Letter to Brearly Parents Decrying CRT Indoctrination

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are some parts I agree with such as if they are so committed to diversity, why are they accepting so many children of deep pocketed parents, some I don’t agree with. Quite the letter indeed.

Who do they think is paying to bring in the lower income families? You have to have wealthy families because they donate to help some of the other programs you want to achieve. That’s how it works. You have to be wealthy to afford to pay full tuition plus the gap which is probably $6-7k and then an additional donation on top of that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am tired of being an open minded liberal just trying to exchange views and get conservatives to see my side and explain theirs to me when today's conservatives are QAnon and Fox News lobotomized robots who don't understand history and don't want to learn anything. They are convinced they are right and they will fight dirty to get their way, whether it's babies in cages at the border or denying Merrick Garland a hearing even while they push Barrett through in a fraction of the time or storming the Capitol. These people don't care about what's right or what's just, they just want to have their way because they think they know better.

Leave the fancy private schools some of you have been sending your kids to. That's great. More room for us. Enjoy your isolation with like thinking trolls and frog people. I tried caring about you and you disappointed me every time. Go sit at the bar and complain about how this economy has left you behind -- no one is coming to interview you anymore. You are hurting this country with your backwards ideas and your white, white butthurt. Do better (but take your time, we don't need you).

You want others to “see your side” but if you are honest with yourself, do you see any other side? You accuse others of being ignorant of history and not wanting to learn anything, yet you seem very angry, and I would suspect you are trying to “teach” others versus really listening and truly being open minded. Just a thought. Most people are generally moderate, but extremes on both sides are dangerous. You should self-assess and see where you fall, it may be eye opening. Plus most mainstream people, even conservatives, are not QAnon.

You are funny. Oh yeah let me do a little self reflection and I'll get right back to you, while meanwhile you will continue to deny that racism exists, police treat black people differently, Joe Biden actually won the election, and voter suppression is wrong. Just carry on over there denying reality while telling liberals who care about the country that they are taking things too far.

A black man DARED TO KNEEL during the anthem at a football game and white conservatives cancelled him and his career and told black athletes to shut up because they should stick to sports. Meanwhile police are shooting or killing black people left and right while gun carrying anarchists at the Capitol don't get arrested, but prove to me that systemic racism still exists because my eyes can't seem to see any? Open your eyes, you are the problem in this country.

I actually don’t deny any of the things you said above. I just try to hear both sides of any situation and I read both liberal and conservative press so I can form my own opinions because both sides are extremely bias. I doubt you do the same.

So what is the "other side" of slavery or the holocaust?

I did not suggest that there is an “other side” to either of these specific points. Most life experiences have “other sides” (unless historical, scientific, or mathematical “facts”), including the view of CRT. I personally read and educate myself about the origins of certain topics to form my own opinions and can understand when something is subjective and when it is not. As others have said, I want schools teaching how to think, not what to think.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am tired of being an open minded liberal just trying to exchange views and get conservatives to see my side and explain theirs to me when today's conservatives are QAnon and Fox News lobotomized robots who don't understand history and don't want to learn anything. They are convinced they are right and they will fight dirty to get their way, whether it's babies in cages at the border or denying Merrick Garland a hearing even while they push Barrett through in a fraction of the time or storming the Capitol. These people don't care about what's right or what's just, they just want to have their way because they think they know better.

Leave the fancy private schools some of you have been sending your kids to. That's great. More room for us. Enjoy your isolation with like thinking trolls and frog people. I tried caring about you and you disappointed me every time. Go sit at the bar and complain about how this economy has left you behind -- no one is coming to interview you anymore. You are hurting this country with your backwards ideas and your white, white butthurt. Do better (but take your time, we don't need you).

You want others to “see your side” but if you are honest with yourself, do you see any other side? You accuse others of being ignorant of history and not wanting to learn anything, yet you seem very angry, and I would suspect you are trying to “teach” others versus really listening and truly being open minded. Just a thought. Most people are generally moderate, but extremes on both sides are dangerous. You should self-assess and see where you fall, it may be eye opening. Plus most mainstream people, even conservatives, are not QAnon.

You are funny. Oh yeah let me do a little self reflection and I'll get right back to you, while meanwhile you will continue to deny that racism exists, police treat black people differently, Joe Biden actually won the election, and voter suppression is wrong. Just carry on over there denying reality while telling liberals who care about the country that they are taking things too far.

A black man DARED TO KNEEL during the anthem at a football game and white conservatives cancelled him and his career and told black athletes to shut up because they should stick to sports. Meanwhile police are shooting or killing black people left and right while gun carrying anarchists at the Capitol don't get arrested, but prove to me that systemic racism still exists because my eyes can't seem to see any? Open your eyes, you are the problem in this country.

I actually don’t deny any of the things you said above. I just try to hear both sides of any situation and I read both liberal and conservative press so I can form my own opinions because both sides are extremely bias. I doubt you do the same.

So what is the "other side" of slavery or the holocaust?

I did not suggest that there is an “other side” to either of these specific points. Most life experiences have “other sides” (unless historical, scientific, or mathematical “facts”), including the view of CRT. I personally read and educate myself about the origins of certain topics to form my own opinions and can understand when something is subjective and when it is not. As others have said, I want schools teaching how to think, not what to think.

Which CRT texts have you found most useful to understand CRT?

[Anonymous]

Not all white people enslaved black people, therefore white kids don’t need to be taught about white privilege. It is far better to wait to teach white people about white privilege when they are entering the job market and having trouble finding a job. That way they will have the right amount of skepticism about how much harder it can be for black people they are competing against and they will take up the us vs them that conservatives thrive on.

The trick is to let white people live with the privilege first and get used to it, so that when you take it away they feel the reduction to their status quo personally and feel it to be unfair, even if it just starts to level the field.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not all white people enslaved black people, therefore white kids don’t need to be taught about white privilege. It is far better to wait to teach white people about white privilege when they are entering the job market and having trouble finding a job. That way they will have the right amount of skepticism about how much harder it can be for black people they are competing against and they will take up the us vs them that conservatives thrive on.

The trick is to let white people live with the privilege first and get used to it, so that when you take it away they feel the reduction to their status quo personally and feel it to be unfair, even if it just starts to level the field.

To be clear, I’m saying that this is basically what one of the PPs above was arguing: not all white people were involved in slavery; some black people in Africa helped slavery; Japanese internment camps existed in WWII, therefore nobody needs to be taught about white privilege and critical race theory. Just hold off awhile anyway, and let people get used to the privileges and deprivations that we want them to have first, before we make any moves to make people have a conversation about taking them away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are some parts I agree with such as if they are so committed to diversity, why are they accepting so many children of deep pocketed parents, some I don’t agree with. Quite the letter indeed.

Who do they think is paying to bring in the lower income families? You have to have wealthy families because they donate to help some of the other programs you want to achieve. That’s how it works. You have to be wealthy to afford to pay full tuition plus the gap which is probably $6-7k and then an additional donation on top of that.

They think the government pays do it does not affect them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not all white people enslaved black people, therefore white kids don’t need to be taught about white privilege. It is far better to wait to teach white people about white privilege when they are entering the job market and having trouble finding a job. That way they will have the right amount of skepticism about how much harder it can be for black people they are competing against and they will take up the us vs them that conservatives thrive on.

The trick is to let white people live with the privilege first and get used to it, so that when you take it away they feel the reduction to their status quo personally and feel it to be unfair, even if it just starts to level the field.

OR - Like the people who built this country - you EARN your way. And that, goes for everyone. Everyone. The field levels when everyone take responsibly for where they are in life. No artificial ladder up. Earn it..

[Anonymous]

Excellent letter. Fully support. It is wildly inappropriate and shameful that we as a society are confusing “what to think” with some type of righteous morality.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not all white people enslaved black people, therefore white kids don’t need to be taught about white privilege. It is far better to wait to teach white people about white privilege when they are entering the job market and having trouble finding a job. That way they will have the right amount of skepticism about how much harder it can be for black people they are competing against and they will take up the us vs them that conservatives thrive on.

The trick is to let white people live with the privilege first and get used to it, so that when you take it away they feel the reduction to their status quo personally and feel it to be unfair, even if it just starts to level the field.

OR - Like the people who built this country - you EARN your way. And that, goes for everyone. Everyone. The field levels when everyone take responsibly for where they are in life. No artificial ladder up. Earn it..

I can see how you might get all snowflaky when learning about history.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not all white people enslaved black people, therefore white kids don’t need to be taught about white privilege. It is far better to wait to teach white people about white privilege when they are entering the job market and having trouble finding a job. That way they will have the right amount of skepticism about how much harder it can be for black people they are competing against and they will take up the us vs them that conservatives thrive on.

The trick is to let white people live with the privilege first and get used to it, so that when you take it away they feel the reduction to their status quo personally and feel it to be unfair, even if it just starts to level the field.

OR - Like the people who built this country - you EARN your way. And that, goes for everyone. Everyone. The field levels when everyone take responsibly for where they are in life. No artificial ladder up. Earn it..

I can see how you might get all snowflaky when learning about history.

Thank you for the underscore of my point. Let us know when you get this year’s version of a government hand out/

[Anonymous]

How dare people try to teach white people about white privilege! That’s crazy! We don’t teach the perpetrators of inequity about equity in America. We have women’s studies classes for women, and African American studies classes for black people, and we always teach women but not men about the cycle of domestic violence! You can’t mainline that truth to the people who really need it, you have to dilute it out so that the shock of it doesn’t kill them flat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I am tired of being an open minded liberal just trying to exchange views and get conservatives to see my side and explain theirs to me when today's conservatives are QAnon and Fox News lobotomized robots who don't understand history and don't want to learn anything. They are convinced they are right and they will fight dirty to get their way, whether it's babies in cages at the border or denying Merrick Garland a hearing even while they push Barrett through in a fraction of the time or storming the Capitol. These people don't care about what's right or what's just, they just want to have their way because they think they know better.

Leave the fancy private schools some of you have been sending your kids to. That's great. More room for us. Enjoy your isolation with like thinking trolls and frog people. I tried caring about you and you disappointed me every time. Go sit at the bar and complain about how this economy has left you behind -- no one is coming to interview you anymore. You are hurting this country with your backwards ideas and your white, white butthurt. Do better (but take your time, we don't need you).

You want others to “see your side” but if you are honest with yourself, do you see any other side? You accuse others of being ignorant of history and not wanting to learn anything, yet you seem very angry, and I would suspect you are trying to “teach” others versus really listening and truly being open minded. Just a thought. Most people are generally moderate, but extremes on both sides are dangerous. You should self-assess and see where you fall, it may be eye opening. Plus most mainstream people, even conservatives, are not QAnon.

You are funny. Oh yeah let me do a little self reflection and I'll get right back to you, while meanwhile you will continue to deny that racism exists, police treat black people differently, Joe Biden actually won the election, and voter suppression is wrong. Just carry on over there denying reality while telling liberals who care about the country that they are taking things too far.

A black man DARED TO KNEEL during the anthem at a football game and white conservatives cancelled him and his career and told black athletes to shut up because they should stick to sports. Meanwhile police are shooting or killing black people left and right while gun carrying anarchists at the Capitol don't get arrested, but prove to me that systemic racism still exists because my eyes can't seem to see any? Open your eyes, you are the problem in this country.

I actually don’t deny any of the things you said above. I just try to hear both sides of any situation and I read both liberal and conservative press so I can form my own opinions because both sides are extremely bias. I doubt you do the same.

So what is the "other side" of slavery or the holocaust?

I did not suggest that there is an “other side” to either of these specific points. Most life experiences have “other sides” (unless historical, scientific, or mathematical “facts”), including the view of CRT. I personally read and educate myself about the origins of certain topics to form my own opinions and can understand when something is subjective and when it is not. As others have said, I want schools teaching how to think, not what to think.

Which CRT texts have you found most useful to understand CRT?

Delgado and Stefancic. You?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Excellent letter. Fully support. It is wildly inappropriate and shameful that we as a society are confusing “what to think” with some type of righteous morality.

+1. I wish someone would start something like this in DC schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is this interesting or newsworthy?

The author states: "We have not had systemic racism against Blacks in this country since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s, a period of more than 50 years. To state otherwise is a flat-out misrepresentation of our country's history and adds no understanding to any of today's societal issues."

I think that's a pretty fringe viewpoint, and certainly not one worthy of a new thread discussion.

This statement alone invalidates everything else the man has to say. He’s dangerously ignorant - but more likely willfully ignorant, and his true feelings are revealed by this egregious lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How dare people try to teach white people about white privilege! That’s crazy! We don’t teach the perpetrators of inequity about equity in America. We have women’s studies classes for women, and African American studies classes for black people, and we always teach women but not men about the cycle of domestic violence! You can’t mainline that truth to the people who really need it, you have to dilute it out so that the shock of it doesn’t kill them flat.

Clap, clap.