Critical Race Theory in Practice

[Art]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-real-problem-with-critical-race-theory-opinion/ar-AALHfOz

I have posted in the past about the discontent about the manifestations of Critical Race Theory in the Schools of Loudoun County, Virginia. It's a suburb of DC and precisely the kind of place that helped turn Virginia Blue. This article (editorial) is not from a right wing source but from MSN and U.S. News and World Report dealing with the subject on the national level, no Loudoun County is not an aberration.

[togor]

Still trying to understand how an idea that has been rattling around in academia for decades suddenly has people freaked out.

[lyman]

Still trying to understand how an idea that has been rattling around in academia for decades suddenly has people freaked out.

quite simple really,

academia is not the real world, it's an isolated pocket or island that is only connected to other isolated pockets or islands,


has been that way for a long time,


now that folks have been able to see what Lil Jane or Johnnie are being taught (that Plandemic) they are starting to see the actual devil in the details,

John Q Public is not from those isolated islands,,,

[togor]

The point remains that we got through lots of election cycles without CRT being an issue.

[blackhawknj]

Still wondering how people can proclaim themselves to be "Socialists" when that dogma has brought more misery and brutality than any that has proceeded it.

[k arga]

Didn't Stalin kill 30 million of his own people when rising to the top?

[Art]

The point remains that we got through lots of election cycles without CRT being an issue.

...because up until a couple of years ago it was only a point of academic debate. Now its starting to get real. When I refer to the hate and discontent over CRT I usually use Loudoun County Virginia, a very liberal Washington D.C. suburb that in the last election went for Joe Biden 61% - 37%. Once it gets into a school, or any other organization, everything is about race and not in a good way. I heard one mom who took her daughter's oppression survey, this was given to this child in school. She said that she gets a split decision because she's oppressed because she's a woman, an oppressor because she's white and oppressed because she's divorced. Dissent on any aspect of the program automatically designates the dissentee a racist oppressor and subject to corrective measures. I've heard/read this from too many sources from too many locations to dismiss it as right wing propaganda.

I bet you a dollar to a doughnut the two college profs who wrote the article in the OP did not vote for Donald Trump, and don't forget, MSM and U.S. News and World Report are hardly Republican party organs.

When you have the Chairman of the Joint Chief's of Staff state before congress that one of his major objectives is to eliminate "whiteness" in the military you've gone way beyond the purely academic.

Communism was once an issue that nobody talked about much outside academia until 1917 either.

[togor]

Nobody seriously believes whites will have the script flipped on them, do they?

And is anyone really going to say that race based discrimination (in any direction) is really a thing of the past and not part of the present?

But for whatever reason, so far, I don't feel threatened by CRT. Now if someone can tell me why I should feel threatened, then by all means have a go. But "just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there" type arguments won't cut it with me. But then again I'm not into the culture wars, never have been.

[lyman]

Nobody seriously believes whites will have the script flipped on them, do they?

And is anyone really going to say that race based discrimination (in any direction) is really a thing of the past and not part of the present?

But for whatever reason, so far, I don't feel threatened by CRT. Now if someone can tell me why I should feel threatened, then by all means have a go. But "just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't there" type arguments won't cut it with me. But then again I'm not into the culture wars, never have been.

your comments are perplexing, to be kind,


you post a thing,
then argue for a thing,

then say you are not for that thing,
or that thing does not bother you,,,,,


I realize thoughts, perceptions, beliefs etc can be fluid, but yours come in and out more than the tide,,,,

[togor]

Not every post has to be an iron clad declaration of live-or-die beliefs. If you've been reading my posts that way this entire time, well that explains the confusion.

If someone feels CRT is a deadly threat to the Republic, as opposed to a passing fad in the news (which is how I see it), they're invited to explain it to me because I do not see it.

[lyman]

Not every post has to be an iron clad declaration of live-or-die beliefs. If you've been reading my posts that way this entire time, well that explains the confusion.

If someone feels CRT is a deadly threat to the Republic, as opposed to a passing fad in the news (which is how I see it), they're invited to explain it to me because I do not see it.

the confusion is on your end,

most of us understand what you post and the meaning behind it,

[togor]

the confusion is on your end,

most of us understand what you post and the meaning behind it,

So you're saying you know my mind better than I do? Not the least bit presumptuous there, nosiree!! Too funny!

Kids reject half the stuff grownups tell them anyways in favor of their own experience. So if a CRT teaching comes across as blatant nonsense kids will see it for what it is.

Which makes me wonder if the CRT freakout comes from a fear that there's something to it, that this new generation wants to take a fresh look at the whole race business with their own eyes, and CRT might have something to it.

Like I say, personally not a culture warrior, think it's pointless. Each generation gets to choose, just as the current crop of old duffers was themselves an object of scorn years ago (by those long since deceased).

There you go Lyman, laid it out for you nice and simple so you don't have to imagine what's between the lines.

Enjoy fireworks later!

[S.A. Boggs]

your comments are perplexing, to be kind,


you post a thing,
then argue for a thing,

then say you are not for that thing,
or that thing does not bother you,,,,,


I realize thoughts, perceptions, beliefs etc can be fluid, but yours come in and out more than the tide,,,,

Zounds, like walking the psych wards again and watching/listening to the inmates. Togey is truly an inspiration to psychotic behavior and other's are seeing the same thing.
Sam

[Johnny P]

Remember Nakita Khrushchev's prediction, "We will take America without firing a shot". The socialist democrats are bringing this right along.