The Progressive Left Redeems Itself In Homeschool Mom Eyes?
9 06 2007And now for something completely different . . .
“Progressive Historians: History of, by and for the People”
Liza Sabater of CultureKitchen is the left-blogosphere’s only consistent advocate of homeschooling. With that in mind, let’s listen to her argument:
I have a complaint!
You keep finding these excellent blogs for me to read.
How am I supposed to have enough time to wait on my children hand and foot or beat my husband — or was it the other way around?? — if you keep this up?
Nance
You won’t like this one so much, sorry Nance. Is Huffington liberal and progressive? Okay but but tell me who this sounds like — the conservatives complaining about immigrants, or trying to control a woman’s private reproductive rights, right?
This is just as repressive and reactionary, protectionist and offensive and wrong-headed imo. Just like what you wrote here, Nance, about law-and-rule literalist charter hysterics who claim they are offering us help and counseling so we can stay free! (Even the word “hysterics” is anti-feminist and I hate it, but here I think it does fit women who aren’t actually for empowering individual diverse women, just women or moms as some unilateral bloc for which they proclaim themselves the political Definers and Deciders.)
The worst face of any political movement is seen when it turns on its own, reducing real progress for the community to a pecking order fight for dominance over others.
Call it liberal democracy in the name of personal freedom if you want. I won’t. And I’m getting awfully tired of standing up even for people whose exercise of freedom I abhor, so they can be free to come at mine.
ABout the only thing good to be said about this illiberal crap is that at least he’s not a woman.
Yep, Shaw has had his head handed to him over this column. The hsers who posted, including yours truly
, took no prisoners.
The problem is that Huffington Post IS liberal/progressive/whatever and this is the party line — line ‘em all up for standardized everything, for their own good and for the good of the country (or at least the party).
Few on the left outside the abortion argument seems to understand the word “choice.” With some notable exceptions — Liza, me, you, that nice history blogger, a few other thoughtful posters at Culture Kitchen.
Who knows? If we keep insisting that choice does not end with our uteruses, maybe the message will get through. Even to those bound and determined to “help” us.
Nance
That’s what I get for not reading the comments. Now I see you were onto him long before I was. Good!
So here is a worthy summer school theme for our own studies as Thinking Parents, how to protect homeschool family autonomy from regulations and restrictions justified by this blurring together of religious education and academic education, of authority powered by “god, government and guns”: