Posted on 11/13/2021 7:48:04 PM PST by jonno
Has anyone here - if their kids are still in public school - had any experience with their kids being exposed to the CRT agenda? I'd be curious to see any of the actual materials, etc.
The reason I'm asking is I have an acquaintance who claims the whole argument is right-wing alarmism without any basis in fact.
I first ran into CRT at Intel Corp back around 2000.
HR had setup a mandatory program to “educate” white male engineers that they need to accept that they are going to be replaced by Indian workers.
They got such a negative response that they ended the program but NOT before anyone who opposed it had their opposition recorded into their permanent employee record.
Glad to help.
Course starts out quoting Bill Ayers...
Teaches Martin Luther's horrific anti-Semetic diatribe, then blames that on Catholics, then European, Catholic, and Christian invasion, rape, pillage, and destruction of the Western Hemisphere.
They call it Critical Theory, but the content is unmistakable.
That’s KRT. Kardashian Race Theory
All I can tell you is my experience. I live in the New England area, and work in a vey small, wealthy public school area. During March of 2020, we were introduced to DEI training. It was done via zoom, and we were all mandated to participate.
Forward to now, we have not had any updates nor any follow up training. I think it has now become voluntary.
I do not think it went over too well. We do have minority students, but the majority of them are adopted by white families.
I don’t know if this helps
I hadn’t seen that. Very good, thanks.
Basically, CRT is Marxism through a racial lens instead of an economic/class lens.
Good pick up.
Given the uproar in Virginia where CRT was labeled and described on the State’s education website for starters, the CRT crowd appears to have gone stealth prefering to teach the same elements of CRT without labeling it as such which is much more dangerous and requires vigilance by all parents.
My friend is a fifth grade teacher here in Illinois, where the BLM-approved 1619 project is MANDATORY in classrooms throughout the entire state. I’ll see if she has materials she can share, because she damn well doesn’t buy into it.
Yep. She’s living as an undercover Libertarian, and she hates being around those Leftists every day.
CRT is not a diversity and inclusion “training” but a practice of interrogating the role of race and racism in society that emerged in the legal academy and spread to other fields of scholarship. Crenshaw—who coined the term “CRT”—notes that CRT is not a noun, but a verb. It cannot be confined to a static and narrow definition but is considered to be an evolving and malleable practice. It critiques how the social construction of race and institutionalized racism perpetuate a racial caste system that relegates people of color to the bottom tiers. CRT also recognizes that race intersects with other identities, including sexuality, gender identity, and others. CRT recognizes that racism is not a bygone relic of the past. Instead, it acknowledges that the legacy of slavery, segregation, and the imposition of second-class citizenship on Black Americans and other people of color continue to permeate the social fabric of this nation.
While recognizing the evolving and malleable nature of CRT, scholar Khiara Bridges outlines a few key tenets of CRT, including:
-Recognition that race is not biologically real but is socially constructed and socially significant. It recognizes that science (as demonstrated in the Human Genome Project) refutes the idea of biological racial differences. According to scholars Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, race is the product of social thought and is not connected to biological reality.
-Acknowledgement that racism is a normal feature of society and is embedded within systems and institutions, like the legal system, that replicate racial inequality. This dismisses the idea that racist incidents are aberrations but instead are manifestations of structural and systemic racism.
-Rejection of popular understandings about racism, such as arguments that confine racism to a few “bad apples.” CRT recognizes that racism is codified in law, embedded in structures, and woven into public policy. CRT rejects claims of meritocracy or “colorblindness.” CRT recognizes that it is the systemic nature of racism that bears primary responsibility for reproducing racial inequality.
-Recognition of the relevance of people’s everyday lives to scholarship. This includes embracing the lived experiences of people of color, including those preserved through storytelling, and rejecting deficit-informed research that excludes the epistemologies of people of color.
Don’t argue something true and obvious.
Hone in on that he seems to agree with you CRT is bad and shouldn’t be taught.
How Your Schools ‘Teach’ Critical Race Theory Under the Radar (in 75 Seconds)
This is quick, and I mean brief but very, um … educational, especially for those who suspect but are unsure whether Critical Race Theory (CRT) is in at your public school.It is, and they are, and they do not want you to know.
And according to this Indiana Education Administrator, they want it in everything, everywhere, from the subtle to the not so, and they do not want you to know or to interfere, and they will lie about it.
What is Critical Race Theory? - James Lindsay, Ph.D.
Historian: Marxist roots of CRT is being 'scrubbed' from Wikipedia | The Gorka Reality Check
The danger of critical race theory
Critical race theory, Guelzo says, is a subset of critical theory that began with Immanuel Kant in the 1790s. It was a response to — and rejection of — the principles of the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason on which the American republic was founded. Kant believed that “reason was inadequate to give shape to our lives” and so he set about “developing a theory of being critical of reason,” Guelzo says.But the critique of reason ended up justifying “ways of appealing to some very unreasonable things as explanations — things like race, nationality, class,” he says. Critical theory thus helped spawn totalitarian ideologies in the 20th century such as Marxism and Nazism, which taught that all human relationships are relationships of power between an oppressor class and an oppressed class. For the Marxists, the bourgeoisie were the oppressors. For the Nazis, the Jews were the oppressors. And today, in 21st century America, critical race theory teaches that Whites are the oppressors.
In CRT, “all White people are instinctively white supremacists,” Guelzo says, adding, “I say ‘instinctively’ because this is not a function of reason.” This is why its advocates talk about “systemic racism” — a CRT term that has crept into our public discourse and has even been embraced by President Biden. “Systemic sounds like systematic, except of course that it isn’t,” Guelzo says. “When you try to find something that is systematic, then you have to go find evidence.” But “systemic implies something so deep and so instinctive that you’re not even conscious of it. … [that] there is an instinctive bias that is built into people of certain colors.”
CRT rejects democracy as a “relic of Enlightenment reason,” Guelzo says, and argues that White people “use tricks like democracy and the search for truth … to exploit and oppress and dominate people of color.” Don’t take his word for it. Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, authors of “Critical Race Theory: An Introduction,” state that “critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.”
Because critical theory rejects reason, it cannot be questioned. Under this rubric, Guelzo says, the only purpose of questions is to serve the interests of the oppressive class, and “any answer you come up with, which doesn’t speak in terms of some hidden structure of oppression, can simply be dismissed as part of the structure of oppression.” For example, “if you believe, as the Nazis did, that the Jews are responsible for all political and economic events, then my pointing out that the overwhelming majority of political leaders are not Jews merely shows that I am either a dupe of the Jews or that I’m in on the fix.” Similarly, if you question whether all White people are oppressors, “the questioning itself is an example of how you’re in on the oppression.”
Christopher Rufo is a journalist who does a lot of work uncovering CRT in schools. Here is his Twitter feed. Just X out the Twitter log in request.
To see what is happening at the colleges where teachers are taught take a look at The Boston University Anti Racism Center lead by Prof. Kendi. Here.
Take a look at the resources Here. And also Here are example curriculum materials and much more. It looks like it is all paid for by tax dollars.
Here is a lesson plan for middle school kids entitled "Talking About Race and Privilege Lesson Plan for Middle and High School Students"
Here is some text from the curriculum that is intended to be taught to the kids:
The unearned advantages and benefits that accrue to White folks by virtue of a system normed on the experiences, values, and perceptions of their group. White privilege automatically confers dominance to one group, while subordinating groups of color in a descending relational hierarchy; it owes its existence to White supremacy; it is premised on the mistaken notion of individual meritocracy and deservedness (hard work, family values, and the like) rather than favoritism; it is deeply embedded in the structural, systematic, and cultural workings of U.S. society; and it operates within an invisible veil of unspoken and protected secrecy. (p. 137)
Ask your friend if he thinks teaching that idea to 12 year old kids is OK.
It helps if you had the misfortune of hearing about critical theory in literature — this being ignoring the author, place, time, history, setting, and intent of the work and instead reading the entire thing from the reader’s current modern viewpoint (and the one that’s encouraged is Marxism).
See https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/
CRT is this, applied to modern civilization (and it’s key to note that only what we’d call Western civilization is demonized here — everyone else gets a pass. That should already invalidate it in any sensible person’s mind.
So: CRT essentials. “Systemic racism” is defined not as one ethnicity treating another badly but as a ‘privileged’ group having power over another. It’s not the racism they want to destroy, it’s the system that has to go (that one we live in where people get along, work, have civilization and nice things and communicate with each other).
“Privileged” is then defined by group, not by individual; and into this bucket goes for starters ‘white’ and ‘male’ but then also ‘Christian’ and ‘educated’ and ‘able’ and ‘CIS’ (not perv) and ... well you get the idea. Anyone you can shove into this category is ‘privileged’ and is in CRT supposed to not only avoid being racist/sexist/ablist/anythingist but contribute to the destruction of his own self and anything like him. Even then the fully-self-unrealized ‘ally’ is a third-class person, like some dhimmi in mohammedism.
Individuals who can find a victim label — and where CRT prevails, you need one (so keep that in mind when you read that kids are identifying as LGBTQWTFROFLASTC or whatever) — are at least people. However the more screwed up you are, or can claim to be, the more you’re not ‘privileged’ and in CRT then your opinion matters more (or at all; a big part of the push is enforcing One Single Opinion).
There’s an absolute but ever-shifting scramble to be the top (bottom?) of the victim status pile. ‘Woman’ is old hat, as is non-white (sorry, ‘BIPOC’) by itself and even plain generic homosexuals. In short the more useless and counterproductive the person, the more it’s celebrated and, perversely, given power to ruin everything for others.
The provable fact that people of this ilk are directly responsible for actual harm is verboten (e.g., Biden pushed a crime bill that jails black Americans, but CRT teaches his opponents are racists; white pedophiles and serial criminals assault a kid, but defending himself is criminal and, of course, racist.)
This is why a trannie is made Admiral; why a homosexual mayor who has produced nothing in his career is in charge of transportation, a Berkeley loonie in charge of energy and Brandon nominates people who blow up churches for ATF and overt Marxists for Treasury.
In short, it’s anti-meritocracy.
I don’t know of a historical precedent. We can find corrupt nations in decline, or luxurious and indolent ones, those hit by catastrophe and many where these precipitated a fall by conquest, but I don’t know of a situation where a people was successfully taught to hate and destroy themselves.
Our three kids are all in their 30s and no grandkids, so I can’t speak directly to CRT.
But my sister teaches in an inner city school in Baltimore and she tells me EVERYTHING there is centered around dumbing down the curriculum so black kids can “get ahead,” ending all objective grades, not penalizing kids for not doing assignments, giving kids multiple chances to make up work and exams, and then, finally promoting kids to the next grade level no matter how bad their performance is. They turn out high school graduates who cannot tell you the meaning of “1/2” or how to divide one-half by two. She says all the teacher meetings are focused on race.
Notice how carefully they choose their words, but ultimately they are 100% onboard with the ideas of CRT.
CRT does not exist and you are not allowed to ban it.
Good information. Thanks.
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Great resources - thanks so much.
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