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Heather MacDonald

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
121 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

There's no more left-wing profession than teachers in this country, as we've seen numerous times with the celebrations of Charlie Kirk's murder and, and Luigi Mangione's murder.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

And an ed school is just one long marination in white privilege theory.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

But the idea was, is that if black kids are getting disciplined at a higher rate, it's because of systemic racism.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

And so the Obama administration sued schools to make them...

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

basically get rid of discipline because, you know, you have two options.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

You can continue with so-called disparate impact and actually mete out justified consequences, or you can just throw up your hands and say, okay, in order to avoid disciplining black students, we're going to not discipline anybody.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

And that's what schools have been doing.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

And if there's no

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

structure in the home, you have something called multi-partner fertility, a very antiseptic term from sociology that means one boyfriend after another moving through the home and a mother has children by several different males.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

If that situation is chaotic, the child's only hope for learning self-control

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

self-discipline, deferred gratification is in the school, is in the classroom.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

But teachers now have been told they can't do that.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

So, but that again is a longstanding change.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

None of this is new.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

Policing obviously has been under one prolonged assault since the Ferguson riots saying that if they arrest black juveniles or black criminals, that they're racist.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

And so the pressure is on them

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

not to intervene at all because they don't want another George Floyd riot or Ferguson riot in their city.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

So there's a big pressure to just watch and be passive rather than proactive.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

It does.

Morning Wire
Teen Takeovers Are Spreading. Why?

I mean, we've been hearing endlessly that these are organized on social media, but I think that's a dead end to go down.