P.S. These kids are being subjected to tactics used in ‘struggle sessions’ and show trials, where fear of ostracism — from the ‘global community’ or their classmates — create powerful incentives to capitulate and conform. The objective is to shame and undermine confidence in independent thinking. The confessional stage, that is, accepting one’s ‘guilt’ as the price of re-acceptance, will be followed by calls for contrition.
Just as ‘landlord class’ families paid the price of collective guilt and punishment during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, American students are being ‘burdened’ with concocted shame for failing to conform to the wishes of others. They are being taught that it is more important to be well liked (even by those who are gaming them) than to do the right thing.
Gramsci spins in his grave.
