Politics Should schools teach Critical Race Theory?

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Should Public Schools teach Critical Race Theory?

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  1. jonnyboy

    jonnyboy Well-Known Member

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    Really just blatantly gonna call ABM a racist? What do you have to support such a heavy handed accusation?
     
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    crandc Well-Known Member

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    A scary brown person!
     
  3. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    It's rather en vogue here. I wouldn't bother.
     
  4. julius

    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I think one of the problems is that people think there is only 1 way to be racist, and if you're not exactly that, then there's no way that you are racist.

    Also, if you have multiple people point out multiple times that the links you provide to back your story/beliefs are questionable, your "heroes" are questionable (at best) and have have multiple people accuse you of being racist (or at least tacitly accepting and perpetuating racist beliefs/stereotypes), well, then if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's highly unlikely that it's secretly a triceratops.
     
  5. calvin natt

    calvin natt Confeve

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    I agree with you but I made the colossal mistake of writing the word “boys” and now I’m racist so sometimes people are Fucking wrong
     
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  6. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    There is something to be said about men enabling the degradation of women by attending strip clubs.
     
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  7. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    This is probably the most difficult of all the rules to abide by and yet it's probably the most important rule.
    Keep it civil and the discussion will be more free flowing.
     
  8. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    To be fair, as an Uber driver, I often transport and converse with exotic dancers, and many love their jobs, find them to be empowering rather than degrading, and even find their work to be therapeutic at times.

    That said, I've personally never entered a strip club, and likely never will.
     
  9. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    That doesn't say much, some Black people are far Right Republicans.
     
  10. crandc

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    Oh the irony. While ABM tries to get us to watch a video called Uncle Tom about an untalented Black reactionary, state bans on critical race theory, which isn't being taught, actually ban any reaching on racism that might make white people uncomfortable. Including the original Uncle Tom's Cabin.
     
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  11. PtldPlatypus

    PtldPlatypus Let's go Baby Blazers! Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    The practice of dismissing any information that conflicts with one's own preconceptions is the reason this thread even exists.
     
  12. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Just because one is called a racist, doesn't necessarily mean they are one.

    As some might be inclined to remark, know your audience. Shoot, I might actually be a rockstar in any other given chat forum - even one mostly populated with (conservative) Black folks. That said, I've determined my conversations/debates with y'all fall along political/spiritual lines. It's just that simple. Doesn't mean I don't want to be here, though. I have no problem stating my views and am entitled to that. Plus, there are plenty of other topics to discuss in here, as well.
     
  13. dviss1

    dviss1 Emcee Referee

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    White supremacists aren't just the ones who flag up and shoot at people in broad daylight in our city.

    White supremacy is "If he would have only just complied"

    White supremacy is calling the police on an 8 year old black girl selling water because she "doesn't have a permit".

    White supremacy is standardized testing in schools.

    White supremacy is bringing up statistics about how many people are killed by police.

    White supremacy is "I'm not racist".

    I'm sorry but that's not enough. If you aren't actively anti-racist, you are part of the problem. We don't need to to be extra nice to your 3 black friends.
    We need you to talk to the 50 ignorant white ones. We need you to tear down these systems that oppress us.
     
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    I don't know if you're racist or not but your reading comprehension needs work. I never once even insinuated you were racist.
    I simply gave you a tool that you simply cannot bring yourself to understand why you need to employ it. Instead you internalized what was said to you.
    That's typical of white males in this country. They've had domain over so much for so long that they can't even wrap
    their minds around their colonizer speak. Decolonize your mind.
    You probably wonder why you can't use the a version of the N word because "they say it all the time in their songs"...
     
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  15. ABM

    ABM Happily Married In Music City, USA!

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    Alan West was part of the Uncle Tom documentary. I appreciated his viewpoints and commentary. There are plenty of Black Conservatives out there - including those voted into office.

    https://www.c-span.org/video/?303830-1/conservative-black-forum
     
  16. dviss1

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    And this is the reason. Another PIECE OF HUMAN GARBAGE... Alan West is a horrible Proud Boy lovin' self hater.
     
  17. riverman

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    Black republicans are welcome in the party if they only embrace partisan talking points and make no reference to racial or black identity.....if they follow the party line they have broad political opportunities within the party but are essentially muzzled to maintain their positions of power within the party ..you can climb the stairs of political power if you are a republican racial minority who follows the stupid old white men's watering down of racial profiling..
    https://www.americamagazine.org/pol...icans-gop-conservatives-diversity-race-240104
     
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  18. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    White supremacy is liking the movie Splash!

    White supremacy is wearing Court Classic shoes from Costco!

    White supremacy is putting vanilla creamer in your coffee!

    White supremacy is preferring red vines over black licorice!

    White supremacy is only shopping at Trader Joes!
     
  19. crandc

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    During his military service Alan West was charged with beating and mock execution of Iraqi police officer. He charged without evidence that 81 Congressional Democrats are communists. He called Obama supporters a threat to the gene pool, called Obama a low life, and compared himself to Harriet Tubman.
    When South Carolina finally lowered the Confederate traitor flag after the church massacre West opposed it and called it a distraction. He suggested that Defense Secretary Mattis had been appointed to exterminate Muslims and said being Muslim is antithetical to being American.

    ABM, I could ask you what you admire but I know you won't answer, just like you can't tell us why you admire Owens and Elder. I guess there are so few Black reactionaries you have to take these bottom feeders for lack of anyone else.
     
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  20. julius

    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Here's the thing, if you say something like being a 'rock star' in a mostly black conservative "chat forum" that's part of the problem. Normal people don't talk like that. And considering the way you present yourself here, I sincerely doubt you belong to a "mostly black" chat forum in the first place.

    That screams "I have a Canadian girlfriend!"
     
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