For those who are keeping track of the woke liturgical calendar, today is ‘Wear it Purple Day.’ It is an important holy day of obligation for non-rainbow people to prostrate themselves before the rainbow people.
This can be done in a variety of ways in the broader community, from temporarily replacing one’s rainbow lanyard with a purple one or baking mini purple cupcakes to impress woke colleagues. The more observant among the populace can prove their allyship by taking the day off and spending it at a special event in Sydney’s Albert Park, courtesy of the wokest mayor this side of the Blue Mountains, Clover Moore.
Unsurprisingly, much of the ‘Wear it Purple’ propaganda is aimed at schoolchildren. Suggestions include organising school discos, adorning the classroom door with all things purple, and turning up for class in purple mufti, purple nail polish, or with purple hair. The more devoted can open a chapter of the Gender and Sexuality Alliance, which is an international network started in the US.
Available on the extensively resourced ‘Wear it Purple’ website is a pre-written letter and petition, clearly targeted at recalcitrant teachers or principals who might not be fully on board with this new authoritarianism. Oddly, the letter cites a rousing speech given by someone called Michael Sam, who we are told was the first gay man to be drafted into the NRL. Or at least I think so. The letter actually informs us that ‘Michael Sam was the first gay many drafted into the NFL.’
The reality is that Australian schooling system has long given up any pretence that it is about a liberal education in the traditional sense. Your children are not going to school to learn how to read and write- this week’s devastating NAPLAN results are testament to this. Australians are going to school to become politically literate.
As revealed in the Institute of Public Affair’s report ‘De Educating Australia. How the National Curriculum is failing Australian Children’, Australian children are being indoctrinated with a combination of identity politics, radical race theory, and radical green ideology. ‘Wear it Purple Day’ is not an anomaly. The problem is that it is perfectly aligned to what is already being taught in our schools, courtesy of a curriculum which is to all intents and purposes, a political and ideological manifesto.
The young and impressionable are being fed radical theories about race and gender that were once marginal academic ideas, but which have now become the pedagogy favoured by the progressive educationalists employed by the state. Such individuals have long understood that their greatest strength is in education and that in order to change the world you have to change how children are taught. That children are being made illiterate is just an unfortunate by product of the critical pedagogy currently favoured by educationalists.
This year on ‘Wear it Purple Day’, school children might well be able to recite which identity group every letter of the LGBTQIA+ represents. But they will struggle to arrange the letters of the alphabet into multi-syllabic words in order to form comprehensive, fully formed, and articulate sentences.
