What is Critical Race Theory?

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Yes! The Irish and Italians faced discrimination while they were seen as different, distinct. I don't like discrimination. I want to see an end to discrimination. I refuse to see skin melanin or where someone's great, great, 10x great grandparents grew up as making people different, distinct. You woke racists who hold groups up as different are the problem. Sure, history was ugly but if you go back far enough everyone was on the wrong end of the stick. Stop it with setting different admission standards. Stop it with talk of reparations. Stop it with racial quotas. You aren't helping. All you are doing is reinforcing differences, distinctions. You are the perpetuation of racial discrimination.

But cops beating the **** out of some blacks or arresting them at inordinate rates and imprisoning them for inordinate lengths of time…those aren’t the problems.

 

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Florida is a joke.

Some teachers alarmed by Florida civics training approach on religion, slavery

Among other topics, trainers told civics teachers the nation’s founders did not desire a strict separation between church and state.

www.tampabay.com

DeSantis and Republican lawmakers increasingly talk about how they believe the “woke left” is posing a threat to the public education system in Florida.

DeSantis describes a battle for the next generation in education. His former education commissioner, Richard Corcoran, told the Hillsdale National Leadership Seminar last spring that education is “100% ideological,” which is why picking leaders is so crucial. He added that leaders need to be strategic and quick when implementing policies to make sure they have impact.

“Education is our sword. That’s our weapon. Our weapon is education,” Corcoran said. “And we can do it. We can get it right.”…..

….Several presentation slides emphasized that it was a “misconception” that the “Founders desired strict separation of church and state and the Founders only wanted to protect Freedom of worship.” During breakout sessions, the state’s presenters repeatedly mentioned the influence Jesus Christ and the Bible had on the country’s foundation.

“There was this Christian nationalism philosophy that was just baked into everything that was there,” Judd said….

…..What the left is doing is they are saying religion’s role in the public square should be eliminated, and they will cite the First Amendment and establishment of religion, which was not what it was intended to do,” DeSantis said earlier this month on a Focus of the Family podcast. “They are trying to establish a religion of their own. This woke ideology functions as a religion, obviously it is not the Judeo-Christian tradition, but they want that to be effectively the governing faith of our country.”

“They want to impose their world view to the exclusion of the rest of us,” the governor added.

 

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But cops beating the **** out of some blacks or arresting them at inordinate rates and imprisoning them for inordinate lengths of time…those aren’t the problems.

Back the blue as long as they’re beating the snot out of racial minorities. But as soon as they do anything to arrest insurrectionists trying to overturn the gubbamint? Boom no more backing the blue.

 

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Florida is a joke.

Some teachers alarmed by Florida civics training approach on religion, slavery

Among other topics, trainers told civics teachers the nation’s founders did not desire a strict separation between church and state.

www.tampabay.com

DeSantis and Republican lawmakers increasingly talk about how they believe the “woke left” is posing a threat to the public education system in Florida.

DeSantis describes a battle for the next generation in education. His former education commissioner, Richard Corcoran, told the Hillsdale National Leadership Seminar last spring that education is “100% ideological,” which is why picking leaders is so crucial. He added that leaders need to be strategic and quick when implementing policies to make sure they have impact.

“Education is our sword. That’s our weapon. Our weapon is education,” Corcoran said. “And we can do it. We can get it right.”…..

….Several presentation slides emphasized that it was a “misconception” that the “Founders desired strict separation of church and state and the Founders only wanted to protect Freedom of worship.” During breakout sessions, the state’s presenters repeatedly mentioned the influence Jesus Christ and the Bible had on the country’s foundation.

“There was this Christian nationalism philosophy that was just baked into everything that was there,” Judd said….

…..What the left is doing is they are saying religion’s role in the public square should be eliminated, and they will cite the First Amendment and establishment of religion, which was not what it was intended to do,” DeSantis said earlier this month on a Focus of the Family podcast. “They are trying to establish a religion of their own. This woke ideology functions as a religion, obviously it is not the Judeo-Christian tradition, but they want that to be effectively the governing faith of our country.”

“They want to impose their world view to the exclusion of the rest of us,” the governor added.

Florida really is. And they want to go nationalize it. If establishment republicans can, they want DeSantis. They’ll get the same cruel Christian nationalist policy that they’d get with trump but without the incompetency and drama.

 

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In Oklahoma, a teacher is forced to resign because anti-CRT legislation has forced it on her administrators. The inciting action was apparently a slightly sarcastic wording ("definitely don’t scan this") to a QR link the Brooklyn Public Library banned books on-line archive.

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@wsuares: ‼️NORMAN BOOK BAN- A close source tells me an English teacher has already been removed at Norman High for providing students a qr code link to the Brooklyn Library and informing them there are free e-books...…

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Oklahoma Teacher Quits After Directing Kids to Banned Books

This might be the strangest story yet of right-wing lawmakers cracking down on books they don’t like—and teachers crying foul.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

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In Oklahoma, a teacher is forced to resign because anti-CRT legislation has forced it on her administrators. The inciting action was apparently a slightly sarcastic wording ("definitely don’t scan this") to a QR link the Brooklyn Public Library banned books on-line archive.

Thread by @wsuares on Thread Reader App

@wsuares: ‼️NORMAN BOOK BAN- A close source tells me an English teacher has already been removed at Norman High for providing students a qr code link to the Brooklyn Library and informing them there are free e-books...…

threadreaderapp.com

Oklahoma Teacher Quits After Directing Kids to Banned Books

This might be the strangest story yet of right-wing lawmakers cracking down on books they don’t like—and teachers crying foul.

www.thedailybeast.com

This quote is particularly irony-laden. As tone-deaf as you can get really.

“The concern centered on a Norman Public Schools teacher who, during class time, made personal, political statements and used their classroom to make a political display expressing those opinions,” the spokesperson, Moody, said. “Like many educators, the teacher has concerns regarding censorship and book removal by the Oklahoma state legislature. However, as educators, it is our goal to teach students to think critically, not to tell them what to think.”

"...not tell them what to think"....by doing things like, banning books maybe? Or making an entire law pushing a specific political agenda with no effort at critical thinking when said law was made? Seems like the entire state needs lessons on critical thinking and not pushing political agendas in school. The ironing, as they say, is delicious.

Absolutely ridiculous.

 

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The guy who began this CRT panic 1.5 years ago is now arguing for calling trans children “ugly” to make them try and act and look more feminine.


View: https://twitter.com/peltzmadeline/status/1569751910000771076?s=46&t=fvKTCMMdcYH7F2v3DkYcEw

 

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Washington University School of Medicine (my daytime employers) in the news over a lecture on diversity and inclusion.

Washington U lecturer warns medical students not to ‘debate’ her on ‘systemic oppression': 'shut that' down

A Washington University in St. Louis’ medical school lecturer told students that if anyone tried to "fight or debate" her on "systemic oppression," she would would shut it down.

news.yahoo.com

Article confuses Brookings Hall as having significance to WUSM.

 

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Just north of Columbus, Ohio, it turns out the "The Sneetches" are too controversial to read in class without getting parental approval.

Olentangy Schools official cuts off reading of Dr. Seuss book during NPR podcast

An Olentangy Schools elementary teacher was reading a Dr. Seuss book as part of NPR’s "Planet Money" podcast when a school official halted the reading.

www.dispatch.com

 

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Just north of Columbus, Ohio, it turns out the "The Sneetches" are too controversial to read in class without getting parental approval.

Olentangy Schools official cuts off reading of Dr. Seuss book during NPR podcast

An Olentangy Schools elementary teacher was reading a Dr. Seuss book as part of NPR’s "Planet Money" podcast when a school official halted the reading.

www.dispatch.com

The funny part is they got half way though the book and then ended it at the mid-point in the story. "Good morning class. There were Sneeches and some had stars on their bellies. They were racist and segregated when this guy figures out how to make money off their racism by claiming to be selling a solution to racism. This construction that was supposed to end racism only made the Sneeches more racist and it made the charlatan who claimed he was selling a solution to racism very rich. The end. Let's read a different story."

 

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The funny part is they got half way though the book and then ended it at the mid-point in the story. "Good morning class. There were Sneeches and some had stars on their bellies. They were racist and segregated when this guy figures out how to make money off their racism by claiming to be selling a solution to racism. This construction that was supposed to end racism only made the Sneeches more racist and it made the charlatan who claimed he was selling a solution to racism very rich. The end. Let's read a different story."

I completely agree. If only I thought you understood what you said. McBean promises surface solutions (like formal legal equality), but the problem is deeper than that.

 

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I completely agree. If only I thought you understood what you said. McBean promises surface solutions (like formal legal equality), but the problem is deeper than that.

Obviously the problem is insecurity. For a discussion on economics it is a brilliant example. McBean is making money by preying on insecurities of the Sneetches.

"When I'm watchin' my TV and a man comes on and tells me How white my shirts can be but he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarettes as me" -Mick Jagger

So much of marketing and capitalism is about selling you the life you think you want. The answer to the question at the top of this thread is that modern critical race theory is a construct to extract money from those insecure about racism. It isn't a solution. It is actually the opposite and dwells endlessly on events of the past to reinforce the racist mindset today. Anyone advancing CRT is either racist, because you have to be racist for its message to resonate, or cynically using it as a ploy to make money off the insecurities of the racist, or both.