In this post, we’re going to pick up right where we left off in Part 2 and cover pages 20-34. The purpose of this section is to teach students how to peddle Gobineau’s racial theory with dog-whistles. Much this section reads like a back and forth conversation that Donald is having with himself, and it plays out like the time he convinced himself that euthanizing homosexuals would honor God.
It's always fun coming to your posts to once again remember and be filled with anger and frustration. *Insert "He can't keep getting away with it" meme*
As always thank you for what you do, for shedding light on this. Also thank you for including the pictures from the PACEs.
i feel like it’s extra damning and disgusting that he is presenting this information in the context of a pace that is meant to be teaching kids political theory, instead of, say, a history pace (not that this shit should be taught at all). it frames these hierarchies within the context of the modern day, as if they matter when it comes to legislation and policy. it indirectly emphasizes the whole idea of the government being “authority ordained by god” and suggests any systemically racist or oppressive legislation is also god ordained
Another great read, and I was really all in! I was sad that it came to an end haha! But, as usual, I was also angered at how PACEs ever even got published. The amount of harm, to say the least, is unspeakable! (Sorry for the oxymoron!)
First, this is yet another example of the propaganda that has been perpetuated in the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) that vilifies a group of people as justification for their being genocided. Canaan, Ham's son, is the one who is cursed by Noah (which is interesting because Canaan is NOT the one who committed the poorly defined sin against Noah; it was Ham, yet for some reason Noah curses his son?!) - and surprise, surprise! - the Canaanites and all those associated with them (the various other -ites, et al) are marked for extinction so that Israel can claim their land. It's not surprising to me that Donald Howard bought into this egregious rhetoric and applied it to any other race that is not White (i.e that does not come from the line of Shem).
Second, the Bible is NOT infallible, nor is it univocal. Anyone who reads it critically without the lens of dogma can see that it contradicts itself in various places and that, in order for anyone to give the Bible substantial authority, they have to NEGOTIATE with the text to make it say what they want it to say - either to do away with or reconcile contradictions, or to use it as a hammer to bludgeon people into submission - or both!
Again, another great read! Thanks for the work that you do!
Thank you so much!! Your support means everything!
And yea, even in the King James Version, it's very clear that Noah was drunk af, Ham did the right thing in covering his father's nakedness, and then Noah in a drunken rage cursed Canaan, seemingly out of no where. Very contradictory that Noah isn't considered the sinner here. Growing up, pastors and teachers (supervisors and monitors) claimed that Ham went and gossiped to his brothers and made a fool out of Noah, and that this disrespect is what earned Canaan that curse, but that is reading sooo much into the story that isn't there, and still doesn't explain the jump to Canaan.
I like that phrasing, "they have to NEGOTIATE with the text," because that really is what's going on, and summarizes the ACE experience perfectly. The mental gymnastics involved in maintaining the many glaring contradictions within the Fundamentalist belief structure was one of the most mentally damaging aspects of being raised in that environment. I would get caught up in these thought loops where I really was negotiating with God about what the Bible meant. Particularly over things like gay marriage/homosexuality being a sin, and the unsaved spending a LITERAL ETERNITY IN A BOILING OVEN because they didn't say some magic words. Why would a loving God do these things? Kid-me would like to know.
It's always fun coming to your posts to once again remember and be filled with anger and frustration. *Insert "He can't keep getting away with it" meme*
As always thank you for what you do, for shedding light on this. Also thank you for including the pictures from the PACEs.
I love and hate that it's like that lol.
Thank you so much :)
i feel like it’s extra damning and disgusting that he is presenting this information in the context of a pace that is meant to be teaching kids political theory, instead of, say, a history pace (not that this shit should be taught at all). it frames these hierarchies within the context of the modern day, as if they matter when it comes to legislation and policy. it indirectly emphasizes the whole idea of the government being “authority ordained by god” and suggests any systemically racist or oppressive legislation is also god ordained
Another great read, and I was really all in! I was sad that it came to an end haha! But, as usual, I was also angered at how PACEs ever even got published. The amount of harm, to say the least, is unspeakable! (Sorry for the oxymoron!)
First, this is yet another example of the propaganda that has been perpetuated in the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament) that vilifies a group of people as justification for their being genocided. Canaan, Ham's son, is the one who is cursed by Noah (which is interesting because Canaan is NOT the one who committed the poorly defined sin against Noah; it was Ham, yet for some reason Noah curses his son?!) - and surprise, surprise! - the Canaanites and all those associated with them (the various other -ites, et al) are marked for extinction so that Israel can claim their land. It's not surprising to me that Donald Howard bought into this egregious rhetoric and applied it to any other race that is not White (i.e that does not come from the line of Shem).
Second, the Bible is NOT infallible, nor is it univocal. Anyone who reads it critically without the lens of dogma can see that it contradicts itself in various places and that, in order for anyone to give the Bible substantial authority, they have to NEGOTIATE with the text to make it say what they want it to say - either to do away with or reconcile contradictions, or to use it as a hammer to bludgeon people into submission - or both!
Again, another great read! Thanks for the work that you do!
Thank you so much!! Your support means everything!
And yea, even in the King James Version, it's very clear that Noah was drunk af, Ham did the right thing in covering his father's nakedness, and then Noah in a drunken rage cursed Canaan, seemingly out of no where. Very contradictory that Noah isn't considered the sinner here. Growing up, pastors and teachers (supervisors and monitors) claimed that Ham went and gossiped to his brothers and made a fool out of Noah, and that this disrespect is what earned Canaan that curse, but that is reading sooo much into the story that isn't there, and still doesn't explain the jump to Canaan.
I like that phrasing, "they have to NEGOTIATE with the text," because that really is what's going on, and summarizes the ACE experience perfectly. The mental gymnastics involved in maintaining the many glaring contradictions within the Fundamentalist belief structure was one of the most mentally damaging aspects of being raised in that environment. I would get caught up in these thought loops where I really was negotiating with God about what the Bible meant. Particularly over things like gay marriage/homosexuality being a sin, and the unsaved spending a LITERAL ETERNITY IN A BOILING OVEN because they didn't say some magic words. Why would a loving God do these things? Kid-me would like to know.
I always appreciate your responses :)