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Vox Day Explains Education
With the sounds of “loony loony loony” echoing in my head, I decided to head over to Vox Day’s blog. If you don’t know Vox, he’s a widely-celebrated World Net Daily columnist, an avid gun collector, and the Hans Zeiger of his generation.
After reading his latest entry about forced cliterectomies and the NEA, I can only conclude that he’s angling for the job of Education Secretary in a future Bush administration.
I happened to scan a few pages of a chick book the other day. It’s called Princess, and it purports to be the true story of a Saudi Arabian princess. I have to say, I was largely left cold by the plight of the poor oppressed rich girls, as with a few exceptions, the most horrific events of the book were the predictable and easily avoidable consequences of the young women’s actions.
The ever-sensitive Vox goes on to describe clitorectomies the girls are forced to endure and then draws a somewhat unusual parallel.
A disgusting practice, to be sure, and defended with an argument similar to that made by public school-educated parents who are planning to subject their children to the same education they experienced. The fact that these parents are as intellectually dead as the Saudi women are sensually crippled means that they are making their decisions on the false grounds of incomplete experience. In both cases, I think those who condemn their children to like fates have much for which to answer, as one’s own abuse, physical or intellectual, should inspire one to act to prevent the same from happening to the next generation instead of allowing the vicious cycle to be repeated.
Yeah…Education. Don’t let it happen to your kids.
When one understands that the teachers of the NEA are every bit as ignorant and prejudiced as the mutawas of Saudi Arabia, and that they serve much the same societal purpose, one soon discovers in oneself as little inclination to hand one’s children over to the former as to the latter.
So instead of trusting teachers, perhaps you should consider handing your children over to this man:
Vox Day, undated file photo
Ivan said,
July 31, 2004 at 15:52
Can’t take…eyes…off photo…head…so fucking…huge…
glenstonecottage said,
July 31, 2004 at 16:18
Hmmm… now let’s do a real-life case study: was George W. Bush “edjicated” in the public school system or in private schools?
Rarely is the question asked, is our private school students learning?
Frederick (from San Francisco) said,
August 1, 2004 at 8:08
“Cliterectomies”? Surely you mean “clitorectomies.” The thing being removed is a clitoris, not a cliteris.
Hmmm… now let’s do a real-life case study: was George W. Bush “edjicated” in the public school system or in private schools?
Good point, glenstonecottage. I went to public grade school and high school, and somehow managed to graduate with high honors from college and go to Columbia Law School. Dubya couldn’t even get into the University of Texas Law School. And I’ve been a Mensa member (like Vox — hmm, not sure that’s a good thing); I am quite confident that Dubya would not be eligible for admission.
Jon H said,
August 2, 2004 at 13:25
Why does this man have a woman’s beaver sprouting from his scalp?
r@d@r said,
August 2, 2004 at 20:53
1. perhaps the misspelling is due to a confusion with the right’s other obsessions, such as the Clenis™ “What’s that thing called again…a…clintonis? uh…hitleryectomy? or…”
2. i’d be more willing to believe that this young man is indeed the “Vox Dei” if he could, for instance, fucking spell in his own language, as i am tempted to assume the Deity can.
r@d@r said,
August 2, 2004 at 20:57
darn it! i guess a retraction is in order. i thought vox dei, uh, sorry, day misspelled clitorectomy. the man is obviously far more literate than i am…not to mention, well-groomed.
and i suppose he means “vox day” as a pun…oh how humorless am i the leftist…
Chris Vosburg said,
August 2, 2004 at 22:29
Why does this man have a woman’s beaver sprouting from his scalp?
I’ll be damned, so that’s what a merkin looks like.
matt said,
August 2, 2004 at 22:32
Vox is a big proponent of home-schooling. He wants genital mutilation to happen in the home. As a libertarian he believes that the government should not be participating in hacking off clits; it is a job for parents.
Anna in Cairo said,
August 3, 2004 at 8:14
Not to be critical, but the term “clitorectomy” is not correct either. It’s “clitorodectomy.” As this term is kind of medical sounding and therefore carries a sort of veneer of respectability with it, as does ‘female circumcision,’ most people who are anti- the practice call it FGM (female genital mutilation) as being more truthful about what it represents. And Saudi Arabia does NOT practice it. None of the gulf societies do. I have read Princess and it is talking about their servants from Sudan or Egypt or somewhere here in Africa. It’s a pre-Islamic African practice still popular in Christian and Muslim African nations. In Egypt in spite of public ad campaigns and aid funding to get people to stop doing it, it’s still carried out on a majority of girls.
Sunnie said,
August 3, 2004 at 22:34
Thank you, Anna, for clearing that up. I was wondering if I was going to have to buy Princess just to figure out what the hell was going on. And yes, female genital mutilation is much more accurate than the other terms.
Chris Vosburg said,
August 4, 2004 at 6:46
Not to be critical, but the term “clitorectomy” is not correct either. It’s “clitorodectomy.”
Same here re critical, but for the record, MW10th says both are acceptable variants. It’s “clitoridectomy,” incidentally. Is this one of those brit v american things?
Chris Vosburg said,
August 4, 2004 at 6:58
After posting that, I thought to myself, wow, that’d be a great word to use for a tie breaker in a spelling bee.
And then I burst into laughter at the image of an unsuspecting fourth grader, say, being suddenly asked to spell it.
Frederick said,
August 4, 2004 at 7:52
Not to be critical, but the term “clitorectomy” is not correct either. It’s “clitorodectomy.”
webster.com — http://tinyurl.com/5737q –lists “clitorectomy” as a variant of “clitoridectomy.” They don’t recognize “clitorodectomy,” although evidently others do.
Anna in Cairo said,
August 4, 2004 at 14:49
Wow. I made a typo on a spelling correction. Slinking off now in shame. However the rest of the info in my post was correct. :)
Chris Vosburg said,
August 5, 2004 at 6:55
Qutie right, Anna, you’re points are well taken, and I should have acknowleged that in my above coment. :-)
Sgt Gideon's Dad said,
January 31, 2008 at 5:27
Doesn’t make a damn bit of difference wether you like Vox Day or not.
He is dead on in his assessment of the State’s control over education.
Have you seen the absolute crap, children are being taught in school nowadays…
Best to educate your children yourselves or send them to private schools that excepts no government funding what so ever!
Vox said,
April 14, 2008 at 17:19
WTH!
Miss a day??!!?? you miss a lot!