The Deadly Fraud of Restorative Justice in Schools

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 160 If you had to narrow it down to a single reason our school classrooms and hallways have become so much more dangerous, rough, irreverent, and violent, any honest assessment would identify the widespread misapplication of restorative justice programs. It's long past time we face up to this fact, which was first exposed in the unbelievably important book Why Meadow Died by Andrew Pollack (https://amzn.to/41y1TKi), whose child died in the Parkland school shooting in Florida, and AEI fellow Max Eden. The problem didn't start in Parkland, however; it started in Oakland, and it spread as a result of pressures coming from the Office of Civil Rights in Obama's Department of Education well over a decade ago. As with so much in Woke education, the problem is infinitely worse and more fraudulent than one has any right to expect. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay reads some of Fania Davis's (Angela Davis's sister) ridiculous book The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice (https://amzn.to/3D67bU0) along with a report cited by Davis (https://shorturl.at/nU6TA) in support of a program that simply doesn't work. It's time for America's parents to stand up to restorative justice and demand it be removed from our schools. New book! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2025 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #restorativejustice

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay, and you're listening to the New Discourses Podcast.
0:23.8	And what we're going to do today is something a little bit more back to the roots.
0:27.7	What I usually do, we're going to talk about something on the left.
0:31.1	I'm going to read to you a little bit out of a book that's kind of timely, at least in the circles that I run in, this book is called
0:40.4	The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice, Black Lives Healing and U.S. Social Transformation,
0:49.5	and it's written by one, Fania E. Davis. That's F-A-N-I-A. Fanya E. Davis. That is Angela Davis's sister. And so you can tell by the
1:02.5	title and by the author that this book is going to be whack. As a matter of fact, this book sucks.
1:09.5	This is probably the third stupidest book I've ever read in my entire life.
1:15.5	Although it's been a few years since I read some of these other truly idiotic critical race theory books,
1:21.0	the two that I'm thinking of that are stupider than this book are by Martine Rothblatt, who is a trans advocate and on the board of the Mayo Clinic,
1:33.9	or at least was, maybe still is, billionaire creator of Sirius XM Radio.
1:39.5	I understand quite a brilliant and capable guy who pretends he's a woman and has written two
1:45.0	batshit crazy books that are about sex and sexuality and gender. Sex and gender, really.
1:54.6	These books are the apartheid of sex and from transgender to transhuman. And they are truly remarkably dumb books. But this book
2:04.9	is right up there in the running for dumbness. I don't think it's as bad as those. However,
2:12.5	it's really profoundly bad. I'm not going to read a ton of it. I'm going to read most of the fourth chapter
2:19.3	and try to give you some color. As you heard, the book is about restorative justice. And what made me
2:24.6	want to do this podcast is, A, we've got a new Department of Education right now, and I am very
2:32.7	interested in seeing that Department of Education take on the issue
2:36.8	of restorative justice, and I don't think it gets talked about enough. And then secondly,
2:42.0	I just did a Moms for Liberty University book club about critical race theory, about my book,
2:48.1	race Marxism. And at the end of it, I found out that Montser Liberty University, M4LU, is spending March
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