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Originally Posted by Bucco
About the author and his goals.....
"In March 2021, Rufo described his strategy to oppose critical race theory as intentionally using the term to describe various left-wing race-related ideas in order to create a negative association. Rufo said that "[w]e will eventually turn [critical race theory] toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category. The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think ‘critical race theory.'"
Christopher Rufo - Wikipedia
A well known POLITICAL ACTIVIST OF FAR RIGHT WING EXTREMISM....he also writes for the Federalist, Daily Signal, etc.
Point is, this is not a basis for any real adult conversation on an American problem.....it serves extremists well, but not the country.
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It seems to be the theme today that anything written by a conservative(aka rightwing) is bad and should be discounted, and anything written by a liberal(aka socialist/marxist) is reasonable and good. Does that summarize it properly?
So CRT = Good because it tells a truth (but destroys and hurts both sides) so it MUST be demanded regardless of what parents want their children taught. Gov. indoctrination? In a Democracy (in our case a Democratic Republic) do the parents have any choice as to how our children are taught?
Some hard truths:
Slavery bad. The whole world had slavery for many centuries, a historical fact.
Equal rights good. America has been improving for decades and centuries.
Systemic racism, a false assumption. Unless you are including black on white, black on Asian, and black on black violence as racism. Ugly but truth.
Another truth: where would blacks be today if there was no slavery in America in our history? A harsh truth
where the end does NOT justify the means, but where the means was a historical truth to the lifestyles today. I wonder how many in other countries would change places with the blacks in our country today. I know plenty of blacks (friends and my relatives) that have done very well for themselves and their families, based on the benefits of living in America. I am not discounting the hardships that our minorities have survived to get to this point, but I feel that the positive should be taught to young minds, not a negative connotation that they are inherently evil or a victim based on one color or another.
A question to be thought about
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Is CRT a constructive idea or a destructive idea? Should it be pushed on children in their early years or when they are old enough to know the difference between being a victim or just using such a "theory" to help them in their decision making?
Do not attempt to con me into thinking that we have always taught CRT in our schools, just by a different name. A pile of manure sprinkled with powdered sugar on top is still a pile of manure.
Teaching history is one thing, but teaching "theory" as a history or a form of biased history is just wrong. We have already gone over this where books teaching white supremacy have been removed from our school libraries. Those type of books were blatantly wrong and should be removed. I feel the same way about this. Schools should teach inclusion, not division by color, gender, or religious affiliation.