Yeah I mean CRT is pretty poorly understood by the general population and what is being claimed as CRT varies widely. In some places, just teaching about American slavery is considered CRT. In others, they are teaching that white people as a whole are responsible for the suffering of black and indigenous people, and forcing white children to acknowledge their complicity in the white supremacist social structure. If they paired this kind of learning with an understanding of dialectical materialism, I'd be all for it, but they don't. In stead of creating young radicals ready to overthrow the current systems of oppression, it's going to create young reactionaries who feel they've been unfairly demonized and excluded from success based on their race.
not to say it hasn't happened before, but the tall tales about teachers singling out white kids in a classroom and telling them they're responsible for the current situation of racism and white supremacy in America just seems
overwhelmingly unlikely. If it has happened, I'm going to guess it's very isolated incidents with teachers who got immediate backlash
Now in college classrooms? Sure, professors get away with that kinda thing all the time
I really don’t understand why it’s so hard to teach kids that a specific group of white elites we’re the ones perpetuating this horrible racial hierarchy.
Who enforced that hierarchy and benefitted from it extensively?
If CRT meant "kids are reading Settlers", I'd say hell yeah. In practice, it means either conservative parents whining about their kids being taught that Indigenous People and slavery existed - which theynhave always complained about, even when today's parents were in school - or weird white liberal teachers taking shit too far and telling 10 year olds they were made by Yakub in the lab (save that for high school at least!). It's like the definition of made-up nonsense.
Yeah I mean CRT is pretty poorly understood by the general population and what is being claimed as CRT varies widely. In some places, just teaching about American slavery is considered CRT. In others, they are teaching that white people as a whole are responsible for the suffering of black and indigenous people, and forcing white children to acknowledge their complicity in the white supremacist social structure. If they paired this kind of learning with an understanding of dialectical materialism, I'd be all for it, but they don't. In stead of creating young radicals ready to overthrow the current systems of oppression, it's going to create young reactionaries who feel they've been unfairly demonized and excluded from success based on their race.
not to say it hasn't happened before, but the tall tales about teachers singling out white kids in a classroom and telling them they're responsible for the current situation of racism and white supremacy in America just seems
overwhelmingly unlikely. If it has happened, I'm going to guess it's very isolated incidents with teachers who got immediate backlash
Now in college classrooms? Sure, professors get away with that kinda thing all the time
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Who enforced that hierarchy and benefitted from it extensively?
If CRT meant "kids are reading Settlers", I'd say hell yeah. In practice, it means either conservative parents whining about their kids being taught that Indigenous People and slavery existed - which theynhave always complained about, even when today's parents were in school - or weird white liberal teachers taking shit too far and telling 10 year olds they were made by Yakub in the lab (save that for high school at least!). It's like the definition of made-up nonsense.