Judging by race is bad but acknowledging one’s race is not. Why do you think you can poof everything away by saying were all human. There’s no action being shown to prove all races are equal. Blacks haven’t gotten reparations nor did latinos. Still trying to take natives land for some stupid gasoline pipeline. Where are all the natives anyway. What did this nice country do to them.
America needs to fix it’s wrong doings. That’s when we can be all be happy Americans. It’s simple really. No one is shutting up about racism because it still exists.
CRT is not scientific so the “theory” part of CRT is not the same theory that science uses. It’s more of a colloquial usage. It seeks to interpret more than define however, where the problem comes in, is that the people who who believe it, believe it defines what they see. So, in effect, it isn’t a “theory” but a fact. In other words, we go from, “according to CRT, this is how X gets interpreted” to “CRT tells us this is the truth about X.” Keeping in mind that we are talking about people who say things like my truth so they will say CRT’s truth and not CRT’s interpretation. So yes, it is an ideology.
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You’ve literally had a young Native American man talking to you just right now in this thread.
A lot of his ancestors got shafted bad. Those were the lucky ones that didn’t die of disease.
Those two sentences are true for everyone on the planet.
Since crt teaches the world through the lens of race I think it’s needed right now in the present. But, if America fixes it’s wrongs then it wouldn’t be needed cause we would’ve moved past this racism nonsense.
So you can only identify one racist leader in the USA, President Biden. You couldn’t name a single racist policy in the USA.
Yet you also think CRT is needed to “fix the wrongs”.
What are the wrongs, and how will CRT fix them?
Can you give examples of racism that needs fixing in the USA Today?
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It teaches that’s the only way, that’s the problem. Well, technically it doesn’t teach that but that is how it is being applied. It went from theory to doctrine.
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I wanted to touch on this. As a minority who has grown up below the poverty line and been raised by a minority parent and a white parent who also both grew up below the poverty line…I do not think reparations are a good idea. (If by reparations you mean money.)
And it’s not that I don’t think brown people are smart or something, I just don’t think 1). that handing poor people of any color money is going to create long term change and 2). that all POC deserve it.
A rich POC person may get called a bad name or be hated by some (real) white supremacist but I just believe that pales in comparison to the challenges that can come from being poor. Bronny James will never know the struggles that kids of all colors growing up in ghettos and trailer parks do. I don’t think he deserves something more just because of his skin color. (Not hating on the kid, it’s just an example.)
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Jshaving I meant reparations to the poor Blacks and Latinos who need it. It can literally be based on household income or net worth or whatever
I mean imagine that. It’ll be like filling out that stupid fasfa you do for college. I think it’s a great idea. Imagine if it was regulated.
You have to be a us citizen and you have to be working to receive them etc.
Why should latinos, the people who also owned slaves and killed Indians, get reparations? In many places in the US, they were late immigrants, as in they came after the Chinese, Irish, Jews, Italians, Poles, etc.
But you can’t be white, unless you’re latino? So Ted Cruz could get reparations but some white kid in Appalachia gets nothing.
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But I thought you hate socialism. Give all the poor money.
You literally have millions of people of all races coming to America because they want a better standard of living. Its not perfect, but its usually a hell of a lot better than where they are coming from. Do you really think they are choosing to come to a society they think is terribly racist?
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We’ve tried this. This is how poor people stay poor inter-generationally.
Thank goodness my maternal grandparents were lucky enough to arrive on these shores penniless, several decades before the government decided it was going to help poor people like them. It took a few decades, but they were able to raise 5 kids, provide for them all and lay the foundations for a prosperous, safe and happy life for my entire extended family. Not by leaving us any great sums of money, because there were no such sums, but by leaving a family tradition of traditional conservative values that provided me and my siblings the basic formula for success.
My dad’s side seems to have squandered their White Privilege on gambling, booze, crime and bad parenting, but that’s the way she goes. My dad (eventually) chose good old-fashioned hard-work and sensible decision-making, fortunately. He overcame his disadvantaged upbringing on his own, hopefully it won’t be a problem for future generations in the family.
I’m passing the same formula I learned down to my kid, with a few personalized tweaks. He’s a step above poverty right now, working a full-time entry-level manufacturing job at age 20. I could make things really easy for him now, but I’m not. He can catch that break when I die. I’m only well-off, not rich, after all. Regardless of my financial status at my age, my aim is for him to learn how to become well-off on his own, just like I did. So far, so good.
Struggle is a gift. Robbing people of that vital human experience has not been shown to produce better outcomes, no matter what aspect of life or society you may be examining.
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You’re using an anecdote to prove your point. We shouldn’t have to struggle in modern society. You only get one life and not everyone wants to spend their life struggling. If you want to struggle so much. Why don’t you just quit using any aspect of modern technology and go struggle in the wilderness. You’re not making any sense. We shouldn’t have to worry about the basic necessities of life.
Struggling is not a gift. Struggling is literally for survival. It’s not a “I want” it’s a “I have to”. It’s so backwards to think like that.
Why learn to fish when you can force the fisherman to give you his fish?
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As you type these words on a device that would have made you the richest person on the planet if you somehow had these capabilities 40 years ago, what would you say the basic necessities are that people struggle with most commonly in the USA?
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A lack of safe spaces and trigger warnings.
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