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Jilly_in_VA

(9,941 posts)
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 03:38 PM Dec 2021

Revealed: Ex-Teacher Hawks White-Nationalist Homeschooling

The School of the West, a recently launched online “educational resource for homeschooling parents,” offers a smattering of materials—some free, some only for paying members—to help teach kids standard subjects like math, science, and language arts. But its key selling point is a unique and deeply disturbing field of study that the site has dubbed “White Wellbeing.”

A write-up on the contents of an upcoming three-month live-streamed white wellbeing course, advertised for students ages four and older, explains that it will help children “understand the gift of being born a member of Westernkind and the qualities that separate us from the other races.” In case it wasn’t clear, the write-up later clarifies that “the White race is known as Westernkind.” It also promises to teach them how to spot and respond to the “anti-white propaganda” that supposedly suffuses modern life, why white people are the only true citizens of Western nations, and how “feminism destroys the family unit,” the supposed backbone of all Westernkind, “thus weakening our societies.”

This blatant white-nationalist ideology is infused into some of the site’s lessons on conventional subjects, as well. Its history materials, for example, falsely teach that the notion European colonization led to the spread of new diseases that decimated indigenous populations is not established historical fact, but an anti-white myth. The School also links to the Institute for Historical Review, as a “reliable online source for the study of history.” The IHR notoriously publishes materials that push for Holocaust denial and antisemitic readings of history, using the language and formatting of conventional academia, but none of its rigor. And the School’s life sciences materials are just a series of seven videos and attendant worksheets on the supposed science of human racial differences, which deliver a series of thoroughly debunked pseudoscientific arguments as if they were hard facts.

As if to underscore its focus on white-nationalist indoctrination, one video on the site even tells children that, in the face of a supposedly virulently anti-white culture, “it’s important to do your schoolwork, but it’s even more important to feel good about yourself and your own people.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/page-arizona-ex-teacher-brant-williams-hawks-white-nationalist-homeschooling-online?ref=home

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Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
6. That they are going to soon be a minority and that the new majority will be as hateful
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 04:43 PM
Dec 2021

and black hearted as they are.

czarjak

(11,253 posts)
2. On air local radio personality here mentioned the absurdity of questioning being...
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 03:57 PM
Dec 2021

"Too White". (Trust-Fund-Baby-Benificiary) BTW.

littlemissmartypants

(22,548 posts)
4. I'm a trust fund beneficiary and I don't think it's the degrading insult you think it is.
Tue Dec 28, 2021, 04:24 PM
Dec 2021

You'd be surprised. ❤

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