So what is Critical Race Theory?

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  1. matthunter

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    Why would he, when he's such a shining example?
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  2. matthunter

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    Anyhoo, CRT is really just an excuse for right-wing types to avoid personal responsibility for their failings, just like every other boogeyman they throw up about the left. But UA won't sling his "man up and own your shit" faeces in their direction as long as he thinks the left is something something, oh nosiree...

    Latest one is some fucking Karen claiming CRT made her 7-year old get OCD.

    https://crooksandliars.com/2021/07/critical-race-theory-gofundme
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    Is UA volunteering to fund the board?
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    In the year 2021 a bunch of whites are all upset about Ruby Bridges being in school. :jayzus:
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    Who the fuck is doing any of that, crackhead?

    You sound like Paladin, pearl clutching that the People's Republic of California will one day disappear him for not using the right pronouns for a trans woman. :jayzus:

    It might surprise you to find that I think nearly everyone has some level of privilege and blind spots to the ways in which they're complicit in oppression, minorities included. I've lost track of the times I've had conversations with other black folks using our history with discrimination as a crutch for why they can't possibly support gays or bring attention to the fact that trans black women have the highest murder rates among trans people in general when talking about BLM.

    What I don't do is stay silent and make excuses about "that's just the way it is, they don't know better :( " Now they do, and can do with the knowledge what they will but I won't contribute to the culture of ignorance in a space where I'm more likely to be listened to than a white queer person, for example.
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    I genuinely appreciate this, though I do have to say that it's not the state whom I want to own the means of production, but the workers themselves. The people who produce the goods should share in the economic benefit of manufacturing those goods (or services) rather than that money being funneled up into the pockets of those who use it as "passive income." Carry on. :D
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    Nobody just "says" shit like this without an agenda of power over others.
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    Beware anyone who portrays free will as an inconvenient obstacle to their morally-superior ambitions.
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    Does anyone teach evolution with the intent of siphoning off my resources or exerting power over my ability to do as I please?
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    Nothing to see here.:?:
    Why is the left lying about this?
    https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/7635551002
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    That can't be accurate. No way are they that bald-faced about it.
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  13. Steal Your Face

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    You mean like the conspiracy theory that covid jumped from a lab? Again, why is the left lying about this too?
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    Man, you used to be a cranky iconoclast, now you're all tinfoil hat.
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    I can't read at the link, who is the author?
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    It appears to be a an opinion piece. The first paragraph is taken verbatim from the Manhattan institute's site.

    Link

    Christopher Rufo is the author.
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    Point of order. We have no evidence that Albert ever used the schools.
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    GASP!

    Children might learn that ... that ... other people's experiences are different from their own!

    This might lead to horrible things like ... compassion! And empathy!

    Won't somebody think of the children?
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    Doesn’t fucking matter, facts don’t lie.
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    Is this critical race theory?

    (Insert butterfly meme here)
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    No, but conservatives do. Frequently, and with great glee.

    Out of curiosity, I clicked on the New York Post article that had the author reaching for his or her smelling salts. I'm hard-pressed to find anything in the literature the principal sent out that's incorrect, or that is beyond the capacity of a typical adult to comprehend.
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    You are lying, or at least misleading, about this when you label it as something that "USA Today said" rather than "Christopher Rufo" said.

    Now normally, I am not going to knock something just because of its origins. But I will make an exception in this case where Chris Rufo has, as I believe has been shown elsewhere in this thread, essentially admitted that he has overhyped the notion of critical race theory being taught in K-12 schools as a political wedge issue.

    Even if I were inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, the notion that he links almost exclusively to things he has written as opposed to anything from the schools themselves or from potentially neutral parties would give me pause.
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    I quote the article, not the author.
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