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An ex-teacher from Arizona, known online as "Brant Danger," recently launched a new homeschool curriculum that is designed to teach children about "white wellbeing" and has circulated online.
The School of the West is a homeschooling curriculum that offers paid and free lectures for various subjects, including the basics: math, science, history, art and language arts. But one field of study unique to the program is "white wellbeing."
While he is known under the pseudonym "Brant Danger," many have identified the creator of the curriculum as Brant Williams, The Daily Beast reported. Until last spring, Williams was a teacher in Page, Arizona, before he left on his own accord.
Many believe Williams' curriculum is an attempt to indoctrinate youth with white nationalist concepts as well as extremist viewpoints.
According to the website, the paid membership plans give access to youth lectures, designed for children ages 4 to 10, as well as teen courses for those 11 years and older.
A summary of the contents of the youth lectures states that the curriculum will help children "understand the gift of being born a member of Westernkind and the qualities that separate us from the other races." The youth curriculum also introduces the concept that "only the White race can build Western Civilization" and that they need to learn to celebrate "aspects of Westernkind."
The teen curriculum is based around "understanding propaganda" and examining "anti-white propaganda" in the news media. The other teen-oriented lectures also promote the idea that "anti-whites" are inflicting harm on Western Civilization.
"Anti-White propaganda has been in use for decades, with the goal of inflicting harm on Western Civilization and Westernkind," the curriculum summary stated.
The curriculum also introduces the idea that "feminism destroys the family unit" and that white people are the only "true citizens" of the Western nations. The membership plan costs $60 and consists of seminar-style lectures held on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
These white nationalist concepts seep into the site's more conventional subjects, too. The history curriculum falsely teaches that many proven concepts are an "anti-white myth" including the fact that European colonization introduced deadly diseases to indigenous populations.
The school's science curriculum utilizes seven short videos to promote the idea of biological racial differences, which states its goal to "replace white guilt with white-wellbeing" as well as promoting the debunked idea that various races have different brain sizes.
The website also recommends the Institute for Historical Review as a "reliable online source for the study of history." The IHR has a history of publishing antisemitic concepts and pushing for Holocaust denial.
Amy Cooter, a sociologist studying white nationalism, told The Daily Beast that the racist curriculum is an effort to "bring white-nationalist ideas into mainstream consciousness."
With the rise of homeschooled children due to the COVID-19 pandemic, other families are deciding to pull their children out of traditional schooling due to "liberal bias" and disdain for "critical race theory" being taught in schools.
Williams has been a guest on several far-right live streams where he described how he developed the curriculum for his School of the West and went by the name "Brant Danger." He mentioned he used to be a teacher in Arizona, teaching in a majority-Native American school district.
Newsweek contacted the School of the West for comment.
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