{"id":8480,"date":"2021-01-03T13:13:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T17:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=8480"},"modified":"2021-01-03T13:13:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T17:13:33","slug":"why-is-a-uk-teacher-union-so-infested-with-identity-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/01\/03\/why-is-a-uk-teacher-union-so-infested-with-identity-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is a UK teacher union so infested with identity politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NoneSense-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8481\" width=\"149\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NoneSense-1.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/NoneSense-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 149px) 85vw, 149px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Isn\u2019t it sad to see the level of collective stupidity\nin today\u2019s Western societies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the UK, <em>\u201ca teacher with a Mediterranean and Jewish\nheritage <\/em><em>is left bewildered as his trade union insists he is\nblack &#8211; despite him telling them he is not<\/em>\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9091217\/Teacher-Mediterranean-Jewish-heritage-left-bewildered-trade-union-insists-hes-black.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9091217\/Teacher-Mediterranean-Jewish-heritage-left-bewildered-trade-union-insists-hes-black.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should we laugh or cry to such stories? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What difference does it make his ethnolinguistic background or where his\nancestors were born?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is an employee. His union is supposed to be defending the collective\nrights of workers. Period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the other ideologies infesting this union are a mere stupidity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem with stupidity is that it can become a dangerous game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask the Lebanese people who went through a civil war, partly because of such stupidities. They may have stories to share, but will anyone listen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t it sad to see the level of collective stupidity in today\u2019s Western societies? In the UK, \u201ca teacher with a Mediterranean and Jewish heritage is left bewildered as his trade union insists he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8484,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8480\/revisions\/8484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}