I agree Forrest, but I have zero hope for reform. BTW, I think Liz Cheney is a babe!
From: Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Saturday, October 8, 2022 12:14 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Cc: dmmoff...@gmail.com ; Chuck McCown Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Political So I can explain this chart simply.. The far right argues that we spend too much time on things like gender and race in school, so those regularly exposed to that argument are naturally going to argue that we need to 'spend less time on gender and race and more time on traditional studies like math and science" The far left seems to think that people need to be more aware about race and other forms of equality like the whole gender politics thing. So they're obviously going to consider that we need to provide more teaching about it in school. My opinion is that both parties have an extreme wing that they need to shed. Specifically the ones on the right which seems to want to move towards an authoritarian regime with them in charge, and the ones on the left which is hard to define but seems to be an odd mix of communism and forced equality. The problem is that after years of demonizing the other side, each party needs their extreme wing to be able to win elections. On Fri, Oct 7, 2022, 2:33 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: The question was as follows: “Do you think schools today spend too much, the right amount or too little time teaching about the following topics:” I don’t consider that an ultra inflammatory question. The source is as follows: The American Family Survey 2022. It conducted online to a match sample on gender, race, age and education Aug. 8-15, 2022. The sample size is 3,000 and the overall margin of error is +- 1.9%. There is an ultra liberal college up near Olympia Wa. Evergreen State College. They actually have a faction that teaches that you cannot trust science because it teaches concepts that are counter to postmodernism. The extreme left has embraced a fiction that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny. So the extreme left and the extreme right both don’t trust science, but for different reasons. So an ultra liberal might also say, we reject the science of statistics and samples and surveys because they just make up imaginary numbers... right ‘' In other words, if you don’t believe the results of a survey (or an election, which really is also a survey) you just reject it out of hand, don’t believe it, it is flawed... ??? From: dmmoff...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, October 7, 2022 11:57 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' Cc: 'Chuck McCown' Subject: RE: [AFMUG] OT Political Interesting. I would think nearly 99% of people would think “Math” and “Science” should be taught in school, so there must be some kind of relative ranking to come up with those percentages. I don’t believe for a minute that only a bare majority of any political party thinks science is important. I’d also guess there was some colorful to the phrasing of the survey questions. If they asked “Should students be taught to respect people of all races” the percentages would be high across the board. You’d have to phrase it in some inflammatory way to get that spread. Anyway it’s cute, but I have questions about the methodology used to come up with those numbers. I wonder if the methodology is “let’s make up an imaginary number”. -Adam From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF Sent: Friday, October 07, 2022 12:03 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Cc: Chuck McCown <ch...@go-mtc.com> Subject: [AFMUG] OT Political Been too quiet around here. Thought I would try to ignite another brushfire. This graphic explains America and what is wrong with it. Asked of all Americans what is important to be taught at school. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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