Should your kids be learning Critical Race Theory in school?

Let it Rupp wrote:

SDSU Aztec wrote:

I don't know what it is either and couldn't possibly care less. Let's cut to the chase. Do people on the right think their kids will be turned against them?

Are you asking this as someone who has kids?

Yes, my son is a Freshman and my daughter is a Senior.

Punters all wrote:

SDSU Aztec wrote:

I don't know what it is either and couldn't possibly care less. Let's cut to the chase. Do people on the right think their kids will be turned against them?

You are in a thread regarding a concept you admit ignorance of, yet you decided it's reasonable to ask an idiotic, glib question as to whether people are worried their kids will turn against them regarding the very concept you admit ignorance of. WTF is wrong with you? You are about as relevant to most threads as that Unkle guy.

OK. What are people on the right afraid of?

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Punters all wrote:

You are in a thread regarding a concept you admit ignorance of, yet you decided it's reasonable to ask an idiotic, glib question as to whether people are worried their kids will turn against them regarding the very concept you admit ignorance of. WTF is wrong with you? You are about as relevant to most threads as that Unkle guy.

OK. What are people on the right afraid of?

Some of the concerns with CRT education in schools were carefully explained to you by Let It Rupp on the previous page, right above your post with your idiotic question. The concerns have also been carefully and concisely explained to you in threads like the linked one below (800 dude), which you participated in.

So you can keep pretending you don't know what the concerns are -- on a subject to which you even admit you are ignorant of and have no interest in -- but you just look like an unsophisticated troll every single time you do so.

Tatar.. wrote:

CRT was first mentioned on Fox News about a year ago. All these 'experts' on here and at school board meetings would have looked at you blankly had you mentioned 'CRT' to them in September 2020.

It seems like CRT is now being used by the Right to mean 'anti-racism'. Obviously they can't say they are anti- anti-racism because that makes them look racist. So they've hijacked another word to use as a fig leaf.

The biggest "fig leaf" is that the under-performance of some minorities is due more to racism rather than mores, particularly the idea that sex and conception out-of-wedlock are OK.

Punters all wrote:

SDSU Aztec wrote:

OK. What are people on the right afraid of?

Some of the concerns with CRT education in schools were carefully explained to you by Let It Rupp on the previous page, right above your post with your idiotic question. The concerns have also been carefully and concisely explained to you in threads like the linked one below (800 dude), which you participated in.

So you can keep pretending you don't know what the concerns are -- on a subject to which you even admit you are ignorant of and have no interest in -- but you just look like an unsophisticated troll every single time you do so.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10632067&page=2

Even without reading all that stuff, it's still a legitimate question. People say that children will be taught to hate America, but is that true? Parents have far more influence on their children's political beliefs than any teacher. Why should I be concerned? I don't believe I'm alone in not knowing what CRT is.

Humor me and provide a few sentence explanation as to what the consequences of CRT are. And please leave out any more insults.

Not sure what people are so worried about honestly. I mean, they still teach my kids that the pilgrims and indians were friends. Its up to me as a parent to explain some of this stuff to them.

What I wonder is if people even realize a lot of the 'backlash' to stuff like this is funded by so called 'dark money' and is very certainly coming from our foreign adversaries.

Watch the video or read the post I gave on the first page of this thread - everything will make sense. Part of the problem is that most people are getting an idea of what CRT from hearsay alone but aren't going directly to the source, and could see why because it's a crap theory.

The reason I think it's so dangerous is because the framework is intentionally designed to create division, it's a form of "us vs them" populism. Problems will never be solved if we believe in unproven, overly simplistic theories like CRT. You can also be against racism without believing that all of society is constructed in order to oppress racial minorities (which is really the core tenet of CRT).

kjbh wrote:

Tatar.. wrote:

CRT was first mentioned on Fox News about a year ago. All these 'experts' on here and at school board meetings would have looked at you blankly had you mentioned 'CRT' to them in September 2020.

It seems like CRT is now being used by the Right to mean 'anti-racism'. Obviously they can't say they are anti- anti-racism because that makes them look racist. So they've hijacked another word to use as a fig leaf.

The biggest "fig leaf" is that the under-performance of some minorities is due more to racism rather than mores, particularly the idea that sex and conception out-of-wedlock are OK.

Another fig leaf is when people say they are not racist toward black people, it's just black mores they don't like.

Tatar.. wrote:

kjbh wrote:

The biggest "fig leaf" is that the under-performance of some minorities is due more to racism rather than mores, particularly the idea that sex and conception out-of-wedlock are OK.

Another fig leaf is when people say they are not racist toward black people, it's just black mores they don't like.

I don't think many black people like many black mores today. You think black children like growing up without fathers?

China Joe wrote:

Tatar.. wrote:

Another fig leaf is when people say they are not racist toward black people, it's just black mores they don't like.

I don't think many black people like many black mores today. You think black children like growing up without fathers?

You think black mothers like seeing their boys killed in record numbers? You're kind of twisted if you do.

Unfortunately, America has become "us vs them" for just about every possible political issue.

It goes both ways. Probably 90% of people vehemently opposed to CRT don't know what it is either.

No matter what it is, if my 14-year old son hears something about CRT in class, he'll think "Oh" and that will be the end of it. He gets his opinions from surfing the net and leans to the right.

You asked a deliberately idiotic, rhetorical question. Despite doing that, you were engaged by posters trying to legitimately explain things to you and recommending previously posted reading materials to you (and keep in mind once again, this is a subject you claim both ignorance and apathy towards). You then object to "reading all that stuff" and now try to suggest there is a burden on me to summarize the answer to your stupid question in 2-3 sentence form? Are you for fvcking for real? I think you are more than just a low grade troll, I think you have intellectual disabilities.

A**hole. As I said, most of the people opposed to CRT don't know what is, so why is it my burden to research it?

I also made the point that kids are going to give more weight to what their parents believe than anything a teacher might tell them. Do you have a different opinion?

So many people on the right insult people that disagree with them rather han responding intellectually. Are you for f**kin for real?

kjbh wrote:

Is the following not a reasonable response?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFqaBuFtigQ

without watching the video, has fox had a single reasonable response in the last decade? I sure wouldnt bet on this being anything other than some radical stuff from the right.

I don't think you even know what a clown you are. You previously admitted (twice) to be ignorant of a theory/concept (CRT), but then later say most people opposed to that theory don't know what it is. Do you understand the problem there?

You then are confused enough to ask "why is it my burden to research it?" The glaring and obvious answer is that it would be your burden to research something you admit to being ignorant of so that you could then credibly say that most people opposed to it are also ignorant. Otherwise you can't. Do you understand that?

Your vague, generalized and highly subjective "point" isn't a point at all. Under that "point," and the unstated conclusions you appear to be drawing from it, literally anything -- intelligent design, flat earth, Marxism, alchemy, eugenics, astrology, War of Northern Aggression -- could be taught as doctrine or fact in schools without concern.

I'm not on the right.

I responded intellectually to every bit of confused logic you posted. You got answers to your question from several sources. Everything else stated was supplemental to that.

We're back on this, huh?

Do you know that we had to square dance in PC class during high school, for two weeks? Do you even care?

Do you care that we were taught that the Midwest is "The Breadbasket of the Nation," even though California is actually that? Do you even care?

Do you care that in the third grade, we were taught in a classroom with a poster that showed cavemen and cavewomen throwing crude spears at a Brontosaurus? Do you even care?

Kvothe wrote:

Critical Race theory is taught in law school. If your kids aren't in law school, they're not learning critical race theory.

^This. Most high school students probably wouldn't understand if CRT is taught to them.

And most people posting on this thread probably don't know what CRT is. But they are way to eager to attack "them."

Other poster's have said that CRT is a boogeyman or that it won't have any negative affect on anything but I don't see you jumping on their sh*t. About 50% of the country doesn't see CRT as a threat but you know for a fact, that it is. I did read some articles on CRT and considered it to be very abstract and non-threatening. You seem to believe the only acceptable take is that it could have severe ramifications.

This response is idiotic. We are discussing CRT and not eugenics:

"Your vague, generalized and highly subjective "point" isn't a point at all. Under that "point," and the unstated conclusions you appear to be drawing from it, literally anything -- intelligent design, flat earth, Marxism, alchemy, eugenics, astrology, War of Northern Aggression -- could be taught as doctrine or fact in schools without concern."