A New York Post columnist highlighted the findings of GAI’s newest published book, The New Face of Woke Education by GAI researcher Priscilla West.
Wai Wah Chin, the founder of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York and a Manhattan Institute adjunct fellow, cited the book in a piece published Nov. 2 in the New York Post, writing about social emotional learning (SEL).
She quotes West directly from the book. “Priscilla West’s comment in her new book is spot on — ‘SEL measures and tracks today’s children with a precision that would impress George Orwell himself.'”
Chin writes, “It’s the brave new world of social-emotional learning, with mood controls, omnipresent surveillance, masterful manipulation and a Thought Police checking your privilege, thoughts, emotions and pronouns,” she wrote. “It’s the classroom version of Orwell’s groupthink — cancel culture for beginners.”
Chin continues: “In her just-released book, The New Face of Woke Education, Priscilla West charges that SEL, backed by large money interests, both profit and nonprofit, manipulates children as it ‘weaponize[s] empathy, using emotional appeals to smuggle radical ideology into classrooms under colorful banners of compassion’ and ‘normalize[s] the behavioral conditioning and psychological profiling of children and embed[s] it into everything they do,” destabilizing all kids, even kindergarteners, on race, class and gender identity.”