Banning Critical Race Theory

Colonel Angus said:

Do you have a link to "all those videos"?

Just to be clear - Anyone who engages in threats, violence, or property damage should be punished per the law. No exceptions.

Quite a contrast to the "mostly peaceful" and "largely peaceful" protests of last summer cheered on by the left and an overwhelming majority of Tunnels posters which resulted in deaths and two billion dollars in property damage.

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Ah yes, the good riots. Simpler times.

Colonel Angus said:

Do you have a link to "all those videos"?

Just to be clear - Anyone who engages in threats, violence, or property damage should be punished per the law. No exceptions.

Quite a contrast to the "mostly peaceful" and "largely peaceful" protests of last summer cheered on by the left and an overwhelming majority of Tunnels posters which resulted in deaths and two billion dollars in property damage.

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Don't have the chance to search Twitter for all the videos, but here are some articles that come up by searching Google News for "school board threats." The first few pages mostly are articles about the letter you mention, but a few pages later you get plenty of articles like these.:

https://www.wksu.org/education/2021-10-01/anger-and-threats-have-ohio-school-board-members-worried
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article254784407.html
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local...h-threats-after-vaccine-mandate-vote-2435629/
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.co...-covid-plague-school-boards-across-california
https://www.wbay.com/2021/09/23/oshkosh-school-board-discusses-its-own-safety-amid-threats/

Republicans are using a general strategy of conflating political violence and threats of political violence with the right to protest protected by the First Amendment. It's ugly politics.

--People threaten political violence against public officials
--Feds want to do something about it
--Republicans claim the feds are just targeting angry parents in order to present their base as victims

Then when someone actually carries out one of these threats, Republicans will act sad and say "Maybe the feds could have stopped them if they weren't targeting us!"

PhDeac said:

Republicans are using a general strategy of conflating political violence and threats of political violence with the right to protest protected by the First Amendment. It's ugly politics.

--People threaten political violence against public officials
--Feds want to do something about it
--Republicans claim the feds are just targeting angry parents in order to present their base as victims

Then when someone actually carries out one of these threats, Republicans will act sad and say "Maybe the feds could have stopped them if they weren't targeting us!"

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Every time you think they can't stoop lower, they do.

PhDeac said:

Republicans are using a general strategy of conflating political violence and threats of political violence with the right to protest protected by the First Amendment. It's ugly politics.

--People threaten political violence against public officials
--Feds want to do something about it
--Republicans claim the feds are just targeting angry parents in order to present their base as victims

Then when someone actually carries out one of these threats, Republicans will act sad and say "Maybe the feds could have stopped them if they weren't targeting us!"

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Does the "right to protest protected by the First Amendment" include setting the fires in the streets like the ones in the above video?

Does it protect burning cop cars in Minnesota?

Looting stores across the country, including in our State?

Fireboming a federal courthouse in Oregon?

Because all of these things happened last summer during the George Floyd riots, including multiple people being killed.

Republicans, incited by their beloved leader, attacked the US Capitol in an failed attempt to overthrow the federal government, violently assaulted police officers, attempted to kill members of Congress and the Vice President, and caused $20 million damage.

PhDeac said:

Republicans...It's ugly politics.

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Yep.


It's worth mentioning that what people are protesting should matter. Real injustice vs. imaginary injustice.

Republicans live by and love the latter. And, generally, don't give a shit about the former.

Jerry Craft is a New York Times bestselling children's book author and winner of the 2020 Newberry Medal. He writes books with Black boy middle school protagonists.



A school district in Texas has banned his books because parents complained.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/...-subject-matter-teaches-critical-race-theory/

Craft’s website describes the books, which feature young Black boys, as an “honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real” and as a laugh-out-loud funny, powerful and important story about being one of the few kids of color in a prestigious private school”.
According to the website, Universal Pictures has acquired film rights to New Kid, with LeBron James’ The Spring Hill Company on board to develop and produce.

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“They are pointed at white children displaying microaggressions to children of color. The books don’t come out and say, ‘we want white children to feel like oppressors’, but that is absolutely what they will do,” Anderson said.
Omerly Sanchez said her two children, who are bi-racial, were already fans of the books and that her son especially could relate to the books’ theme of struggling to fit in. She told KPRC 2 her children were looking forward to the virtual visit with an author who “looks like them”.

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That article seems instructive and illustrative of what this CRT antagonism is really about. And it's worth reading.


As an aside...

“It is inappropriate instructional material,” said parent Bonnie Anderson, a former candidate for Katy ISD school board and a party in a lawsuit against the district’s mask mandate.

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Truly shocking these two agendas drive the passions of the same person.

PhDeac said:

Jerry Craft is a New York Times bestselling children's book author and winner of the 2020 Newberry Medal. He writes books with Black boy middle school protagonists.



A school district in Texas has banned his books because parents complained.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/...-subject-matter-teaches-critical-race-theory/

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There have been several articles like this where conservative white parents in a school district somewhere are banning (or trying to ban) children's books that have won critical praise and are bestsellers and have nothing to do with CRT. For all the talk about how all these state and local laws against CRT won't inhibit non-CRT type books and curriculum and classroom discussions about race, it certainly seems as if the goal of many of these folks is to indeed restrict or ban any discussions of race, racism, or anything that might make whites look bad, god forbid.

Or anything they disagree with in general. Conservatism depends on ignoring what people who aren’t white say unless it affirms whiteness.

Circling back to this, here’s a nice compilation video for ya

Don’t let Republicans try to convince you they give a shit. There’s a long tradition of angry white right wing mobs threatening and intimidating local political leaders. Every email they send threatening to rape and kill some PTA mom who made it on the local school board furthers their agenda.

DeacHead said:

This seems out of place for this topic, but just to follow-up prior points brought up on Graham re: HB2:

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His principles and conscience also led him to vote to:

Authorize possession of guns on school property
Rescind unemployment benefits during the pandemic
Repeal the state’s mask mandate
Require schools to have in-person learning
Ban magistrates from officiating same-sex weddings
Increase penalties for people engaged in “riots”

The GOP school board campaign manager in Guilford, CT (not NC) said this. Just another example of that small percentage of Trumpite Republicans who are making all Republicans look bad. She later said her remark was "poorly worded" and taken out of context. Seems like a pretty clear statement.

It has a negative effect on bigoted bastards…so…

Highland Deac said:

Just another example of that small percentage of Trumpite Republicans who are making all Republicans look bad.

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Strange, I'd say 9 out of 10 Republicans I know have never made a similar statement.

CNN article on a school in the Kansas City suburbs where some white parents are complaining about CRT being taught to kids (according to the article it is not) and making white kids feel "bad" or "guilty", while at the same time actual racist incidents are happening at the school, such as a recent petition to bring back slavery. So schools trying to deal with actual racist incidents are finding it more difficult to do so because some parents keep claiming that measures to address said racism are CRT and shouldn't be taught or implemented.

"Nearly two weeks after a racist petition to bring back slavery circulated at her daughter's school, Julie Stutterheim is still angry. She says it was yet another example of a racist incident at Park Hill South High School in the suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri. "She was very upset about it. My daughter's Ethiopian," Stutterheim told CNN this week. Her daughter has encountered racism firsthand, Stutterheim says and "the more she talked about this, the more upset she got."

"Stutterheim did what any concerned parent would do and reached out to the school to find out what happened. What she found was that an increasingly familiar scenario was unfolding at her child's school. Across the US, there are two diametrically opposed conversations about race going on at the same time. In one, some White parents are telling school leaders that lessons about race make White students feel bad. And in the other, there's the racism that is actually happening in schools."

"Part of that response is the district's search for an expert adviser on race and inclusion. Yet many White parents across the US have pushed back against these efforts and conflated it with the debate over what critical race theory is and isn't...At a recent school board meeting, Sally Roller echoed an opinion that many White parents share. "I would like to address critical race theory, sometimes called culturally responsive teaching. History is what it is, whether we like it or not, and should not be rewritten," she said. "I fear this would cause more division and racism by causing others to be seen by skin color rather than the other individual personal qualities of the person." Critical race theory is not taught in the K-12 curriculum."

"Nicole Price is the CEO of Lively Paradox professional training and coaching. She has been hired in schools throughout Missouri and Kansas. She says she generally gets a phone call after something racist happens. White school leaders are often in a state of shock. " 'Am I surprised?' That's the question I get the most," she tells CNN. She said she's disappointed but never surprised. These days, Price's job is more challenging than ever. After one Missouri school district hired her to lead a session, the school board got threats, she says. She had a driver and asked for extra security. Price was going to the school to give a keynote presentation on "Radical Empathy."

"Holscher, who lives in Overland Park, says fears of critical race theory is getting in the way of schools dealing with other incidents after a photo surfaced of racist homecoming proposal at a nearby high school in Olathe, Kansas. The school condemned the image, but three weeks before that a father condemned efforts to expand race education in Olathe schools...Parents like Julie Stutterheim feel that her peers need to wake up to the reality of what's really going on in schools. "I watched my White daughter, my older daughter, grow up and not experience the things that my younger daughter has to experience. So that's been really tough to see."

Link: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/us/kansas-city-school-slavery-petition/index.html

CRT and culturally responsive teaching are completely different concepts entirely. That’s just run of the mill ignorance from that side.

This whole anti-CRT nonsense has recruited more culture warriors and armed them to fight in a pro-racism war against people who mostly thought this war was over.