What is Critical Race Theory?

[fishonjazz]

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?

This happened just the other day



Trump isn’t the only one inciting violence over CRT and school boards.

Locally, here in utah, you have Natalie Cline a state school board member who regularly doxxes educators who she believes teach CRT. Just this year several schools have had to take down their websites after teachers have received so many death threats.

I was saying trump was being dramatic by saying "lay down your lives". Bigly dramatic. Everything is hyperbole with that drama queen

 

[One Brow]

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.

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 Brow]

These schools of thought that reinforce racial identity collectivism and inequality between collectives are not benign.

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.

 

[gandalfe]

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!"

 

[Deleted member 365]

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.

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.

I suppose you could do a critical mormon theory and see how things have changed from the first 100 or so years of their history until they were somewhat more accepted in the 1950s as a Christian religion and not an anti-American cult hoping to join natives and freemen against the country.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

The Irish and the Italians faced discrimination for a period of time until they were accepted as “being white.”

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.

 

[One Brow]

You woke racists who hold groups up as different are the problem.

The awakened people are not the racists.

Stop it with setting different admission standards.

First stop having different funding levels of public/private schools.

Stop it with talk of reparations.

First reverse the deliberate creation of impoverished zones via red-lining and similar tactics.

Stop it with racial quotas.

Racial quotas have been illegal since the 1980s.

You are the perpetuation of racial discrimination.

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.

 

[Al-O-Meter]

Racial quotas have been illegal since the 1980s.

Tell that to Harvard.

 

[Gameface]

Attention Harvard! Harvard, may I have your attention?

Racial quotas have been illegal since the 1980s.

Thank you for your time and attention, Harvard. You may go now.

 

[One Brow]

Tell that to Harvard.

Harvard doesn't use quotas.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Is this critical race theory? Cuz this seems a lot like indoctrination


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[Deleted member 365]

I was told by a few posters here that Republicans merely wanted CRT to be taught in college and not in K-12 schools. What do you make of this?


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