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Don’t get me wrong rjs, I don’t doubt some aspects of crt and how it’s presented are over the top, maybe even racist, but let’s not throw the baby out with the dish water.
Your approach just doesn’t seem helpful as it comes across as superficial and hyperbolic. It’s not as black and white (pardon the pun) as you paint it.
Please don't fall for that. I mean, sure, maybe some proponents of CRT have said things some would find over the top. But, first, that's true of any framework, certainly to include religious and spiritual ones. Second, as far as I can tell, rsj330 hasn't presented an ACTUAL example of critical race theory.
Love it/hate it/feel "meh" about it, the article on how children learn about race has NOTHING TO DO WITH CRITICAL RACE THEORY. rsj330 wrote this:
"The national PTA is in on this nonsense. They have even started going after children.
'Your 5-Year Old Is Already Racially Biased' and article they wanted people to read. How disgusting."
Clearly, he brought it up as an example of CRT and how CRT is "going after children." As you pointed out, the article does no such thing. You didn't point out that the article has ZIPPO to do with CRT.
Love it/hate it/feel "meh" about it,, the "Yes, All White People Are Racist article has NOTHING TO DO WITH CRITICAL RACE THEORY.
Not every author who thinks our serious racial equity challenges didn't end with the Civil Rights Movement is a CRT person, any more than everyone who thinks Republicans have the better governing philosophy is a Trump supporter.
I don't know what's motivating rjs330. I suspect that he has fallen for the "straw man" built by the conservative activists who deliberately and cynically set all this in motion. But if lots of people mistakenly think any and every bit of writing about race can be taken to represent CRT, then of course CRT becomes easy to condemn, especially since few people have read any articles by actual CRT scholars.
More importantly, believing that CRT is anything and everything critics claim makes it easier to undercut the very modest efforts made in some schools and workplaces to further bend the moral arc of the universe toward racial justice. Which is the agenda - an incredibly cynical, divisive, and destructive one.
The CRT critics are horrified! Are they as horrified by the fact that white men with prison records are more likely to be offered jobs than black men without records? Are they horrified by the fact that predatory housing loans target black and brown people? Does the reality that people of color were/are more likely to get COVID partly because they live in testing deserts make them queasy? How about the fact that far less funding supports the education of Black, Brown, and Native children compared to White kids?
When they're remotely as horrified by those realities, which affect FAR more lives FAR more consequentially than *actual* CRT scholarship does, I, for one, will be happy to break bread.
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