are they not? I feel like I've seen a lot of photos of curriculums for children floating around with CRT stuff in it
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Is teaching that slavery existed CRT? Seems to me the end goal is to literally wipe American racism from history.
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I mean, there’s post grad level theory and then there’s whatever the fuck a state education board calls CRT.
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naw, i mean i think it's extremely important to teach about racism, slavery, and the impacts it's had reaching to today - I'm talkin about full on CRT stuff, which has many other things bundled in
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It’s supposed to be vague, that’s how to eliminate teaching anything you think is bad with a broad brush.
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Or they don't want to admit what it is that triggers them.
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all yall are so uncharitable here; twitter is hard to have nuanced debates with, I'm trying to say that my conception of CRT involves things *in addition* to teaching about racism, that seem damaging to me. Your conception about CRT may be different and i'm open to hearing that
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if you don't say what you think the damaging part of CRT is than people are just going to think you are another racist trying to wipe racism from America's history, because that is the argument that those racists make.
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yea to be clear i think america's history was full of racism, and as recently as the 70s the drug laws fucked up a ton of black families down the line
the stuff i *don't* like is the focus on privilege and blame and some of the claims on what 'systemic' means
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e.g., very extreme stuff like "whiteness is a disease" or elevating blackness as something free of all flaw, or pushing racism as an 'original sin', or pressuring ppl who disagree to shut up instead of engaging with their arguments
i mean like i said in my original tweet i'd seen photos of stuff floating around of this in classroom curriculums, thats why i was like 'wait but i thought i saw that'
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You will have to be careful, some text could have said 'whiteness is a disease', but most likely in the pages and pages of text that surrounds that statement, it would have defined exactly what 'whiteness' is and what the 'disease' is and most likely ... /1
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