I realize that personal anecdotes =/= the truth, but I think we can agree that the Seattle metro area is pretty damn liberal and progressive, right? I know multiple teachers (high school and middle school, no elementary oddly) in multiple districts in the area, and none of them teach CRT. Or at least the scary CRT topics that Fox News warns us all about. Its more along the lines of including the unsavory aspects of american history instead of glossing over or skipping them altogether (eg chineese building the railroads despite horrendous racism, trail of tears and other native atrocities, how integrated slavery and racism (and antisemitism) was in american society, even up until recently. Personally, this isnt much different at all from what i was taught in school during the 90s.
By the same token, a couple months back i went through diversity training for my job. The most controversial thing that was touched on was that we should consider our company a potluck, and not a melting pot. The point being that we should celebrate differences and allow differences, instead of trying to make everyone the same. Which makes a lot of sense… otherwise you end up with the abomination that is people thinking chipotle is good mexican.
So, maybe the Seattle area isnt all that progressive? Or maybe there are a bunch of jiffypuff soft snowflakes looking to get offended by everything in other parts of the country?
It is a fact that teacher education programs are influenced by CRT. Yes, CRT is not taught as such but the people teaching the teachers are influenced by CRT.
Gloria Landson Billings is a huge influence on teacher education, and she applies CRT when teaching teachers. She is required reading in many teacher education programs.
Ask teachers if they learned culturally responsive teaching. It is born from critical race theory.
Skip to page 5 of the article (pg. 16 in the journal it was published).
Based on age id guess they are 8-15 years in. The CRT section is a 2 paragraph brief overview in a document that is how long? There are multiple volumes haha. I just don’t see how this is creating problematic curriculum, or i haven’t seen examples of this problematic curriculum.
I’m getting it second-hand, admittedly, but it doesn’t seem like anything remotely crazy is being taught in classrooms (grades 7-12)? From what i’m told, it doesn’t sound like anything more controversial than evolution is being taught in the curriculum right now… Hyper liberal colleges, and hyper liberal college courses and majors excepted.
I’ll give you an example from one of the books that aspiring teachers are required to read. In one chapter a black teacher says what she did her first day in a suburban, mostly white school. She looked out at all the white faces and proceeded to lecture them about how they are privileged. She felt it was her duty to do that. Setting aside the fact it had nothing to do with her job, which was to teach a particular subject, it is an example of prejudice.
She assumed that the kids must be privileged by virtue of their skin color and where they live. And this is based on CRT thinking. Imagine being a kid and being told you are benefiting from racism; that you are the bad guy in the narrative of America. Imagine if you are one of those kids and you have a learning disability or a disease or a handicap or are the victim of physical, verbal or sexual abuse at home. You can’t feel like a victim or like you were dealt a bad hand because you are white. But again, these are the assumptions teachers are taught to make: white kids are fine, black kids all suffer from some trauma. There is no thought given to approaching each student as an individual. Everyone is essentially a caricature.
Being white is not a trump card. White people can be poor. They can be victims of various kinds of abuse. They can have disabilities. They can get sick. They can suffer traumas. Ask any black person who mentions white privilege if he would change places with someone white and wheelchair bound. Ask a five foot tall white person if he would change places with Lebron James.
CRT has a place in discussions on race. It can be used as one way to explain reality, but when it becomes an ideology, and not a theory, it goes beyond being one of many tools to explain reality, to being reality.
So lecturing students about their privilege is part of the curriculum that teachers are supposed to follow? Or was that an off the cuff unsolicited editorial by a teacher (which happened many times when I was in school)?
Assuming white students are privileged and black students are traumatized and unable to cope is part of what teachers are taught. It’s the other CRT, culturally responsive teaching, which is fundamentally flawed as it claims there is black culture and white culture. And that is a by product of CRT.
Lesson plans are supposed to have certain components, one of them is culturally responsive teaching. Teachers need to incorporate what could be called a social justice element in every lesson. In effect, lessons end up having a political element that is inevitably liberal, even Marxist, in tone. And this is what many are finding objectionable. Values that are anti capitalist and pro Marxism are emphasized. Add to that a narrative of whites being the bad guys.
If you are a teacher, good luck if your lesson expresses any values that are considered conservative.
Perhaps, but the point seems to be that Jewish Space Lasers is not something she said.
Like much of the Trump coverage, I’d prefer simple quotes instead of interpretations of what someone thinks they really mean.
Well Hunter Biden seems to disagree with you. In case you missed the article I linked, you can see how he admits the blackmail risk while filming himself committing crimes before losing the footage so it can be posted to the internet.
Perhaps he’s all buttoned up now.
Nobody wants to talk about massively impactful voting legislation backed by racist lies from Joe Biden? Or anything else I brought up? Okay…
Back on the topic of Biden, I saw rather disturbing images over the weekend. Regardless if your position on the war itself, this pull out seems to be going as bad as it possibly can under Biden’s leadership.
Now some levity…
“We’re firing off all the hashtag campaigns we can think of, but the Taliban is not stopping!” Susan Rice frantically screamed.
Multiple countries have pulled out, including Aus… I’m not really sure what the right answer is/was here as I’m far from educated on the topic.
Seems like there was a lot of public support for pulling the troops out. It was expensive, costing lives (though nowhere near as many relative to how many the Taliban will take) etc.
Anyone with half a brain could have predicted the Taliban would sweep back through. They’re an atrocious regime… I imagine quite a few Australian politicians are frothing at the mouth over the amount of control an organisation like the Taliban can elicit over a population by force
She mentioned the Rothschilds. The same family that get mentions in every Jewish conspiracy theory. The real point is that she didn’t pull that story out of her ass but came upon it somewhere. That somewhere being some antisemitic, Qanon weirdo website. That’s where she turns for information.
Bad for whom? Us? It was going to be bad for Afghanistan regardless and that has nothing to do with Biden. As far as we’re concerned, it’s mission accomplished. I mean, he could have done what your boy did and have Pakistan release the leader of the Taliban from prison.
The right answer is that it’s good when your party makes the call and bad when it’s the other side. That’s American political thought in a nutshell. And those who get us into these messes in the first place are never to blame (Americans have short memories, if they even knew the truth in the first place. The following is from an interview with Gore Vidal, from 2003:
"… it’s done the way they do advertising: it’s repetition. “Weapons of mass destruction. He’s got weapons of mass destruction, mass destruction, mass destruction.” When you hear that 10,000 times a day, you finally think he must have. You know, they can’t go on like this forever. Well, he didn’t have them. Now I’m sure we’re busy planting them, you know, all over the place, and we will discover — “Oh, look what we found! Goodness me! Here’s an atom bomb! ‘Made in U.S.A.’ No, no, no, scratch that out. Scratch that out. That’s—he made that mark.” I fully expect us to plant something or other. But, as it’s United States of Amnesia, why go to the trouble. It’s expensive to have troops going around looking for stuff. I think they think the public will have forgotten it, and I think the public is forgetting it, doesn’t much care.
I thought, when I said that we would lose the war, I still think we will. Afghanistan, the fighting is going on rather rougher than it was during the so-called war. It will keep right on going as long as we have a presence in Iraq. And we will eventually be driven out.
I’m enjoying witnessing Keynesian, Demand Side economics in action.
Paying off old debts is cool when money isn’t worth as much.
I have a baby now so I’m all excited about saving and investing for the future. And I’m already hoping for a Republican presidents 18 and 26 years in the future so I can cash out my (theoretical) gains at a lower tax rate.
You keep using that word but I don’t think you know what it means.
You aren’t. Your response to anything you have no response for is semantics or, to just ignore it. You have issued “challenges” here and I have answered every one and where were you? You remained silent. I have challenged you, and you backed down or avoided responding. Example: you make some dopey wise cracks about me being an expert on Italy. I respond, “let’s compare qualifications on that subject.” You run off to the woods or something.
Let’s be honest, you don’t want top discuss anything; you want to ridicule the side you have been programmed to hate. Anything, including facts, that contradicts your convictions, is ignored or called, ignorantly, semantics. Just be up front and admit you are a sheep for Trump and facts will never get in the way of your feelings. At one point it was comical, then it became sad. Now, it’s just boring.
I am still a VERY firm believer we should have gone into Iraq. We just should have gone in with a fucking plan for what to after the traditional war was overwith. That was the big mistake IMO. Not deposing a genocidal despot intent on reviving his previously successful WMD program (just unable to do so at the time).
As for Afghanistan, it was a no-win. It seems clear that the people of the country, by and large, support the Taliban more than they support a government the Western world would support. not sure how we were supposed to change that, or why we should even really try. the bandaid finally got ripped off, and it got ripped off a lot quicker than expected under Biden- all his predecessors tried to get out, but ended up getting dragged back in by a Taliban offensive just as a withdrawl plan was put into action… this time, we just completed the pullout ignoring the same conditions that had dragged us back in the past. It had to happen at some point as unfortunate as it is.
Don’t sell them short. I’m sure average Republicans/Conservatives will be ridiculing those who don’t recognize 47.3 genders and calling them racists, in 20 years.
I saw a similar article on usatoday.com, and thought to let you largely Americans know that the same feelings are present in Canadian Afghanistan veterans, of a feeling of abandonment.
I also thought it might be more appropriate to put this here instead of ‘The Tactical Life’. What I am trying to say is that it might hit too much of a raw nerve there, and Biden is in power at the tail end of this.
