Dodgeball as a Tool of Oppression

Anything that does not promote the molding of children into soft, sissified, egalitarian moonbats will be banned. This includes dodgeball.

From Canada’s National Post:

When the Canadian Society for the Study of Education meets in Vancouver at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, a trio of education theorists will argue that dodgeball is not only problematic, in the modern sense of displaying hierarchies of privilege based on athletic skill, but that it is outright “miseducative.”

Being “miseducative” means that dodgeball counters the brainwashing that the authorities are trying to implement.

A joy-killer named Joy Butler (a professor of curriculum and pedagogy at the University of British Columbia) leads the attack by proclaiming that dodgeball “reinforces the five faces of oppression” as outlined by University of Chicago social and political theorist Marion Young.

As Butler’s abstract describes it, those “faces” are “marginalization, powerlessness, and helplessness of those perceived as weaker individuals through the exercise of violence and dominance by those who are considered more powerful.” Young’s list of these fundamental types of oppression also includes exploitation and cultural domination.

The 2004 slapstick movie Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story provides examples of the brutal oppression inherent in the game.

From their viewpoint high aloft in the ivory tower, academics can spot the many aspects of culture that are theoretically not in sync with their ideology. These aspects are slated for eradication, which is implemented by likeminded liberals in the media and primary education establishments. Say good-bye to dodgeball.

On tips from 1-Bodhisattva and Varla.

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