all others and included no comparative dynamics. That is the equivalent of a “studies” degree. In the case of “studies” it also happens to be indoctrination into socialist dogma.

    Christian (3290f5)

  16. Now when did I say that ehnic cleansing was a bad thing? And I like George Orwell’s writings very much.

    And I think that by abandoning American values Arizona would get my approval to be reannexed to Mexico.

    nk (db4a41)

  17. When did it become an American value to condone and support criminal activity?

    Is this for all crimes or only when committed by certain ethnic or racial groups?

    Machinist (9780ec)

  18. But, would they give us back the money we paid them within the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, and The Gadsden Purchase?

    AD - RtR/OS! (04f5c9)

  19. When did it become an American value to condone and support criminal activity?

    It’s the Chicago Way!

    AD - RtR/OS! (04f5c9)

  20. NK, I guess you must have failed history. Arizona was not annexed, it was purchased. Could have been taken as war booty since Mexico lost that war. First N(ot) K(nowledgable) Mexico was a creation of Spain. There was no state of Mexicol prior to Spanish conquest. Mexican is not a race. Mexico lost the Mexican/American war and is fortunate to exist at all. America could and can annex Mexico at any time. Peons would have much benefitted from joining the United States of America.

    Zelsdorf Ragshaft III (cf847d)

  21. 9.He has brief flashes of lucidity, followed by great depths of head-shakenly stupid.

    It’s ErickPJohnson syndrome.

    8.There’s a pattern of “change your skin or change or your residence” being put into effect, I think

    Whatever it is you are doing, thinking ain’t it.

    Suboai (6989a7)

  22. It’s the new genocide. We succeeded with the Indians, failed with the blacks, and are now trying it with the Mexicans. I think we should go after the homosexuals first, personally, but what the hey, they can wait. We’ll get to them soon enough.

    nk (db4a41)

  23. Again, America has no need or reason to apologize for enforcing the nation’s laws.

    About time the pussification of America was stopped dead in its tracks.

    GeneralMalaise (9354d2)

  24. nk, do you not know what the word “genocide” means? Or are you just so clueless about how offensive your bile is?

    SPQR (26be8b)

  25. Does this law mean they will have to stop teaching Womyn’s Studies?

    daleyrocks (1d0d98)

  26. One could hope so.

    Machinist (9780ec)

  27. I think we should go after the homosexuals first, personally, but what the hey, they can wait. We’ll get to them soon enough.

    why bother, since HIV and a variety of STD’s appear ready to do the j*b for us? AIDS could have been cut way back at the very start, but applying the tools traditionally used to fight epidemics was politically unacceptable to the very people who later died from the disease.

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  28. AIDS could have been cut way back

    But that would involve using some form of quaranteen, like that model of modern health care:
    Cuba!

    AD - RtR/OS! (04f5c9)

  29. I agree, there are times nk appears quite lucid and there are times, such as now, when nk shows an extreme inability to read for comprehension.

    I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I’m part Mexican (that means hispanic), part Indian (feather), part Scotch-Irish. My daughter is more Indian than am I. My grandson is half black.

    That being said, it’s about time AZ passed these anti-PC laws and returned the state to the US Constitution and rule of law. I can only hope the other 59 states (see Obama’s vid, there are 60 states, not 57) follow suit and quickly.

    John Hitchcock (9e8ad9)

  30. “United Nations human rights experts condemned the measure.”

    As the UN condemns Jews, so it will condemn Americans.

    Friends of Ghadaffi no doubt.

    tehag (59ecde)

  31. Glenn gives us an objective reason to oppose ethnic studies classes.

    They may result in reduced respect for personal beliefs.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  32. I think we should look at the class structure and curriculum that specifically brought this measure on. If teaching history means bringing up ugly truths – then so be it. The purpose of teaching is to inform- the purpose of history is to empower, teach, learn, inspire but also to prevent repetition of the lowest form of human behavior – enslavement.

    Nette (85acf2)

  33. “The purpose of teaching is to inform”

    Nette – The purpose of teaching is to inform and to help people to learn to think for themselves, not, I would add, to indoctrinate.

    daleyrocks (1d0d98)

  34. You guys stopped beating me up yet? To tell the truth, all I’m worried about is refried beans becoming a lost art in America.

    nk (db4a41)


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