What does Critical Race Theory teach?

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  1. dagosa

    dagosa Well-Known Member

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    It depends on who uses the word. From a race “descendent” of a slave owner which white people can represent to blacks, it’s offensive.

    It’s a matter of human decency to call people what they want to be called and by whom. Using the N word by a non white to a non white, may not be offensive. It’s no different then family members who for years may have names for each other . These names when uttered to them from a non family member can be very offensive. It should be a familiar concept to understand by everyone. It just requires “ empathy”….which is in short supply by many.
     
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    Only because you dont want to click the link in my post to her book. I'll rely upon her use of the term as its used by critical race theory today in the US schools as opposed to Spain and Portugal more than 100 years ago.
     
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    Yep. They usually avoid using the term and instead call it equity or inclusion or whiteness. The NEA should have cleared up your confusion when they vowed to continue teaching CRT in K-12 in response to all the criticisms.
     
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    The Democrats created the CRT monster that's likely to devour them at the polls.
    Critical race theory is a potent issue in the Virginia governor’s race
    ". . . What McAuliffe misses is that this term [CRT] has become a stand-in for deeper-seated fears among parents about what their children are learning. CRT is now shorthand for a broader basket of issues relating to education. Polling shows a plurality of Virginia voters opposed to the teaching of this theory, so dismissing those who speak out against it as racist is doomed to backfire.

    The disdain with which McAuliffe dismisses pervasive parental anxiety is eerily reminiscent of the way Democrats underestimated the potency of the emerging tea party movement 12 years ago. It was common then for many on the left to dismiss people getting engaged with right-wing politics for the first time as racist whack jobs who were being taken advantage of by Astroturf groups funded by billionaires.

    Republicans are in striking distance of winning statewide in Virginia for the first time since 2009, and Democrats seem to be sleepwalking into disaster. Many parents feel exhausted and frustrated after a year of learning loss and hardships because of remote schooling. They’re upset about schools canceling gifted and talented programs in the name of equality. . . . "
     
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    Democrats dodge and lie to avoid their own creation.
    Virginia's McAuliffe Is Dishonest on Critical Race Theory

    Frederick Hess, RCPolicy

    ". . . . In a television interview last week, McAuliffe had previously said of Critical Race Theory, “It’s not taught in Virginia, it’s never been taught in Virginia. And as I’ve said this a lot: It’s a dogwhistle. It’s racial. It’s division.” But the controversy over Critical Race Theory is hardly “made up,” as McAuliffe alleges. Take developments in Virginia’s Loudoun County, an affluent Washington suburb that’s made plenty of national headlines with its CRT disputes.

    In July, a freedom of information request revealed that Loudoun County Public Schools paid consultants at "The Equity Collaborative" for a raft of anti-racist trainings. Teachers were taught, in lessons that incorporated the Dismantling Racism Workbook, that good teachers don’t “profess color blindness," "accept responsibility for their own racism," and believe that "addressing one’s Whiteness (e.g., white privilege) is crucial for effective teaching."

    Rather remarkably, school teachers were taught that "fostering independence and individual achievement" is a racist hallmark of "white individualism,” as is the promotion of “self-expression, individual thinking, personal choice." The school system’s "Action Plans to Combat Systemic Racism" recommends the book How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi, which teaches that "there is no such thing as a nonracist or race-neutral policy" and that "only racists say they’re not racist."

    Now, McAuliffe would presumably claim that such teachings have nothing to do with CRT. But this is where he’s being dishonest and disingenuous. After all, while it’s true that CRT is technically just a school of legal analysis, its own adherents would argue that it’s much more — and that the toxic dogmas on display in Loudoun are precisely what they have in mind. . . . "
     
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    You left this part out, Jack:

    "GOP strategists involved in the governor’s race say focusing on CRT is more about getting their base voters off the bleachers than persuading the undecided to join the team. Off-year elections like this are decided by intensity. Railing about CRT lets Youngkin appeal to his coalition of Never Trumpers and Forever Trumpers without talking about Donald Trump."
    As far as McAuliffe, he's doing the same thing from the opposite side. I don't think I'd vote for him. If there was anything at all that I might consider acceptable from Trump, it was that he did not follow that trend of Federally mandating standards.
     
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    Yes, and . . . ? GOP strategists seizing on an opening created by Democrats is only a "Dog Bites Man" story.
     
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    Some times the intent is to be offensive. I have been called an idiot several times on this forum.
     
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    Again, co-opting the label and then claiming it's the same thing is BS. I don't care if a governor, an author, a teacher, or anyone else uses the label, it's still BS. It's not CRT and it's not the same thing, even if it uses some concepts arising from CRT such as the deep biases that affect social concepts.
     
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    It ties in to what I said previously--that what's recently been labeled as CRT is not at all a new thing, but a political opportunity.
     
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    It does indeed use concepts from CRT, and that's the point. More importantly, that the political point.
     
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    Our political process has done what it is designed to do: bring before the citizens issues and problems they may not have focused on previously. The fact that CRT was previously spreading concepts under the radar is not much of a defense of CRT if one objects to those concepts.
     
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    The NEA disagrees and considers what is being taught as CRT. The fact that you dont agree with the labeling is kind of irrelevant here.
     
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    Newly discovered during the pandemic with parents seeing for the first time what their kids are being taught. And its new to public schools in the last 10 years. Was previously limited to university.
    All of Critical Theory used to be limited to academics. It has spread to public schools as intended from the beginning.
     
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    I’ve seen it worse.
     
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    Loudon County hired "The Equity Collaborative" to help implement CRT in the schools.

    THEY refer to it as CRT.

    Intro To Critical Race Theory (theequitycollaborative.com)
     
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    Since 2019, The Equity Collaborative has been working with Loudoun County Public Schools
    Fox News, Virginia, and Us: Educational Equity in Loudoun County (theequitycollaborative.com)
     
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    GOP’s Anti-CRT Hysteria Leads To Requiring Teachers To Find ‘Balance’ On The Holocaust

    The Inevitable Outcome

    A top administrator for the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, actually told teachers to provide students with “other perspectives” on the Holocaust in their classroom libraries last week.

    • “Make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives,” Gina Peddy, the school district’s executive director of curriculum and instruction, told the teachers during a secretly recorded meeting on Friday.
    • Peddy cited Texas’ new law that bans “critical race theory,” a term conservatives have distorted to encompass any classroom learning material that discusses systemic racism.
    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morni...ing-teachers-to-find-balance-on-the-holocaust

    Cuz, you know, we can't offend deniers of the holocaust just as we can't offend kids with the truth about slavery and it's after effects.
     
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    This is fake news. I borrowed the following from another poster, Par10, on another thread.

    "Ok, I thought this was weird so I looked into it a bit more. It seems that Texas House Bill 3979 basically says that if you are going to discuss "current events" in the classroom, you have to discuss them from both points of view which I completely agree. It seems to me that this Peddy guy was trying to make a point of some sort and not necessarily a supporter of the pro-Holocaust idiocy. Some people are just stupid sometimes. Of course there are some people out there that are just stupid. People that think we didn't go to the moon. People that think that the Holocaust never happened and people that think the 9-11 was a government plot. I don't think that this is one of those."
     
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    They have the recording.
     
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    I'm sure they do. I don't think that matters.
     

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