Defending Waldorf
Rudolf Steiner inspired Waldorf is being transformed into Karl Marx inspired Waldorf. Waldorf schools are part of the broader Culture War that is being fought throughout society. AWSNA has declared Rudolf Steiner a racist and Waldorf education systemically racist. Were they wrong all these years when they proclaimed that "Waldorf Works"? The marketing director of AWSNA, Beverly Amico, has directed all Waldorf schools toward critical race theory and anti-racist education (anti-whiteness) in her article Working Toward Anti-Racist Education. No longer are Waldorf schools a place to preserve childhood innocence. Now young children will learn that the success of their parents was the result of prililege, not hard work, and they should be ashamed of their race and cultural heritage. This is Marxist political ideology of the never ending conflict between the oppressed and oppressor. Waldorf is no longer a safe place for your child. It has been politicized by the extreme Left and become a place for political indoctrination. Stand up to take back Waldorf from Left wing political activists.
"Freedom is the only word which has a ring of immediate truth today… If, instead of such slogans as peace founded on justice, or peace imposed by force, people would only speak of peace based on freedom, then this word would echo round the world and kindle in the hearts of all a sense of security." Rudolf Steiner
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To whom it may concern,
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. We appreciate your commitment to tolerance and would like to applaud you for listening to diverse opinions.
Our concern is that rhetoric that is purported to be designed to help with racial issues often exacerbate relations between groups and can cause division and resentment. Programs and classes about “White Privilege” inculcate a sense of guilt and shame into white people and are based on the pernicious idea that whites are inherently oppressive to other racial groups. “White Privilege” indoctrination is a passive-aggressive, psychological attack on the well-being of whites as individuals and as a people.
Certain political groups have crafted what is called “The Progressive Stack” which puts white, heterosexual men at the bottom of the social order on the notion that they oppress others. We see this ideology manifest itself in policies and laws like Affirmative Action, incentives for non-Whites and systematic ridicule and debasement of whites and their cultures and history. This type of racism should not be tolerated and is a bane on our free and equal society.
Please join us in publicly condemning “White Privilege” indoctrination as a hateful, anti-white attack on an entire race of people.
Sincerely,
American Voices
The CRT crowd claims “racism” can only be practiced by “oppressors,” (meaning White People), and therefore its impossible under CRT theory to be racist against White People. But they go further than that. Not only is it impossible to practice racism against White People, ALL White people are irretrievably racist because they have white skin. Not my argument. It’s theirs. But that’s how they can say in the same sentence that they are for “Anti-Racism,” while handing you a booklet of materials addressed to ‘White Parents,” with materials that expressly say that all white people are White Supremacists, which they define as (a) belief that White People are superior in all things, and (b) desire to perpetuate white power; Beliefs that can be conscious or unconscious, but afflict every person with white skin color. It’s how they introduce the building blocks of their argument that White People need to be reeducated, pushed to the margins, and anything built by them to be dismantled. To be “Anti-Racist” in this context, is in many ways to literally be anti-White people. Please Google Layla Saad’s free online workbook that accompanies her Book, “Me and White Supremacy.” This is the book our Waldorf teachers are using as “training material” in our school, and it was super illuminating to me. Read the first 10 pages or so of the workbook, and you’ll see the single-minded focus on skin-color, the White hatred, and the true meaning of terms of art like “Anti Racism.” It’s sick, but it’s where we’re at here.
CRT = deep hatred of White people, because they have white skin. It’s black-letter “racism” in the classical definition of the term. But by exempting White racism, they can thus brand their theory as “Anti-Racist,” which is the word you see in communications directed to you, and is what they will tell your children, details of white hatred to follow.
"Anti-Racism" = Racism
“Inclusion” = Exclusion
“Diversity” = Group Think
And, all of this is by design. These folks have put a LOT of time and effort into this. They have a theory with optically acceptable terms & conditions, which they use to get their foot in the door, because who wants to be against these words? But none of the words mean what they are commonly understood to mean. The actual details consist of a hate filled malicious ideology, and their target audience is our children.
— Jason Sweeney
After spending quite a bite of time reading the materials recommended on this list, I think the most effective way to push back on this movement is to simply raise awareness of this material to other parents in the community. The linked material is angry, overtly skin-color centric, anti-White, anti-White Woman, anti-male, anti-police, pro-Palestinian, pro-Marxist, anti-capitalist, pro "revolution," pro "destruction of the political-economic system of capitalism," etc., etc. The NYT's 1619 Project is recommended and supported.
I think parents that oppose this should organize to oppose it, and one of the techniques I think is to challenge AWSNA and the Waldorf schools that support this to be courageous.
Have Courage.
Don't hide behind vague terms like "equity," "social justice" and "inclusion," if Waldorf's official position is Pro-Marxism, and Pro-White Racism. If Waldorf's official position is that all white people are racist White Supremacists, and that White parents and children need to be re-educated about their White Privilege, then AWSNA and Waldorf Schools should have the courage to stand behind these convictions. Parents should demand full transparency. The AWSNA website, and the Waldorf School websites, should loudly and proudly list the School's official position on these issues.
Parents wanting to enroll children in Waldorf schools should know the School will be teaching children to identify based on skin-color. That White children and parents are deemed racist and White Supremacists. That Waldorf children will be taught, starting in kindergarten, to become activists to "destroy the political-economic systems of capitalism and imperialism and patriarchy."
To Waldorf Leadership: I challenge you to have the courage to put your new convictions on the DEI page on your website. Our local school said they believe these new "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" policies will increase enrollment. If that's true, then have the courage to spell on your enrollment and DEI web pages, what you mean when you say these words. Shouldn't be a problem for enrollment, right?
"so called 'social justice' appears naturally in our souls when we develop ourselves properly, a concept like "internal racism" underscoring any Waldorf education is repugnant and an insult to Steiner' teachings"
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