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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    Yes. Who would have thought I would praise the chair of the joint chiefs? Unlike Gaetz and Owens actually knew what he was talking about.
     
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    Morgan Freeman says we should quit talking about race and the issue will go away.
     
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    The issue is whether anyone can criticize American history, and thus today's product from the past. To some people, their religion is their nation. To others, it's their team or their GM or their coach or their gun or their legal system.

    If you write anything critical, you threaten the inner sanctum of their mental security. Their addiction is to a pretend nation, which motivates them to endure daily ups and downs.
     
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    Morgan Freeman is rich. But even so, he should probably go back and look at the comments from when he played God and see if race comes up.
     
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    I wondered the other day if they called themselves that so they could use part of old Joann's signs and save money.
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    For all, in order to move forward we must revisit the past, then get to work on new positive horizons.
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Someone was actually paying attention during those corporate touchy feely, kumbaya training sessions……..
     
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    Those were so boring...the one we had annually was on Sexual Harassment & Discrimination, talk about overkill. Did it for Corp insurance reason's Im convinced. Those boys form the south couldnt come into the office anymore go up to an inside gal, rub her shoulders, and say "hey Darlin I appreciate all you do for me in the field". Most corporate gals loved that southern charm, it was the egotistical dude from the NE they had to be careful of.
     
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    Last weekend heard Cleve Jones, lifelong activist. His comment on corporate diversity, congratulations, you can now be your authentic self while plundering and pillaging the planet.
     
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    The best part is Kim Jong Un hanging over the chalkboard.
     
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    Um, wtf JP Sears as a Pedo? Do you have like, you know, some actual proof or is that a half-baked idea that went off half-cocked?
     
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    I like what Afrika Brooke wrote about the "cult of wokeness' and its corporate capture (hint: that's the reason it's popular, it's being used by racist transnational companies as virtue signalling, meanwhile it's kept at the level of white men are bad, but big business and their owners, including those owned by white men like Bill Gates, Terry McAullife and George Soros are GOOD). It's all social engineering like all the stuff that catches fire and is repeated ad nauseum. It's all social engineering to turn us against one another so the Davos World Economic Forum Billionaires can push their agenda forward unopposed. Davos, a group of rich (mostly) white men is somehow good if we are allowed to talk about them at all. Any criticism of them is conspiracy theory don't ya know! Cause the REAL oppressors aren't the ULTRA WEALTHY, it's that dirt poor redneck who lives in the shack on the corner. I mean he has a TRUMP sign for godsakes! He's not a good man like Billionaire Bill Gates or Billionaire George Soros. Old white men are only bad when they are POOR and POWERLESS. The wealthy elite ones with power, they are all good guys! So says the media they own!

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    Texas public museum cancelled a presentation on a new book Forgetting the Alamo. I have not yet read it but purportedly it discusses racial mythology around the Alamo. Presentation was not "critical race theory", was not for children and attendance was purely voluntary. But Texas Republican governor and lieutenant governor protested. People might have a chance to hear a different view on history. Can't be permitted.
     
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    Are any wealthy individuals or families having any impact when their families were the drivers of all of this? Or just regular folks and a fractured society? It sure doesn't seem that any of the VAST legacy wealth of Slave Owners and Banks will be touched. Perhaps regular people will be taxed for reparations, but the McConnell's and Rockefellers of the world will continue to benefit off their historical ill-gotten gains.

    If CRT was focused on the elites who gained 99% of the benefit rather than fracturing society at the level of the working poor, I'd be more interested. I'm well aware of the genocide, redlining, Tuskegee experiments and all the rest and it is abominable. This sudden fascination with CRT and BLM by Trillion-dollar corporations like Coca-Cola and Nike, is not something I trust to be, for the benefit of society. Nobody thinks it's odd that companies that engage in slave labor all over the world suddenly care about and are funding racial "conversations" in America? No wonder people are so easy to socially engineer. It's 100% clear to me CRT and all the rest is here to get regular folks fighting while the last of our rights and wealth are taken. This will be readily apparent soon, when it's far too late.
     
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    There are a lot of "isms" to distract from greed ....people love to complain about things made outside the US while looking at a screen display made in Taiwan....driving a Chevy with a fan belt from South America...the double standard is here to stay and pretty much has been our entire lives...the documentary on the Titans, Rockefeller, Carnegie, JP Morgan, etc is a good place to start but I think all schools of thought should be allowed to teach CRT if there's even a percieved curiosity about the content and study of it. I feel the same about bible study...I don't need it but it helps a lot of people apparently... Just watched "Best Enemies" on Netflix and I'd show that movie in schools to outline true american history and the racism it sprouted from...brilliant film. The important word here is "theory".....just like "string theory" in physics, it doesn't hurt to have exposure to alternative ways of thinking...we haven't evolved beyond racial problems yet so we can imagine a perfect world free of it's existence but its the children of today who will use creative thought to resolve it , not the elderly who've accepted it as the norm
     
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    No, critical race theory is not about getting people fighting.

    It's taught in law school FFS.

    But right wing media are now slapping the label onto my any damn thing. It's about getting white voters scared of scary dark people.
     
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    You know, the whole point of a psyops is to dupe people right? Like literally the entire point of propaganda is to convince with something that sounds reasonable but ends up leaving you vulnerable to the agendas of the propagandists. This can of course, and often does come from, academia.

    Anyways, people either see it or they don't. I've worked as a social worker for almost 20 years and then retired from that. I worked primarily with people of color in the Alberta district back when that was still a mostly black part of Portland. I worked with Domestic Violence survivors and single parents. I've been anti-racist and marched with migrant workers and against kids in cages. CRT is obvious to me a constructed theory to cause friction among white people and people of color maximizing difference and hurt and not being much of a vehicle for healing and creating positive outcomes. I say this as someone with a Sociology degree who has never voted for a Republican in a National election in my life and I'm 45.

    BLM, CRT, Jan 6th all are being used to cause friction and also fear of white people, strangely the opposite of what you think, in order to justify the confiscation of first firearms, and then rights and property as our increasingly fascist technocratic surveillance state really gets rolling. People will see it or they won't. If you want to know what's in store for the US should firearms be taken, look to the rest of the English-speaking world which are under tyrannical lockdowns 1000% more hardcore than anything we've had. Why? They were all disarmed first, the UK decades ago and Australia, Canada, and New Zealand in the past decade. People either see the writing on the wall or they don't.

    I'm just gonna move on from this thread now.

    I'm 110% for equality and equal protection under the law. I always have been and always will be. CRT isn't about that.
     
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