The racists return to kindergarten
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Damn those Marxists!You know their game, right? They want to spew truth and real history at our kids. No doubt they’re also in favor of dropping charges against Julian Assange, who (as all real Americans know) deserves 175 years in prison for exposing — with the help of the New York Times, The Guardian. Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País — embarrassing realities about U.S. foreign policy.How do I know the Marxists are behind this? The Heritage Foundation tells me so. In their dismantling of good old Critical Race Theory, they explain that it’s “an academic discipline founded by law professors who used Marxist analysis to conclude that racial dominance by whites created ‘systemic racism.
’”It gets worse: “Critical race theorists have been dominant in colleges and universities for years, but their impact on public policy was limited until recently. The precepts of CRT have now burst outside the universities, affecting K-12 schools, workplaces, state and federal governments, and even the military.”Be afraid. Be very afraid. Or not.Pardon me as I struggle to free myself from the sarcasm the Heritage Foundation and its ilk have let loose in me, thanks to their public splattering of simplistic lies, their harrumph at academic awareness of actual historical reality, their craven cradling of ignorance and stupidity for the purpose of keeping the Good Old Lies alive.
God bless the Founding Fathers, who bequeathed us the greatest country the world has ever seen, no questions asked. Anything bad that has ever happened in this country was because of lone-nut individuals. Legally, structurally, politically, America has stood only for what is good.You might say this present-day collective lie is the third phase of American racism and indicative of our national evolution. Phase 1, of course, was slavery itself, along with Native American genocide. This was not a matter of us vs. them because, to the conquerors and their sycophants, there was only “us.” Everyone else was simply in the way.
Then we had — remember? — the Civil War. Slavery was abolished, forcing “us” (the actual Americans) to acknowledge two sides to the matter. Now there was also a “them” and, in the name of equality, they were going to try with all their might to steal some of “our” privileges. And thus began Phase 2, the Jim Crow era, which was both legally (whites-only bathrooms and such) and trans-legally (burning crosses, lynchings) ensconced.In the wake of the Civil Rights Movement — a primarily nonviolent awakening of human consciousness and a dismantling of legal apartheid — proud white America was forced into a moral corner.
Racism has been declared morally wrong, even morally evil, forcing “us” to try ever more desperately to maintain “our” privileged dominance. Welcome to Phase 3 of American racism, which still holds a good bit of power but basically has no idea what it stands for or who the enemy actually is. It’s doing its best, both internationally and domestically, to establish the enemies du jour: Muslims are terrorists. Immigrants are rapists. War keeps us safe and our bombs are smart.Here at home, police violence against non-whites is fervidly protected against Democrats who want to defund the police. And in the past year or so, a new enemy has begun taking shape: the academicians who have invented and now promote, beyond the college campuses, Critical Race Theory, which makes children uncomfortable.That’s the current political rallying cry: Don’t make the children uncomfortable! Don’t go around telling the truth. It’s Marxist, for God’s sake.
While lynching can no longer be justified, remembering it and talking about it in the classroom is still something that can be condemned, even made illegal (or sort of illegal), in the process turning the Civil Rights Movement on its head, e.g.:Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill into law banning woke blather — you know history — from being taught and discussed in public schools, “based on the fundamental truth that all individuals are equal before the law and have inalienable rights.” Yeah, civil rights, man!In the words of the governor himself:”No one should be instructed to feel as if they are not equal or shamed because of their race. In Florida, we will not let the far-left woke agenda take over our schools and workplaces.
There is no place for indoctrination or discrimination in Florida.”How eerily fascinating: The protectors of America’s racist history, and to the extent possible, racism itself, have put themselves in the victim seat. In their view, apparently, somebody is always the loser. My message to them is to go back to kindergarten, but bring with you a copy of the extraordinary book of photographs, compiled by James Allen and published in 2000, called Without Sanctuary. Many of the photos in the book are actually postcards. Virtually every photo shows one or more black human beings lynched — hanging from tree branches, bridges, barns — the corpses often surrounded by smiling (white) onlookers, including children.I guarantee, Ron, et al., this book will tear at your soul. But with the help of a good teacher, the message conveyed by the book is not shame. You will be looking at the pictures from a context that is beyond the hell and horror that was present at the time; that is beyond the ignorance of the era, when some people were dehumanized, declared disposable. Inhale this reality! Inhale the wrongness, the awfulness of it — and know this is not all of who we are.
This is what happens when ignorance prevails, allowing us to dehumanize — and then kill — others. It’s called racism. It’s called war. And this is what it looks like in the raw: separated from the justification of the moment.History demands that we see it for what it is — and grow up. It’s called evolution, and we are evolving, all of us together. We will have no future until we can face our past.
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Is there an age-appropriate balance to this? Do we whip out all the anti-abortion pictures on the kiddos, too?
A balance to telling white children that they are racists? Or telling black children that they are victims?
This is not about balance. This is all about ridding academia of theses hateful vermin.
People like you do not want children being taught that America has a racist history. Why it bothers people to have to admit that is somewhat of a mystery, but I have my own thoughts about that. In any case the country cannot evolve until we accept what got us here and vow to make it better.
White people are not victims in this society, yet we hear from someone virtually every day that they are.
What are you afraid of ?
As far as children being told they are racist individuals, I dont believe that it happens.
People like me appreciate an accurate teaching of history.
Why it bothers people to have to admit that is somewhat of a mystery
There is no mystery, John. People always want to think positive thoughts of this nation's founding and development.
In any case the country cannot evolve until we accept what got us here and vow to make it better.
The country cannot endure until this evil ideology is eradicated.
White people are not victims in this society
Neither is anyone else.
What are you afraid of ?
I'm not afraid of anything John, I'm determined to put a stop to this hateful ideology.
As far as children being told they are racist individuals, I dont believe that it happens.
I see.
There is not even the slightest shadow of doubt that America has historically been a racist country. It is extremely well documented. Saying otherwise is pure denial.
When Obama became the first viable black candidate for president in 2007-08, an utter panic set in among a segment of white people, who foresaw that they might "lose " their" country. Thus we got birtherism, the Tea Party, Alex Jones, the Freedom Caucus, white Christian nationalism, and eventually Donald Trump and MAGA . It is all an effort to forestall reality , an effort based on white grievance.
As somebody famous said "Don't put words in my mouth!" Like our friend here, I made a very simple statement:
"People like me appreciate an accurate teaching of history."
And of course, our dear friend is never around when words like "People like you" are used.
When Obama became the first viable black candidate for president in 2007-08, an utter panic set in among a segment of white people, who foresaw that they might "lose " their" country.
Prove it!
No candidate gets elected without 40% of the white vote. There was only one group that voted on race.
post links that clearly indicate that teachers told white kids they are racist
put up or shut up
Here's another one:
They've never been the same since Harry Caray past away.
... that you will read them, or shut up?
I think it's a capability issue and not a connectivity issue.
Who is denying it? Or is the fact that many have accepted this history and moved on in a way that will end racism. Well with the exception of the racist dim bulbs that push garbage like CRT every change they get.
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People promoting CRT trash are proof that hateful ignorance does in fact prevail.
They made their fatal mistake with having the kids learn from home. That's when parents got to see it for themselves!
Yep.
Then when parents took it to the school boards, the school boards started crying and AG Garland set out to investigate and prosecute parents for standing up for their children.
And calling concerned parents "domestic terrorists" for being concerned about about what their kids were learning! That was really pathetic.
Goes right along with everything else we are seeing from this shitty administration and it's supporters.
First of all, the day will never dawn on this earth when I am "afraid" to reply to you. I often "move on" rather than get into pissing matches with incompetent people.
I looked at all of your links. Two of them are reporting the same story.
The last link, from a far right website called USSA News , doesnt work. I did notice a few other things on that website that will show everyone the sort of material you source from
The top two are ads on that crackpot website, one trying to sell "assault" rifles , and the other trying to sell food to "preppers". The bottom two are stories in the news section of that site.
I would never even consider linking from a site like that, but you did it. Good job.
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None of the articles you linked to show proof that any teacher told an individual white student "you are a racist". But lets say that the five articles you linked are more or less accurate and these teachers did say something inappropriate to their students about "white privilege.
130,930.
That is how many K -12 schools there are in the United States. Each of those schools must have multiple classrooms where teaching of social studies takes place. I think we can surmise that there are at least 500,000 classrooms across the country where this "telling kids they are racist" could be taking place. A half million. Yet what do we see? A minute smattering of examples of high school kids being told about white privilege and the parents of these kids getting irate about it.
Kids should be taught that white people have run the world for hundreds of years and that the result of that has been racism towards minorities. There is nothing wrong with teaching kids that, so we as a society can overcome it. I dont doubt that some white kids feel "uncomfortable" when race is brought up in school, so what are the schools to do, not bring it up? That is just status quo, as we have seen for again hundreds of years. Yes we had civil rights legislation in the US, 50-60 years ago. But as important as it was, civil rights legislation does not end racism, but education might.
Do you find it interesting that the current young generation is considered to be the least biased against "the other" of any US generation? Many of those kids were taught tolerance AT SCHOOL.
Garbage lies.
Get lost.
You are talking about liberals, not MAGA.
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So you are calling the linked memo SIGNED BY GARLAND garbage and lies? Nothing like showing everybody you are, in fact, willfully ignorant to the whole situation.
Can't be liberals if you are still blathering on and on about it.
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You are a waste of time. Unfortunately NT keeps giving you a platform.
Wow, doubling down on the insults. I guess proving a singed memo wrong (and not some bullshit news story wrong) really befuddled you.
“Many of those kids were taught tolerance AT SCHOOL.”
And sadly, intolerance is a learned behavior inculcated, incubated, and instilled at home.
Having lived in many parts of the world during my 20 year military career, I made it a point to make sure my children learned tolerance at home and I have done the same with my grandchildren. I did not need to rely on school systems to do what is a parent's responsibility. My children and older grandchildren thanked me for it later in life.
The difference between you and me is that I can express my thoughts and facts with a degree of effectiveness and competence, and you post from far right websites.
There are hundreds of thousands of schoolrooms in the US where "CRT" could be being taught. It isnt being taught in hundreds of thousands of classrooms is it? CRT isnt being taught in any, but you find a smattering of teachers talking about "white privilege". So what?
“Having lived in many parts of the world during my 20 year military career, I made it a point to make sure my children learned tolerance at home…”
Good on you, sir.
Seems the intolerance is being taught by those who never had the opportunity or desire to see the world as you and I have.
To look outside the comfortable box in which we live is to open our eyes to lives that struggle daily to put food on the table, to hope to educate their children, and to do so in spite of the economic and educational barriers they face.
Bingo!
"Garbage lies."
Prove it!
Do you have proof of what you claim? I mean actual proof...not NY Post, American Examiner, Washington Times or Fox News
I think he just did
that's not a news article
2022 student
"grandma (or great grandma) why were you screaming at that black girl that just wanted to go to school" ?
This is what some whites dont want taught to their children.
Some white parents dont want ANY of this taught to their kids.
A group of teenage girls scream obscenities at Black students entering their high school in Montgomery, Alabama. (© Flip Schulke/CORBIS/ Corbis via Getty Images)
The damn gop is intent on playing gotcha with educators for even mentioning slavery, the removal of Native Americans, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow or the fight for Civil Rights.
It might make their snowflake kids feel bad about themselves!
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What in the hell are you jabbering about now? I never ever said that teachers were not still teaching American History to kids. Because, they are! What is ridiculous and dumb and all wrongheaded is the dumbass far rightwingers in the gop who are falsely claiming teachers are teaching CRT and trying to get them all fired for just doing their jobs! So, can all that manufactured douchebagery!
No, you asked what states aren't teaching American History!
There is very little doubt that some if not many of the people in these photos are still alive. They might be in their 80's or even 90's, but how can something be ancient history when the participants are still alive?
The white grievance crowd lives in denial. There are white people who do not want their children taught that grandma screamed obscenities at black kids who were trying to go to school. In some ways it is that simple.
Looks like he's gone to silent running mode.
If you really have me on ignore then why do you still troll me?
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Granddaughter, why won't you let white people in your college house?
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So you equate anti-black, or other people of color , racism with anti-white racism. This is willful ignorance. The two are not comparable.
If I accurately described white people who think they are victims of racism, to you, I would get a coc violation.
I will have to risk it by saying you dont know what the hell you are talking about.
Because that would expose the hypocrisy within the hive. You can't have that now.
That seems to be happening a lot with many liberals. I wonder why...
It's the same disease John.
Black racism towards whites is almost entirely a reaction to white racism that has gone on for centuries. They are not remotely comparable.
Racism is racism no matter what the origin or cause. Period.
Racism is fucking racism regardless of the color of the skin that's being discriminated against.
I cannot believe this has to be explained to a fucking adult.
That is pretty damn sad that it happens.
Holy shit! Are you actually attempting to justify racism?
Sweeping Generalization
Oh. My Bad. I'll use officially approved language.
Why isn't the racism of modern liberal fucks taught in school?
Get lost.
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How do you justify Black racism towards Asians or Hispanics? Asian American racism towards Blacks? Hispanic racism towards Blacks? Black antisemitism?
No one in their right mind could look at the history of this country and conclude that all racism is equal. A whole lot of "conservatives" seem to struggle mightily with that.
I certainly don’t think that the aggregated effects are equal and I see that you failed to answer my questions.
The answer to your question is there in my comment. You just dont see it, evidently.
No I don’t see your justification of racism by people of color to people of color. Could you highlight it?
Why do Ukrainians hate Russians? Why do Muslim Pakistanis hate Hindu Indians? Why do the Irish hate the English? Why do Okies hate Texans? And you have the gall to question why people of African heritage might have an aversion to white people? Hate is toxic whenever, wherever and whoever but throughout human history, many people had their reasons...
When do you think that I asked that?
Whoosh! Why do Hutus hate Tutsis? Why do Koreans hate Japanese? I am sure you have a basic understanding why people often hate their their neighbors, sometimes worse even than foreign enemies who look nothing like them!. Must always be about race with you?
Pretty gassy tonight, what was lunch?
This isn’t my seed, I didn’t bring up race.
The irony.......
Another who fails to understand their comments are visible?
I have no idea what you intended point is, do you?
ZZZZZ...
Above, ^^^^, you said that you could not imagine why people sometimes hate others of their own race, as if race was the only reason you could imagine for hate. As if people have not forever hate their neighbors regardless of their skin tones!
My new saying, "Online trolls are the knights in Satan's army".
When do you think that I said that?
Does this indicate a conversion to fundamentalism?
1. See your comment #2.2.25 above and then get back with us.
2. I hear you, "Hail Satan!"
Yes, I reread my comment 2.2.25 and I said nothing like: “Above, ^^^^, you said that you could not imagine why people sometimes hate others of their own race, as if race was the only reason you could imagine for hate.”
Is that a remnant of your OK heritage?
Assuming that you agree there are circumstances where one might feel justified hating anyone and that we are both white, could you ever understand feeling justified in loathing me?
Can you imagine hating someone of your race? I surely can...
Some really lame folks will not own their own written words!
You do tolerate it because you are called on it all the fucking time and there is not one damn thing you can do to stop people from calling, "Bullshit", on your bullshit...
Yes, you usually say basically that several times every day!
Own It!
Answer my fucking question -
ARE YOU TRYING TO JUSTIFY RACISM?
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Black people did not invent racism in America, whites did.
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Understanding something is not justifying it or approving it. Try it sometime.
For some people it is much easier to just ad lib as they go along.
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Did that happen because of an inherent defect in whiteness?
Got news for you. Racism in one form or another has been around since before the dawn of recorded history and it was not confined to just blacks no matter how much you would like to think it was.
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Certainly, do you have a point or a way of relating this to the previous conversation?
So you can understand how some people justify hating others of their own race, even though you said you could not above?
It is okay to admit you said something you really don't believe!
I have no idea what you are talking about.
What do you think I said that I don't believe?
“…when most of us have moved on and see that things improved enormously.”
Easy to see in the myopic, exclusionary viewpoint that requires blinders or the most red rose colored lenses.
So where's all that present day systemic racism you talk about?
“So where's all that present day systemic racism you talk about?”
One only look (if one is willing) at the educational, judicial, housing, economical differences one faces if for no other reason than a skin color.
Yeah, the racist Americana government left a lesbian black woman in a Russian jail in order to get a white male out.
So much systematic racism.
Good job staying in the moment.
And your solution to this is related to CRT in what way, exactly?
Yet you refuse to show evidence of it.
Exactly, ““Equitable treatment means we all end up in the same place.”