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Weird question, but does JH even agree that the we should ban CRT (whatever it even means)?
It’s junebug but anyway I don’t think him or jh think crt is a big deal. Or even a small deal. They’re just calculating that any fallout from this controversy is worth it to rile up their horrible base. So they have to defend it.
The statute prohibits teaching that meritocracies or the very concept of a "hard work ethic" were created by White people to keep Black people down. I tend to think more highly of Black people than that, and I don't think we should be teaching our children concepts that will undermine their success in the real world.
Do docs from the classroom qualify? I'm sure the 3rd grade classroom enjoyed story time from "This Book is Antiracist".
The statute prohibits teaching that meritocracies or the very concept of a "hard work ethic" were created by White people to keep Black people down. I tend to think more highly of Black people than that, and I don't think we should be teaching our children concepts that will undermine their success in the real world.
You want to ban CRT to protect Blacks? Was slavery or Jim Crow or the Black Codes also for their own good? Holy shit, man. Let's not accurately present the role of white racists in our country because we need to protect black people. No. You think so little of Black people that you don't believe that they can handle it, ignoring the fact that they live it out every day.
I look forward to Brad posting more bombshells from Mr. Rufo. This one shook me to my core.
Remember the Alamo? According to Texas lore, it's the site in San Antonio where, in 1836, about 180 Texan rebels died defending the state during Texas' war for independence from Mexico.
The siege of the Alamo was memorably depicted in a Walt Disney series and in a 1960 movie starring John Wayne. But three writers, all Texans, say the common narrative of the Texas revolt overlooks the fact that it was waged in part to ensure slavery would be preserved.
"Slavery was the undeniable linchpin of all of this," author Bryan Burrough says. "It was the thing that the two sides had been arguing about and shooting about for going on 15 years. And yet it still surprises me that slavery went unexamined for so long."
In their new book, Forget the Alamo, Burrough and co-writers Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford challenge common misconceptions surrounding the conflict — including the notion that Davy Crockett was a martyr who fought to the death rather than surrender.
"Most academics now believe, based on Mexican accounts and contemporary accounts, that, in fact, [Crockett] did surrender and was executed," Burrough says.
On how Texas history often fails to address slavery
It still surprises me that slavery went unexamined for so long. But then you have to understand: The Texas revolt, for 150 years, was largely ignored by academics, in part because it was considered déclassé, it was considered provincial, and because the state government of Texas, much as they're doing now, has for 120, 130 years, made very clear to the University of Texas faculty and to the faculty of other state-funded universities that it only wants one type of Texas history taught ... and that if you get outside those boundaries, you're going to hear about it from the Legislature.
On how Mexican Americans were largely written out of Texas history
The Tejanos, who were the Texians'key allies and a number of which fought and died at the Alamo, were entirely written out of generations of Texas history [as it was] written by Anglo writers. This was mirrored very much in the kind of ethnic cleansing that went on after the revolution in which hundreds of Tejanos were pushed out of San Antonio, in Victoria and existing towns, their lands taken, laws passed against their ability to marry white women and hold public office.
On how the 1960 John Wayne movie The Alamo perpetuated these myths
[Wayne] made the movie basically because he wholeheartedly believed that America was falling apart, that it was going to the dogs and that somebody needs to stand up for what are today called "patriotic values," "family values," "American values." And it's also pretty clear ... [Wayne] was ardently pro-Nixon in the 1960 presidential campaign and ardently anti-Kennedy and in his mind, believed that this type of huge shout-out of American patriot values could somehow defeat John F. Kennedy.
The movie, most reviewers would tell you, is a mess. It perpetuates everyhoary Alamo myth. And yet it spoke to a certain cross section of American and international viewers. It was really the thing that more than anything, caused the Alamo to become the international icon that it's become.
On how the Anglo-centric narrative of the Alamo history has affected Latino kids
Mexican American kids can grow up in Texas believing they're Americans, with the Statue of Liberty and all that, until seventh grade when you were taught, in essence, that if you're Mexican, your ancestors killed Davy Crockett, that that's kind of the original sin of the Texas creation myth. It has been used just anecdotally for generations to put down Mexican Americans, a big beefy white guy going up to the little Mexican guy and punching him in the arm and saying, "Remember the Alamo," that type of thing.
To an amazing degree, maybe because the Texas media [are] still dominated by Anglos as well as the Texas government, that viewpoint has just never really gotten into the mainstream. ... By and large, any time you've had any type of Latino voice come out and question the traditional Anglo narrative, they've been shouted down.
The one thing that dumbfounds me about white supremacy is how much white people trust each other.
Hey, have you heard about this propagandist, Rufo.
started watching Rufo's "documentary" on CRT and lol'd when he said the Frankfurt school wrote in response to the "social and racial unrest of the 1960s"
it's like people don't want to understand things (a Wiki will show you how wrong that is) they just want to be angry
How much longer until a disgruntled white student shoots up his school and blames CRT?