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> Meanwhile, here’s what it’s like in the teacher email threads. This is a verbatim, non-ironic quote: “I didn’t really hear you at first, steeped as I am in a

> Meanwhile, here’s what it’s like in the teacher email threads. This is a verbatim, non-ironic quote: “I didn’t really hear you at first, steeped as I am in a culture of assumed patriarchal white privilege, rank privilege, and inequitable hierarchy" It's my perception that adults involved with schools, especially younger grades, have been penetrated so intensely by woke ideology[1], much more so than the broader subcultures (urban, educated, etc) they belong to that already skew woke. Is this just down to how skewed female this group is? [1] I mean this neutrally, not as a particular criticism of wokeness or the manner in which it penetrates communities. When thinking about large groups of people, modeling ideologies as memetic viruses moving through a population is a lot more sensible than as emergent entities from the rational decisions of large numbers of intelligent, thoughtful people capable of critical thinking.

dqv 5y ago
> adults involved with schools I don't know what group you're trying to capture by saying this. You mean the parents as well as the school employees? >Is this just down to how skewed female this group is? No I think it has to do with how young both the parents and the teachers are. Someone who is 40 years old today is right on the cusp of being a millennial.
- wutbrodo 5y ago
  Yea: School boards, teachers, administrators to some degree. Sorry, it was a little awkwardly phrased. > Someone who is 40 years old today is right on the cusp of being a millennial. This doesn't fit the data. The median age of a teacher in the US is 41[1], which means that less than half of all teachers are millennials. By contrast, 72% of teachers are women. I'm having more trouble pulling up the sources I've seen with crosstabs on approval of wokeness[2] by gender and age, but I know it's quite gender-skewed (as well as age-skewed). [1] https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/sass1112_2013314_t1s_002.asp https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/sass1112_2013314_t1s... [2] The definition I'm using here is leftism with an identitarian focus, that opposes Enlightenment liberalism's aspiration towards transcending ethnic tribalism. I again mean this neutrally, with no comment on whether this worldview is more legitimate than the alternative.

dqv 5y ago

> adults involved with schools I don't know what group you're trying to capture by saying this. You mean the parents as well as the school employees? >Is this just down to how skewed female this group is? No I think it has to do with how young both the parents and the teachers are. Someone who is 40 years old today is right on the cusp of being a millennial.

wutbrodo 5y ago
Yea: School boards, teachers, administrators to some degree. Sorry, it was a little awkwardly phrased. > Someone who is 40 years old today is right on the cusp of being a millennial. This doesn't fit the data. The median age of a teacher in the US is 41[1], which means that less than half of all teachers are millennials. By contrast, 72% of teachers are women. I'm having more trouble pulling up the sources I've seen with crosstabs on approval of wokeness[2] by gender and age, but I know it's quite gender-skewed (as well as age-skewed). [1] https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/sass1112_2013314_t1s_002.asp https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/sass/tables/sass1112_2013314_t1s... [2] The definition I'm using here is leftism with an identitarian focus, that opposes Enlightenment liberalism's aspiration towards transcending ethnic tribalism. I again mean this neutrally, with no comment on whether this worldview is more legitimate than the alternative.