I've been commenting about the purposeful dumbing down of the Western world lately. If you've read RedState for any length of time, you'd see both direct mentions and, offhandedly, the results of said dumbing down. Whether it be man-on-the-street clips that show someone not knowing basic history, or wondering why someone would vote for socialism despite every piece of historical evidence showing it's a bad idea, you've noticed the decline. 

The education system is infected to its bones with people who would love nothing more than to make you stupid so they can do as they please. To drown you in ignorance so you can't remember your history, your rights, or any other column that forms the foundation of the greatest civilization to ever exist. 

Read: The War on Intelligence

Part of that is shunting as many children as they can away from things like homeschooling and into the warmth of collectivist homeschooling. As I've written before, the left despises homeschooling because they see it as a missed opportunity to indoctrinate. They don't say this out loud, of course, but you can tell that's their primary concern because when they talk about homeschooling, it's usually complaining about "socialization" and "Christian indoctrination." 

Education is rarely mentioned, and that's on purpose, because homeschooled kids are typically more learned than their public school counterparts, perform better on tests, and are far more likely to get higher-paying jobs. It's my theory that a war will soon begin in earnest against homeschooling, which will somehow feature higher costs and corporations turning away homeschooled adults at the door when they apply for jobs. 

Read: The Left Would Love It If You'd Just Shut Up, and Let Them Raise Your Kids

This war can, however, be fought offensively. We don't always have to play defensively. That became very clear when parents invaded school boards, voted out the ideologues putting LGBTQ porn books into school libraries, and replaced those people. 

The first step is understanding that this isn't just a war in education. This is a culture war, first and foremost. 

One of the most stellar videos I've seen on this subject was something I came across on Friday. I've watched it twice now, because the woman speaking isn't just on the money about the entire subject; she has deep experience with it. 

Her name is Katherine Birbalsingh, and she is the headmistress of Michaela Community School in London. She's known as "Britain's strictest headmistress," and you can tell that her strictness doesn't stop at student behavior. It's how the education system is run under her hand. 

The speech is over 14 minutes long, but every word is poignant. For those who don't have the time or patience to watch a 14-minute speech, I'll hit the important part below. 

The big point she brings up is that everyone, especially children, is being indoctrinated everywhere they go to hate Western civilization. This isn't just happening in the UK, where Birbalsingh lives, but everywhere in Western civilization. 

It doesn't matter what they're looking at or what they're engaging in; something is there to push the erosion of the Western world's reputation. She centers her point on the idea that the left is forcing children to view everything through the lens of "oppression." Everything centers around a minority or "oppressed" group fighting against Western systems to be free. 

In fact, what little they know of history will be all about Black and brown people fighting for equality against the white man, women fighting men for the vote, gay and trans people fighting for various rights. Our young people have been taught that history is simply one long story about various groups struggling under the oppressive dead white man... 

History is taught through an oppressor lens. The triangular slave trade, white men held the power. What about Britain ending the slave trade? More than a quick mention, if at all? Mm, no.

What of the Arab slave trade that lasted 3 times as long as the triangular slave trade? Mm, no. 

Okay, so GCSE history in Britain is often taught as migration through time, so the idea that Britain has always been a land of immigrants is embedded in our children’s heads. Most schools would prefer to concentrate learning about the tiny number of Black people who existed in Tudor England over a thorough analysis of England’s break from Rome.

This should sound very familiar to you, an American. 

She also brings up how in places like museums, this "oppression" lens is brought into exhibits that have no business sporting it. For instance, in London's Science Museum, an exhibit about the creation of aviation and the impressive leaps in human innovation to get there, a part written on the wall stops to talk about how black people and women weren't allowed to go to aviation schools. 

James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine, has a write-up on the wall in his exhibit about how he used to traffic slaves in his early career, and spins off into discussing Britain's complicity in the slave trade. 

At the outset, this seems like a moral thing to do, but in reality, it's just attempting to make it seem like Western systems, Western society, and the great people of the Western world had nothing better to do than be oppressive to various groups. 

And it's working.

During one of my videos on YouTube, I felt it was good to mention "the great H.P. Lovecraft," the man who effectively created Cosmic Horror and inspired an untold number of works from others throughout time. I received more than a few comments, angry about the fact that I called Lovecraft "great," and one or two who were furious that I mentioned him at all, because he was a racist. I didn't respond because I didn't want my comment section to become a focus on someone's flaws, but I was beyond annoyed because someone's flaws don't always have to make up the entirety of their identity. 

These particular people could no longer see past the racism of a person to understand the work they did or how their work contributed to, and often elevated, Western culture. 

This is what the left wants. To see nothing but the flaws. To think that Western civilization and the people she birthed that created an amazing world we live in today are all evil because they were products of their time, or just had that character flaw. 

This is not "education" at all. I'd classify it as "un-education." Making someone stupid by giving them just a little knowledge, and classifying that little knowledge as all that matters.