{"id":1750137,"date":"2022-11-24T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T11:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750137"},"modified":"2022-11-24T07:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T12:03:18","slug":"biden-education-official-democracy-fatphobia-based-on-white-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-education-official-democracy-fatphobia-based-on-white-supremacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Education Official: Democracy, Fatphobia Based on White Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-education-official-democracy-fatphobia-based-on-white-supremacy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750137&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"speakable\"><strong>FIRST ON FOX<\/strong> \u2013 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/biden-democrats-seek-deliver-millions-school-model-questionable-ties-critical-race-theory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Department of Education<\/a> deputy director, who was appointed under President Biden, poked fun at Evangelical Christians and claimed democracy was based on &#8220;White supremacy,&#8221; according to her Twitter profile.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Kristina Ishmael&#8217;s Twitter account was put on private Monday, but not before Fox News Digital documented dozens of her claims about White people and White supremacy&#8217;s purported ties to American democracy, Evangelical Christians and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/woke-universities-social-justice-crusade-fatphobia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatphobia (bias against fat people)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ishmael is the deputy director in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of Educational Technology<\/a>. The office implements policies for &#8220;equity of access&#8221; to technology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Democracy is] also built on white supremacy, which I see perpetuated in education circles when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/oregon-bipoc-teachers-claims-eye-rolling-example-harmful-practice-rooted-white-supremacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BIPOC folx<\/a> are being told they&#8217;re too negative by addressing real issues instead of superlatives,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/Evangelicals.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Kristina Ishmael posing for the Nebraska Department of Education for a stock photo.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Kristina Ishmael posing for the Nebraska Department of Education for a stock photo.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Pixabay | Getty\u00a0)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ishmael responded to a tweet which claimed the Evangelical church welcomed &#8220;hate&#8221; and &#8220;white supremacy&#8221; into its institution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She replied, &#8220;Amen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital asked the Department of Education whether Ishmael displayed a bias against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/religion\/evangelical\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evangelical Christians<\/a> but did not receive a response. Around 25\u201330% of Americans identify as Evangelical.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/biden-doe-official-claims-desantis-willing-sacrifice-people-you-may-die\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden official<\/a> said she walked away from a discussion because &#8220;a white male dominated the conversation.&#8221; In another instance, Ishmael said she was tuning out voices from White people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/woke-department-defense-equity-chief-writes-anti-white-posts-exhausted-white-folx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8216;WOKE&#8217; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EQUITY CHIEF WRITES ANTI-WHITE POSTS: &#8216;EXHAUSTED WITH THESE WHITE FOLX&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/White-male-dominated-the-convo.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Kristina Ishmael discusses walking away from a conversation when a \" white male \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Kristina Ishmael discusses walking away from a conversation when a &#8220;white male&#8221; began to speak.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Screenshot\/Twitter)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In another tweet, Ishmael seemingly cast doubt on whether White gay men deserved to be considered a marginalized category in curriculum.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In most &#8216;inclusive&#8217; materials,&#8217; the most dominant folx are still represented in the marginalized group (e.g. white, cis, gay men). This does not include the nuance of this group,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In other instances, Ishmael blasted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/education\/curriculum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;white perspective&#8221; in curriculum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[M]ost of my curriculum was written from a very narrow and white perspective,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/Gay-men-not-marginalized-.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Kristina Ishmael discusses what doesn&#039;t belong in \" inclusive \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Kristina Ishmael discusses what doesn&#8217;t belong in &#8220;inclusive&#8221; curriculum.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Fox News Digital | Twitter\/Screenshot)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;As a teacher, how many times have you been asked to uphold white supremacy through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/cupertino-elementary-students-race-oppressed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dominant-culture<\/a> norms,&#8221; Ishmael said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/biden-official-mocks-oppression-voiced-white-protesters-lockdowns-defense-blm-riots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>BIDEN OFFICIAL MOCKS &#8216;OPPRESSION&#8217; VOICED BY &#8216;WHITE PROTESTERS&#8217; AGAINST LOCKDOWNS, SHARES DEFENSE OF BLM RIOTS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In another instance, Ishmael claimed that the term &#8220;stakeholder&#8221; is a &#8220;colonizer language to id the white men who staked their claim to land.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ishamel also believes that bias against fat people is on par with White supremacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;Learning to be comfortable in my own skin &#038; weight and really ready to reject the White supremacist ideal body? F*ck yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fatphobia is real. The &#8216;ideal&#8217; weight, shape &#038; look is white supremacy baked into our everyday lives. I&#8217;m so over it. We deserve more than diets,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/Kristin-Ishmael.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Kristin Ishmael is an official at the U.S. Department of Education.\u00a0\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Kristin Ishmael is an official at the U.S. Department of Education.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Pixabay | Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ishmael is a self-declared fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bidens-pentagon-stuffing-stacey-abrams-conspiracy-theories-anti-historical-history-into-k-12-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ibram X. Kendi<\/a>, the &#8220;antiracist&#8221; founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.<\/p>\n<p>Kendi wrote a 2003 column about &#8220;Living with the White Race,&#8221; stating, &#8220;Europeans are simply a different breed of human\u2026 They are socialized to be aggressive people\u2026 They are raised to be racist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/kendi-scott-racist-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>IBRAM KENDI SUGGESTS TIM SCOTT IS RACIST FOR DENYING UNITED STATES IS RACIST<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/640\/320\/GettyImages-1211664100.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Ibram\u00a0X. Kendi\u00a0came under fire\u00a0and was\u00a0labeled\u00a0a \" racist \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Ibram\u00a0X. Kendi\u00a0came under fire\u00a0and was\u00a0labeled\u00a0a &#8220;racist&#8221; on Saturday for equating\u00a0Amy Coney Barrett to &#8220;White colonizers&#8221; because she has two Black adopted children from Haiti.\u00a0<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Photo by Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kendi claimed White people are worried about &#8220;extinction&#8221; and &#8220;have tried to level the playing field with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/infectious-disease\/hiv-aids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>AIDS virus<\/u><\/a> and cloning, but they know these deterrents will only get them so far. This is where the murder, psychological brainwashing and deception comes into play.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ishmael said, &#8220;[Shoutout] to [Dr. Kendi] as this group of educators talk about culturally responsive pedagogy and specific references made to segregationists, assimilationists, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/rhode-island-official-shares-extreme-view-using-wrong-pronoun-act-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">antiracists<\/a>. Have learned SO much from Dr. Kendi about this and how it applies to our field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The current status quo of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">education system<\/a> works for white students, but no Black or brown students. Many white people will question why it should be changed,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ishmael has also said that &#8220;white supremacy&#8221; is baked into classroom rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;So if I&#8217;m on a webinar with professionals speaking\u2026 should I also share Zoom rules with them to remind them of no gum chewing, muting mics, etc.? Oh, that&#8217;s right, NO! And we shouldn&#8217;t with CHILDREN either&#8230; Can&#8217;t help but see the white supremacy built into the &#8216;rules&#8217; I&#8217;ve seen floating around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/640\/320\/MIGUEL-CARDONA.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(REUTERS\/Evelyn Hockstein)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bidens-equity-obsessed-education-secretary-dodging-academic-priorities-amid-catastrophic-reading-scores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BIDEN&#8217;S EQUITY-OBSESSED EDUCATION SECRETARY DODGING ACADEMIC PRIORITIES AMID &#8216;CATASTROPHIC&#8217; READING SCORES<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/biden-department-education-official-claims-school-discipline-racist-blames-whiteness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another Biden official at the DOE<\/a> \u2013 Kayla Patrick \u2013 claimed that &#8220;school discipline&#8221; is part of a &#8220;racist system,&#8221; blaming so-called &#8220;whiteness,&#8221; while she worked for a left-wing education organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Patrick has worked at the DOE&#8217;s Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development since February, according to her LinkedIn. In 2021, she said, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/minnesota-district-include-equity-specialists-plan-against-disruptive-behavior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>school discipline<\/u><\/a> is a symptom of a racist and punitive system that often fails to see children as children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of helping students to learn and grow from mistakes, educators send them into the office, or send them home, or even sometimes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>call the police<\/u><\/a>. And Black students are more likely to be offended, affected by that,&#8221; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ishmael has also criticized White people for not voting for Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;Dear fellow white people, defending the percentage of us that did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vote for Biden<\/a> is not helpful right now. Read the room. Just don&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Hannah Grossman is an Associate Editor at Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRST ON FOX \u2013 A U.S. Department of Education deputy director, who was appointed under President Biden, poked fun at Evangelical Christians and claimed democracy was based on &#8220;White supremacy,&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1750140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}