Politics Should schools teach Critical Race Theory?

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Should Public Schools teach Critical Race Theory?

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  1. crandc

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    Greg Abbott calls for investigation into 'pornography' in Texas school libraries after parents complained about 'obscene' book on gender identity called Gender Queer: A Memoir
    • Texas governor threatens to prosecute if 'pornography is provided to under 18s'
    • Comes amid growing campaign by parents to remove sexual books from schools
    • Gender Queer: A Memoir has already been removed from schools in other states
    • Parents branded it obscene as it discusses masturbation, sex and 'strap-ons'
    • The Texas Education Agency said it takes the governor's concerns 'seriously'
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    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...vestigation-pornography-school-libraries.html
     
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    Of the list of 850 books Texas wants banned, 100 are priority. 97 of the 100 were written by authors who are women, people of color, and/or LGBTQ. Which I am sure is coincidence, right?

    In a Virginia county, two white parents went to school board irate over two books not assigned in any class but available in library. One deals with struggles of three homeless kids. School board agreed to remove books. One member stressed he is a Christian so schools must get rid of books that make white people uncomfortable.
     
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    You don't need to read those books to feel uncomfortable. The picture of the author on the jacket is frightening enough.

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    North Dakota banned critical race theory. They defined it as any teaching that racism is not individual bad thoughts but is systemic in US political and legal system.

    So, a thought experiment.

    Imagine a 17 year old Black teen boy illegally purchased an assault rifle because he thought it looked cool. Imagine he took the weapon across state lines. He then attended a Proud Boys rally openly brandishing the weapon. He provoked a confrontation and started shooting, killing two people, seriously wounding another.

    Do you think he would live to tell the tale?

    Do you think he would be acclaimed a hero? That we would hear him called a "little boy" who was "terrified" and defending himself? Do you think he would be judged by a jury with all but one Black jurors? That the judge would bend over backwards to try to ensure an acquittal?

    If not ...


    why not?
     
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    During World War I, teaching German in schools was banned. Symphonies could not play German music. And it was a crime to "utter any sentiment objected to by whatever patriotic ears might overhear the remark".
    Let's do the time warp again.
     
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    It's just a step to the left.
    Both me and my pretty socially conservative wife loved that movie, Rocky Horror Picture Show. One of my wife's several exceptions to her social conservatism is her complete acceptance to homosexuality whom she believes deserve the same the rights as the rest of us. Do I feel proud of my wife? Damn right I do!
     
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    The first complaint filed under Tennessee's new anti-critical race theory law specifically targeted a book about Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, calling it "anti-American."

    The 11-page complaint — filed by the Williamson County branch of conservative parents group "Moms for Liberty" — alleged that the book "Martin Luther King Jr and the March on Washington" was among a set of lessons promoting "Anti-American, Anti-White, and Anti-Mexican" teaching at Williamson County Schools, a district south of Nashville.

    The conservative group specifically protested a photo of segregated water fountains and images showing Black children being blasted with water by firefighters. The group claimed that an accompanying lesson plan showed a "slanted obsession with historical mistakes" and argued it shouldn't be taught.

    The complaint also targeted of two books about Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to attend an all-white school in Louisiana in 1960, and "Separate is Never Equal," a story about segregation before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case.

    The parents group claimed that the books and teacher manuals "implies to second-grade children that people of color continue to be oppressed by an oppressive 'angry, vicious, scary, mean, loud, violent, [rude], and [hateful]' white population."

    In a letter, the state's Department of Education said it won't investigate the allegations because the lessons happened during the 2020-21 school year, and it only has the authority to investigate this current school year, the Tennessean reported.
     
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    Oh, you poor Tennessee DoE--you can try to dodge this, but an "oppressive 'angry, vicious, scary, mean, loud, violent, [rude], and [hateful]' white population" is going to force you to make these uncomfortable rulings all school year, every school year.
     
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    God forbid we teach our kids history
     
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    Rittenhouse was able to walk right past the cops with his assault rifle after he killed those guys. The cops would have filled a black teen with holes and asked questions later.
     
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    If Rittenhouse was black, if he hadn't been shot by police on the night in question, he would have been found guilty and given the max sentence.
     
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    Not if the evidence in trial was the same. It was clearly self defense.
     
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    You think that's what would have happened but have no idea if it really would or not. Instead you enjoy making the claims and continuing to push the narrative that no Black person can ever get a fair trial in this country and that white people are given some magical pass.
     
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    Not true. Kyle carried his weapon in a threatening manner and that's assault.
     
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    Black parents are noticing their children aren't learning about Black people in school. Because even talking about Black people gets labeled critical race theory.

    A Republican official in Idaho is up in arms over a television commercial showing a father and daughter baking holiday cookies together. She gave it three vomit emojis, because they are Black. Very upset commercial doesn't show any white people.
     
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