The following excerpt
is adapted from an address given by Pat
Sajak (Host, Wheel
of Fortune)
to the first graduating class of Founders Classical Academy in Leander, Texas, on May 27, 2017; one of 16 classical K-12
charter schools currently operating under the auspices of Hillsdale College’s
Barney Charter School Initiative. Pat
Sajak gives unique insights about a special class of what we call a specific
class of “weaponized
memes” at the TOV Center Realities Transformations Initiative
-- identity politics.
“So let me instead suggest a pitfall to
avoid going forward, a pitfall not only for this year’s graduates, but for
everyone in every corner of American society today. It has altered the way we
talk to one another and perceive one another. It has perverted the notion of
free speech and poisoned the academic environment. It has turned the American
political system on its head, creating a situation where opposing views are not
only unwelcome, they are deemed to be signs of evil intent. It has pitted
friend against friend and has caused rifts within families.
I’m talking about identity politics, the
attempt to divide Americans and set us against each other. The attempt to
classify and categorize us by all sorts of measurements and standards. To a
great degree, those who are making these attempts are succeeding. And their
efforts are changing our country in fundamental ways. . .
The problem with identity politics is
that it reduces us. We are no longer human beings with individual hopes and
dreams. We are commodities. We are groups to be labeled and courted and
pandered to. We have no shared values as Americans, because we are a series of
interest groups. We’re told what it’s thought we want to hear, and we divide ourselves
into pockets of groupthink. We begin to speak only with others in our group,
and we begin to believe that the only valid and true way to think is the way we
think. . . .”
Thank
you Hillsdale College for sharing this with the world. Read the entire excerpt
at -- https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/not-generation-z/
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