New PAC Will Support School Board Candidates That Aim To Rid Public Schools Of Critical Race Theory
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A PAC that launched Monday called the "1776 Project" will aid school board candidates across the country who reject the introduction of Critical Race Theory (CRT) at public schools, making it the first of its kind, Axios reported.
The PAC , started by political consultant Ryan Girdusky, aims to "reform our public education system by promoting patriotism and pride in American history" by "abolishing" CRT and "The 1619 Project" from public school curriculum, the PAC's website says.
Critical race theory and the 1619 Project have made their way through our public education system and now it's time to fight back.
That's why I've created the national super pac ever focusing on school board elections. The 1776 Project PAChttps://t.co/T7r4oz77dR
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) May 25, 2021
CRT holds that America is fundamentally racist, yet teaches individuals to view every social interaction and person in terms of race. Its adherents pursue "antiracism" through the end of merit, objective truth and the adoption of race-based policies.
The " 1619 Project " is made up of multiple stories and poems about racism and slavery. It suggests America's "true founding" was when the first slaves arrived in 1619 and "aims to reframe the country's history."
According to the website, "The 1619 Project" is being taught in 3,500 classrooms in the U.S. The PAC was officially formed in December but was open for donations Monday, Axios reported.
"Help us overturn any teaching of the 1619 project or critical race theory," the website says. "Let's bring back Patriotism and Pride in our American History."
Girdusky said he plans to focus on school board elections in North Carolina and Florida, according to Axios. Numerous states across the country have made moves toward banning the teaching of CRT in public institutions like schools and universities, while others have already passed legislation that effectively bans such instruction.
Idaho became the first state to prevent teachers or CRT facilitators from forcing students or other school staff to adopt the ideas in CRT. The bill prohibits schools from forcing students to adhere to the belief that "any sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin is inherently superior or inferior," or that "individuals should be adversely treated" because of these characteristics.
It also prohibits schools from compelling students to adopt the belief that people with certain racial, religious, or sexual characteristics are "inherently responsible for actions committed in the past" by other members of those same groups, a common feature of CRT training, reports have shown.
Multiple other states followed Idaho's lead. In May, Oklahoma passed a bill similar to Idaho's. The legislation drew condemnation from the Oklahoma City Board of Education , which denounced the law. One member said the law was intended to "protect white fragility" and another member called it "racist."
It looks like Texas is about to join Idaho, Tennessee, and Oklahoma in banning critical race theory. That's a great start, but we need to be more aggressive with pushing back against the cancer moving through our education system and reforming curriculum.
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) May 23, 2021
School districts and school boards across the nation have implemented CRT instruction for teachers and students, which is often the backbone of "antiracist" or "equity" initiatives schools have undertaken.
In early May, Virginia's largest public school system asked parents and other community members about their thoughts on how the school should approach teaching "anti-racism" as part of its new "Anti-Racism, Anti-Bias Education Curriculum Policy."
"Antiracism" training sessions often instruct students and teachers on how they benefit from white privilege or are oppressed by it, and educators have reportedly been told to teach CRT in their classrooms, although parents may not be informed that they're doing so. The programs are sometimes called "diversity, equity, and inclusion" trainings.
At Seattle Public Schools, teachers were told to explain how they would promulgate racial justice in the classroom, and white teachers were told to "bankrupt their privilege," a report showed.
At North Carolina's largest school district , administrators reportedly told teachers at a conference to "disrupt" whiteness and not let parents stand in the way of social justice instruction in the classroom.
Parents in many districts have fought back after learning of school efforts to introduce CRT into the curriculum. The School District of Palm Beach County said it would reconsider its "equity statement," which calls for "dismantling structures rooted in white advantage" after parents criticized it in May as divisive and racist.
Parents opposed to CRT instruction in Virginia's Loudoun County Public Schools launched an supporting a recall campaign that targeted six members of the school board.
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No Vic..... It's white folk doing everything they can rather than to acknowledge historical truth. Ignoring our history for the last 170 years hasn't worked. How about we try talking about it to see if we can put it to rest? America is an exceptional country, and it will be made more so if we can push through this issue.
How about we try talking about it to see if we can put it to rest?
That won't work because the whole "theory" is a pack of lies to begin with.
If you accept the fact that America has been historically racist , up to and including the present (even with considerable progress having been made) then critical race theory probably won't bother you. If you insist on the fantasy that racism was never that bad and now it is basically gone then you don't want to hear CRT.
If whites had had a mass change of heart following emancipation in the 1860's we could have gotten over this national disgrace in that era instead of having this disease of racial prejudice linger for the next 160 years.
Some people think now is the time and generation to deal with it once and for all.
It will never go away if certain race hustlers keep playing the race card and end up deifying minority criminals.
The low info voters are the ones who voted for #45.
They are probably believers in the ''Replacement Theory'' and it scares the snowflakes.
I'm sure it's the same people that believe "Intelligent Design" is really science.
I wish one of you conservatives would post something concrete that shows that children are being taught they are horrible people for being white.
We hear a lot of lip service claiming this is going on but very little in the way of examples. Show us something concrete.
I will agree with you Kathleen..... What happens when a child is born into a racist family/environment? Under those conditions, all you do is perpetuate the racist trend.
Trust me.... I've been to many a church where they teach the golden rule on Sunday where everyone becomes saved with all sins forgiven, but the exact opposite is true the other six days of the week.... How do we improve that situation?
So as usual, you have no answers, and refuse to acknowledge facts.....
Why do these folks want to white wash history?
Reading the responses below to your seed is both hilarious and sad at the same time. A couple of examples.
Yet who is it pushing to rid the country of the past history by removing statues and flags and even names of buildings, streets, and even parks from the past?
All for it but leave your erasure lack of logic at the door.
And then this little gem that goes the way of erasure................
Great question. Why oh why DO you? See this above......"Yet who is it pushing to rid the country of the past history by removing statues and flags?"
Probably because we don't feel that it's right to honor traitors, racists and murderers. Put them in a museum where they belong. If you want to honor them go to the museum.
Why are you following me around and trolling me constantly?
If you get the chance, see if you can find this book at your local library.
Who are you talking about? The whole Southern population, or just the Confederate soldiers?
Don't flatter yourself. Only pointing out the obvious and if you will note, I didn't single you out. Just your continuation of another's bullshit comment. You're too easy.
If they fought against the US then they are traitors and with slavery they were racists.
Pretty simple.
Uh...they had seceded. That muddied the waters a bit.
Those who mindlessly toss out political labels and resort to name calling are ignorant and easily confused
History is taught from books, from museums, in schools. People are honored through monuments. If you do not understand the difference, it is only because you willfully refuse to. Only one party is attempting to alter school books to avoid the racism question.
And again, history is not taught by statues.
It's not flattering, at all.
They certainly are, you should take note of that since you might be guilty of doing that.
The only history that these Civil War statues are is the history of the Jim Crow era when they were all built. They were constructed mainly in towns where they wanted a reminder that the south was white man's country.
These statues should have been removed decades ago.
Oh, yes, that's their MO - either we accept their teaching our children that all whites are born racist and always will be/ that blacks have been held back or we are "whitewashing history."
It is comical in a way, in another it's disgusting.
Says who?
What gives you the right to decide?
I don't know.
A LIE. One party is trying to teach racist dogma and it is officially the democratic party.
Not a lie. Democrats are not trying to re-write history.
School apologizes for stating falsely in yearbook Trump was not impeached
Josh Thompson, principal of Bentonville’s Lincoln junior high school , admitted that some of the contents of the yearbook, which also included a photograph of the deadly 6 January insurrection in Washington DC captioned: “Trump supporters protest at the Capitol,” were “both biased and political”.
Thats nice. So what? Statues of confederate civil war generals are not history.
We are talking about critical race theory being taught in schools and the American people finally taking a stand!
The stand that Conservatives should have taken with the universities 60 years ago. We could have avoided this crisis had they had the backbone.
And they are not for radical progressives and or Marxists to tear down.
Im not a radical progressive or a Marxist and I would get rid of those statues of traitors in a second.
It seems like you and only you gets to assign the characterizations. You call me an extremist and today you describe me as in a state of "panic." One thing that you and a few others need to understand - if it's ok for you to make characterizations, it's all right for me to do it as well. I realize that fair play is not taught at UC Berkeley.
As to your adopted argument here, namely statues, it is kind of a strawman, don't you think?
The article, you see, is about the American people taking a stand against an elite minority trying to indoctrinate our children.
Any thoughts on that?
You just got through saying the sesech southern traitors who wanted to preserve human slavery are better than the people who support critical race theory.
You have to own your own words Vic . Hopefully the site will not protect you.
That is correct John.
You have to own your own words Vic .
It's my pleasure and my right!.
Hopefully the site will not protect you.
You want me jailed too? Yes, John that is exactly why the left is worse that the southern leaders.
If I continue on with you right now I will get my friend Perrie upset because she wants peace.
The woman walks a tight rope between a dozen extreme leftists and myself. If you want to make trouble, she'll have to make one of those hard decisions. I don't care which way it goes, because I know she tries to be fair, unlike Marc Elias or Susan Rice.
Sorry, you can't silence me with threats.
What threats?
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Very profound! I never heard that before!
What would I know about it?
Is this some QANon conspiracy you're talking about?
See how educational NT can be...
About what?
Not here
What elite minority is trying to indoctrinate our children?
Here look for yourself:
"Public schools and other educational institutions throughout the nation are pushing critical race theory on unsuspecting students.
Critical race theory is the claim that American institutions, laws, and history are inherently racist. It argues that white people have put up social, economic, and legal barriers between the races in order to maintain their elite status, both economically and politically. In fact, the source of poverty and criminal behavior in minority communities is due exclusively to these barriers."
https://www.realclearpublicaffairs.com/articles/2020/07/16/critical_race_theory_in_k-12_education_498969.html#!
Complete and utter waste of time
Have a good one.
Removing monuments and memorials erected by bigots celebrating those who fought to conserve slavery is not erasing history. The 1619 project is not erasing history. Those who try and deflect and defend the confederacy by twisting the facts to make it seem like the civil war wasn't about slavery are the ones trying to erase history.
We do not need to erect monuments to Hitler to remember the atrocities the Nazi's committed. We do not need to fly swastika flags to remember the horror of the holocaust. You can see all the swastikas and Nazi memorabilia in history books and holocaust museums that focus on remembering the innocent lives that were taken instead of erecting larger than life bronze statues of Hitler or Nazi soldiers and the same should be said of the confederate Generals and soldiers who fought for their right to own other humans like cattle.
The confederates of the time knew what they were fighting for:
"The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution." "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition." - Vice President of the Confederacy Alexander Stephens March 21, 1861
That is true history straight from the horses mouth. Why should anyone support monuments and memorials to those who officially weren't even Americans anymore once they seceded. Above someone was claiming they weren't traitors because they had seceded but failed to acknowledge that means they were no longer Americans. Why would we put up memorials to non-American aggressors who attacked American soldiers and started a war with us when confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter April 12, 1861 less than a month after their Vice President declared that their "new government" was "founded" and "its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition"?
Why would we as a society today celebrate and honor such people? What history lesson is having larger than life statues of such folk supposed to teach us other than, perhaps, that if you're a massive bigoted racist you might get a statue of yourself erected someday in the town square? It seems far more likely that we would be "doomed to repeat" such conduct by celebrating the confederacy and what it stood for by flying confederate flags, defending confederate monuments and memorials to those who who their break from America and their attack on our soldiers as if that was a good thing.
I am sorry Republicans haven't removed all those racist statues and monuments quickly enough after racist Democrats erected them.
It is sad that white Christian conservative Southern Republicans living in and controlling the governments in the South today seem to be the only ones defending and protecting the racist statues and monuments that those white Christian conservative Southern Democrats who lived in and controlled the South in the past erected.
One might wonder why they are so attached to these symbols of racism and the confederacy if they had nothing to do with them being erected or why Southern Republicans seem to be the only ones defending and flying the confederate flag and apparently cherishing their confederate heritage that used to only be flown by conservative Southern Democrats who cherished their confederate heritage. One might think they perhaps share the same confederate heritage and conservative ideology as the only thing that has apparently changed is the political party they register with. No matter how much some desperately try and whitewash it, a leopard cannot change its spots. If it looks like a conservative with a confederate heritage, talks like a conservative with a confederate heritage, protects racist confederate monuments and proudly flies racist confederate flags, then perhaps it really is a racist conservative confederate descendant regardless of what political party name they now ascribe to.
I know some dishonest Republicans love to throw out that "Democrat" name when trying to tie the modern Democrat party to the conservative Southern Democrats of over half a century ago, but that dog don't hunt. The only thing modern progressive liberal Democrats share with the conservative Southern Democrats from the past is the word "Democrat" which, as apparently some don't know, is a word that has been used by dozens and dozens of different political parties throughout our history. There was even once the Democratic-Republican party led by Thomas Jefferson, James Maddison and James Monroe.
Democrats put them up, democrats loved them.
stop blaming the GOP for what Democrats did.
still cracks me up every single time some progressive attempts to make distinctions between their very own party members based on geography.
The Democratic Party was party to those statues and monuments. time to own it.
Most of them fit the description. There were also poor white people who were in economic situations similar to the slaves. (indentures were still in effect in the south.) These people's only way to fell better about their situation was to do anything to make them selves better than the slaves, hence the racist attitudes and animosity to the slaves/former slaves. they spread this racism westward with the expansion of whites in the frontier and added it to the racism towards native Americans.
Hell, I witnessed this discrimination during my time stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC and when I lived in Durham, NC. (1993-1999)
EVERYONE WHO TOOK UP ARMS OR SUPPORTED THE CONFEDERACY IS A TRAITOR TO THE U.S. they deserved death. IMHO
Just a thought from someone who has bled for this country.
no, that's just progressive left wing myth.
as evidenced by how long the south continued to vote Democrats into office.
not to worry, they are all dead.
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It is comically disgusting the way that you try to spin subjects into something they are not in order to rail against the unfairness of it all. Your strawman falls down to reveal the pitiful man behind the curtain, sputtering in impotent rage at the masses becoming equal to him, no matter how much he rants and struts about his vanishing stage.
ooh, "people like me" .
except, of course, you can't even provide one bit of supporting evidence for your erroneous and hasty conclusions.
carry on
That's the truth and you can't refute it. Deep down a few here are much in favor of teaching just that.
What truth?
How dare you even try to get your seed back on topic? Lol!
Secular progressive leftists
It is an effort having to deal with the trolling, taunting and strawmen, but somebody has to do it and I'm only too happy to do it.
And your comments show a vivid imagination.
I do realize that, but is the White House or the Capital a monument built to honor those who refused to give up slavery and fought our own nation in order to protect what they saw as their right to own humans as cattle?
Nope.
So the defense for not taking down statues honoring known racists who gave up their right to be Americans by seceding and attacked American soldiers starting a war that led to hundreds of thousands of American soldiers losing their lives is because we don't know where the removal of such monuments will end? I haven't heard of anyone wanting to tear down the White House or the capital except for worthless piece of shit right wing conservative Trump supporters who attacked and vandalized our Capital on January 6th.
Nope.
Yes, Hitler was a monster to most sane humans, and so were confederate generals who fought to conserve slavery and believed, like their VP said that "the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition".
Now there are some racist filth who celebrate Hitler and call him a hero, we saw some of those worthless dipshits flying their swastika flags at the Charlottesville tiki torch march as they were protecting a confederate monument side by side the other pieces of shit who believe confederate Generals were heroes shouting "Jews will not replace us!".
If you don't agree with what the South stood for, why defend their monuments? Why claim that their removal would somehow be forgetting history when it clearly wouldn't in any way? The only thing taking down the monuments to racists would do is send a clear message to racists that we do not celebrate racist who fought our nation in an effort to conserve their perceived right to own humans.
Well that's nice, but why not ask the people who descended from those slaves how they feel about it? Why not ask black Americans how they feel when they walk through a park and look up at a 14 ft statue of a confederate General in some glorious victory pose who attacked America all so he and his friends could continue owning black people like livestock? Why should they bend to your opinion? Are those slaves descendants supposed to just sit down and shut up because you don't "feel" their "situation" should be compared to the holocaust?
How exactly do you parse, on the scale of good and bad, attacking your own nation leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers so that you can continue to keep millions of humans who have been treated as livestock for hundreds of years and concluding that because it wasn't as bad, in your opinion, as the holocaust, then perhaps having a few thousand monuments to them should be fine and that those asking for their removal are just being "too sensitive"?
You act like that's an insult.
How moronic!
They seemingly never will, either.
Kathleen, I "get" your opinion, I simply disagree with it as I have explained. Apparently the questions I asked are too hard for some to answer so they resort to veiled insults and emojis.
That you have built a strawman? Yes. That is true.
We can all see that the people not wanting the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools so much that they would try to ban schools from the mere mention of CRT are the same type of people who did not want evolution taught in school: Scaredy cats who cannot defend themselves without lying and appeals to authority, and people who lack the courage of their convictions. Are you afraid that the children might find out that CRT actually has a point to make about society?
Wow, all those old Democrats became Republicans?
Prove it.
yeah, I knew you couldn't prove what you claimed.
I am just shocked, shocked, I tell ya!
It’s about time! The 1776 PAC is well worth supporting. It’s a very worthy cause.
You bet. Now America is rising against woke hate!
What's 'woke hate'? How ridiculous.
How long have you been here? Read some of the comments.
All your comments?
'...reform our public education system by promoting patriotism and pride in American history...'
Translation: The upcoming US campaign for global subjugation necessitates broad ignorance about our past atrocities. Let's reform our public education system by promoting patriotism and pride in American history; that will make youths more susceptible to our human-rights imperialism propaganda manipulation.
Cervantes would have a field day with this imposed 'republican' culture war as will probably the courts. Tilt away.
Good. There's no place for racism in public schools.
There's no place for racism in public schools.
And that's exactly what this left wing '1619 Project' is.
I notice no one even attempts to defend the reality of CRT when it comes up. Just the usual assortment of strawmen, ad hominin attacks and the same tired cut and paste insults that progressives trash every thread with.
But please, someone tell us why our students should be indoctrinated with Marxist theory that replaces class with race. Is teaching kids that racism explains every outcome and that in the words of CRT's most famous proponent Ibrim X. Kendi
"The defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity. If discrimination is creating equity, then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist. . . . The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."
I've yet to see anyone defend how a theory that rejects individualism in favor of collective racial identity, believes that white racism is solely responsible for all injustice and inequality, and that racial discrimination against white people moving forward is justified is healthy to teach kids or for the existence of a peaceful country.
CRT, like all Marxist thought, is essentially a religion. Earlier Marxists replaced God's will as the source of suffering by blaming class oppression. CRT replaces God and class with whiteness as the source of evil in the world. Once the rich, or whites, are done away with, the world will achieve utopia. This is why the head of an elite NY school admitted that CRT is demonizing white kids for being born. CRT isn't about teaching kids that slavery was terrible or other facts. It's about teaching kids to subsume their identity in their race.
You cherry pick a few instances here and there and try to formulate a massive marxist conspiracy that just doesnt exist.
Read the article that Hallux linked to about CRT and why the Republicans are so hot and bothered by it.
It explains the situation better than any of us here can.
article that Hallux linked to about CRT and why the Republican
Exactly. The article focuses on Republicans and essentially ignores what CRT actually is. It's from the "Republicans pounce" school of journalism.
Why don't CRT defenders defend it on it's own terms. Speak out for teaching kids that their race defines them. Speak out for teaching kids that racial discrimination against whites is justified. Be honest about what CRT teaches kids.
Why is this an ongoing battle throughout the nation?
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The senile fool in the White House is pushing it:
We are becoming concerned about your daily escalating sense of panic.
he will be just fine.
you have proven that being panicked is nothing to worry about.
Says the man who wants political enemies jailed.
CRT is a civil rights movement from scholars and activists who seek to critically examine our laws as they intersect with issues of race. These scholars examine social, cultural and legal issues as they relate to race and racism.
To put this in different terms, should we be offended by handicap parking spaces or the attempt in society to make most public spaces accessible for the disabled? In the last half century we recognized a problem with many disabled persons not being able to fully participate in public society because everything was built to cater to those without disabilities. So now we reserve often the closest parking spaces for those who have physical difficulty in getting from the back of a parking lot to public facilities like libraries, shopping areas, museums, court houses etc. We create ramps for wheelchairs, we create public restroom stalls that can accommodate them, sometimes we even have separate entrances they can use or brail plaques they can read or headphones with interactive descriptions. We go out of our way to allow everyone in our society to enjoy the benefits of living in our society.
Does that mean we are discriminating against the able bodied populace? Some could try to argue that way though most I believe would be ashamed of those assholes who did whine and complain about the disabled person getting a closer parking space than they did.
Critical race theory is simply recognizing the social and legal handicaps that have been historically forced upon minorities by the majority. For hundreds of years those handicaps were supported and condoned by the government itself that treated them as second class citizens or worse, livestock or a commodity that could be owned, bred, traded, abused and sold.
Critical race theory simply tries to be proactive in creating space and access for those who have been historically and systemically discriminated against. Instead of just saying "Okay, after hundreds of years of slavery and discrimination, white Christian society will get rid of any of the laws that allowed the government and business to continue such discrimination. Problem solved", critical race theory is proactive and says "Let's reserve a spot at the table for those who have been discriminated against and are now included in our success, have access to the schools, training, jobs and public spaces that they had been denied for so long."
That should not be seen as reverse discrimination, it should be seen as the least we could do as a society after hundreds of years of actively suppressing a minority population among us.
Now, such proactive measures like affirmative action should be a temporary fix used only until our society shows true integration and the results show little to no remnants of systemic racism and discrimination. But that means accepting and supporting it for decades instead of resenting it and gnashing your teeth like a privileged piece of shit bigot who can't stand the idea of a black American getting a spot reserved for them at the table even when 95% of the other seats are still taken by whites. Lashing out like an asshole at the disabled who get to cut in line or get special parking spots or lashing out at historically discriminated against black Americans who got a spot at a college or job due to affirmative action just shows how weak, miserable and insecure that asshole is.
Your argument is to equate black people to the disabled?
I know that's how many progressives view minorities, but to come out and say it surprising.
Black Americans have been historically disabled, not through any fault of their own, but by previously open and enabled racism and now continued systemic racism. To deny this is to be either woefully ignorant or to be just a worthless piece of shit white supremacist or closeted bigot who desperately wishes they could say openly how they truly feel about black Americans.
Progressives are stating the obvious, black Americans have been discriminated against, enslaved, segregated, denied equal rights and equal justice under the law for centuries, those are facts. They continue to live under the systemic racism that is blatantly obvious in our society and justice system. However, I know that's something that wouldn't be that obvious to some random dip shits who whine and complain about their own experiences claiming blacks discriminated against them in the past so that somehow makes it okay to be prejudiced and wipes out any injustice that black Americans experience. That's why the rest of us have to work harder to make up for the failings of the right wing dip shit white supremacists and those weaklings complaining of supposed reverse racism in a society built almost exclusively for white Christian males.
There are some disabled persons who don't like the labels, they don't think of themselves as "handicapped", they prefer "handi-capable". But even they recognize the challenges they face and the reality of a world built around those who don't face the same challenges. They're rarely aren't offended at the attempts made to make society more inclusive for them and to provide greater access for them to our public spaces.
In case you have not noticed, pounding against CRT has become a religion.
More of a Civic responsibility!
Parents speaking out is a pounding? We certainly can't have that going on. /s
My bad.. I should have listed the pee wee Herman defense among the dodges progressives use to avoid actually defending the merits of CRT.
Thanks for reminding me.
Racists parents perpetuating their beliefs on their children. Are they justifying their beliefs by resisting CRT?
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As with many other complicated concepts, the right wing understanding of CRT is way off base.
It's complicated all right. So was the Castro regime.
why does the left make everything complicated?
complicated concepts, the right wing understanding of CRT is way off base.
so you can't actually address CRT either.
To confuse and obfuscate.
How about teaching just the facts instead of "theories"?
Facts are as malleable as are theories, neither are set in stone.
Historical facts are set in stone whereas theories about how those historical facts have affected racial inequalities is not.
CRT is an opinion.
The author of CRT admits this herself.
That is not really true. Names and dates are set in stone, and to a certain extent documents, but what those things really mean is up for analysis and interpretation.
For example, millions of people thought that the Civil War was fought over states rights and not slavery. The evidence that the southern states seceded because they thought Lincoln would end slavery is literally overwhelming.
How you wish to interpret the facts is your own opinion.
How can you say it isn't true and then state this?
Teach the facts in public schools and at home parents can teach CRT.
"The author of CRT admits this herself."
Who might she be?
So in 40 years may there be another student revolt against the establishment. This one hopefully by the children of decent folk and may they correctly interpret what actually has been terror, division and injustice on the part of the left.
For example, millions of people thought that the Civil War was fought over states rights and not slavery.
Stop the Bull Shit. For most southerners it was! Most didn't own slaves nor could care less. Grow up!
The evidence that the southern states seceded because they thought Lincoln would end slavery is literally overwhelming.
The state leaders as opposed to the people living in those states. There are things worse than those who called for secession - starting with those in modern America who hate the country, hate whites and want to rip up the Constitution. That's coming next John.
I guess that's why over 15,000 books have been written about Lincoln ... ?
Well over 15,000 books have been written about Hitler too. Do you have a point here?
Now there is an era of boredom I thankfully will not have to face.
Non - slaveowners didnt set confederate or secessionist policy. What non-slaveowners thought is irrelevant.
You make it too easy Vic.
You are becoming unhinged.
Yes, history is written at today's desk with today's perspective. Tomorrow it will be written with a future perspective.
Have a good day.
Teach the perspectives in college where the mind is at least a little more developed for critical thinking.
Teach the facts to children instead of contaminating the history and confusing young minds.
It is totally relevant. The southern soldiers mostly only knew one thing - they had been invaded. Did you ever read Maryland's official policy at that time? I highly recommend that you do.
You make it too easy Vic.
For what? For you to give 2021 progressive interpretations of the Civil War period. It's not history John. It's an ideology based on victims & oppressors.
I always do. You have one also.
Says the man who went on a 4 year rant.
Sorta like this???
CRT is last year in high school ... is there some leap in mental development from there to college I'm missing?
So in other words teach them what to think and if they are old enough they may be able to not believe what they are being taught?
Why not dispense with the propaganda altogether?
Fortunately in recent years historians and others have fought back against the "Lost Cause" mythology that was taught to Americans for far too long.
Hence the statue removals.
There are very few if any serious historians who buy that states rights bullshit as the cause of the Civil War anymore .
That is how 99.99% of our nation feels. It is only the race baiters and haters that get the attention they seek.
Certainly is more uniting than CRT.
People can be educated about racial/ethnic inequalities without degrading people. I see you do it all the time.
Still holding up the strawman?
Hence the statue removals.
There were violent mobs, who didn't just tear down southern statues.
There are very few if any serious historians who buy that states rights bullshit as the cause of the Civil War anymore .
How many of them are serious about teaching white children that they were born racist and always will be?
How about we start with the propaganda in your seeds?
I only speak truth, Kemosabe.
When?
Where?
The indoctrination starts early. The tenets reach to our very young.
Children are not guinea pigs, and the regular perpetuation of experimental, agenda-driven mantras to youth stops just short of being cruel. Children deserve an unbiased education; one that does not include unhinged theories promoting dogmas that are not permitted their respective and proper scrutiny.
And there is a leap from the final year of high school to college. Reason we don't see all our final year high school students enrolled in first year college. Most are not mature enough to handle the responsibilities.
Yeah, I guess you are
We are living with the results of decades of leftist filth being taught in the university. Now that it's reached our elementary schools (paid for with our tax dollars), people are beginning to stand up for their children.
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If that is true why are the following acts in place AIFRA, VAWA and ICFA to name just a few.
Unfortunately tax dollars go to those universities too.
Ha!
Leftist filth? What was someone else saying about someone else becoming unhinged?
Oh, how profound! You're quoting from The Wall!
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Or maybe this.........................
Vic, please do not use stereotype names. Thank you!
Silver never believed a word of it. He had the Houyhnhnm sense to know it was Houyhnhnm shit.
Kemosabe was what Tonto and the Lone Winger called each other.
Not a problem, start with Sunday School.
if you don't want to go to church, then just don't go. or allow your kids to go.
that way you won't be affected by the mean old church.
Sounds like what I was taught in college. (dual History/ Political Science majors) History is not completely "set in stone." As new information becomes available we alter our stances on historical events and people. It's called revisionist history.
So you would rather teach your children lies instead of the truth?
What lies would that be?
In the short time I've been registered on this site, (I lurked for about 14 years on NV and NT) I have noticed a problem of folks not crediting authors/artists when they quote or use song lyrics. (see Sunshine above, she is just the latest example of this) Is there any way to get people to provide credit when they quote these items?
You implied above that you would hold off on teaching CRT until children were older (senior year of HS or College). I've seen what this does to students who have to reconcile what they were taught in HS and at home VS what they are taught in College. Some can accept new facts while others close their minds to new information. Teaching children the truth about American History does not devalue that history but provides a more accurate perspective to view their own history and the history of this country. For example: why do we not teach about the Trail of Tears and the Native American genocide? We teach about the holocaust in Junior High. (At least my kids got that.) Kids are smarter than you think and can make reasonable decisions about what they are learning. They can smell bullshit from a mile away. Plz don't take this as an attack on you or your beliefs.
I go to churches where the sermon is in a language I do not understand.
CRT is a theory, so how can you say it is truth?
Where has anyone opposed teaching historical facts?
I have no problem teaching historical facts as the Trail of Tears.
I am sure the Holocaust is not a theory.
that is really great to know.
Have you ever been there?
Obviously some ate it right up.
Where is the truth in whites being born racist??????
We await the day when a future President says teach leftist ideology and we deny funding.
Sounds like you have a really really really really really long wait for that dude!
Yes, I left after 10 minutes for the adult section.
I'm sure some do, but what you seem to wallow in is Historical negationism :
I believe it's an item in the CoC. It's a legal matter for the site's owner/s.
A book written about the Civil War in 1876 is not going to have the same perspective as one written in 1976. The first is probably going to be written by a participant in the war and would probably only include their perspective. A book written later would include addition facts and or perspectives on the subject. THAT IS REVISIONIST HISTORY. Not making up some bullshit to suit your ideals. (see the Texas education system)
A scientific theory is as good as it gets. You must have meant hypothesis.
Teaching students how to think is much preferable to teaching "facts" by rote.
The word is theory in Critical Race Theory.
Are you stating that CRT is a scientific theory?
Tend not to deal in the soft social sciences such as involve CRT. I leave that to lesser humans.
I don't think on how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Prefer to focus on the hard, provable sciences based on the periodic table.
Did we wave to you?
I do love watching experts dance the Tango! (Makes me feel frisky)
Nice
Damn near broke up a marriage once dancing the Tango with a friend's wife at the Playboy Mansion. She knew how to Tango!
Had to hire an instructor to teach the boss/friend how to dance.
Much cheaper than him hiring somebody to kill me for dancing with his wife. She loved to dance.