The Tudor Dixon Podcast: College Admissions Chaos, Grade Inflation & School Activism

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Today, I want to get into like a deep dive into education.

And it's kind of a personal thing right now,

because we are in the midst of trying to figure out what the next steps are to get my daughter

who is at the end of her or in the midst of her junior year,

going into her senior year, looking at colleges, and what does that all mean?

And what do test scores mean?

And in the middle of me doing this, which I thought,

like when I went to college, you just applied.

And there weren't all these tricks that you had to do,

and you didn't have to pay people to try to get you in.

And I feel like Lori Loughlin or Loughlin, whatever her name is.

And I'm like, what am I?

Do I have to pay someone to fill out all these applications?

What is happening?

But there's all these groups that do this, okay?

So if you're in the middle of this,

it is so much more complicated than I thought it was.

And so I have this company and they're like,

you know, if you pay us $10,000,

we'll help you fill out 12 applications for college

and we'll have some special project for her to do over the summer.

And then she'll be more desirable for these colleges.

And then he says something to me, which I was like,

hmm, that's interesting.

He says, do you think you're going test optional?

Or are you planning on using a school that requires testing?

And I was like, hmm, okay, so break down.

Test optional is after COVID, some university said,

we're not going to require SAT or ACT scores anymore.

And now they're starting to go, oh crap,

we actually didn't know that then people,

we would have no judge of whether or not these children

were actually intelligent and could do the work at the school.

So he said, I said, I thought all of the schools

were going to requiring testing again.

And he said, well, yeah, kind of because, you know,

turns out an A is not an A anymore

and then moved on really quick.

And I was like, hmm, what exactly does that mean?

Because these kids have not learned.

So we found someone that can take a deep dive into this.

We have Josh Weiner with us today.

He is the Chief Strategy Officer

at Navi North American Values Institute.

It's a nonprofit that advocates for American civic values

and combats extremism and political activism

in the case through 12 classrooms.

Josh, political activism was one of the things

that they were like, can you tell us if she's done

any activism to help her get into college?

And thank you so much for having me on, Tudor.

It's a pleasure to be here today.

Yeah, you know, you identified two things there.

One of them is the flattening of the grading curves

and they're doing this in the name of equity.

And we have seen schools that have basically said,

if you get above an 80%, that's an A.

And this is a big problem for a couple of reasons.

One, we have no real standards to figure out, you know,

how students are actually performing

when it comes to their grade point averages.

And two, it's really not promoting academic excellence.

You know, academic excellence is actually holding people

to high standards.

That's how you actually get it.

And by flattening the grading curve,

you're just allowing individuals to not perform as highly

and get the same achievement that others do.

So it's not only unfair to the individuals

who need to be pushed,

but it's unfair to the individuals

who have pushed themselves and have earned those higher grades.

The other thing is that you need to be an activist

and it looks good on your college application

to have been an activist in school.

Now like when I was going to school, that was sort of true.

You know, they like to see that you were,

you know, social issue-minded

and that you did clubs and activities.

You didn't have to be like, you know, in earthworks

or part of social justice clubs, though.

But this is actually part of what has been taught

to teachers and colleges of education.

There is a book called Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paula Freri.

And this is taught now in all colleges of education.

And it asks teachers to raise critical consciousness

and to make classroom education actually political intentionally

in order to wake up their students

to social and political power differences

between people based on their identity.

So this is the kind of stuff that is now in schools

that's impacting what you're seeing

when you're doing college applications now,

which is very concerning.

This is so different than when I went to school a long time ago.

I realized this, but I don't remember.

I will say, I remember Bill Clinton came to campus

and I got a ticket to go see Bill Clinton speak on campus.

Now you know how old I am.

So I went to see Bill Clinton speak on campus

and it wasn't like it really wasn't even a political thing.

It was like, this is amazing.

The president is coming to our campus

and we were all excited.

Didn't it matter what side of the aisle you're on?

There was not even discussion of politics when I was in college.

I don't remember it being a big deal.

I know that there were probably people

in Republican and Democrat clubs.

I wasn't one of them.

I was just focused on food service

where I was going to go out that night

and what my classes were.

I mean really this was and it was a huge time of growth for me

and growing up and getting away from my parents

but not being in the world yet

like out in the world having to totally fend for myself.

And yet here I have this like we have two extremes I think.

We have first of all more women than men in universities

so men are not going to universities anymore

and I think that's a somewhat tragic situation

and I'm not saying that everybody has to go to universities

but I do think that there is a good growing up period

and I do think there is a lot of value in a college education

and now people are being told not to go.

And then I have a situation where my daughter

goes to a Christian school

and the families that are like well college isn't really that important

and like I said I'm not saying it's for everybody

but I do think that there is a value in a college education

and these parents are like how are you going to pay for it?

First of all it's too expensive you can't pay for it

and then what if you lose your daughter?

So I have like so many concerns.

Can she even get in coming from a Christian high school

because she's an activist for Jesus

and not an activist for the left you know

and then also is it going to be that she'll only be with people

that are learning social constructs and not actual facts

and then I lose her.

Yeah there's so much to unpack there.

First I remember being in college it was around,

I went to college 2006 to 2010

so this is when Obama was first selected

and it got highly political around then.

I remember actually I was I'm a gay man

I was not out of the closet at the time

and I remember a Republican friend of mine

who played hockey with me said something to be once he goes

man it's harder to come out as a Republican in school right now

than it is to come out as gay.

At the time I was highly offended by that

because I'm very much like in my space yeah right you don't know

but honestly like looking back on it

I like understand where that came from

because it was different than even I think tutor

to how it was when you were in college

and I just think that had to do with the transition our country

was going through between Bush and Obama.

The other side you know you talked about

this activism piece of it.

Well actually I'll go to the like is college necessary

because we're in this really weird time right now

where people really don't know what jobs are going to be available

in the economy based on what's coming with artificial intelligence

and I would say that most universities really aren't prepared for this

and you talk about it a little bit like if if universities you're going to

them like a university like Columbia or Harvard or something

and they're really focused on this social justice activism

how is that preparing anybody for a world that

you know really is going to be completely usurped by AI

just as far as what kind of jobs people are actually going to be able to

in that marketplace so I think when you're thinking about

where your kids are going to go to college this is a critical thing to think

about first of all I wouldn't send them to any of these schools

that are really framing everything from a social justice lens

as a Jewish person I certainly wouldn't because these tend to be the places

where there are more incidents of antisemitism

because of the way that social justice is being framed by these universities

I've seen though that universities especially actually in the south

tend to be a little bit more values driven and thinking about how to prepare people

for the I guess the new world that we're coming into now nobody really knows

what it's going to look like but at least if you're

founding them in real academics versus this social justice stuff

you're putting them in some sort of good trajectory for what's

going to come you know the last part is costs I mean

you know there's a whole the guarantee the guarantee of loans by the federal

government is a big problem for student loans because it just allows

these student loan companies to just kind of like

throw out as much money as they want and then you have developers that are

you know building real estate on these college campuses because

hey they got loans to pay for these rents and it's just this this ongoing spiral

so you know I don't see that really letting up until we really have kind of

this bifurcation between schools that are preparing kids for social justice

work and the ones that are preparing kids for the new economy I think that may

help but we certainly need some changes but I think on the federal level as

far as student loans go a humanities degree right now

is not going to get you as far as an engineering degree and that's going to

change greatly in the next you know who knows two

months six months two years it's got it's going to change fast

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so I come from the manufacturing world and I think about just 20 years ago when I was

starting out in manufacturing and I know 20 years ago sounds like a long time but you think

about just in the in the realm of how different businesses in that period of time it hasn't changed

as much as I think it's changing today because I look we I mean we had some of our drawings were

still hand drawn by people for for parts you know and then it was like CAD drawings but you're

still printing them out I mean we didn't have big computer screens or anything we still had landlines

and taxes you know I I think about how different it is and I do question like how to how do all

of these curriculums prepare you and I think a lot of that preparation is life preparation you

know because I think a lot of what you're going to do a lot of what you do in college does prepare

you for being on your own and taking care of yourself and life but also critical thinking and how

to think through a problem and how to get from here to there and how to put all of the anxiety

of things aside and focus on how you get a mission approach like how do I get to the end of this how

do I finish this journey and that was something I felt like I got out of college was like there are

going to be challenges and this is how you navigate those but I don't know that that's what they're

getting today right I don't know either and I think about even my college degree was in environmental

policy and law and you know I left school after the financial crisis I wasn't getting any sort of

environmental policy or corporate environmental management job at that point and I'm not really

using my degree I wanted to to media and advertising and eventually long story I ended up in

advocacy but you know what I really got out of college is what you're saying it's how do I plan

my life how do I manage social situations how do I make sure that I succeed at my responsibilities

while balancing all those things how do I you know learn what I need from a life school perspective

from these classes that I can hopefully apply somewhere after school gets out so you know I think

there's certainly something to that that social building that cultural building that university really

does but you know maybe it's more important a type of culture that you're going into than the type

of academics that you're going into right now because we're not sure if the academics are actually

going to be helping you in the new economy and it's like is that lesson worth $300,000 you know

you also go oh my gosh am I really talking about sending my kid to college to to grow up and learn

those skills for that price tag but I do think that as I I went to the University of Kentucky

and that's what so we took our girls down to the university because we both went to the University

of Kentucky over the summer we took them there and they all loved it and there is a part of me that

feels like those some of the southern schools have still focused on education and it's still

felt that way it's still felt fun it there was still joy on the campus and I think that you can

walk on some campuses and be like there's a real joy crush here but I think that that's happening

in lower school too for K through 12 I feel like there is so I will tell you an example of this

I just recently there was a child that was at our school and I went up to mom and I was like oh

what are you guys doing here because they're public school they're a public school family and

she said you know what um the child made the decision on their own that they wanted to come here

they'd seen things that were and this is junior year junior year to switch over in the middle of your

junior year to go to a private school is a big decision for someone that's 16 and she said that

the child was having so many tough experiences in the the public school that they said on their own

I want this and she said you would not believe there's no drama there she said compared to what

the child had been experiencing in public school she said it is an awakening I have a different

child at home a child that doesn't have the stresses that doesn't have the constant drama

and I do think that some of this ideology that they teach in K through 12 is causing a massive

amount of stress and not enough learning yeah and it certainly depends on the private school because

this is a problem in private schools too let me let me be clear but in public schools especially

there's this real demoralizing factor that's going on and it's basically this operating system by

which we're teaching children that based on their intersectional identity they are either an

oppressed or oppressor person and they are basically told if you're oppressed you're a victim

and you're not going to be able to succeed in our in our society because capitalism is against you

and so is democracy so is the US form of imperialist democracy and the only way this is like so heavy

the words that you're even using right now I'm like this is what they do it's demoralizing right

like it's it is heavy and look it's softer younger and it gets stronger when you get older but

you'd be surprised the things that they say to people in kindergarten I'll give you an example in a

second but they say then that the only solution to this is to tear down the systems that are

oppressing people and then if you're part of the intersectional oppressor it is your responsibility

to use your privilege to tear down these systems and if you're not and if you're not actively doing

or if you don't say the right things in the right moments to support the oppressed people

you are racist white supremacist homophobic transphobic etc depending on the context so

this is tremendous like imagine the social pressure of that like every day you're walking on

eggshells in school to make sure that you're sort of like falling in line to this ideology and it is

first of all tremendously stressful and second of all you're telling somebody you either are hopeless

because of who you are and the only way is revolution right when you get into like what they do

or you you have the original sin of being you know an oppressor so you should feel bad about yourself

the only way to make up for it is to do these things it's it's entirely terrible

this is so I mean it's so sad to think it's something I would never have had to imagine dealing

with and and I think it's I think people are mistaken when they believe while we'll elect new people

in the whole education system will change because it's it's got such deep roots and I think it's

got deep roots outside of just the education system as well because I know that we recently had

a young friend become a teacher and she was going online to get her resources for her classes

because there's a whole new world for teachers out there that my teachers certainly didn't have

with online resources and they go and they get ideas but the ideas online are filled with these

biases and these these it's like all filled with ideology the curriculum is ideology based

and they don't really real I don't think they really realized they're even doing it

yeah there there are bad actors but most people are just caught up in a terrible system it used to be

that there was a curriculum and a textbook that supported that curriculum and then you could

sort of had somewhere with all to use the textbook in your own way well textbooks are out the

windows schools are very much digitized and teachers in a lot of ways are under-resourced even

when we're paying more than we ever have for schools in some places they're under-resourced

and they go to a place that you know we've seen teachers pay teachers.com and there's no vetting

by the school of what these materials actually look like and actually a lot of the anti-semitic

material that we see in schools they end up coming from online resources and this is a transparency

problem like it's we we have a hard time catching up to these things this is society especially with

how fast they're moving and like it should be incumbent on school boards to understand that their

teachers are getting their classroom materials from these places that are not being vetted or not

being approved and there should be a process by which to do that otherwise you end up with stuff

that you don't know who's planting it there this is actually where we see foreign funding come into play

one of the places in k-12 education in manipulating it is putting out materials that then end up on

these sort of like free or you know low-cost gig economy teacher resource websites. What kind of

foreign funding? Yeah so we've seen like there's some some foreign funding from like an organization

called Gito or an organization called the Middle East Children Alliance and they have funding ties

that actually in some cases go back to the pflp the popular front for the liberation of Palestine

and they are basically this teach Palestine curriculum has ended up in a lot of different schools

and the it also is a professional development tool and it basically teaches these things like

it correlates immigration in america the immigration debate in america with the Palestine Israel conflict

and it basically says like it it sort of says you know Palestinians Palestinians are indigenous to

Palestine as are indigenous people to you know certain parts of the united states and this is about

turtle island and land back and it makes these sort of like like solidarity type of claims between

the two and then these teachers bring that professional development into the classroom and sometimes

these materials into the classroom also Qatar has funded something called the Choices Program

which they got Brown University behind which is a very skewed version of Middle East studies that

minimized the war of independence narrative in favor of the knockback narrative for example

erased Jewish indigeneities of the land of Israel and that program you know while Brown eventually

dropped the program their endorsement of the program it floated around in state education websites

or at school resource guides for a very long time and we actually identified some of those reached

out to departments of education across the country and got about six or seven states to take them

down because they don't even realize that they're there right so those are just two examples

um a last one is in Chicago and actually across the country uh Qatar Foundation International will

fund Arabic language teachers so they'll just say like here's a grant for a hundred thousand

dollars and you have an Arabic language teacher and the Arabic language teacher forms relationships

with other teachers and then consults and guides them we have proof of this from signal chats that

we've infiltrated actually um on how to talk about controversial issues like the war and Gaza

so like you know this comes up in a class and a teacher will say oh who do I know that can help

me defend that Gaza is a genocide well the Arabic language teacher you know so the teachers are

being indoctrinated and then they pass it along to the children and you they don't even know that

this person has been hired specifically to indoctrinate them on certain issues yeah i mean it's not

it's not said that that's what they're there to do right right right right yeah right but that's how

indoctrination happens right you don't really know right but if you teach a a construct of

intersectional identity where the experience of the oppressed person is correct in a situation where

there's power dynamics the Arabic language teacher is the one whose experience is correct it's not

the Jewish Zionist pro-Israel person so that teacher because they've been formed through their

college of education through their culture at the school to believe that the oppressed person is

the one that they need to they they call it center um they will defer essentially to the person of

color or the person of oppressed status as the arbiter of truth in these situations

okay so what is this solution now in california there's that there's been this suit that's recently

been filed against the state of california alleging that they're allowing harassment of Jewish and

asraeli students in public education that in k through 12 i believe this this suit that's been filed

and there are young girls who say that that they had their lives threatened by students if they

heard them speaking in Hebrew they were going after them and telling them that they would they should

be dead this is obviously this the anti-Semitism has spread so quickly and maybe from your perspective

maybe it's just what we're seeing now and maybe you would say look it has always been this bad

it just feels like it's insane right now uh it's always been there but it's not in this bad i mean

when i was growing up we had some of it and there's also like this kind of subversive anti-Semitism where

it's kind of joking and like no like people think it's no big deal but it makes me feel like not

proud to be a Jewish person like your money hungry you're not good at sports you're anxious geeky

yada yada right like those are the tropes but that never made me proud to be like Jewish and I never

really was until later in my life and that's a real thing um and you know we had bomb threats at

like the school when i was a Jewish area so like this stuff has been there but what we've seen is like

this explosion because of the manipulation of this ideology into Jew hatred into framing not just

Jewish people but people who hold up the systems of the west americans white people as evil and

giving a permission structure to say you know resistance which is another word for basically

violence because they then they say resistance and then they actually teach you well you know

decolonization that that's only achieved through violence and then you know it's kind of this they

don't make the direct they do like two hops and so it makes this permission structured for people to

hate and be violent against not just Jewish people but whoever is perceived as upholding these

systems of power i saw this really coming getting crazy in 2021 there was a a military operation

between israel and gaza at that time and it was the first time that i was told that i was a white

supremacist and actually a nazi for supporting israel in in that war um and you know i think probably

even a little bit before that 27 2018 2019 is when a lot of the stuff has gone a little bit wild

and if you think about the proliferation of social media and the smartphone and kind of the early

20 20 teens it very much correlates with that because this is that that problem too i saw someone just

i think gosh just a couple days ago on tv say something that it really struck me she i can't

remember who it was but she was saying you know when when 10 7 happened we all assumed what the

moral response would be would be a shock and outrage and that wasn't the response and that's when

we started to question where is morality today like where are the people who are on the right side

of things when all of a sudden people were saying you didn't see what you saw and those women didn't

get raped and they didn't kill kids it's like what do you what do you tell how did this how did we

get here yeah and that's something that they play in in this construct of um there there's actually a guy

named edward saeed who is a professor of columbia who uh who who structured something called

orientalism which is based by the way in the same constructs that we're talking about right now

this oppressed oppressor um and he he sort of frames basically that we as the west believe

were right because we are virtuous in like you know our our our dedication to human rights and that

when we push those things on other countries or other cultures that that is colonization and that

that is actually not understanding where those cultures are coming from and there's this sort of

like moral relativism that is happening there where they're saying like well you know you may see

that you know there's oppression of women in Palestine or in Iran or in in these these um

these Middle Eastern countries these Islamist countries but that's just because you have a you

don't understand what is moral in their societies and you need to respect their culture and their

version of morality um which I think is is this is where we get to this right so then when you

you you frame these things as you know they are um part of this global south that is colonized by

the west and the white people are kind of like just always trying to push their stuff on them

you get like they become the victims and then people believe it's virtuous and righteous to defend

the victims regardless of like the normal western moral structure that we have which by the way is

based in Judeo Christian values versus kind of what the the um Islamists would say so uh this

is how you get when somebody drives a vehicle with explosives into temple Israel then saying well

you know Israel bombed his family in Lebanon last week right well that to me is the most horrifying

response by the way I don't I I don't see like you know there were two Israeli Jews shot outside a

museum in DC there's no retribution being paid for that because we don't believe in that as a

society we don't believe that like violence begets violent like that's not like what we do and by

the way the individuals family what like one of them was a hasbola commander up according to

the IDF so you know look death is horrible which means he is the person who put his children in danger no

one else you're right I I totally agree um so yeah this is moral relativism and it's a really big

problem and honestly I think that you know religion and lack of adherence to religion in our country

has something to do with it there's sort of this void that's getting filled by the social justice

stuff and uh the morality structure there has more to do with your identity and um whether your

identity is oppressing somebody else and then sort of saying you know whatever they're the victims

so whatever they believe or whoever they are that's fine and right because we're the ones who need

to sort of like you know defer at this point in time because we we we held them down and that's

why they are the way they are let's take a quick commercial break we'll continue next on the

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thing because one of the things that i've seen with the teenagers today is that the teenagers that

have a strong faith they they have a stronger confidence because they are living for something

bigger than them and they're not live they're not concerned with you know what do people think of

me it's what does god think of me and i just think that there is a difference when there's a focus

on that faith i want to ask you something because at the beginning you said you talked about the

kid who was the republican saying it's harder to come out as a republican than it is as gay well

let me ask you how you feel today about being Jewish because one third of Jewish college students

say they don't want they feel uncomfortable displaying their Jewish identity

yeah and i you know i probably should have worn it but i always wear my my magan to

beat out like every day because i believe that that's the only thing that we can do our expressions

of Jewish pride and people knowing that there are Jews around them is the best thing that we can do

but like you know it's not for everybody you know think about you know your daughter alone on the

subway if she could have been a target because she's showing her Jewish star if she was obviously

she's not but just as a as an analogy um you may not want that and i don't encourage everybody to

do that but that's a very sad state that we're in and you know back to religion i mean this idea of

saying that people are different based on their identity their intersectional identity

it's not really based in what Judeo christian values are like we see everybody as equal in and

created in the image of god and that means that we treat people equally and we treat them

not by by like their immutable characteristics but by who they are and and like what sorry not by

who they are but like how they they they how they are like how moral they are how they treat other

people the content of their character right um so i think there's something to that too we've gotten

away from i'd say like the humanism that um that religion really professes uh and you know maybe

this this run away from a religion has allowed people to find something different that that matches

their social justice vibe don't you think that's part of it though if you can continue to create

differences and anxieties and uh around those differences like there's racism there's this if you

can continue to create more racism than you have it it's there it can divide it can cause activism

you know if you have a loving society there's not enough to push each other apart and i do think

politics plays a huge role in this because you have to divide to get to add your voters you know

we got to we got to get every every voter counts we got to dissuade them from going for the other

side it really has become very nasty very nasty um to the point where like two things one there's

i mean i didn't used to believe it but i probably had it there's certainly a trump to arrangement syndrome

i i am not a Donald Trump fan but i also agree with some of the things that he's done and i'm happy

with some of the things he's done there's other things that i'm not so happy about but the ability

for me to decipher those two things is important because it also allows me to understand on the

the side that's like it's not for me but like these people that are sort of like my side's the left

and we're just here to oppose the right they then ignore anything that's going bad on their side

because anything is better than this and it allows all this craziness to fester on their side

so that polarization has been really bad for our country because it actually makes it so that

anybody on either side really doesn't hold their own side accountable and we're seeing that

like on the left from what i'm describing and also on the right from you know allowing these

people like Candice Owens neck flintace um to sort of like have these platforms um so you know

i'd like to see the right and some people have really like push that stuff away but the polarization

is made it very difficult um i just saw today that she post Candice Owens posted that she's like

the number one podcast i think with um Joe Rogan they're like tied at the top and that's exactly

what i thought how and then the only someone explained it to me like it's kind of like the national

inquirer and you know it's all lies and it's like the batboy you know you you see it at the at the

checkout counter at the grocery store and you like people just like to buy it because it's

entertainment but they know it's all fake but it's so dangerous it's not just the batboy you know

this is really dangerous stuff that people are putting out there and how do we continue to ignore it

but but then you got people on the right that are like well you can't say anything about speech

well i can i'm sorry but if we own we've owned these people in the past so you have to separate

yourself say whatever you want but i have to separate myself from you because you you do not

represent me and and i am with you on the fact that we have separated parties so much like i said

at the beginning of this when i was in college i knew my parents didn't vote for Bill Clinton

and i don't think i had voted in an election at this point in my life but he was the president

and there was a joy in seeing your president and now i can't imagine college kids that don't

like Donald Trump going to a rally you know right i would never have been not a chance it's just

way too polarized right now yeah yes absolutely well i there's i could talk to you honestly for

hours i so appreciate you coming on today i think there's a lot more to dig into on how to

protect our kids from the anti-semitism that's happening in schools and just this indoctrination so

we'll have to have you back sometime Josh weiner thank you so much can i just leave your viewers

with two things yeah please yeah i just want parents to just be mindful like ask your kids what's

going on in school take a look at their classroom work make sure that you understand what's going

on in the classrooms and come and report if you think you're concerned to things like you know

this ideology that's in the classroom to navi we're at navi values dot org and we can kind of

direct you on what exactly to do but um you know also run for school board if you're concerned about

what's going on in your school because that's another way that you can impact things so sorry i

just wanted to leave your viewers with no i think that's great because we always say we feel

powerless as parents saying when you see this stuff but but what you said to me is so critical

we are in a world where we are so distracted constantly even as mom you know the phone is ringing

you've got your your sucked into social media even if you're just scrolling videos put that down

and ask what happened because your kids are gonna tell you what happened that's the beauty of kids

they don't hide things some of the most bizarre things i'm sure some teachers are like why did you

tell your mom that but because they tell me just bizarre things too you know but that's the joy

of parenting find out and i love the fact that you gave us the resource resource in navi because

we don't know where to go so thank you of course thank you tutor thank you and thank you all for

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