The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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Because leftists consider themselves omnipotent, noble and beyond reproach.

Despite all of history's evidence to the contrary.

Yea, I've seen MSNBC talking points that CRT isn't a real thing and it's just "white supremacy" not wanting diversity or learning in schools. And that the people against it are "white supremacist".

So they feel comfortable spreading this bull***** Why are they so offended when anti-vaxers spread theirs. Same tree, different leaf, all it is. Liars gonna lie.

Not being a smart ass, but have you been asleep the past 25 years? The pattern is always the same: the Left does something crazy, the Right calls them on it, the Left pretends they're not doing it and calls the Right some "-ist" for noticing.

The same people who claim CRT doesn't exist also say Hillary is always the life of the party.

Harrison Bergeron said:

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…,,,the Left does something crazy, the Right calls them on it, the Left pretends they're not doing it and calls the Right some "-ist" for noticing.

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Motte & Bailey.

GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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Got it. It's because you and yours believe in this bull***** To hell with what the voters think. You're gonna force it in them just like the illegals.

My goodness you are a sick s o b.

GrowlTowel said:

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C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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Got it. It's because you and yours believe in this bull***** To hell with what the voters think. You're gonna force it in them just like the illegals.

My goodness you are a sick s o b.

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Did you miss the part where it's not being taught in schools? Why is it that you have a problem with some people having a theory of the way society works?

You people really get worked up over nothing. And if one of you could define CRT without googling it I'd be surprised.

C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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In order of your assertions:

1. Bull$-t
2. Bull$-t
3. Bull$-t

But, by all means, keep repeating leftist lies. It's all you have, really.

C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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"Racism" is baked into every society on this planet. You have to change the culture but that is unlikely as we retreat further into tribalism. We naturally gather with people who think and act like us(this goes well beyond color).

Good job on hitting the DNC talking points. You sound as tone deaf as those dems like Joy Reid after the VA elections this week.

Porteroso said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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Got it. It's because you and yours believe in this bull***** To hell with what the voters think. You're gonna force it in them just like the illegals.

My goodness you are a sick s o b.

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Did you miss the part where it's not being taught in schools? Why is it that you have a problem with some people having a theory of the way society works?

You people really get worked up over nothing. And if one of you could define CRT without googling it I'd be surprised.

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It is. The parents noticed during Covid and they asked the school boards to stop, finding people like our resident elitist on the board telling them that there is nothing to see here.

Would have been easier to simply fake outrage over the racist theory rather than try to defend it, as you are.

C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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Oh this is fun….

In 2015, then-Governor McAuliffe's Department of Education instructed Virginia public schools to "embrace critical race theory" in order to "re-engineer attitudes and belief systems."

Under the Northam administration, Superintendent of Public Instruction James Lane sent a memo to Virginia public schools endorsing "Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education," calling it an "important analytic tool" that can "further spur developments in education."

Right now, on its website, the Virginia Department of Education recommends "Critical Race Theory in Education" as a "best practice" and derives its definitions of "racism," "white supremacy," and "education equity" explicitly from "critical race theory."

At the district level, Loudoun County Schools has hired a consulting firm to implement "critical race theory" and developed a high school class explicitly teaching "critical race theory." Even the district superintendent admitted the curricula "align with the ideology of CRT."

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1454469352103637002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1454469352103637002%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailysignal.com%2F2021%2F11%2F03%2Ffact-check-is-critical-race-theory-taught-in-virginia-schools%2F

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/11/03/fact-check-is-critical-race-theory-taught-in-virginia-schools/

On Feb. 22, 2019, a memo from James F. Lane, Virginia's superintendent of public instruction, promoted critical race theory in detail. The memo's subject line was "Resources to Support Student and Community Dialogues on Racism."

"I have received several inquiries and requests for the latest literature that examines the issues associated with racial inequities in education," Lane wrote in the memo issued under the administration of Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat. "Below are several pieces that I and other members of the VDOE staff are reading this month based on recommendations that we have received."

Lane's list included "Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education," a 2016 book edited by Edward Taylor, David Gillborn, and Gloria Ladson-Billings.

"The emergence of Critical Race Theory (CRT) marked an important point in the history of racial politics in the legal academy and the broader conversation about race and racism in the United States," the description of the book in Lane's memo reads.

"More recently, CRT has proven an important analytic tool in the field of education, offering critical perspectives on race, and the causes, consequences and manifestations of race, racism, inequity, and the dynamics of power and privilege in schooling."

The 2019 memo continues:

This groundbreaking anthology is the first to pull together both the foundational writings in the field and more recent scholarship on the cultural and racial politics of schooling. A comprehensive introduction provides an overview of the history and tenets of CRT in education. Each section then seeks to explicate ideological contestation of race in education and to create new, alternative accounts. In so doing, this landmark publication not only documents the progress to date of the CRT movement, it acts to further spur developments in education.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/11/03/fact-check-is-critical-race-theory-taught-in-virginia-schools/

GrowlTowel said:

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Porteroso said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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Got it. It's because you and yours believe in this bull***** To hell with what the voters think. You're gonna force it in them just like the illegals.

My goodness you are a sick s o b.

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Did you miss the part where it's not being taught in schools? Why is it that you have a problem with some people having a theory of the way society works?

You people really get worked up over nothing. And if one of you could define CRT without googling it I'd be surprised.

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It is. The parents noticed during Covid and they asked the school boards to stop, finding people like our resident elitist on the board telling them that there is nothing to see here.

Would have been easier to simply fake outrage over the racist theory rather than try to defend it, as you are.

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Edit: I should have read all the replies.

I'm wrong then. I haven't followed this, and wasn't aware this has been pushed at the state level. I personally don't have a problem with examining racism at the institutional level, but obviously Republicans do, so I understand the backlash.

My problem is with the applications of critical race theory. Best selling books claiming that discrimination against whites is necessary to be "anti-racist." Other bs like that. Simply acknowledging racism in society is what CRT gets right.

Porteroso said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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Porteroso said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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Got it. It's because you and yours believe in this bull***** To hell with what the voters think. You're gonna force it in them just like the illegals.

My goodness you are a sick s o b.

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Did you miss the part where it's not being taught in schools? Why is it that you have a problem with some people having a theory of the way society works?

You people really get worked up over nothing. And if one of you could define CRT without googling it I'd be surprised.

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It is. The parents noticed during Covid and they asked the school boards to stop, finding people like our resident elitist on the board telling them that there is nothing to see here.

Would have been easier to simply fake outrage over the racist theory rather than try to defend it, as you are.

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Edit: I should have read all the replies.

I'm wrong then. I haven't followed this, and wasn't aware this has been pushed at the state level. I personally don't have a problem with examining racism at the institutional level, but obviously Republicans do, so I understand the backlash.

My problem is with the applications of critical race theory. Best selling books claiming that discrimination against whites is necessary to be "anti-racist." Other bs like that. Simply acknowledging racism in society is what CRT gets right.

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Like a Nazi saying a Jew's nose is larger.

GrowlTowel said:

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Porteroso said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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Porteroso said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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Got it. It's because you and yours believe in this bull***** To hell with what the voters think. You're gonna force it in them just like the illegals.

My goodness you are a sick s o b.

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Did you miss the part where it's not being taught in schools? Why is it that you have a problem with some people having a theory of the way society works?

You people really get worked up over nothing. And if one of you could define CRT without googling it I'd be surprised.

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It is. The parents noticed during Covid and they asked the school boards to stop, finding people like our resident elitist on the board telling them that there is nothing to see here.

Would have been easier to simply fake outrage over the racist theory rather than try to defend it, as you are.

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Edit: I should have read all the replies.

I'm wrong then. I haven't followed this, and wasn't aware this has been pushed at the state level. I personally don't have a problem with examining racism at the institutional level, but obviously Republicans do, so I understand the backlash.

My problem is with the applications of critical race theory. Best selling books claiming that discrimination against whites is necessary to be "anti-racist." Other bs like that. Simply acknowledging racism in society is what CRT gets right.

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Like a Nazi saying a Jew's nose is larger.

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What is? You think I make fun of racial attributes?

From one of AZs larger school district..

This thread is a microcosm of why the left's dominance of main stream media outlets is such a problem. Dems get wiped out in VA with education being the primary driver for many voting against them. In an attempt to try and discredit those voters, all left leaning media outlets simply repeat the same lie and claim its a fabricated straw man to gin up racist voters and CRT isn't even being taught in schools. This is immediately disproved by showing a long string of emails, memos, and website posts relating to teaching CRT in schools by the state leadership and at the school leadership level in Virginia. Yet several days later one of our resident liberals hits the board to spout the exact same lie with no reason to believe it other than the fact that I'm sure he heard it reported "credibly" on msnbc or cnn.

Ouch.

Porteroso said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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Porteroso said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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Got it. It's because you and yours believe in this bull***** To hell with what the voters think. You're gonna force it in them just like the illegals.

My goodness you are a sick s o b.

---

Did you miss the part where it's not being taught in schools? Why is it that you have a problem with some people having a theory of the way society works?

You people really get worked up over nothing. And if one of you could define CRT without googling it I'd be surprised.

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It is. The parents noticed during Covid and they asked the school boards to stop, finding people like our resident elitist on the board telling them that there is nothing to see here.

Would have been easier to simply fake outrage over the racist theory rather than try to defend it, as you are.

---

Edit: I should have read all the replies.

I'm wrong then. I haven't followed this, and wasn't aware this has been pushed at the state level. I personally don't have a problem with examining racism at the institutional level, but obviously Republicans do, so I understand the backlash.

My problem is with the applications of critical race theory. Best selling books claiming that discrimination against whites is necessary to be "anti-racist." Other bs like that. Simply acknowledging racism in society is what CRT gets right.

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Thanks for an honest answer

C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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Since it's 'definitely true' that racism is baked into our culture and institutions, can you give an example?

4th and Inches said:

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From one of AZs larger school district..

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what does that have to do with CRT? Several of those statements are obviously untrue. Seems like a SJW teacher giving a stupid writing prompt?

Doc Holliday said:

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C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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Since it's 'definitely true' that racism is baked into our culture and institutions, can you give an example?

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My experience has been that when talking to my very left-wing friends, they can never give specifics. They'll make this broad, emotional assertions but can never really connect those back to real world data.

They're playing a little semantic game ... while yes, Critical Theory might not be taught as a classically in terms of formal curricula, but its tenets definitely have infected many aspects of public schools.

Porteroso said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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Porteroso said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

---

First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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Got it. It's because you and yours believe in this bull***** To hell with what the voters think. You're gonna force it in them just like the illegals.

My goodness you are a sick s o b.

---

Did you miss the part where it's not being taught in schools? Why is it that you have a problem with some people having a theory of the way society works?

You people really get worked up over nothing. And if one of you could define CRT without googling it I'd be surprised.

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It is. The parents noticed during Covid and they asked the school boards to stop, finding people like our resident elitist on the board telling them that there is nothing to see here.

Would have been easier to simply fake outrage over the racist theory rather than try to defend it, as you are.

---

Edit: I should have read all the replies.

I'm wrong then. I haven't followed this, and wasn't aware this has been pushed at the state level. I personally don't have a problem with examining racism at the institutional level, but obviously Republicans do, so I understand the backlash.

My problem is with the applications of critical race theory. Best selling books claiming that discrimination against whites is necessary to be "anti-racist." Other bs like that. Simply acknowledging racism in society is what CRT gets right.

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That's not nearly enough to justify its existence in school curriculum because it gets so much else wrong.

Harrison Bergeron said:

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Doc Holliday said:

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C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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Since it's 'definitely true' that racism is baked into our culture and institutions, can you give an example?

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My experience has been that when talking to my very left-wing friends, they can never give specifics. They'll make this broad, emotional assertions but can never really connect those back to real world data.

They're playing a little semantic game ... while yes, Critical Theory might not be taught as a classically in terms of formal curricula, but its tenets definitely have infected many aspects of public schools.

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Praxis

The talking point that "CRT is not being taught" is a motte & Bailey defense. In many cases it is actually being taught, as numerous examples illustrate. But nearly everywhere parents are on the warpath, CRT is being applied in curriculum.

So yes, it's true there is no "CRT 101" class in most schools. But it is definitely true in nearly all examples that curriculum is blatant CRT praxis teaching kids to be lifelong practitioners of ideological anti-racism

whiterock said:

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Harrison Bergeron said:

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Doc Holliday said:

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C. Jordan said:

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GrowlTowel said:

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The left's talking point is that "it isn't being taught" or that the GOP "manufactured the issue."

Why not come out and distance yourself from the quackery? I have never understood the left's inability to call a freak a freak. They can call a kid from Kentucky a racist with no evidence but can't call out racist ideology?

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First, it's true that CRT isn't being taught. Most people who are against it don't know what it is.

Second, the essential truth is that racism is baked into our culture and institutions. I believe this is definitely true.

The GOP's fever about CRT is just another racial dog whistle.

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Since it's 'definitely true' that racism is baked into our culture and institutions, can you give an example?

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My experience has been that when talking to my very left-wing friends, they can never give specifics. They'll make this broad, emotional assertions but can never really connect those back to real world data.

They're playing a little semantic game ... while yes, Critical Theory might not be taught as a classically in terms of formal curricula, but its tenets definitely have infected many aspects of public schools.

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Praxis

The talking point that "CRT is not being taught" is a motte & Bailey defense. In many cases it is actually being taught, as numerous examples illustrate. But nearly everywhere parents are on the warpath, CRT is being applied in curriculum.

So yes, it's true there is no "CRT 101" class in most schools. But it is definitely true in nearly all examples that curriculum is blatant CRT praxis teaching kids to be lifelong practitioners of ideological anti-racism

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100%. Everything is being viewed through the CRT lens. In our kids' schools the district is moving away from GT and advanced classes under the guise of "equity."

Remember when they kept telling us that CRT wasn't being taught in schools? The lies these fanatics will tell! https://t.co/JqeUPAjJgL

— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) October 27, 2022

There is a common pattern:
- X does not exist
- When you attempt to stop X, hyperbolic rage

It is not even debatable that CRT has permeated public schools and myriad institutions. The common distraction is "we do not teach CRT," which may be literally correct in the sense there is not a CRT class. However, the tenets of critical theory in the guise of "equity" have infected everything.

Harrison Bergeron said:

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There is a common pattern:
- X does not exist
- When you attempt to stop X, hyperbolic rage

It is not even debatable that CRT has permeated public schools and myriad institutions. The common distraction is "we do not teach CRT," which may be literally correct in the sense there is not a CRT class. However, the tenets of critical theory in the guise of "equity" have infected everything.

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Praxis.

C Jordan is flat wrong. CRT is taught in the schools in California everyday.

I am in Alameda, East Bay San Francisxo and today I had a discussion about CRT being taught in the classroom with my 14 year old, 9th grade grandson.

His response was it is being taught everyday, in every class and it makes him sick to listen to the propaganda BS.

Examples:
1. A week study of how the 50 year old movie Aladin is racist because of the characters in the movie are exaggerated to be made fun of. It was the fault of whites. That makes the theme song racist and ALL whites racist.

In Rnglish they are reading a book that highlights how racist whites are and how they need give minorities everything to make up for slavery.

When he speaks up in class to counter what he considers to be bad information or misinformation, he receives a detention. No discussion or dissenting voices.

Two of his closest friends are black kids on the football and basketball team with him and the CRT being taught in the classroom is hurting his relationship with his best friends.

That is not good and very counter productive.

He wants to move to East Texas and leave CRT land.

“What I do know is happening in other parts of the state of Texas, and that is our kids - at young ages - are being exposed to wokism, to the sexualization of these kids in classrooms and to critical race theory," Abbott says.

— Jeremy Wallace (@JeremySWallace) November 2, 2022

We do not teach CRT.

But the system is racist, and we must dismantle society.

Hmmm.