American Politics Thread

[Volphied]

This is spot on. I noticed the panic over CRT resembled the Intelligent Design controversy of the mid-to-late 2000s. Turns out the same people are involved, and it's all astroturfed.

Astroturfed indeed. The Koch propaganda network has latched onto the CRT moral panic the same way dark money previously flowed into the ID nonsense of the 2000s.

Carlos Maza did an excellent video where he explains what CRT is, what it isn't, and why Republicans are hellbent on misusing the term in order to create a moral panic.

 

[RileyXY1]

CRT is a fake moral panic created by the GOP in order to force schools to remove lessons pertaining to racism, diversity, and inclusiveness. They want kids, especially white kids, to grow up with feelings of bigotry and hatred to guarantee that they will vote Republican when they're adults. The purpose of the GOP's war on education is to ensure that the generation to follow Gen Z is the most bigoted, hateful, and Republican generation ever.

 

[Big Lutz]

If it is a fake moral panic that did not start until 2020/2021 then where did all this literature come from in 2018 and prior talking about how to adapt CRT for public schools?

By 2018, CRT ideas had become so widespread within the field of teacher training that Gloria Ladson-Billings and others were able to compile a four-volume set, Critical Race Theory in Education, which was promoted as a “mini-library” (and priced at $1,785 US). It contains 82 scholarly articles on how CRT can be applied to education, many of which discuss how it can be applied in US primary and secondary school systems.

Yes, Children Are Being Taught Critical Race Theory in K–12 Schools in the US - Areo

Last year, the idea that American schoolchildren at state schools were being taught some of the tenets of critical race theory (CRT) became a major political flashpoint. The Republican candidate…View Post

areomagazine.com

Oh and here is a Detroit school superintendent saying that CRT is deeply ingrained in the education curriculum.

 

[Big Lutz]

CRT is a fake moral panic created by the GOP in order to force schools to remove lessons pertaining to racism, diversity, and inclusiveness. They want kids, especially white kids, to grow up with feelings of bigotry and hatred to guarantee that they will vote Republican when they're adults. The purpose of the GOP's war on education is to ensure that the generation to follow Gen Z is the most bigoted, hateful, and Republican generation ever.

I am just curious and honestly I am not trying to start a debate on this I am just wondering what your opinion is, how far should classrooms go?

Should primary and secondary schools talk about white privilege and white supremacy in everyday life, and how it benefits students? Thus making white students feel as if their hardships are not as valid as others and should be singled out based on skin color?

Should students be forced to address their own individual privileges either out loud or on paper and made to feel guilty about that? ( This includes students as young as eight years old ) Identity Politics in Cupertino, California Elementary School

Should students be asked to address what privileges they believe other students have?

These are all examples of lessons that have caused outrage over the past few years.

Because if you are looking to make a generation as the most bigoted and most hateful, all you have to do is beat them down over and over again telling them how hateful and privileged their life is and how their problems do not matter. How because of their skin color or sexuality or religion they have less social currency. That is what causes a generation of people to turn to extremism to validate themselves.

 

[ShieldFan]

CRT is a fake moral panic created by the GOP in order to force schools to remove lessons pertaining to racism, diversity, and inclusiveness. They want kids, especially white kids, to grow up with feelings of bigotry and hatred to guarantee that they will vote Republican when they're adults. The purpose of the GOP's war on education is to ensure that the generation to follow Gen Z is the most bigoted, hateful, and Republican generation ever.

The GOP represents tens of millions. I can assure you that most people in Alabama and North Dakota don't want to see their children taking lessons with a woke/liberal teacher - and rightfully so. "GOP's war on education" - ... so republican voters are just adults full of hate and bigotry? Most republican supporters I know are honest and hard working people.

 

[colours]

going to lock this thread. discussion hasn't really gone anywhere productive and i don't foresee that changing.