Critical race theory

[Clang McFly]

Yeah, what he said!

I didn't think you had it in you to admit that you're right.

Wow. That's nice of you to say, crazy man.

[MirahM]

There is a guy on the local radio station ranting about the possibility of CRT being taught in school, and sex ed and ranting about mask wearing. ALL IN ONE! This guy is hilarious!

[Carsman]

There is a guy on the local radio station ranting about the possibility of CRT being taught in school, and sex ed and ranting about mask wearing. ALL IN ONE! This guy is hilarious!

History 101: Easy Peasy.

There are White people,

and there are people of "other" colors.

The White people were treated better.

The End.

[rothschild]

There is a guy on the local radio station ranting about the possibility of CRT being taught in school, and sex ed and ranting about mask wearing. ALL IN ONE! This guy is hilarious!

History 101: Easy Peasy.

There are White people,

and there are people of "other" colors.

The White people were treated better.

The End.

People in colder climates became technologically advanced, while people in warmer climes lagged behind. It's called survival of the fittest.

Now we have a culture where people are encouraged to collect wounds and harbor grudges, which is making the problem of black fratricide all the worse, while urban libs talk about creating 24 hour party zones, which is far loonier than midnight basketball.

[sally]

Fucking phone

[sally]

This is from the NEA. Desantis just had to shoot it down. They are activists trying to promote a political ideology on k-12. This is their version of CRT.

https://web.archive.org/web/202107052340...1-nbi-039/

[sally]

Triple post

[Duchess]

They like it better when you DP, hun.

[aussiefriend]

I'm glad I hadn't been targeted in this thread, last time I posted I can't even remember posting it. I would have been mortified if I had come back to a spiral of Aussie bashing.

[Maggot]

I'm glad I hadn't been targeted in this thread, last time I posted I can't even remember posting it. I would have been mortified if I had come back to a spiral of Aussie bashing.

That magic can still happen. I'm not quite on the ball lately but it is kinda weirdly refreshing that you're posting no matter the posting method. 

[MirahM]

All this focus on this stupid topic when it isn't a threat at all.

Why not spend the same amount of energy on things that are actually harmful, say racist policies and laws that are still happening today?

[MirahM]

https://time.com/6075193/critical-race-t..._education

[Duchess]

All this focus on this stupid topic when it isn't a threat at all.

Isn't that bizarre, and it's not just in Mock, it's fucking everywhere. The most vocal complainers can't even explain what CRT is!

[rothschild]

All this focus on this stupid topic when it isn't a threat at all.

Isn't that bizarre, and it's not just in Mock, it's fucking everywhere. The most vocal complainers can't even explain what CRT is!

If either of you actually knew what critical race theory is you wouldn't be denigrating those who are uncomfortable with it. Once again you show yourselves to be ignorant of what you espouse. So let's take a look at what it actually is, and we'll see if either of you have anything intelligent to say about it.


From Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic...


A. What Is Critical Race Theory?

The critical race theory (CRT) movement is a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and
transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power. The movement considers many of the same
issues that conventional civil rights and ethnic studies discourses take up, but places them in a broader
perspective that includes economics, history, context, group- and self-interest, and even feelings and the
unconscious. Unlike traditional civil rights, which embraces incrementalism and step-by-step progress,
critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal
reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.

Although CRT began as a movement in the law, it has rapidly spread beyond that discipline. Today, many
in the field of education consider themselves critical race theorists who use CRT’s ideas to understand
issues of school discipline and hierarchy, tracking, controversies over curriculum and history, and IQ and
achievement testing. Political scientists ponder voting strategies coined by critical race theorists. Ethnic
studies courses often include a unit on critical race theory, and American studies departments teach material
on critical white studies developed by CRT writers. Unlike some academic disciplines, critical race theory
contains an activist dimension. It not only tries to understand our social situation, but to change it; it sets
out not only to ascertain how society organizes itself along racial lines and hierarchies, but to transform it
for the better.


F. Basic Tenets of Critical Race Theory

What do critical race theorists believe? Probably not every member would subscribe to every tenet set out
in this book, but many would agree on the following propositions. First, that racism is ordinary, not
aberrational—"normal science," the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of
most people of color in this country. Second, most would agree that our system of white-over-color
ascendancy serves important purposes, both psychic and material. The first feature, ordinariness, means that
racism is difficult to cure or address. Color-blind, or "formal," conceptions of equality, expressed in rules
that insist only on treatment that is the same across the board, can thus remedy only the most blatant forms
of discrimination, such as mortgage redlining or the refusal to hire a black Ph.D. rather than a white high
school dropout, that do stand out and attract our attention. The second feature, sometimes called "interest
convergence" or material determinism, adds a further dimension. Because racism advances the interests of
both white elites (materially) and working-class people (psychically), large segments of society have little
incentive to eradicate it. Consider, for example, Derrick Bell’s shocking proposal (discussed in a later
chapter) that Brown v. Board of Education—considered a great triumph of civil rights litigation—may have
resulted more from the self-interest of elite whites than a desire to help blacks.

A third theme of critical race theory, the "social construction" thesis, holds that race and races are products
of social thought and relations. Not objective, inherent, or fixed, they correspond to no biological or genetic
reality; rather, races are categories that society invents, manipulates, or retires when convenient. People
with common origins share certain physical traits, of course, such as skin color, physique, and hair texture.
But these constitute only an extremely small portion of their genetic endowment, are dwarfed by that which
we have in common, and have little or nothing to do with distinctly human, higher-order traits, such as
personality, intelligence, and moral behavior. That society frequently chooses to ignore these scientific
facts, creates races, and endows them with pseudo-permanent characteristics is of great interest to critical
race theory.

Another, somewhat more recent, development concerns differential racialization and its many
consequences. Critical writers in law, as well as social science, have drawn attention to the ways the
dominant society racializes different minority groups at different times, in response to shifting needs such
as the labor market. At one period, for example, society may have had little use for blacks, but much need
for Mexican or Japanese agricultural workers. At another time, the Japanese, including citizens of long
standing, may have been in intense disfavor and removed to war relocation camps, while society cultivated
other groups of color for jobs in war industry or as cannon fodder on the front. Popular images and
stereotypes of various minority groups shift over time, as well. In one era, a group of color may be depicted
as happy-go-lucky, simpleminded, and content to serve white folks. A little later, when conditions change,
that very same group may appear in cartoons, movies, and other cultural scripts as menacing, brutish, and
out of control, requiring close monitoring and repression.

Closely related to differential racialization—the idea that each race has its own origins and ever evolving
history—is the notion of intersectionality and anti-essentialism. No person has a single, easily stated,
unitary identity. A white feminist may be Jewish, or working-class, or a single mother. An African
American activist may be gay or lesbian. A Latino may be a Democrat, a Republican, or even a black—
perhaps because that person’s family hails from the Caribbean. An Asian may be a recently arrived Hmong
of rural background and unfamiliar with mercantile life, or a fourth-generation Chinese with a father who is
a university professor and a mother who operates a business. Everyone has potentially conflicting,
overlapping identities, loyalties, and allegiances.

A final element concerns the notion of a unique voice of color. Coexisting in somewhat uneasy tension with
anti-essentialism, the voice-of-color thesis holds that because of their different histories and experiences
with oppression, black, Indian, Asian, and Latino/a writers and thinkers may be able to communicate to
their white counterparts matters that the whites are unlikely to know. Minority status, in other words, brings
with it a presumed competence to speak about race and racism. The "legal storytelling" movement urges
black and brown writers to recount their experiences with racism and the legal system and to apply their
own unique perspectives to assess law’s master narratives. This topic, too, is taken up later in this book.


https://jordaninstituteforfamilies.org/w...Theory.pdf

[MirahM]

Thats nice.

[rothschild]

Moisture is the essence of wetness.

[aussiefriend]

I'm glad I hadn't been targeted in this thread, last time I posted I can't even remember posting it. I would have been mortified if I had come back to a spiral of Aussie bashing.

That magic can still happen. I'm not quite on the ball lately but it is kinda weirdly refreshing that you're posting no matter the posting method. 

Here's the downside, my daughter is getting older now, and can tell when I am in an altered state and calls me on it. I hate that.

[rothschild]

I just read an article in The New Yorker about a German psychologist/sexologist named Helmut Kentler, who taught at the University of Hannover and decided to conduct an "experiment" beginning in the late 60's, which placed foster children in the homes of men who were known to be pedophiles. It ran until at least 2003, and was done in conjunction with the Berlin state government via youth-welfare offices. In 1979 a caseworker observed that Fritz Henkel appeared to be in a “homosexual relationship” with one of his foster sons and reported this to local authorities, who began an investigation. Kentler intervened on behalf of the suspect and was able to dissuade the officials from continuing their investigation, something he did on numerous occasions for Henkel.

The thinking that underlies this experiment was molded by fear and hatred of German fascism, which Kentler experienced firsthand. Unfortunately, he never resolved that fear and hatred, so he created new forms of oppression, deluded by the belief that he was a knowledgeable authority on child rearing. He was not, obviously, and I am left wondering how many other "knowledgeable authorities" are similarly deluded.

https://archive.fo/yVDDf#selection-667.601-667.613

[Maggot]

Teacher, leave those kids alone!!!

[Duchess]