I'm entering my last semester of college before student teaching. One of my courses is how to teach reading. I was looking over the syllabus and it seems we have to view and analyze a piece of literature or movie through a "critical lens". My whole journey through college has been fighting this liberal commie bullshit, and to be honest, I've had enough I'm at my breaking point. ESPECIALLY considering BLM is literally terrorizing people around the country. My question to yall is, how can I voice concern about this assignment and its Marxist basis without sounding like an "alt right Nazi"? Is anyone familiar with why critical theory is awful and harmful? Im just looking for an educated way to respond to my professor. (I'm 35- went back to college at 30)
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But how am I going to talk about white people oppressing minorities... I can't do that. I haven't done it once so far, and I'm not going to cave now.
I took education classes for my Ed minor in undergrad. I have a BS in psych and Eds as a counselor.
It was really hard to be the only conservative in my classes and I was sick of all the bullshit.
I trolled my teachers and peers by pretending to be ditzy and and back them into a corner by asking retorical questions pretending to be sincere (my goal was to red pill the moderates in the class) where they had to admit thier Marxist views. I once lost a 'school friend' who was a special education major after I made her cry by getting another liberal student to double down really hard on aborting babies with down syndrome.
Or you could bide your time in school and be the best based teacher ever when you get a real job and don't really teach the bullshit. I also did this the years I worked in school.
I normally speak up! But because my emotions are extremely high I'm nervous about losing my temper 😬
Awesome be bold! However, if you are going to that route you need to be clever with how you call out their hypocrisy and also ALWAYS be the calm voice of reason. When you have facts their is no need for emotion. When you speak up be steadfast in your convictions. Good Luck!
Thats what I'm here for. I was looking for someone here who is versed in critical theory. It's hard to find criticism of it on Google. 🙄