//Identity politics is a point of view that is open for debate//

Are you trying to claim that the notion that Africa-Americans have been subject to slavery, segregation, civil rights abuses and racism are 'open to debate'?

OK, David Irving. That doesn't make you sound like a crazy person at all.

Toni,

"//describing evolution as only a theory//

It IS a theory. I really wish science classes in this country would devote more time to teaching on the nature of the scientific method. Most people just fundamentally don't understand it."

That's worth repeating, hence the full quote.

With you 100% on that.

An exercise in English class to write something from another point of view requires one to research the background of the other person - the social conditions that made the person what he or she is. It will help to create understanding of what writers do. It seems a proper exercise in English to “define and give examples” of social inequity, racism, segregation, ghettos, civil rights and slavery; plus researching the “victimhood” of American-Africans in the US (where else?). Victimhood is put in quotes as though it is imagined. Human slavery is real victimhood, and the effects are felt in succeeding generations in the descendants of the slaves, the descendants of the slavers and those who are the descendants of both.

davidF,

Sociology and history are also literary subjects also. There is ample opportunity for essays there, particular as they pertain to the relevant subjects.

individual,

You say, "You obviously don't provide enough loopholes & so he simply doesn't comment !".

Maybe so. But all SR does is name other posters and attack them, most recently telling another poster he has an "enfeebled brain" - cheap and nasty stuff instead of just clearly stating views opposite to the ones he disagrees with. We all 'lose it' occasionally and have a go at someone, but SR does it all the time. He can't express an opinion without abusing someone.

In my experience, SR is very close to sociopathy, if not already there. And the more people respond to his nastiness to them, the more he will keep it up. He is not cutting back on his nasty comments because of any "inanity" on our part; he is cutting back because posters are gradually seeing that responding to him only encourages more of his bile.

Up front, without hesitation, he shot the messenger for being what he perceived as some right wing nasty without any reference to the article the man wrote. And he threw in the emotive word 'Holocaust', which was not mentioned, and had nothing whatsoever to do with Dr. Salter's article or subject. He also 'had to look up' Salter, another one of his sneering put downs for a well-credentialed person he hadn't heard of.

It's very likely that, on some sites, SR would be banned. Here, he serves as an example of how not to behave.

Tony,

The term "only a theory" as used by creationists is to dismiss the theory of evolution as whimsical as opposed to the "fact" of creation.
That evolution is theory does not put it in the same basket as for example the theory that the earth is flat, it is backed up with thousands of dated fossil records etc and as such is accepted as the only credible theory.

Secondly, the quadrant essay included:

"The example you give to the class is the Federal Government’s recent lock-down policies to contain the COVID-19 virus. You note that Aborigines are asked to stay at home if they are 50 years or older, but other Australians only when they are 70 or more. The cause of this difference, you say, is great racial or social inequality, which is shameful for Australia. No reference is made to causes that lie within indigenous communities. All the causes are matters of shame for Australia."

That is a matter of opinion which is up for debate. That slavery existed is not up for debate, but that it was only blacks that were enslaved or that everything in the US and Australia is defined by racism is also up for debate.

Finally the first issue raised is why is this being taught in an English language class instead of a history class? Maybe then we should do transgender rights in maths classes?