It's a boogeyman.
Are you saying I’m being dramatic? Are you sure? He used similar language on Jan 6. You dont think some crazy followers of this aren’t going to take this rhetoric to hurt or kill some teachers or school board members?
I can, and I can tell you the history of it but I cannot tell you the agreed upon definition because there isn't one. It is a post-modern theory and its proponents change the definitions to make convenient in the moment whatever it is or is not.
For good reason. It wasn't all that long ago that a group seized on ethnic differences, systemic racism, and injustice to motivate the country's people to murder 800,000 Tutsi neighbors in about 100 days. These schools of thought that reinforce racial identity collectivism and inequality between collectives are not benign. History has countless examples of how inherently dangerous such racial tribalism is. The sooner we start seeing skin color as no different from eye color or hair color the better off we'll be.
There was a single definition used for 40 years. The reason there is more than one now is that Rufo took a sophisticated legal theory taught in law school and used it as a brand for everything racists oppose.
One of the central tenets of critical race theory (before Rufo) was that race is a social construct with no meaningful biological application. Among other things, they would discuss how, at times, in the US the Irish were not white.
To quote Blazing Saddles, "We'll take the n****rs and the c***ks, but we don't want the Irish!"
I’ve been wondering about that off and on for a while now. I thought about buying a book on CRT just to find out. The Irish and the Italians faced discrimination for a period of time until they were accepted as “being white.” So it makes sense to attempt to see things through that lens.
The awakened people are not the racists.
First stop having different funding levels of public/private schools.
First reverse the deliberate creation of impoverished zones via red-lining and similar tactics.
Racial quotas have been illegal since the 1980s.
I saw discrimination in action on a regular basis just riding the commuter train back and forth to work. You can't solve a problem by ignoring it.
Tell that to Harvard.
Harvard doesn't use quotas.
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.
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.
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.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.
