Ibram X. Kendi famously wrote a book for children called Antiracist Baby. 

Well, the Portland Teachers' Union wants to one-up Kendi, or at least go farther than he has so far, by developing a curriculum that is designed to turn pre-K and up students into activists.

Not just any kind of activist either; kids get the full Marxist anti-settler colonialist, anti-American, and especially anti-Zionist version. No doubt there are other modules of the curriculum that encompass gender identity, various forms of sexual deviance, and tutorials on how to go "no contact" with parents and family members. 

In pre-kindergarten, teachers are encouraged to read from a workbook by the Palestinian Feminist Collective, which blames "a group of bullies called Zionists" who "stole [Palestinian] land by force and hurt many people." pic.twitter.com/7tpUtzgJLT

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 5, 2024

Christopher Rufo has the story, and I have to say that I am no longer capable of being shocked by the depths of depravity revealed. There is no pretense that any of this is anything other than training for eventual Hamas membership. It could easily have been created by some intelligence official in Tehran, and for all I know it was. 

In kindergarten, the students learn "anti-Zionist" history. In one lesson, it describes Zionist Jews as land thieves who wanted to create "a country where rules were mostly fair for Jewish people with White skin." This, the students learn, is the evil of "settler colonialism." pic.twitter.com/uwT5wdVATz

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 5, 2024

Teaching kids how to deal with tear gas, masked screaming protesters, and especially to hate Jew, police officers, and their country are all features of this curriculum. It is sort of a one-stop-shop for anticapitalism and anti-caucasian propaganda. You can defund the police, deport the White people, and fight for degrowth from toddlerhood to college. 

Finally, the hardcore ideology. The curriculum encourages students to chant in support of Palestinian martyrs and suggests that violence against Israel is justified: "Resistance is justified when people are occupied!" "We salute all our martyrs!"; "No peace on stolen land!" pic.twitter.com/Y0am6SRNco

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 5, 2024

Students even learn how to celebrate actual terrorists, saluting them as "martyrs." As far as I can tell, the youngins aren't instructed on how to make suicide vests, but that could be reserved for the Junior High or High School portion of the curriculum. 

After all, that is when Chemistry is usually taught, and I suspect that teachers wouldn't want to be in the room when 6th graders experiment with nitroglycerine. 

I wouldn't anyway, and if the habits of propagandists, terrorist leaders, and imams are any indication, leaving martyrdom to the young and dumb is the way to go. The leaders tend to induct their followers into the cult and then hide a ways back when the real fighting begins. 

Read the full story about Portland's kindergarten Intifada exclusively at City Journal: https://t.co/UoCsLWHOoP

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 5, 2024

There really is no pretense anymore that our schools exist to do anything other than turn kids into anti-American, anti-Western zealots. The current generation of teachers, administrators, and counselors at schools are there to turn kids into Marxist tools. 

What is incomprehensible to me is that any parent is willing to put up with this. It doesn't surprise me anymore that the Marxists have taken over our schools--they set out to do so in the 1960s, and anybody who warned about this was derided as a conspiracy theorist. 

But now that the reality is slapping us in the face, people still don't react. Or, should I say, the average liberal looks at Moms for Liberty and recoils. They would rather sacrifice their kids to the Marxists than side with a conservative. 

Is it any wonder that people who live east of Portland are agitating to leave the state? They, too, are seen as nutty extremists. But when these are grown up 15-20 years from now, I wouldn't want to live in the same state as them. For that matter, I wouldn't want to live in the same state as the people of the Portland teachers' union today. 

Would you?