Dane Dusbiber, an English teacher in Sacramento, will
no longer teach Shakespeare because he was white. In other words: she’s a racist and wants “white”
things forbidden. Maybe we should also
stop allowing people to buy washing machines or microwave ovens and the unheard-of
convenience they provide. After all, microwave
ovens are made using engineering standards, materials and procedures that are
of “white” design and invention. How about the commercial jet aircraft that many
people use for pleasure and business travel?
Aircraft are “white” inventions.
The cure for Polio was discovered by a “white” guy. And although many people of color and diverse
ethnic backgrounds are engineers, doctors, scientists and manufacturers and
make many things that we all need and use, these people are using techniques
developed by “white” people, as the good teacher uses the word.
Ms. Dusbiber would deny her students the background of
their own culture by denying them Shakespeare and whatever else she and other racist
liberals personally don’t understand or like.
The reason education is so dreadful in the United States at present is
because people like Ms. Dusbiber refuse to teach the basics of western culture
and the enormous advances, liberties and prosperity that derive from its
teachings. We are living today with a
package deal of historically provided accomplishments in a constitutional
democracy combined with the prosperity and freedom that comes from Capitalism and
allows us to live more comfortably than any other society in the recent or
distant past. If the likes of Ms. Dudbiber are allowed to bury the traditions and
thinking of our predecessors, we will lose our pleasant lives and revert to the
misery and want that our forebears worked to overcome and finally succeeded in
eradicating.
The United States is currently experiencing the un-policing
of our cities while gangs of criminals break the law and attack the police, and
it’s in part due to liberal thinking like the Sacramento teacher’s, which
states that all is relevant, that there are no guidelines we need to recognize
nor follow and that we just need to do things that feel good, and if it doesn’t
feel good to read Shakespeare (after all he’s an old guy using an old language),
we’ll just forbid him and forget that part of our heritage. Denying
Shakespeare, Marx or any other of our writers and thinkers will mean losing
much of what makes our current lives possible, at least in part because it is
allowing the deniers to pretend historical events were unimportant or never
happened.
So when our good teacher uses her IPAD she had better
realize that she’s using the tool of a “white” guy, and she should consider
what will happen to her comfortable life if “white” ideas go away, which is
exactly what she professes. Whether it’s
Japan, India or Peoria, a free people who value and use the education that has resulted
in worldwide advancement in health care, science and convenience, are prospering, and societies
that are closed and deny the free discussion of ideas, are suffering.
