MLK Book banning due to CRT

[PurpnGold]

@Call_me_Ishmael

What isn’t being taught? Did we just make that up now? “Pay no attention to curricula behind the curtain!” Are you the great and powerful OZ?

Sorry dude. It doesn’t work that way.

CRT is not being taught in K-12.

But you can link me to classroom curricula to prove me wrong.

[Call_me_Ishmael]

@Orygun

You have never defined what is being taught that is CRT. Because its a meaningless bugaboo word

You referenced it. Shall I show you where you referenced it as a thing?

@Orygun

By the way- what specifically would you like to see done about the great plague of CRT in our school systems?

And @PurpnGold referenced it as a history.

[PurpnGold]

@WuWei

Teach 9/11 in what context?

Doesn’t matter… it is history and it could make white people feel bad, who weren’t even born. That means it should not be allowed.

[Oldandtired]

Tell me how is memorizing that going to help someone get a job?

[PurpnGold]

@WuWei

Racism is not special.

Special enough to use as an oppressive tool for 400 years. The constitution isn’t even older than racism in this country… and yet that document is special.

Special or not… it’s real and has impacts.

[PurpnGold]

@Call_me_Ishmael

And @PurpnGold referenced it as a history.

No I didn’t. I asked you how a non history lesson (CRT) can be replaced by a history lesson.

[FreeAndClear]

@Oldandtired

Tell me how is memorizing that going to help someone get a job?

How being a rounded person going to help someone get a job. History education isn’t solely being taught for history sake.

[Oldandtired]

Just like past history is not really useful. It’s good to know but it really does not help poor children move up in life.

[WuWei]

Only the one way though. Anybody who supported a Trump policy wasn’t a “Trump humper” at all.

[WuWei]

Of course they were, so what? Only black protesters ever got the hose?

[Orygun]

Hmmm…

The Good Liars

[WuWei]

@Jezcoe

@Orygun

Ha ha yes. CRT is a cudgel to stir up the Base.

The crazy thing is that it was said out loud for everyone to hear that it is all a play to rebrand Critical Race Theory away from what it really is and to brand it to liberal attacks on American Culture and it still worked.

That is just wild.

Might want to read the source material.

[WuWei]

@Orygun

Did the effects of hundreds of years of racism and oppression suddenly stop during the 60’s with the Civil Rights movement? That magically there was a level playing field economically and politically?

[Oldandtired]

Well rounds means knowing what happened. Not spending years going into every little thing that happened.
You know very little about native American’s and their history. Has that fact kept you from living a good life?

[WuWei]

@Jezcoe

with the understanding that there is more to do.

No, there isn’t.

[WuWei]

@Orygun

@Call_me_Ishmael

That’s a non sequitur designed to hide what the left is doing.

Huh? This thread is about how CRT is being used as a vague concept to target almost anything to do with education around the history of black people in this country.

By the way- what specifically would you like to see done about the great plague of CRT in our school systems?

Why does anybody need to know “the history of black people in this country”? Why does 90% need to know the history of 10% in primary school?

[FreeAndClear]

@Oldandtired

Well rounds means knowing what happened. Not spending years going into every little thing that happened.
You know very little about native American’s and their history. Has that fact kept you from living a good life?

It means knowing what happened in part

It means being able to understand what happened

Indeed i know very little of Native American history. I am certainly ignorant od the multitude of cultures surrounding the differing tribes, their interactions pre colonialism and then post colonialism. But again living a good life isn’t synonymous with being well rounded and well rounded doesn’t mean all knowing but imo it’s being taught to analyze and process information from different perspectives.

[PurpnGold]

@Oldandtired

Just like past history is not really useful.

Sure it is… you don’t think the study of the First two way phone lead to the creation of the modern cellphone? Or email?

[WuWei]

@Dem

@WuWei

@Dem

Hard to teach abolitionists without going into slavery itself.

I didn’t say don’t teach it. 30 minutes for both should do it.

Why so little time?

This is why I have a problem with the way History is taught. It’s taught by forcing students to learn dates and events, kids find this boring. Why people did what they did is barely covered. The humanity and emotion of history is stripped.

Lack of impact. Lack of complexity.

I agree about memorizing dates.

[WuWei]

@Jezcoe

Stories of why they did what they did… that is interesting

Hence the 30 minutes.