Life, I'm sure, is hard enough for people with learning disabilities. But when efforts to provide remedial training and other programs are classified as twenty-first century versions of western colonialism and oppression, I don't think their cause is advanced one bit. The article parodies such programs as saying, "You are a broken version of what we wish you to be, and we will attempt to fix you to..." and in so doing relizes, I think, exactly what it fears. It seems to me that as we approach an era when all learning can be customized, a call for some sort of end to specialized learning is regressive and short-sighted. And don't even get me started on the authors' garbled treatment of rationalism and empiricism.
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