Is a Neo-Marxist running for school board in Mt. Olive?

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By Rubashov

It is important to know where ideas come from. Especially the ideas that fall from the lips of public officials and wannabe public officials. Some fashions and trends might look fresh and new because they appeared on social media just yesterday, but a little examination will reveal they’ve been around for some time, with roots that are often very dark and scary.
 
As playwright and politician R. B. B. Sheridan might have remarked: There’s a lot of putrefied wine being served out of new bottles these days.
 
Neo-Marxism is basically Marxism for rich people. Originally, Marxism was about advancing the working class at the expense of those economically above them. How an individual was defined and where he or she fit in was determined by their economic status.
 
A new breed of Marxists like Herbert Marcuse changed all that in the 1960s. Marcuse was one of the proponents of neo-Marxism, which held that identity was everything, and mattered more than economic class. This turned the old Marxism on its head. Now a very rich man could be the victim of oppression – provided he was “LGBTQ+” – with very poor people defined as oppressors if they held “unfashionable” opinions.
 
Marcuse gave neo-Marxism the Orwellian principle of “liberating tolerance”. Neo-Marxists reject the idea that “tolerance” is the equal application of fairness to all. Instead, neo-Marxists believe it is permissible to be intolerant of people and institutions that hold views that differ from yours – and that you should label these with the broad brush of “right-wing”. Neo-Marxists tell their fellow believers that they should only be “tolerant” of people who agree with them.
 
This is why neo-Marxists can claim to be “tolerant” even as they punish those they disagree with for exercising free speech. What they’re doing seems illogical and hypocritical to most people – but it is ideologically sound if you are a neo-Marxist.
 
Which brings us to Anthony Giordano, a member of the Mount Olive board of education and the superintendent of the Mansfield school district. Consciously or unconsciously, Giordano is pushing the neo-Marxist ideology of “liberating tolerance” in Morris County.
 
The parental-rights blog Chaos and Control reported on Giordano’s request that the board of education “pass a policy to ‘ban town council members’ from the school facilities during school hours.” In true neo-Marxist form, Giordano targeted Mt. Olive Council Member Alex Roman, “for making ‘hateful and divisive’ comments about the Pride movement, and even went so far as to suggest that the town council member should ‘step down.’”
 
Giordano’s statement is odd, because the very act of taking individual citizens and placing some into metaphorical silos indicated by letters of the alphabet, while leaving others out, is an act of extreme divisiveness. Further, suggesting that some silos deserve preferential treatment and that others do not is bound to create resentment and bad blood – thereby manufacturing the very hatefulness neo-Marxists claim to oppose.
 
Reportedly, Giordano didn’t end it there, Chaos and Control writes: “He (Giordano) finished by requesting that the school board write a resolution denouncing the councilman’s comments because the school district is ‘all inclusive’.” The blog continues:
 
Pro-parental rights Councilman and Vice President Alex Roman, had addressed the community at the June Town Council meeting in regards to the Pride month proclamation that had recently been passed. He described it as “innocuous and laudable”. He then went on by saying that he had been a previous supporter of pride proclamations, “but the pride movement that encouraged protests to counter societal shame with gay pride, and to demand equal rights and protection, has morphed into something else. An ideology that encourages the mutilation of young boys and girls. An ideology that can no longer define what a woman is. And has no problem with men invading, what used to be, protected women’s spaces.”
 
This sentiment is shared by a growing number of self-identified “progressive” gay and lesbian writers. They point out that the self-named “LGBTQ+ movement” has destroyed the short-lived consensus enjoyed after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on same-sex marriage. Up to that point, the argument was about the civil rights of consenting adults. What followed was a debate about the proselytization and indoctrination of young children.
 
We are collecting the thoughts of some of the prominent gay and lesbian writers who have discussed this for a lengthy examination in September.  Stay tuned… 

Renowned author and social critic Douglas Murray argues that our modern fixation on group-identity politics 'strips the individualism out of individuals'. Murray ridicules the common interpretation of society as based upon interest groups divided by gender, sex, sexual orientation and race.
 

Mt. Olive school board member Anthony Giordano is currently running for re-election.
 
To read the full Chaos and Control article on Substack, visit:
 
https://chaosandcontrol.substack.com/p/proposed-ban-on-town-council-member

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

 

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George Orwell

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