Critical Race Fiction; students fight back

Cuddles · Jan 30, 2022

ipatent said:
My posts aren't Marxism at all.
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nothing you say is Marxism is Marxism at all

El OchoCinco · Jan 30, 2022

gwb-trading said:
Which is an entirely different subject than using a framework of lesson plans which belittles and demeans children on the basis of race in the classroom. Would it be acceptable to you if lesson plans were used in the classroom which demeaned black children on the basis of race? To me it is not acceptable to demean children of any race as part of any type of lesson plan --- including CRT-based or "equity" education.
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yeah.. to this day I have not seen any board of education approve any curriculum that belittles and demeans kids on the basis of race... I have seen GOP use vague language to ban any teaching of history based on race...and now go after books....

VA governor set up a hotline so parents can tell on teachers when the lesson offends them.... so if a teacher discusses MLK or the Tulsa Riot.... a fucktard karen can complain that their precious little Tiffany or Chad felt belittled learning about history.

Youngkin won by claiming to get rid of CRT based education in VA and every single county or board of education gladly admitted that CRT was not being taught in VA so that dog whistle got him elected pretty easily...

Cuddles · Jan 31, 2022

El OchoCinco said:
yeah.. to this day I have not seen any board of education approve any curriculum that belittles and demeans kids on the basis of race... I have seen GOP use vague language to ban any teaching of history based on race...and now go after books....

VA governor set up a hotline so parents can tell on teachers when the lesson offends them.... so if a teacher discusses MLK or the Tulsa Riot.... a fucktard karen can complain that their precious little Tiffany or Chad felt belittled learning about history.

Youngkin won by claiming to get rid of CRT based education in VA and every single county or board of education gladly admitted that CRT was not being taught in VA so that dog whistle got him elected pretty easily...
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One of GWB's newfound heroes:

gwb-trading said:
Democrats can win the debate over critical race theory. Here’s how.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...n-debate-over-critical-race-theory-heres-how/

Democrats, beware: Glenn Youngkin’s successful campaign for governor of Virginia will serve as atemplatefor Republican candidates eager to exploit fears of critical race theory by demanding “parental control” of education. Democrats must do a better job of responding than Youngkin’s hapless opponent, Terry McAuliffe, did.

The absolute worst thing you can say is what McAuliffe said: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” At some level, he was right; there would be chaos if every teacher had to run every lesson plan by the parents of every student. But his comment came across as tone-deaf after parents had spent 18 months supervising their kids’ education at home — and stewing about shuttered classrooms. McAuliffe paid the price for not feeling parents’ pain.

It’s also not productive to argue, as many on the left have, that critical race theory, or CRT, isn’t being taught and that raising the issue is nothing but a dog whistle to racists. It’s true that “parental control” has become the new “states’ rights” — a deceptively anodyne slogan for tapping racist fears. It’s also true that even those who are most hysterical about CRT have trouble defining it. Fox News host Tucker Carlson just admitted: “I’ve never figured out what ‘critical race theory’ is, to be totally honest, after a year of talking about it.”

But as a practical, political issue, none of that matters. CRT might have started off as an esoteric academic theory about structural racism. But it has now become a generic term for widely publicized excesses in diversity education, such as disparaging “individualism” and “objectivity” as examples of “white supremacy culture” or teaching first-graders about microaggressions and structural racism. You don’t have to be a Republican to be put off by the incessant attention on race in so many classrooms.

George Packer wrote in the Atlantic in October 2019 that he knew “several mixed-race families” that transferred their kids out of a New York City school that “had taken to dividing their students by race into consciousness-raising ‘affinity groups.’” Packer spoke for many liberal parents when he protested the tendency to make “race, which is a dubious and sinister social construct, an essence that defines individuals regardless of agency or circumstance.” As an example, he cited Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) saying, “We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice; we don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice.”

This is the kind of “stupid wokeness” that Democratic strategist James Carville blamed for his party’s setbacks in Virginia and New Jersey — and it is something that Democrats need to disavow if they want to win outside of deep-blue enclaves. Democrats should admit that, even as racism remains a pervasive problem, some efforts to combat it backfire if they exacerbate racial divisions or stigmatize White students.

But while acknowledging some conservative concerns as legitimate, Democrats also need to call out the GOP’s cynical and destructive use of the CRT issue. Just as an earlier generation of liberals protested all the lives Joseph McCarthy was destroying in the name of anti-communism, liberals today need to focus on the collateral damage that Republicans inflict in the name of fighting CRT: They are trying to ban books and fire educators. In short, they are practicing the very “cancel culture” they decry.

Seven states have outlawed teaching CRT, and 13 others are considering such bills. These laws have provoked opposition even from staunch conservatives, such as David French, who worry about the chilling effect on speech. French lives in a Tennessee county where right-wing activists are trying to use an anti-CRT law to purge from the curriculum books about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ruby Bridges. They even take issue with Normal Rockwell’s painting “The Problem We All Live With,” which shows Bridges being escorted to her New Orleans elementary school in 1960 by federal marshals enforcing desegregation.

The chairman of the Texas House Committee on General Investigating demanded on Oct. 25 that schools in that state report whether they stock any books “that might make students feel discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress because of their race or sex” — and included 850 examples of such suspect works. In Southlake, Tex., an anti-CRT law was even invoked by a school administrator who instructed teachers to offer an “opposing” perspective on the Holocaust. What would that be — neo-Nazism?

James Whitfield, the first Black principal of a high school in Colleyville, Tex., is in the process of being fired. His apparent offense was writing, after the George Floyd murder, that systemic racism was “alive and well” and asking students and parents to be “anti-racist.” (The school district denies that CRT was a factor in its decision.) In Blountville, Tenn., a teacher was fired in part for assigning an article by Ta-Nehisi Coates arguing that Donald Trump was elected by harnessing white grievances.

Conservatives argue that CRT, with its focus on group identity, is un-American. But what’s more un-American than attempting to ban books and fire teachers for their views? That’s what happens in China. Democrats can win the CRT debate if they call out the illiberal excesses of both the woke left and the anti-woke right.
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gwb-trading said:
Enjoy your 2022 election result --- Across the country Republican politicians are setting the table to follow Youngkin in using education as a central theme in their campaigns. This is going to lead to a disaster for Democrats.

Zeldin plotting Youngkin-like GOP surprise over Democrats in 2022
https://nypost.com/2021/11/26/lee-zeldin-plotting-youngkin-like-gop-surprise-over-democrats-in-2022/
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El OchoCinco · Jan 31, 2022

So even if the material just mentions race..... it should be censored because.... whities in FL...

But we do not want any white people to learn about civil rights movements.... that would demean them I guess...

Professor J. Michael Butler was set to deliver a lecture to teachers of the Osceola County School District last week. The lecture, called The Long Civil Rights Movement posits that the civil rights movement wasn't limited to the 50s and 60s, but began decades earlier and may still not be over.

Just a day after the Judiciary Committee of Florida's GOP-led House of Representatives approved the Stop WOKE Act, Butler's lecture was unceremoniously canceled. The reason? Concerns that Butler's presentation would amount to critical race theory, according to Butler's Twitter thread on the matter.

Butler's lecture doesn't contain any elements of critical race theory, but that doesn't matter under the Stop WOKE Act. The bill doesn't even mention "critical race theory" by name, but the press release from Governor DeSantis' office announcing his support for the bill uses the phrase 15 times.

One of the bill's most sinister aspects is that illegal topics expand far more broadly than critical race theory, instead banning any teachings that cause an individual to feel "discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress" in regards to race. It's the latest instance of the anti-snowflake crowd believing any amount of discomfort for white people is the denial of freedom.

Poor Karens and Kens dont want Chad and Tiffany learning about Civil rights movements and when brown people were water hosed and hung from trees

Cuddles · Jan 31, 2022

El OchoCinco said:
So even if the material just mentions race..... it should be censored because.... whities in FL...

But we do not want any white people to learn about civil rights movements.... that would demean them I guess...

Professor J. Michael Butler was set to deliver a lecture to teachers of the Osceola County School District last week. The lecture, called The Long Civil Rights Movement posits that the civil rights movement wasn't limited to the 50s and 60s, but began decades earlier and may still not be over.

Just a day after the Judiciary Committee of Florida's GOP-led House of Representatives approved the Stop WOKE Act, Butler's lecture was unceremoniously canceled. The reason? Concerns that Butler's presentation would amount to critical race theory, according to Butler's Twitter thread on the matter.

Butler's lecture doesn't contain any elements of critical race theory, but that doesn't matter under the Stop WOKE Act. The bill doesn't even mention "critical race theory" by name, but the press release from Governor DeSantis' office announcing his support for the bill uses the phrase 15 times.

One of the bill's most sinister aspects is that illegal topics expand far more broadly than critical race theory, instead banning any teachings that cause an individual to feel "discomfort, guilt, anguish, or any other form of psychological distress" in regards to race. It's the latest instance of the anti-snowflake crowd believing any amount of discomfort for white people is the denial of freedom.

Poor Karens and Kens dont want Chad and Tiffany learning about Civil rights movements and when brown people were water hosed and hung from trees
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Snowflakes need daddy big gov to carve out a safe space for them.

The dumb rubes need a semblance of a legislative win so big corp/GOP throws them a pyrrhic victory bone to munch on by sowing division while they get economic legislation done. It gives them the illusion they're participating in democracy and winning the political fight.

BeautifulStranger · Jan 31, 2022

Cuddles said:

Streisand effect in effect:

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You spin me around, like a record:

But hey, maybe the double-down will work. If new low Presidential approval ratings are the goal, that is.

Want to cuddle, yet?

Cuddles · Oct 15, 2022

nrstrader · Oct 15, 2022

If someone is a fan of Critical Theory then it is hardly an insult to say it is a Marxist philosophy.
A fan of Critical Theory is obviously a fan of Marx and Hegel.

Cuddles · Jun 4, 2023

parents fighting back the fighting back:

Cuddles · Jun 4, 2023

El OchoCinco said:
yeah.. to this day I have not seen any board of education approve any curriculum that belittles and demeans kids on the basis of race... I have seen GOP use vague language to ban any teaching of history based on race...and now go after books....

VA governor set up a hotline so parents can tell on teachers when the lesson offends them.... so if a teacher discusses MLK or the Tulsa Riot.... a fucktard karen can complain that their precious little Tiffany or Chad felt belittled learning about history.

Youngkin won by claiming to get rid of CRT based education in VA and every single county or board of education gladly admitted that CRT was not being taught in VA so that dog whistle got him elected pretty easily...
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which is exactly what happened.