The attack on CRT is just the start

Splitting this from the Critical Race Theory thread but remains relevant.

Lest anyone think the "uproar" against CRT is anything more than a bunch of white supremacists (or their useful idiots) making shit up to stop the true history of America being taught because if kids learn white folk and the Founding Fathers aren't the fucking awesomesauce then the Commies WIN!!!!!.... then consider...

What's next if we can stop them teaching about slavery?

How about - the right of women to vote?! Or the Civil Rights Movement? YAY!!! Let's whip those bitches back into the kitchen! We'll need someone there to espouse our manly thoughts to over a mint julep and a hard day flogging the blacks in the cotton fields!

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/socia...es-to-remove-required-lessons-on-civil-rights

Texas?
Home of our former resident Nazi, Storm Rucker?
Say it ain't so!

It is absolutely critical that this pushback on CRT gets fought on every level top to bottom. For generations, people were taught nothing but white history, putting in black faces where they glorified white power structures, and little else. It is essential that people learn just how bloody, racist, vile, and oppressive the US has been towards non-white people, and that it goes beyond slavery itself, and that slavery was never abolished, only transformed. It still exists. People need to know this, so we can change the system. It must be changed for the benefit of everyone, and that includes white folks, but it has to be done regardless.

What's the uproar about vacuum tube TVs. It existed, but now it's past, don't dwell on it.

Once again, I learned about all the evils of slavery in school without every being subjected to the term "critical race theory." Are we teaching history or conditioning a response?

Once again are we discussing the actual examples given in this thread or yet another straw man version of things you've built?

This.

why are you scared of the term?

"Annoyed" is the term you're groping for. Annoyed at teachers who think their class is a captive audience for inflicting their personal politics, such that championing for "equity" is the one and only valid way to not be an evil bigot.

Shall we take this to mean you've actually now looked at any of the source material?

You learned about the evils of slavery disconnected from the context of the system that created it, because that system still exists. It's like when a police officer murders a black man by shooting him in the back of the head and the media calls it "an officer involved shooting." The idea is to passively separate you from the culprit so you don't make the proper connections, it leaves you more pliant for whatever angle will be used to get your acceptance of the event as something that couldn't be prevented but was most certainly an outlier (the black man wasn't an angel, he probably had drugs, if he would have listened he would have stayed alive).

Again, it's why a white man shooting people is a lone wolf, and when a black person does it, well black folks are more violent, and end up in prison. What a sad state of things, if only we could get along.

The more you learn about actual history, the real history that occurred outside the whitewash you've been taught, you can start to see certain patterns emerge.

Oh, really? Tell me more about myself and my experiences.

Is that how you view all "officer involved shootings"?

It's cute you don't think your bullshit can be parsed. The "proper" connections being the presumption of racism in all things, whether it can be materially demonstrated or not. "Whitewash" being anything other than sins of the father, collective guilt and obligation.

This is nothing but empty calories.

Couldn't critical race theory be bundled into your average Sociology 101 course without much issue?

After all the illuminating discussion about CRT in the last month, these posts serve as proof why no one should waste time taking either of you seriously.

I'm not a true believer. I don't indulge in faith. When you build into your doctrine that you must embrace it without question as a demonstration of your virtue, I will view it with nothing but skepticism and suspicion.

This>> is your God.

If money is my god, I am a terrible worshiper.

Two things can be true.

Really? Because it sure seems like you've bought into the bullshit hysteria around CRT that the creator of said hysteria openly admits is bullshit. We expect the boy to fall for it, but you? I thought you used to be the angry skeptic.

No, because it is part of a law school curriculum. Aspects of it can certainly be mentioned in poli-sci/pre-law/sociology courses but it requires a better understanding of how the law works, and not from internet lawyers like UA and Federal Farmer who think they understand the legal system because they read the Federalist papers.

And they’ve appeared in a courtroom!

I agree. Light Emitting Diode (LED) screens are much better than Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) screens for watching high definition content.

EDIT: Goddammit, @steve2^4 beat me to it.

Honestly, I don't really care if CRT is pushed out of schools - because it isn't there in the first fucking place, and we know the people who claim otherwise are either fools or liars.

This shit though is MUCH more dangerous. Open attacks on understanding our county's history simply to exert political control over how kids think.

This is the propaganda. Just like the bullshit voter fraud, which doesn't exist, they just manufacture an outrage to justify their position.

Consevatives are liars. All they do is lie. And if you are a conservative still, it's because you want to hear those lies.

that is precisely what STILL happens, when teachers go uncensored.

If the last year has made **ANY** clear beyond any dispute, it's this:
Those folks you see in those old black and white photos of white people raging against desegregation?
That attitude NEVER WENT AWAY.
Federal law forced them to repress, as best they could, their urge to wear it on their sleeve - and that leave a very bitter taste in their mouth - because it was culturally unacceptable to be that obvious about it. In the same manner, conservative politicians kept the dog whistles going but for the most part, they refused to make the overtly racist votes for a while.
But John Roberts and Donald Trump have granted them leave to take off the masks. EXACT same behavior, exact same attitudes, exact same worldview, as what you see here.
NEVER.
WENT.
AWAY.

When every history teacher I ever had - including my college professor IN THIS FUCKING CENTURY made very clear to me that the Lost Cause mythology was the actual real and true account of post-war race relations for the previous almost century and a half....

Were THEY indoctrinating a captive audience into their personal political point of view....or no?

Because THAT was the education that the overwhelming majority of kids educated in this country in the last century got.
(and that's just one example)

reported for doxxing Federal Farmer's family members. not cool