By now, the dust is settling on a disturbing incident that took place in late April in a public elementary school in the Birmingham, Michigan School District.
Interesting. We have obsessively focused on inclusion and tolerance while neglecting that which promotes unity and integration. I have been told the latter is hubris and amounts to militaristic nationalism. And of course it can be, just as obsessive focus on Diversity can lead to radical dis-integration. To be sure, there were, from what I've read, ethnic rivalries and antagonisms in NYC in the early twentieth century---Jews, the Italians and Irish. But what we are witnessing today is the "globalizing" of the infitada, of grievance, and the "totalitarian" nature, as one article today called it, of the antizionist movement, that is, injecting it into every aspect of public life.
"... she could best “rep” Middle Eastern culture by scattering around stickers among the display tables that contained language like “Fuck Zionism,” “Occupation is Not Freedom” bordering a picture of the Palestinian flag and worst of all, an image of an assault rifle resting on what appears to be a page of newspaper print, with all Arabic writing in black on top of a matting of blood red."
To be fair, that's a pretty accurate representation of current Middle Eastern culture.
It wasn't the Italian presentation? Well, that just leaves Vanuatu.
Interesting. We have obsessively focused on inclusion and tolerance while neglecting that which promotes unity and integration. I have been told the latter is hubris and amounts to militaristic nationalism. And of course it can be, just as obsessive focus on Diversity can lead to radical dis-integration. To be sure, there were, from what I've read, ethnic rivalries and antagonisms in NYC in the early twentieth century---Jews, the Italians and Irish. But what we are witnessing today is the "globalizing" of the infitada, of grievance, and the "totalitarian" nature, as one article today called it, of the antizionist movement, that is, injecting it into every aspect of public life.
"... she could best “rep” Middle Eastern culture by scattering around stickers among the display tables that contained language like “Fuck Zionism,” “Occupation is Not Freedom” bordering a picture of the Palestinian flag and worst of all, an image of an assault rifle resting on what appears to be a page of newspaper print, with all Arabic writing in black on top of a matting of blood red."
To be fair, that's a pretty accurate representation of current Middle Eastern culture.