Trying to make the best case I can for it: the boundaries between different ethnic groups are extremely blurry in the US, because there's been 3+ centuries of low levels of interbreeding, and 5 decades of moderate levels.
That's absolutely true, and there are both reliable physical differences, and statistically significant personality differences from the statistical-level views of different ethnic groups.
My point is simply to recognize that, while some people are clearly in one group or another, there are people who don't clearly fall into one category. That observation, though, cuts against CRT, which is a type of ethnonationalism.
Steel-manning. Better to be able to knock down the best version of an argument, and leave your opponents nowhere to hide, than to just make fun of the lowest tier of tumblrites.
Oh, race is not biologically real? So we is all Kangz now! Where's my Affirmative Action bonuses?
Edit: Looking at the list, their first point is race isn't biological, but then they go on to say that the BIPOC crew needs special treatment because of low academic success. But if race isn't biological, then BIPOC is meaningless. How do their brains survive like this?
Yes. I believe the idea started due to Rudi Dutschkes idea of the ‘Long March Through the Institutions’ but found its route in thanks to Paolo Freire’s book Pedagogy of the Oppressed - a book which opened up a new branch of Critical Theory called Critical Pedagogy. Perhaps the Critical Theory whose name is the least attention getting of them all, but which is undoubtedly the most insidious of the lot and the one which makes all the other marches through the institutions possible.
Yeah, the ever-present "I totally support the ideas behind this, but it was definitely a staff error that caused me to sign onto this, and I'm totally not throwing the staff under the bus because I made a PR fuckup."
Note to everyone here: Prepare for "Social and Emotional Learning" as the next mask this neo-Marxism wears in the classroom. Same shit, different name.
What’s more, objective truth and objective facts are, in a literal sense, devalued. In their stead stands the narrative-based Lived Experience and subjective truth.
If you remember during the MeToo movement there was a slogan or hashtag #BelieveAllWomen.
That was a prelude of what was to come - the replacement of objective truth with subjective ‘truth’ in which all that is required in order to render someone guilty is an accusation, much like the witch trials of old. This is why their concept of justice always has that qualifier ‘social’, because they employ the Oppressed/Oppressor distinction you mentioned above. Social justice is really just a thinly veiled synonym for what they view as ‘historical vengeance’.
My school board (in Ontario) decided to officially adopt CRT last spring, at which point I wrote them a 7-page essay explaining why CRT is not scientific, consistent, or apolitical. They ignored me completely so I started homeschooling my kids from that point on. Ironically, this was at the end of the first lockdown so when I tell people I homeschool my kids, they all assume it had to do with being afraid of the wuflu.
These people snuck this in under cover of a global pandemic. Instead of figuring out the whole online learning thing (which by all accounts is terrible), they decided to focus their limited time on this. And they can't even justify it.
I also sent my letter to all the parents I know as well as relevant politicians. I got a bunch of support, including a woman whose family fled Vietnam when she was a child who says this type of garbage is exactly why they left.
The only people defending it all say the exact same thing: "You don't understand CRT, you need to read this book". But, while it's always the same type of race-baiting nonsense, it's never the same book. There are no foundational principals for CRT, like there are for physics, biology, psychology etcetc. This seems to be on purpose specifically so that they can change the definition when called out.
They full well know that CRT is fucked but that's not their concern; half the job titles of the people at the board meeting would not exist if not for CRT. They also readily admit that the things they do have little or no effect, but instead of abandoning an obviously useless "theory", they double down and demand more resources.
This shit is a cult. Once you drink the koolaid, you can't back out.
On the plus side, homeschooling is very loosly regulated here and it's going very well. Once you're away from the factory school system, you can focus on subjects with actual value. My kids practice reading and math (which is all the public school seems able to handle, albeit poorly), but they also learn music, art, programming, money management, cooking, martial arts, maintaining a household, and whatever I'm working on that I can teach them, including responsibility (one of their daily exercises is working together, without me, to make my lunches for work each day).
I highly recommend getting your kids out as soon as you can. I know some states have more stringent rules but the standards they set are laughable; the hardest part is trying to figure out what they actually want through the word salad they use to hide their incompetence.
I'm not sure that Rufo et al deciding to attack wokeism via "CRT" was the best possible choice...
You say "they're teaching CRT in schools" and they can say "Where in the curriculum is X Y Z critical race theorist's work? We aren't teaching with their stuff." Even worse is the normies who have no freaking idea what this woke nonsense is cotton on to "CRT" and just spam "CRT BAD" "BAN CRT" to any and everyone who listens, hurting our side in the process.
I've posted about my views of the NRA and the (many) people who like that org. Those are the sorts of idiots I'm picturing in my mind. That's an uncomfortably large number of people and that's what others see out and about irl.
They really shouldn’t focus solely on CRT but on the wider Critical Theory movement that is absolutely everywhere. CRT is only one branch of it. There’s Third wave Feminism and women’s Studies, Critical Gender Theory, Queer Theory, Postcolonialism, Critical Pedagogy et al, all wielding a parasitic influence over society. The rainbow crew, the BLM/AntiFa crew and the teachers have all been drinking from the same ideological fountain - Marxism via Critical Theory. They are all part of the same big cult.
An idea so dumb you have to have a PhD to believe it.
Trying to make the best case I can for it: the boundaries between different ethnic groups are extremely blurry in the US, because there's been 3+ centuries of low levels of interbreeding, and 5 decades of moderate levels.
But that's not what they mean, is it.
Just because groups interbreed, it doesn't mean there's no biological truth to there being a biological difference between groups.
Unless you think there's only one species of Tiger, Elephant, Wolf, etc.
That's absolutely true, and there are both reliable physical differences, and statistically significant personality differences from the statistical-level views of different ethnic groups.
My point is simply to recognize that, while some people are clearly in one group or another, there are people who don't clearly fall into one category. That observation, though, cuts against CRT, which is a type of ethnonationalism.
Ethnoglobalism
Why?
Steel-manning. Better to be able to knock down the best version of an argument, and leave your opponents nowhere to hide, than to just make fun of the lowest tier of tumblrites.
It's extremely real when we want it to be, and stops being real when we don't. Just like genders.
Oh, race is not biologically real? So we is all Kangz now! Where's my Affirmative Action bonuses?
Edit: Looking at the list, their first point is race isn't biological, but then they go on to say that the BIPOC crew needs special treatment because of low academic success. But if race isn't biological, then BIPOC is meaningless. How do their brains survive like this?
CRT has been in the education system for decades. They are simply comfortable openly formalizing it now. It is an unsalvageable institution.
Yes. I believe the idea started due to Rudi Dutschkes idea of the ‘Long March Through the Institutions’ but found its route in thanks to Paolo Freire’s book Pedagogy of the Oppressed - a book which opened up a new branch of Critical Theory called Critical Pedagogy. Perhaps the Critical Theory whose name is the least attention getting of them all, but which is undoubtedly the most insidious of the lot and the one which makes all the other marches through the institutions possible.
Biggest takeaway: Boise
Every big city is a cesspool of subversion, race hustling, and intellectually bankrupt leaders.
Please send backup. The Californication levels are awful.
Edit: McLean is backing down from it, so... It's something.
Yeah, the ever-present "I totally support the ideas behind this, but it was definitely a staff error that caused me to sign onto this, and I'm totally not throwing the staff under the bus because I made a PR fuckup."
I was shocked by that as well.
Sweet, I’m Slavic, time to start hate bashing darkies for ancestral crimes!
Note to everyone here: Prepare for "Social and Emotional Learning" as the next mask this neo-Marxism wears in the classroom. Same shit, different name.
Two Golden Rules of Neo-Marxism:
Every person fits into one of two classes, as defined by radical leftists [Bolshevik jews]: the oppressed or the oppressors.
The oppressed [anyone but whites] can do no wrong and are never guilty; the oppressors [whites] can do no right and are always guilty.
What’s more, objective truth and objective facts are, in a literal sense, devalued. In their stead stands the narrative-based Lived Experience and subjective truth.
If you remember during the MeToo movement there was a slogan or hashtag #BelieveAllWomen.
That was a prelude of what was to come - the replacement of objective truth with subjective ‘truth’ in which all that is required in order to render someone guilty is an accusation, much like the witch trials of old. This is why their concept of justice always has that qualifier ‘social’, because they employ the Oppressed/Oppressor distinction you mentioned above. Social justice is really just a thinly veiled synonym for what they view as ‘historical vengeance’.
Crazy times indeed
Guess my daughter's not going to public school, then.
I hate these commies with the fire of a thousand suns....
Last month: "Critical race theory DOESN'T EVEN EXIST, and we are FURIOUS that you're trying to get rid of it!"
This month: "We are going to teach critical race theory."
This has even spread to Idaho?
My school board (in Ontario) decided to officially adopt CRT last spring, at which point I wrote them a 7-page essay explaining why CRT is not scientific, consistent, or apolitical. They ignored me completely so I started homeschooling my kids from that point on. Ironically, this was at the end of the first lockdown so when I tell people I homeschool my kids, they all assume it had to do with being afraid of the wuflu.
These people snuck this in under cover of a global pandemic. Instead of figuring out the whole online learning thing (which by all accounts is terrible), they decided to focus their limited time on this. And they can't even justify it.
I also sent my letter to all the parents I know as well as relevant politicians. I got a bunch of support, including a woman whose family fled Vietnam when she was a child who says this type of garbage is exactly why they left.
The only people defending it all say the exact same thing: "You don't understand CRT, you need to read this book". But, while it's always the same type of race-baiting nonsense, it's never the same book. There are no foundational principals for CRT, like there are for physics, biology, psychology etcetc. This seems to be on purpose specifically so that they can change the definition when called out.
They full well know that CRT is fucked but that's not their concern; half the job titles of the people at the board meeting would not exist if not for CRT. They also readily admit that the things they do have little or no effect, but instead of abandoning an obviously useless "theory", they double down and demand more resources.
This shit is a cult. Once you drink the koolaid, you can't back out.
On the plus side, homeschooling is very loosly regulated here and it's going very well. Once you're away from the factory school system, you can focus on subjects with actual value. My kids practice reading and math (which is all the public school seems able to handle, albeit poorly), but they also learn music, art, programming, money management, cooking, martial arts, maintaining a household, and whatever I'm working on that I can teach them, including responsibility (one of their daily exercises is working together, without me, to make my lunches for work each day).
I highly recommend getting your kids out as soon as you can. I know some states have more stringent rules but the standards they set are laughable; the hardest part is trying to figure out what they actually want through the word salad they use to hide their incompetence.
I'm not sure that Rufo et al deciding to attack wokeism via "CRT" was the best possible choice...
You say "they're teaching CRT in schools" and they can say "Where in the curriculum is X Y Z critical race theorist's work? We aren't teaching with their stuff." Even worse is the normies who have no freaking idea what this woke nonsense is cotton on to "CRT" and just spam "CRT BAD" "BAN CRT" to any and everyone who listens, hurting our side in the process.
I've posted about my views of the NRA and the (many) people who like that org. Those are the sorts of idiots I'm picturing in my mind. That's an uncomfortably large number of people and that's what others see out and about irl.
They really shouldn’t focus solely on CRT but on the wider Critical Theory movement that is absolutely everywhere. CRT is only one branch of it. There’s Third wave Feminism and women’s Studies, Critical Gender Theory, Queer Theory, Postcolonialism, Critical Pedagogy et al, all wielding a parasitic influence over society. The rainbow crew, the BLM/AntiFa crew and the teachers have all been drinking from the same ideological fountain - Marxism via Critical Theory. They are all part of the same big cult.
That's another problem with it. All the focus gets put on one small aspect of the woke "hydra"
🤷♂️