Schools must re-examine the definitions their policies are based on

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By Rubashov

Yuri Bezmenov was a Soviet KGB media and propaganda specialist who defected to the West in 1970. In 1984, he gave a now famous interview in which he described the “slow process of ideological subversion” and the “demoralization” of Western societies. Bezmenov claimed the Soviet Union had been actively engaged in this process since at least the 1950s and that the conduit used was the West’s education establishment, where it was relatively easy to introduce Marxist-based ideology.
 
According to Wikipedia, “Bezmenov's ‘Soviet subversion model’ has been studied and interpreted by faculty and staff at the Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) to analyze historical events, including the decade-long Russian campaign that preceded the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. His work has also been cited by senior director of UPenn's Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Michael R. Carpenter. His lectures have also been used by Yale senior lecturer Asha Rangappa, to illustrate the concept of active measures in Russia's historical disinformation campaigns in the United States.”
 
After the fall of Soviet Communism, it has been suggested that academic elites in America and elsewhere in the West acted as unwitting “sleeper cells”, carrying on “active measures” in the name of an ideology they had grown up in. This view places modern Marxist “identity” ideology in a rather ominous light.
 
Whether this perspective is accurate or not, the use of definitions by the education (and political) establishment in New Jersey concurs with the “active measures” described by Yuri Bezmenov. The argument goes that if you can get a population to accept your definitions, then it follows that they will also accept your views. For example, this is why the definition of “human life” is so important in the abortion debate. One’s viewpoint inevitably follows from that definition.
 
Go to any school district website in New Jersey. Click on the section with the Board of Education “policies”. Now, go to the policy most likely labeled “Transgender Students” or numbered as policy “5756”. The policy statement begins with a list of definitions.
 
Let’s use the Hopatcong School District in Sussex County as an example. This is in politically “red” Sussex County – a county where Donald Trump got nearly 60% of the vote in 2020. And the Hopatcong School Board was where Jill and Parker Space turned when they sought a new Chairman of the Sussex County Republican Committee.
 
The Space choice for GOP party chairman was a former School Board member (now a trustee for the Sussex County Community College) who voted for policy 5756. But it wasn’t just Jill and Parker’s choice. Steve Oroho, Hal Wirths, Dawn Fantasia, Gary Chiusano, Jack DeGroot, and Chris Carney all enthusiastically backed the Space choice. And they all claim to be “conservative”.
 
Nobody looked at the policies their choice supported and voted for. Being recommended by another “Goodfella” was enough. But if someone had taken the time to properly vet their choice – and the time to read the policy their choice supported and voted for – they would have found that it begins with 11 definitions that (if you accept them) cannot help but lead the reader to embrace Marxist “identity” ideology. Just like Yuri Bezmenov predicted.
 
Let’s look at just one of those definitions: “‘Cisgender’ refers to individuals whose gender identity, expression, or behavior conforms with those typically associated with their sex assigned at birth.”
 
“Cisgender” wasn’t even in the dictionary until 2015. The Oxford Dictionary defines the word as “denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex registered for them at birth; not transgender.”
 
Wikipedia states: “The word cisgender is the antonym of transgender. The prefix cis- is Latin and means on this side of. The term cisgender was coined in 1994 and entered into dictionaries starting in 2015 as a result of changes in social discourse about gender. The term has been and continues to be controversial and subject to critique.”
 
The term cisgender has its origin in the Latin-derived prefix cis-, meaning “on this side of”, which is the opposite of trans-, meaning “across from” or “on the other side of”. It is a wholly ideological term, manufactured to describe an ideological perspective.
 
Karl Marx took the term “capitalists” and used it to define economic liberals who supported the free market. He did so to create a “them vs. us” binary – pitting employees against those who employ them.
 
The practitioners of Marxist “identity” politics have created a new binary by using the words “cisgender” and “transgender”. No longer is the binary “men” and “women” but rather, “cis” and “trans”.
 
And – because “oppression” and “struggle” and “revolution” are central to Marxist ideology – you can imagine who the bad guys are. Up the revolution! Down with the oppressors!
 
As dominated by the Left as the New Jersey Legislature is, we don’t believe the Office of Legislative Services uses terms like “capitalist” and “proletariat” when drafting legislation. So why are "cis" and "trans" used in official policy? 
 
How did a “controversial” word, like “cisgender” – a term out of Marxist “identity” ideology – end up in the education policy manuals of nearly every school district in New Jersey? These policies were installed around 2015 – the same year “cisgender” became a recognized word. They were updated around 2019 – so everyone had a good look at them again. Why is it there, defining a new binary and using it to indoctrinate a generation of young people in Marxist “identity” ideology?
 
And why wasn’t it questioned? Can the Republican Party not be relied on anymore to catch such assaults on the state’s children? Can they not be relied on to read, sound the alarm, and lead the fight? Or are they too busy with something else? 

Yuri Bezmenov warns the West.
 

NOTE: The Space choice for Sussex County Republican Party Chairman was defeated, losing to a career military officer who perfectly understands the threat posed by Woke Marxist “identity” ideology.


 

“It was a thoughtless, mindless action… It’s really disturbing to think that the kids were targeted.”
 
Dr. Paul Saxton, Fort Lee School District