I've mentioned before that I have a very large extended family and I got into an argument with a cousin of mine the other day. I generally try to ignore him when he goes on his rants but he was defending CRT and how people are trying to erase history and I couldn't keep silent. Besides being told I'm an Uncle Tom or that I "do the bidding of white supremacists" he gave me the usual talking points that I'm sure everyone has heard ad nauseam.
I asked him who specifically is holding him back, and if he is so concerned about history what is stopping him from getting all the books he wants about whatever topic. Long story short, he stopped talking to me when I said he makes no sense whatsoever, and asked why he doesn't put this energy into helping organizations who work to free victims of slavery/sex trafficking today.
More and more I am very grateful my parents would always tell me that the world owed me nothing and that life is not always fair. I swear a lot of young people seem to be taught that everything will go their way and if it doesn't then you can blame some vague concepts like "systemic racism" or "the patriarchy". Combine that with the endless talk about disparities as if that isn't something that will always occur naturally. Some people have it better than you, some have it worse, some make better choices, and some don't. Life if full of things like that, but there is this ridiculous idea that everything can be perfectly equal if the right people are in power.
I used to think I could open some eyes but I guess I can't, some people are determined to be victims or wallow in their self imposed oppression.
Totally agree. I meant how the CRT defenders act like history is being erased. The founding fathers weren't perfect men, but slavery was very common in their day so I am tired of that being held against them. From what I understand they barely touch on the founding fathers anymore in some schools. As for slavery, I honestly think it would do a lot of good to teach it from a global perspective so young people can see that no culture has a monopoly on it, and it is still happening today.
Someone on Reddit told me, I, a non-American person, need CRT to understand the world and to have empathy. Like dude, my country never had black slaves, we still have very, very few black people and a huge chunk of them are like exchange students and such.
This is why I am happy with the rise of China. The Americans don't just want to have their hands in our pockets, they want to control everyone's beliefs as well.
Do you think the Chinese don't?
I, too, am not an "enemy of my enemy" person, because duh they're still your enemy, stupid.
China is also enacting a sort of very real, violent, and direct form of control, only it's vaguely conservative in nature so a lot of right-leaning people see that as positive.
It's not. Our enemy is not our temporary friend or Ally just because they don't behave like the other enemy.
I think they will be more limited in their demands.
Do you genuinely think China wouldn't want to control others? Tony, that is ridiculously naive of you. You think they just let you believe what you want? That ain't the commie way.
I think they're interested in Realpolitik and money, not evangelism. Same for the Americans, but their imperial hubris leads them to believe that they can persuade everyone of their peaceful ways... BY FORCE.
That's a wider issue with people like this. To minds like your cousins, I think the only people they feel should be lauded are people who are literally perfect - and the definition of "perfect" is today's definition, not whatever definition applied at any point the person was alive.
I don't know if that's a side-effect of the usual Marxist requirement to destroy - sure, Marxists say they'll rebuild, but they always seem to become addicted to the visceral joy of destruction and never move past it - or if it's the cause of it, no world but the perfect world and all that.
More importantly, I have heard good arguments from actual historians talking about how they deliberately undermined it from word go. That the founders were fully aware that their documents saying "All men are equal" would eventually call attention to slavery violating that. Perhaps not in their own time, but eventually that contradiction would have to be rectified, one way or another. Now, I am sure the leftoid zombies would say "Well, they should have gotten rid of it or just not founded the country!" But that is unrealistic, and in the long term it lead to a more perfect union and republic.
The British paid their cost to slavery in gold, and we paid in blood. And we are about the only two nations on Earth to even try.
And I agree that it should be taught from a global perspective. Considering there was some study that showed that a lot of people think that slavery was an exclusively American concept (as if it didnt exist since the dawn of humanity, and the US getting rid of it is the unusual thing). And this unhealthy obsession that a lot of black people have with it is disturbing to me. I wont fall into the trap and become the racist they want me to, but I will say that a disturbing amount of people are failing the "content of character" standard.
Totally agree. And a lot of founding fathers struggled with slavery and the whole 3/5 thing was due to a compromise over it. It is true the set into motion an eventual abolition. It really disturbs me how many young people think the U.S is unique when it comes to slavery.