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CRT in the news
- Thread starter Legion
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But CRT doesn't do that, so what else ya got?
You obviously did not read the course syllabus for the class being discussed. CRT can do whatever the instructor chooses. Some of it is objectionable. Teaching things like the history of slavery has nothing to do with CRT (although they may choose to give it that title).
The following is part of the course syllabus that many would find useless academically and more aimed at partisan indoctrination than actual knowledge:
Critique empire, white supremacy, racism, anti-blackness, anti-indigeneity, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society;
Whether you label the above terms CRT or not is irrelevant.
You obviously did not read the course syllabus for the class being discussed. CRT can do whatever the instructor chooses
Well OK Flash, if you're gonna move the bar....
So it doesn't exist in the syllabus, it's just your worry and foresight to think that it MIGHT be discussed in this way, but that's really up to whoever is teaching it...which isn't you.
Some of it is objectionable.
Such as, what? What do you find objectionable and why?
Teaching things like the history of slavery has nothing to do with CRT
Sure it does because slavery is institutional racism and built the country. How can you separate slavery from Critical Race Theory? You can't.
The following is part of the course syllabus that many would find useless academically and more aimed at partisan indoctrination than actual knowledge:
Many, who?
Who are these people?
Who are the "many" that would find this useless other than you because you don't want to admit that you benefited from this system when you want everyone to think you achieved what you did through hard work?
You're complacent...and CRT challenges complacency by theorizing that you didn't achieve what you did through your individual hard work and effort; instead, you coasted by on your privilege and convinced yourself that your mediocrity is exceptionalism.
Well, it ain't.
Critique empire, white supremacy, racism, anti-blackness, anti-indigeneity, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society;
You disagree that those things intersect in society? Look at the racist Conservative reaction to Biden saying he wanted to choose a Black woman for the Supreme Court...after they confirmed THREE HYPERPARTISAN JUDGES WITH LITTLE TO NO EXPERINCE THEMSELVES.
Do you live in reality?
Whether you label the above terms CRT or not is irrelevant.
I'm still stuck on what people find that stuff "useless"...because the more I think about it, the more I see the only people who call that stuff useless are the people who would be directly affected by it if it became the standard.
Because if THAT became the standard, then suddenly every piddling accomplishment you had in your life that you are so proud of today would end up embarrassing you later on because even despite a system designed for you to succeed, you still couldn't achieve more than the mediocrity you wallow in today, that you've convinced yourself is the byproduct of American exceptionalism or whatever....
I, was shocked to find out how much has been left out of our history and how “whitewashed” it was. I think there is a happy medium between telling black history and white washing it as Trumpublicans wish to do.
We need to feel bad about past atrocities so they aren’t repeated.
Agree, but teaching a subject is much more than listing atrocities. If slavery was "whitewashed" for you I would blame that on the individual teacher. Most students didn't learn about all the atrocities but I bet most of them did not learn about most other important historical events. If most of us were tested over major "whitewashed" events most of us would fail.
If we added more atrocities to history class what would we omit? In teaching the history of slavery and civil rights how many atrocities do we include? Whichever events we choose to exclude will all be examples of something "we were not taught." Many things we were taught were long ago forgotten.
We also did not learn about many of the atrocities Indians imposed on settlers or other Indian tribes, but too often what is being pushed is mistreatment of minorities by whites so we can discuss "oppression." College students jokingly call these courses "oppression 101."
Making us feel "bad" about past actions should not be the goal of education. Educated people were always shown to be more tolerant and favor constitutional and civil rights. Today, some of these courses seem more designed at teaching intolerance. A person cannot be tolerant and demonstrate that behavior, we have to yell and scream at others if they do not possess the proper attitudes.