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Create Counter-Siteby Wayne Boettcher In a previous column called Create Counter-Schools I related how liberal public school propaganda may be countered. The process I outlined involved creating a "Counter-School" summer class to teach refutation of Marxist propaganda and/or racist, anti-American philosophy taught in today's middle and high schools. By creating a summer school class teaching real history and political science, students learn for themselves how wacky liberal ideas and revised history don't match the real world. But after ruminating on the idea some more, I realized that perhaps starting a summer school class is too ambitious a project to start off with. You'd have to get a lot of people together such as teachers and facilitators, obtain finances, purchase books and materials, get a place to hold class, etc. Not to say I've abandoned the idea. I still think it's a great one. It's just that there is a way to start smaller and work up to it. An ideal way to start would be a website. Take the example of Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) public school propaganda classes called "Ethnic Studies" I used in Create Counter-Schools, for instance. You would only need a small committee and several experts on La Raza / Aztlan to start. Someone will have to wade through the La Raza class material and condense the rhetoric to a series of points. Then the team would research how to counter these points using information available on the web or able to be published on their website. For an example let's take a "La Raza" point that land in the Southwest United States actually still "belongs to Mexico" or was "stolen." This point would be explained on the "Counter-Site" but then countered with a complete history of the land, the people of the area, when governments were formed and how they actually came to be there. Links to historical websites could be used but also articles solicited from various professors and history teachers interested in countering "La Raza" propaganda with solid facts and history. A timeline could be constructed along with clickable links. Lectures by respected history instructors could placed on a video broadcast website and linked. A list of realistic history books available in the public library would be essential. Blogs could bring up the latest issues and allow comments so ideas would be challenged and exchanged. Another section of the "Counter-Site" should be used to highlight those from other ethnicities who overcame social injustice by hard work instead of whining about it. Using various media and interviews, legal immigrants and minorities can explain how America provides the freedom to be successful and those who choose to ignore race can live together in peace and happiness. Once a website like this gets started, it would quickly become very popular. As more people get interested, a section of the website could be designated toward starting the summer classes. Volunteers, donations of materials and pledges of finances for summer classes would be gathered. It wouldn't be long before summer classes would be open! In the meantime, the "Counter-Site" would be extremely helpful to students wishing to find out about and counter "Ethnic Studies" in their school. Slips of paper with website links are easy to make and distribute. A one-page flyer outlining and countering the main points of TUSD "Ethnic Studies" backed up by links to the main website would be the next step. Finally, the definitive book on countering "La Raza" philosophy may come out of such a project. Complacency and intimidation of dissident TUSD employees has kept TUSD "Ethic Studies" in business for some time because nobody really knew what was going on there. When former TUSD teacher John Ward blew the whistle on the class in his recent opinion editorial, talk show host Jon Justice of 104.1 FM quickly investigated and began keeping TUSD in the local spotlight. TUSD Supervisor Tom Horne had also long been investigating the problem. Though the power to stop the class lies in the TUSD School Board and not the Supervisor's office, Mr. Horne has continuously disclosed the results of his probe and called for closure of the class. His recent press conference was quite concise and sent a shock wave across Tucson. Local newspapers have mostly covered up for and supported "Ethnic Studies" although the Tucson Citizen at least published John Ward's guest opinion. On the other hand, Phoenix's Arizona Republic published a scathing editorial and has been reporting in a more objective manner even though they are in another city. When TUSD's tomfoolery became public, some expected the instructors of it to hide in shame and change their program. But they are not going to change, in fact they wish to expand to middle school and elementary. Can they be stopped? TUSD has a School Board election coming up in November but many people vote those kind of elections based on name recognition rather than issues. Add that to the radical leftists who like the program and you have the same School Board in place. Free speech is a great weapon available in this country to counter propaganda with facts, figures and testimony from well-respected individuals. A central "Counter-Site" should be created to let the facts be laid out. Once that is done (along with other efforts,) "Ethnic Studies" will fold up like the house of cards it is. The time for complacency is past. Now is the time to stand up for America! Wayne Boettcher is the head of AmericanProtest.net Related Links: |
