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   Columbia professor calls on parents to p   
   27 Jun 21 22:57:12   
   
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   From: nigger-lovers@disney.com   
      
   A prominent black Columbia University professor has called on   
   New Jersey parents to pull their kids out of a prestigious   
   Bergen County, NJ, prep school after an English teacher resigned   
   over what she called a “hostile culture of conformity and fear”   
   created by critical race theory.   
      
   “All hail Dana Stangel-Plowe, who has resigned from the Dwight-   
   Englewood school, which teaches students ‘antiracism’ that sees   
   life as nothing but abuse of power, and teaches that cringing,   
   hostile group identity against oppression is the essence of a   
   self,” John McWhorter, who is also a contributor to The Atlantic   
   magazine, tweeted Tuesday.   
      
   “Truly antiracist parents, in the name of love of their kids,   
   should pull them from the Dwight-Englewood school as of next   
   fall,” McWhorter continued. “Only this will arrest these   
   misguided Elect parishioners from their quest to forge a new   
   reality for us all.”   
      
   In a resignation letter posted Tuesday on the website of the   
   Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism, English teacher Stangel-   
   Plowe accused Dwight-Englewood administrators of “failing our   
   students” by embracing critical race theory.   
      
   “[S]tudents arrive in my classroom accepting this theory as   
   fact: People born with less melanin in their skin are   
   oppressors, and people born with more melanin in their skin are   
   oppressed,” she wrote. “Men are oppressors, women are oppressed,   
   and so on. This is the dominant and divisive ideology that is   
   guiding our adolescent students.”   
      
   Stangel-Plowe’s letter went on to describe students “who recoil   
   from a poem because it was written by a man” and “approach texts   
   in search of the oppressor.”   
      
   “One student did not want to develop her personal essay — about   
   an experience she had in another country — for fear that it   
   might mean that she was, without even realizing it, racist,” the   
   teacher wrote. “In her fear, she actually stopped herself from   
   thinking. This is the very definition of self-censorship.”   
      
   Stangel-Plowe also claimed that Dwight-Englewood Head of School   
   Rodney De Jarnett “told the entire faculty” on multiple   
   occasions in 2017 and 2018 “that he would fire us all if he   
   could so that he could replace us all with people of color” and   
   described a recent faculty meeting that was “segregated by skin   
   color” and at which white teachers were told “to ‘remember’ that   
   we are ‘White’ and ‘to take responsibility for [our] power and   
   privilege.”   
      
   McWhorter, an associate professor of English and comparative   
   literature at the Ivy League school, has drawn a substantial   
   following on social media for his criticism of critical race   
   theory.   
      
   Earlier this year, McWhorter released a book called “The Elect:   
   Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and their Threat to a   
   Progressive America” in serial form on Substack. In it,   
   McWhorter decried what he called “Third Wave Antiracism,” which   
   he said teaches that “racism is baked into the structure of   
   society, so whites’ ‘complicity’ in living within it constitutes   
   racism itself, while for black people, grappling with the racism   
   surrounding them is the totality of experience and must   
   condition exquisite sensitivity toward them, including a   
   suspension of standards of achievement and conduct.”   
      
   Joe Algrant, the principal of Dwight-Englewood’s Upper School,   
   told The Post Tuesday that he could not comment on personnel   
   matters.   
      
   “In this case all I can say is that Ms. Stangel-Plowe notified   
   us several months ago that she would not be returning next   
   school year,” he said in an email.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2021/06/09/columbia-professor-says-parents-   
   should-pull-kids-out-of-nj-school/   
      
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