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A number of articles appeared about this event. The articles are pretty vague
about their purpose (supposedly to boose religious liberty and patriotism),
or even to which level of education this mandate would apply (I am guessing K12).
My guess is that this mandate is trying to respond to Protestant Fundamentalists
who have (religious?) problems with the hard sciences, the age of the earth and
universe, formal logic, the historical study of Christian theology, and other topics.
My point is that it were better that the K12 schools would focus on primary subjects
that someone with ANY religious beliefs could take, such as
-- Formal Logic
-- Moral Theory
-- History
-- Epistemology
-- Concepts in the Consitution
that could be taught the same way, to all students.
I say this because those who are trying to stamp out "woke" behavior,
often do not have the intellectual background to present why they dislike
certain behaviors, other than "it is not the way we live". And, in America,
before the Supreme Court, we do not argue that a behavior should be
eliminated in our culture because "we don't like it". We must make a case that
it is unconstitutional, or criminal (according to the fair rule of law, or
would damage the Constitutional rights of citizens, etc. We do not work
to eliminate a behavior in America, because my group doesn't like that".
I think that the anti-woke groups in America are badly mixing up their
own personal religious subculture, with what OUGHT to be the moral-ethical (ME)
model that is enforced all over America based on the Consitution and the fair
rule of law. The result is imposing a type of religion on Americans, and it it not
particularly even historical Christianity.
There are anti-wokists, who would even object to me writing this.
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May I suggest that K12 educators need to get down to teaching basic
(historical) related topics, such as
Epistemology.
Epistemology: Becoming Intellectually... book by W. Jay Wood
www.thriftbooks.com
Moral Theory
Moral Theory book by Mark Timmons
www.thriftbooks.com
Formal Logic
(Unapologetically, because no one is writing about the relations between
formal logic and religious beliefs...)
Christian Logic book
www.thriftbooks.com
Note that "wokism" (I have no idea how to define this,becasue most users
of the slang phrase do not define it)would be addressed under the topic of
Formal Logic, under Sound and Unsound arguments.
Mostly in America, Formal Logic is only taught with regard to producing VALID
logical arguments. If you take a college course in Symbolic Logic, it is the
principles leading to logically VALID arguments that are being taught. This is
the "20 Rules of Inference and Quantification Rules", which are the grounding
of mathematics and the hard sciences.
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Soundness in a logical proof, involves using "sound" definitions and rules, in
the Assumptions part of a logical proof. "Soundness" means that the definitions
match "our shared reality". That is, if we do not get serious about teaching K12
students about concepts relating to "our shared reality", then they will continue
on in their life believing that whatever the think reality is, is what it is. And most
of these worldviews are incompatible with Constitutional concepts, and the fair rule
of law in America. This is not particularly a "religious" topic.
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Unfortunately, many in America who are "anti-woke" are anti-intellectual.
They do not accept the logical foundations of the hard sciences.
They do not accept the scientific foundation of the health sciences.
They are badly read in history.
They could not describe the difference to you, between Mathematical Logic,
Biological Logic, Logic in Chemistry, or Christian Logic.
Unfortunately, those who are anti-intellectual often do not see themselves
as anti-intellectual. What they are trying to impose on all students, is a
form of their own parochial religion. Often what they impose, is not even
historical Christianity.
You cannot have someone who is anti-intellectual, and a Christian.
You cannot have someone who is anti-intellectual, and a patriot.
This is a complicated problem in America, and the "anti-woke" crowds
in America, are not really addressing it.
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