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Banning Critical Race Theory

holy shit dude.

To be clear, these are the white voters Democrats are scared of losing with leftist messaging. MModerately affluent middle aged white men and women who would identify themselves as economically conservative and socially “moderate” on any political self survey. These urchins all but control the Democratic Party while they are barely tolerated by the Republican Party - they are a true pox upon world politics, with their far outsized electoral influence.
 
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It's also not too early to learn that you don't get far in life with an unhealthy preoccupation with blaming your circumstances on your oppressors.

Holy shit, this guy.

I'd like to say you don't get far in life when you just ignore and whitewash past misdeeds but that doesn't seem to be the case.
 
Have you read the book? I obviously have not. Can you share a passage or several passages from the book regarding math?

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I look at the link you provided, because I had not heard of it. It is entitled, "Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You." I read the book summary - it's not about critical race theory, it's about racism and how to be anti-racist. Teaching about racism and how to be anti-racist is something I think most support. I'm not sure what the issue is with this book.

I don't think the bolded part is really true of most right-wingers, in spite of their pious claims to believe otherwise. Given the numerous attempts we're seeing at banning books and challenging anything that smacks of teaching (especially critical thinking/deeper level teaching) about racism and systematic racism in American society, even non-CRT teaching about race and racism in a classroom setting still seems to trigger most conservatives. I have a hunch that if you did a survey, the people who think that Confederate statues and monuments shouldn't be removed would likely be the same group that believes that "CRT is being taught in schools and white kids are being oppressed" in the classroom.
 
How do conservatives rectify "History supports the morally right side" with being against taking down Confederate statues because of "history?" Either they believe Confederates are the morally right side or they believe we should leave up statues put up by people who thought Confederates were the morally right side.
 
How do conservatives rectify "History supports the morally right side" with being against taking down Confederate statues because of "history?" Either they believe Confederates are the morally right side or they believe we should leave up statues put up by people who thought Confederates were the morally right side.

Things that make you go hmmmmm?
 
Brad doesn't need to think........he has Christopher Rufo to do his thinking for him! I've seen some displays of stupidity on this board before but the intellectual undressing of Brad by Rafi is something else!
 
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/05/us/racist-bullying-school-incidents/index.html

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Some Black students are being told they stink while others are being called monkeys by their White peers. The n-word has been written on the walls of school restrooms as other students are the targets of racist rants on social media.

Students of color are facing racial slurs and bullying in and outside the classroom, and many who are fed up have been walking out of class, speaking at board meetings and even suing school districts.

In Minnesota, a 14-year-old Black girl spoke in front of a crowd to condemn a video widely shared online that she said encouraged her to take her own life. Meanwhile, a community in Utah is scrutinizing a school district after the family of a Black and autistic student said she was bullied by classmates before dying by suicide.

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In a new report released last week, the Government Accountability Office estimated that 5.2 million students aged 12 to 18 were bullied in the 2018-2019 school year and one in four of them experienced bullying related to their race, national origin, religion, disability, gender or sexual orientation.
In the same school year, the report says, there were 1.6 million students who were subjected to hate speech due to their identity. Among those incidents, half targeted students' race and 24% related to their national origin.
The agency found that while students experience a range of hostile behaviors, hate is widespread in schools. More than 1,500 schools reported having at least one hate crime occur and about 5.8 million students said they saw hate words or symbols written at schools. That included anti-Semitic slurs, references to lynching, the Holocaust, and anti-immigrant rhetoric, the report indicates.

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A study released last month found that young adults who experience discrimination about their bodies, race, age or sex have a greater risk of dealing with mental health problems than those who do not.
Those who faced discrimination frequently -- at least a few times per month -- were around 25% more likely to be diagnosed with a mental disorder and twice as likely to develop severe psychological distress than people who didn't experience discrimination or did less often, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics.
The findings mirror what experts have said about the effects that discrimination and hostile behaviors have on children. Experiencing a negative racial climate at school can impact K-12 students in a number of ways, including lower grades, low engagement and their mental health, said Charity Brown Griffin, a certified school psychologist and an associate professor of psychological sciences at Winston-Salem State University.
"If you have to frequent a place every day where you feel like you don't belong, that you're left out and where you don't don't feel safe, that is certainly going to take a toll on your mental health," Griffin told CNN.

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Here is more detail about one of the incidents in the article:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/15/us/minnesota-racist-rant-investigation/index.html

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Nya Sigin, a Black student at Prior Lake High School, told CNN that she was "shocked" by the video, which she believes targets her.
"I really couldn't comprehend what I was listening to, it was really just a wave of different emotions. I was angry, I was disgusted, I was sad, I was confused," the 14-year-old said, adding that she's known the girl in the video since elementary school -- "basically, my entire life."
In the 57-second clip, a girl says to the camera, "You can f**king rot in hell...no one likes N***ers ... f**king kill yourself right this time." Another girl is heard in the background of the video -- who, like the teenager on camera, alternates between vitriol and laughter throughout.

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Nya said the girls in the video also targeted her struggle with mental health.
"They were always kind of hateful towards me ... they would always bring up, like, my mental health issues, like my personal issues," Nya said.
Nya's father, Taban Sigin, said his daughter has dealt with mental health issues in the past and he's worried about her saying she's struggled with anxiety and depression. The teen shared that she was hospitalized in May after attempting to end her own life.
"I had returned to school and I had told a couple of my close friends about it," the soft-spoken teen said, adding that the information made its way to the girls seen and heard in the racist video and a few of their friends.

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Republicans want schools to stop talking about race so white kids won’t feel bad. So board Republicans, what should schools do to stop white kids from making BIPOC kids feel bad? You all have ruled out actually talking to children about race. Teachers can’t actually teach anti-racism without conservatives going crazy at school board meetings. Teachers can’t even share books about the challenges BIPOC kids face in schools without risking reprisal from Republicans politicians.

How are teachers supposed to stop kids from racist bullying if they’re scared of their racist bully parents and politicians? You Republicans need to think about other children beside your own. This land isn’t just your land. It’s our land, too. You don’t own us anymore. Time to act like it.
 
Whatever. Bootstraps. Have thicker skin. Kids will be kids. The litany goes on.

Entitled (and racist) parents don't just hurt their own kids teaching them their selfishness (and hate). They hurt everyone (especially other children). That's all this anti crt, anti mask, anti trans, anti gay, "but my freedumbs" bs does. It hurts other people.
 
I think you can teach the history of America without dividing a classroom of eight year olds into oppressors and oppressed.

Having read both Stamped and the Kendi book on which it is based, the book and it’s concepts do just that. By looking at the history of racist ideas, thoughts, policies, and system, the book moves away from a simplistic dichotomy of racist/not-racist people - moving “racist” away from a personal identity completely. By centering ideas as racist, Not people, Kid’s learn to interrogate thoughts and the implications of those thoughts, rather than dismissing someone as racist. Further, there is no shame in having a racist thought as it can be investigated and changed and lead to growth in the individual, rather than a person’s identity. It’s a very healthy paradigm to use to teach kids to show inequity, consequences (and germination) of racist thoughts, and critical thinking to question one’s assumptions.
 
The whole racist person vs not racist person dichotomy serves two major purposes for those who seek to uphold structural racism.

First, it places the burden on “not racist” people to prove someone else is “a racist.”

Second, it encourages people to question each other instead of questioning the systems and norms in place. People spend their time arguing about what extreme behavior is racist (i.e., saying the n-word or being in the KKK) rather than addressing normative behaviors that discriminate against people and now they’re codified into law and otherwise inshrined into our society.

That’s why you see people who want to maintain structural racism always frame issues in individual terms like “I’m not a racist” or “one of the good ones.” They also use defensive language such as “some of my best friends are Black” or “I supported Herman Cain” to promote the idea that a few individual actions absolves people of the responsibility to address how centuries of systemic racism negatively impacts all of us.
 
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Having read both Stamped and the Kendi book on which it is based, the book and it’s concepts do just that. By looking at the history of racist ideas, thoughts, policies, and system, the book moves away from a simplistic dichotomy of racist/not-racist people - moving “racist” away from a personal identity completely. By centering ideas as racist, Not people, Kid’s learn to interrogate thoughts and the implications of those thoughts, rather than dismissing someone as racist. Further, there is no shame in having a racist thought as it can be investigated and changed and lead to growth in the individual, rather than a person’s identity. It’s a very healthy paradigm to use to teach kids to show inequity, consequences (and germination) of racist thoughts, and critical thinking to question one’s assumptions.

Sure, you’ve “read the book” but have you read Tucker Carleson’s opinion about the book?
 
New Hampshire state legislators are pushing to "update" a Cold War-era "teacher loyalty law" that banned NH public school teachers from advocating for communism or socialism in their classrooms by making an addition that "No teacher shall advocate any doctrine or theory promoting a negative account or representation of the founding and history of the United States of America in New Hampshire public schools which does not include the worldwide context of now outdated and discouraged practices. Such prohibition includes but is not limited to teaching that the United States was founded on racism."

One of the bill's sponsors, GOP NH Rep. Glenn Cordelli, told a reporter that "What we've gone through in terms of slavery and racism, those are legitimate topics to talk about, but saying our country was founded on the basis of slavery or we were or still are a racist country or state, I think is not valid." Teachers who violate this new upgraded law would face "disciplinary sanctions."

When a reporter asked GOP NH Rep. Erica Layton, one of the bill's cosponsors, about how teachers would teach topics like the Three-Fifths Compromise under the "guidelines" of this proposed bill, it soon became clear that she had no idea of what she was talking about. No, indentured servants and Native Americans were not included in the compromise, slavery was not on its way out (in the 1780s!), and so on. These people claim that they're not opposed to teaching about slavery and racism (as long as it's clearly presented as being in the past, not present), but it's clear that even on that count they're not really telling the truth.

When she was slammed on social media for her explanation of the Three-Fifths Compromise, she tweeted "Thanks to all that pointed out my errors, that is how we learn. HB1255 will not stop discussion in the classroom, it prevents a teacher from advocating one viewpoint. Teach how to think, not what to think." To which a NH history teacher responded "Maybe you should heed your own advice and actually understand the topic that you're discussing rather than imposing rules about a topic that you have a very clear lack of understanding." Indeed.

 
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So we’re supposed to learn history by getting ratioed on Twitter?
 
The col nods sagely. He loves it when a plan comes together.
 
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