Thousands of teachers to protest countrywide over anti-critical race theory legislati

[Standing Wolf]

The thing to recognize is CRT was originally an academic legal theory taken up by a few professors and grad students. It assumed systemic racism and found it in outcomes and constructed narratives to connect the two. In time it was adopted by others in the humanities, social studies, black studies, educations, and even science. This has remained largely academic and esoteric and is not taught in lower levels of education. Nikole Hannah-Jones and the 1619 Project is a layman's version of academic CRT. It provided fodder however for a later branch of CRT activists who didn't understand the original studies and twisted them into all the things you discuss and pushed it out into human resources and education at lower levels. Activist CRT is racist. It is taught in public schools and corporations. We see it in organizations like BLM. ..

Knowing and understanding CRT's true origins is helpful. Dismissing it as a Communist plot, as a few on this thread have done, makes one sound, frankly, like some kind of nut. It's the sort of thing that makes a lot of people just stop listening.

[Peter1469]

Knowing and understanding CRT's true origins is helpful. Dismissing it as a Communist plot, as a few on this thread have done, makes one sound, frankly, like some kind of nut. It's the sort of thing that makes a lot of people just stop listening.

Tell the defector he is nuts.

[Standing Wolf]

Tell the defector he is nuts.

Oh, I'm not in any way questioning or denying the fact of the Soviet/Russian use of that tactic. I must, however, question the attribution of any view, policy or teaching that disturbs or offends someone's (including my own) sense of truth and honesty to a "Communist plot". It's entirely possible for a social or political position to be misguided and detrimental to our society without it being part of a Moscow-based agenda.

[Peter1469]

Oh, I'm not in any way questioning or denying the fact of the Soviet/Russian use of that tactic. I must, however, question the attribution of any view, policy or teaching that disturbs or offends someone's (including my own) sense of truth and honesty to a "Communist plot". It's entirely possible for a social or political position to be misguided and detrimental to our society without it being part of a Moscow-based agenda.

I was only referring to the source of CRT.

[Standing Wolf]

I was only referring to the source of CRT.

I believe Chris did a pretty good job of describing its "source". I don't recall any mention of Russia or Communism.

Aside from that, practically speaking even if something did, in part, have its roots in a Communist conspiracy, focusing on that is a major distraction from the job of addressing the argument or policy as it exists (or as others would have it exist). There is plenty wrong with the more radical version of CRT that can be pointed out without recourse to labeling it a "Communist conspiracy", which is in no way helpful.

[Peter1469]

I believe Chris did a pretty good job of describing its "source". I don't recall any mention of Russia or Communism.

Aside from that, practically speaking even if something did, in part, have its roots in a Communist conspiracy, focusing on that is a major distraction from the job of addressing the argument or policy as it exists (or as others would have it exist). There is plenty wrong with the more radical version of CRT that can be pointed out without recourse to labeling it a "Communist conspiracy", which is in no way helpful.

Chris was accurate with where CRT took root. In elite American law schools. It trickled down from there.

[DGUtley]

Chris was accurate with where CRT took root. In elite American law schools. It trickled down from there.

...as I have said many times: Lawyers ruin everything!!

[Chris]

Knowing and understanding CRT's true origins is helpful. Dismissing it as a Communist plot, as a few on this thread have done, makes one sound, frankly, like some kind of nut. It's the sort of thing that makes a lot of people just stop listening.

CRT can be tied to Marxism, less so the early academic CRT, that is, Critical Legal Theory, but more so activist CRT, especially by the time BLM emerges on the scene. Bezmenov speaks of pushing such an agenda but I'm not sure how effective that was.

One of the best books on CRT that I've read, written from a somewhat liberal view trying to salvage what it can, is Pluckrose and Lindsay's Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody.

[Crepitus]

Thousands of teachers to protest countrywide over anti-critical race theory legislation.....

Thousands of teachers are expected to gather in more than 115 cities starting Friday as part of a nationwide "teach truth" protest against anti-critical race theory legislation being proposed by state lawmakers.


The "Days of Action" protest, which runs from Aug. 27 to Aug. 29, is part of the Teach Truth pledge that has been signed by more than 6,600 teachers.



It reads: "We, the undersigned educators, refuse to lie to young people about U.S. history and current events."


The protests are a response to lawmakers in at least 27 states introducing or implementing legislation that would require history teachers to skip lessons on the role of racism and oppression in the United States, ABC News reported.



Critical race theory is a broad set of ideas about systemic bias and racism in U.S. history. It argues that the legacy of white supremacy remains embedded in society through laws and institutions.


Since then, parents have shown up at school board meetings across the country, demanding their children not be taught anything remotely having to do with critical race theory. They've also bombarded local lawmakers and have held their fair share of protests......snip~


Thousands of teachers to protest countrywide over anti-critical race theory legislation | Washington Examiner


In Philadelphia , teachers, students, parents, and other activists will be gathering at the President's House, which was occupied by George Washington from 1790 to 1797, to tell stories about the slaves he owned and how they played a role in the creation of the nation. Washington kept nine slaves in the executive mansion. By the time of his death, he had more than 100 slaves......snip~





A Decision to Free His Slaves · George Washington's Mount ...

https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/washingtons-1799-will
In his will, written several months before his death in December 1799, George Washington left directions for the emancipation of all the slaves that he owned, after the death of Martha Washington. Washington's slave census in this 1799 will and testament. Washington was not the only Virginian to make provisions to free his slaves during this period.



So much for these leftists and their so called version of truth!

Nobody is actually teaching it. It's not that kinda thing.

[Chris]

CRT can be tied to Marxism, less so the early academic CRT, that is, Critical Legal Theory, but more so activist CRT, especially by the time BLM emerges on the scene. Bezmenov speaks of pushing such an agenda but I'm not sure how effective that was.

One of the best books on CRT that I've read, written from a somewhat liberal view trying to salvage what it can, is Pluckrose and Lindsay's Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody.

Correction: Marxist => NeoMarxist. Marxists divide by class, NeoMarxists by identities like race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, etc. In the thread Slavery as a Political Construct, I posted a Marxian criticism of Hannah-Jones's NYT's 1619 Project.