[Catfish]

Originally Posted by August

You may not admit it but it certainly is indoctrination, along with any other social pledge forced upon students, like not taking drugs or having sex or being "green" or "woke" or voting for a particular party, whatever it is, because you know that they all come with a mandatory class with tests and grades that can last hours, days or even the entire school year. That is indoctrination no matter which way you look at it.

All that influences children and what children learn can be called "indoctrination". Pointing out obvious and reasonable rules for living together is bad then, or "indoctrination"? Even kids are clever enough to see and point out injustice, right, but there should be some guidelines. Common sense and behaviour is not self-evident today.

[...] that I have worked on as a contractor these past 40 years, and there are a lot of them around here, the left is more that well represented. In fact they are the majority of the administration and faculty at all of these fine institutions, just as they are the majority in the public schools and universities that I have done work at as well. So forgive me but i'm having a bit of a difficult time believing you there.

I forgive you

1st: being against racism and teaching to, and demanding this from children is "left"?
2nd: Most private schools are "left" in the US? That is indeed new to me, but maybe you should not point at this one school and then generalize it for all others. (also when it comes to what is "left" your mileage may vary.)
3rd: The "left" is the majority in administration, faculty, public schools, universities everywhere?
But then

[...] I believe it's much more true that the left wing consists of thuggish losers whose only serious thinking is confined to plotting increasingly evil ways to steal from others because they are too stupid and lazy to figure out how to earn it themselves [...]

Sounds a bit like a contradiction if those "lefties" have made it to all those positions.

Being against racism is self-evident you say, and it should not be necessary to pledge to be against it. I agree. But i think it is necessary. That all are against racism is not so self evident as we have seen recently.