Posted on 02/19/2022 12:23:10 PM PST by Eleutheria5
It seemed a slam dunk: The popular conservative cause of banning “critical race theory” in schools, being taken up for a vote in one of the country’s most lopsidedly conservative legislatures.
Then a Democrat, one of just seven in the 60-member Wyoming legislature, stood up Thursday and said he could not support the bill because he was Jewish.
“In this bill, page 9, line 19 states, ‘The teaching of history must be neutral, without judgment,'” state Rep. Andy Schwartz said during debate. “Now, how can that be possible? If I were a Native American, I doubt I could accept the neutral, judgment-free approach about the relocation, the decimation of the Indigenous population. If I were a Black American, I doubt I could accept a neutral, judgment-free approach on the enslavement of millions of Americans.
“But I’m Jewish, and I cannot accept a neutral judgment-free approach on the murder of six million Jews in World War Two.”
Schwartz, whose Teton County district includes the city of Jackson, said that to understand the depth of depraved actions, one must be discomfited by them.
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CRT is not about feeling discomfort and distress about past depraved acts. It's about branding present-day people as victims or oppressors based on depraved acts committed by others before they were born, and to whom they are not related to.
Discomfort and distress about those depraved acts is simply natural. Making living people bear irreversible guilt or calling them irreversibly crippled because they were victims is immoral and crazy. Especially children.
Taking his argument on its face, under CRT Jews would have to not only feel discomfited and distressed, but expect special treatment for being Jewish, even though none of their relatives nor they were in Europe in that time, and anyone German would have to go about feeling forever tainted because they're German, even if they're descended from the Pennsylvania Dutch, who've been in the United States since before the Revolutionary War. That's what CRT demands. It's analogous to requiring mondern-day Jews to wear hair shirts on account of the death of Jesus. Discomfited and distressed is one thing. Scarred for life by accident of birth is another. They should redraft the law and try again.
The Schwartz is strong in that one 🤪
I demand to be treated **exactly like every one else** - until I demand to be treated differently because I’m Jewish/Gay/whatever.
These kinds of folks are just maddening for the vast majority.
Well said.
Mere posturing, and bad pasturing at that. Mr. Schwartz can’t admit that he approves of dividing by race and giving special privileges to some races and discriminating against others. We used to call them segregationists.
How does 1 vote stop the bill?
My landlord got out of the Marines the year before I was born, so when I went to see the place, he saw the stickers on my car and we got off to a great start.
Sorry. Anyway, Wyoming.../thread drift
Love how he makes it about himself.
Opponents of CRT have no problem with teaching actual history: the good, the bad, the ugly. They have a problem with a divisive, racist, Marxist version of history. It must be emphasized that CRT is a “theory”. History is not.
Everybody else went along with this blather.
Stinking rich California white people. Jackson is so exclusive that the millionaires who lived there for years can no longer afford to live there.
Many diverse theories interpret history many diverse ways. Facts, however, are facts, and they are the stuff that history is made of.
Disregard the facts, for example, say that the American revolution was fought to preserve slavery from the anti-slavery movement in Britain started by William Wilbeforce in 1787, and you are mistaken and probably lying to prey on the ignorant. The Revolutionary War ended in 1783, four years earlier. Facts!
It’s probably clinical.
It’s called the Lizzy effect
Ok I can speak to this as I have 4 kids recently all indoctrinated through K-12 CA public school and colleges. Here’s the problem. Every year in science they are taught nothing but climate change. Every year in history and English they are taught nothing but CRT and forms of it. It’s dangerous propaganda and the smartest/most rebellious kids (esp boys) end up resisting it because kids like to rebel against authority. Wyoming made a mistake here. It’s deep and pervasive and worse than most realize.
Andy Schwartz, a member of the most privileged class in America playing the victim card, so very typical and unoriginal.
In 6th Grade, I rebelled against standing for the National Anthem. Having read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, I was a morally outraged little bookworm who never did his homework. Later, I outgrew that phase and now would gladly stand for the National Anthem if I were in America and at a ball game. But rebellion is as natural as breathing for pubescent children. I am comforted that CRT is probably what they’ll be rebelling against. But I’d rather they learn something substantive that helps them think critically, instead of programmed by idiots.
Not a very smart Jew, just a SMART ALEC!
CRT and CT (critical thinking) are mutually exclusive.
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