[AMERICANTHINKER] One of the constants about leftists is the sneering disdain they have for Southerners — and the deeper south one goes, the greater the leftists' disdain. As I know well, for many years, if you challenged anything about public education in a Northern state, things such as the constant lowering of standards or the abandonment of grammar — you would be met with the fact that more kids from blue states went to college than did kids from red states. Invariably, Mississippi or Alabama would be thrown out as Exhibit A to prove the pathetic weakness of education in those deep red states.It was useless to point out that, of late, kids going to college aren't getting educated any more than they were in K—12. Instead, they're also getting indoctrinated. Where they once studied the greatest thinkers and writers of ancient and modern culture, they now do ridiculous things such as looking at pre-colonial America through the filter of sexuality and gender. Yes, that was a real assignment one of my children got at a prestigious little liberal arts college. Another of my children was told to think about biblical-era Jerusalem in terms of social justice.
Instead of expanding young minds, today's education is as reductionist as anything taught in a Chinese school during the Cultural Revolution. It's not about imparting knowledge; it's about imposing leftist shibboleths.
None of these arguments matters to leftists. They've got their mantra: the redder the state, the more stupid the people and, of course, the worse the schools in these states.
That's why an ad that appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune is so brilliant. Minneapolis is one of America's most woke, most blue, most arrogant cities — except that, as the ad states, its schools perform worse than schools in...wait for it...Mississippi.