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by proxiful-wash 1064 days ago
It was you wonder if a foreign state adversary is influencing us to stupify our next generation. I'll keep my comments civil here but its pretty obvious who is behind this.
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If it's all that obvious, you should have no problem naming who's behind this and providing evidence to support your claim, rather than merely fearmongering to no useful end.
I don't know. These "equity" arguments are indistinguishable from a deliberate attack.... the sort of attack you'd expect from a country that, having been unable to either compete with the West or conquer it, is well-known to have resorted to memetic warfare.
> I don't know.
Robert Conquest’s Third Laws of Politics:

"The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies."

But you do, it sounds like. Enlighten us.
I'm not claiming to know anything. I'm just asking that those who do make such claims be a little less gnomic in their commentary, so that the rest of us can evaluate whether or not you're talking nonsense.
TIL gnomic. Thanks!

And if I knew whether or not it was nonsense, I wouldn't have prefaced the post with "I don't know." I was just suggesting that proxiful-wash's downvoted post wasn't completely out of the question.

The priors are suspicious enough: might a country that attempted to get the world to believe that the US created the HIV virus [1], successfully influenced a razor's-edge Presidential election [2], and plotted to stir up domestic racial conflict [3] try to handicap the US by originating and propagating counterproductive educational ideologies? It's certainly believable, but there's no smoking gun.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/jun/14/russian...

2: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/senate-panel-finds-rus...

3: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-documents-reveal-...

That would be way too spicy for this place, Bob.
Well either the US is especially vulnerable to foreign sabotage or the US is especially vulnerable to self-sabotage.

I'll let others debate over which is worse.

Demagoguery is always a constant fear for the free people.
I don't know if it's "obvious" - the United States has at least two large enemies that have the means, motive, and opportunity to do this - picking between them is difficult.

One thing's for sure, though - it's pretty unreasonable to automatically discount the possibility of foreign influence, as others in this thread are doing.