Paul Rossi: DEI, Whiteness, and Education

0:00 – Sponsor break and Lou's book
1:17 – Intro: teacher Paul Rossi
3:58 – Teaching math and philosophy at Grace Church School
4:57 – From progressive to woke and the race-segregated Zoom
8:00 – Why students were separated by race
9:04 – BIPOC, POC, and 23andMe results
10:07 – Who attends a $55,000-a-year school
13:02 – A two-tiered system of moral authority
14:24 – Ambitious immigrant kids in Queens public schools
16:42 – Is objectivity "white"? Decolonizing math
19:48 – The ruling ethos of critical social justice
22:06 – Race as a social construct you must accept
24:00 – "To what extent must I see myself as society sees me?"
26:21 – Wilfred Reilly and the many kinds of privilege
29:12 – Whiteness as a status leveler
30:56 – The racial wealth gap and elite lecturers
32:30 – Shocking sex ed at an elite school
35:41 – Sex positivity and why educators push it
38:24 – Teachers who call students "their babies"
43:15 – What is the job of a school?
44:54 – Why wealthy parents go along with it
48:49 – Optical allyship and Zoom confessions
50:07 – Affirmative action and black students as exhibits
51:36 – The students' letter after George Floyd
55:55 – Dignity culture vs. victim culture
57:21 – Ibram X. Kendi and blaming the SAT
1:00:56 – James Lindsay, postmodernism, and revolutionary thinking
1:03:59 – Real self-esteem comes from real success
1:06:03 – Great teachers and missing the classroom
1:08:42 – Wrap-up