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Alan: Thanks to The Thinking Housewife -- with whom I often disagree -- for bringing the following quotation by Hannah Arendt to my attention.
I have high regard for Arendt and find her view of forced school integration to be fundamentally correct.
I have high regard for Arendt and find her view of forced school integration to be fundamentally correct.
In her 1959 essay, “Reflections on Little Rock,” Arendt comments on the forced integration of American schools:
“Children are first of all part of family and home, and this means that they are, or should be, brought up in that atmosphere of idiosyncratic exclusiveness which alone makes a home a home, strong and secure enough to shield its young against the demands of the social and the responsibilities of the political realm. The right of parents to bring up their children as they see fit is a right of privacy, belonging to home and family.
“To force parents to send their children to an integrated school against their will means to deprive them of rights which clearly belong to them in all free societies–the private right over their children and the social right to free association. As for the children, forced integration means a very serious conflict between home and school, between their private and their social life, and while such conflicts are common in adult life, children cannot be expected to handle them and therefore should not be exposed to them. It has often been remarked that man is never so much of a conformer–that is, a purely social being as in childhood. The reason is that every child instinctively seeks authorities to guide it into the world in which he is still a stranger, in which he cannot orient himself by his own judgment. To the extent that parents and teachers fail him as authorities, the child will conform more strongly to his own group, and under certain conditions the peer group will become his supreme authority. The result can only be a rise of mob and gang rule……”
[“Reflections on Little Rock”, in Hannah Arendt, Responsibility and Judgment, Schocken Books, 2003, pp. 211-12 ]
Alan: It must also be said that many Christian schools nourish social and political outcomes that are as bad -- or worse -- than forced integration.
One need only contemplate the monstrosity of Donald Trump -- simultaneously marveling at his widespread support among Christian conservatives -- to get a sense of conservative Christianity's epistemological breakdown.
"The Death Of Epistemolgy"
Aquinas notes that 'sin is always accompanied by loss of perspective/proportion.'
In this regard, it is notable that American conservatives -- particularly Christian conservatives -- deliberately shatter Whole Truths in order to cherry pick those fragments that support their preconceived (and "unimpeachable") ideologies without any deep contextualization to make perspective and proportion possible.
"Thomas Aquinas On American Conservatives' Continual Commission Of Sin"
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