CLASSROOM THUGS: ADL'S ANTI-BULLYING LAWS
By Harmony Grant
8 June 09
The Anti-Defamation League made hate crime laws to censor Christians
and conservative adults. Why stop there? Every 1984 scenario
teaches social engineers to start with the young’uns. ADL listened.
Their “anti-bullying” bills are Hate Laws for Kids—now
being passed in a state near you.
More and more states are passing anti-bullying laws or stiffening existing laws
so they specify especially forbidden types of bullying (anti-homosexual, anti-black,
etc.) just like hate crime laws. In addition, ADL is solidifying its
partnership with the National School Boards Association, promising to indoctrinate
our kids and teachers for decades to come.
State Skirmishes
This Family Equality Council map
charts state-by-state bullying laws in the US.
These laws, of course, are incredibly powerful social engineering tools. They
teach children, from the earliest ages, about what to think and what to say
aloud. Kids should be protected from being beat up or physically harassed;
teachers and older kids have intervened against bullies for as long as schools
have existed. But anti-bullying laws are not about punishing kids who inflict
black eyes. They are hate crime laws for the classroom. They identify specific
kinds of bias that might motivate bullies, and blacken those beliefs—even
if they are as traditional and moral as thinking homosexuality is wrong.
North Carolina is just
one state examining anti-bullying law. A law has been proposed which would
force public schools to have anti-bullying policies that specifically list “16
potential motives for bullies, including race, religion, disability, sexual
orientation and gender identity…” North Carolina already requires
school anti-bullying policies; that isn’t enough for activists who want
classes of victims (and the “biased” beliefs that motivate bullies)
specifically listed. These laws all differentiate between classes of victims,
giving special attention and protection to some. What this really means in
practice is giving special negative attention to certain prejudices or beliefs.
In NC,
the “proposed bill defines bullying or harassing behavior as any pattern
of gestures including any written, verbal, or electronic form along with
any physical acts threatening any school employee or student creating a hostile
environment on school property including school functions and on school buses." A
hostile environment? That’s just as vague as the workplace “anti-hate” laws
that chill free speech on the job. We are enacting law using language
as vague as the word “hostile,” which will then be left to the
discretion of liberal teachers and administrators to define. Surely many
teachers would think an “I love Jesus” t-shirt creates a hostile
environment for non-Christians. Soon any political or religious expression
that strays from the politically correct orthodoxy will be silenced, by
state law.
My state of Oregon is also
stiffening its anti-bullying laws. Our bill will require every school district
and charter to designate a bully investigator. In Minnesota, the governor
vetoed anti-bullying legislation, a “shock” to its supporters. Homosexual
activists were disappointed; conservative critics were pleased. “The
bill, which would have directed school districts to provide teachers, staff
and administration with training on how to address bullying, passed both the
House and Senate with large bipartisan margins and had the backing of a broad
coalition of community organizations.” But the governor vetoed it, saying
it duplicated existing law; he may have been responding to energetic protest
from concerned Christians and conservatives.
But concerted state-level effort, while valiant, may not be enough. The powerful
wave of bias laws curls above our nation at the federal level, threatening
to drown our freedoms in a riptide of legislation. It is especially powerful
because protestors of these laws almost never address the powerful organization
behind them.
ADL, Please Brainwash my Kid
On May 14, the Anti-Defamation
League announced that the National School Boards Association
(NSBA) is promoting ADL’s Making Diversity Count instruction
for teachers. Oh, lovely. ADL believes that Christians are hateful
anti-Semites; that the Bible is classic hate literature; and that
Americans concerned about immigration are racists. Yes, that’s
exactly who we want to instruct our nation’s teachers about
bullying.
Making Diversity Count is a web-based program. ADL says their
programs seek “to help participants recognize bias and the harm it
inflicts on individuals and society; explore the value of diversity; improve
intergroup relations; and combat racism, anti-Semitism and all forms of
prejudice and bigotry. In 2008, its Anti-Bias and Teacher Training
programs reached more than 26,000 K-12 educators, administrators and classified
staff — together responsible for more than 1 million students.”
ADL recently gave us another example of what it considers bullying
to be. The League
rebuked the creator of the Doonesbury comic strip for a comic that said
Jesus reproved “money-lenders.” ADL said shrilly, “Doonesbury's
Reverend Sloan is guilty of promoting anti-Jewish stereotypes and biblical
illiteracy. He owes both Jews and Christians an apology.” This hyper-sensitivity
to the smallest words against Jews, homosexuals, or other protected
groups now enters our classrooms as ADL is given power to instruct America’s
teachers and students about “hate” and “bias.”
At Portland State University, I experienced the way great literary classics
are emptied of meaning by Marxist, feminist and other “progressive” literary
critics. But soon maybe all the great literature will be swept out entirely.
We are raising our children afraid to speak or be spoken to, about a host of
forbidden topics. In a land once dedicated to rugged individualism and free-wheeling
debate, we are surrendering our liberty of thought in kindergarten, the workplace,
and soon on every street corner and in every newspaper column. And we are not
surrendering this liberty up to silence on certain topics. Rather
we allow far-leftist ADL to enforce stern and fixed positions on questions
of race, sexuality, marriage, etc. The next generations will not just be afraid
to think for themselves; they will be emotionally and passionately convinced
of a host of perverted lies about society, sexuality, gender, freedom, and
God Himself.
In 2003, Yale and
ADL partnered to study the No Place for Hate program. ADL reported
that although students entering the program tended to support “free speech,
no matter what the person’s views may be,” the program successfully
changed their minds! It caused kids to “moderate their views on unadultered
free speech.” ADL is convincing the nation, starting with kids, that
certain beliefs—anti-homosexuality being one—are unspeakable.
The program also teaches race guilt and separates society into victim classes.
The study says it made kids much more likely to agree with the statement, “U.S.
society prevents people of color from getting their fair share of the good
things in life, such as better jobs and more money.” ADL’s program
thus “had its intended impact on students’ understanding of structural
discrimination against people of color in the U.S.” The study found that
the program had more influence over kids’ perception of racism than the
kids’ own race; it was more effective than being black.
Kids in treatment schools (that’s their term, not mine!) were almost
twice as likely to report that they’d heard teasing. The study concludes, “These
changes manifested not only in students’ beliefs and attitudes [emphasis
mine] but in their anti-bias behaviors in school situations and in a situation
where they had the opportunity to stand up to bias in society at large.” Excuse
me, but I thought schools existed to teach facts, not beliefs. Obviously,
ADL disagrees.
Just like hate crime legislation, anti-bullying laws—created by the Jewish
supremacists of ADL B’nai B’rith—exist to shatter the moral
and social foundations of our once-Christian nation. They heap racial guilt
on our youth, and teach kids that criticizing homosexuality is wrong. They
forbid traditional beliefs that have now become politically incorrect. These
laws are yet another reason Americans of all persuasions should speak out against
ADL B’nai B’rith and its sinister legislative thrusts. Americans
should also examine and protest the anti-bullying laws assaulting freedom of
thought in our kids’ schools.
If any bullies need to be kicked out of school, it’s ADL.
