FCPS paying for Critical Race Theory curriculum. To be implemented in a year

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/gops-critical-race-theory-fixation-explained/618828/
Please read.

From the article:

“ Conservatives are not the only critics of diversity training. For years, some progressives, including critical race theorists, have questioned its value: Is it performative? Is it the most effective way to move toward equity or is it simply an effective way of restating the obvious and stalling meaningful action? But that is not the fight that has materialized over the past nine months. Instead, it is a confrontation with a cartoonish version of critical race theory.”

Sadly, one would think it’s restating the obvious, but many people (of all races) are truly clueless about the racism that is the foundation of our laws, culture.

Indeed. What’s going on now is making many privileged people a little uncomfortable. Not a lot because the don’t see themselves as losing their grip on power and wealth and private property. But we’re advancing the discussion of Justice and what is right and fair.

Why do you want to steal other people's hard earned private property?

That's the problem. You see it as people stealing directly from you. People are talking about whites no longer having a monopoly on these things...not by a "power grab," but by increasing opportunities for non whites.

My private property belongs to me and no one else. I earned it through hard work and talent. I can keep it for myself or share it with others. This is my right enshrined in the constitution.

You had nothing to do with my prlperty and have no rights or ownership to it.

If you want to confiscate other's private property, go move to some communist country somewhere.

Except more and more imminent domain seems to be used.

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Where do you get the idea that someone wants to take YOUR personal private property? It's like playing a game of telephone where you only hear the most outrageous interpretation. The argument from PP was that whites will not have a MONOPOLY on private property and wealth anymore.

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It is eminent domain and how is that even relevant here?

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Certain people surely get upset when they are asked to step out of their comfort zone to consider how other people live. The sheer ignorance of half the population would be borderline comical, if it wasn't so pathetic. Imagine having to research the demographics before traveling a new city to ensure your safety (The Green Book) or checking the demographics of a local school because you want your child to have friends, teachers and administration that look like them.

Some people live off the idea that if it doesn't effect me or anyone that I love then I don't care. Black people aren't victims but they sure as hell aren't properly represented in history.

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Anonymous wrote:Certain people surely get upset when they are asked to step out of their comfort zone to consider how other people live. The sheer ignorance of half the population would be borderline comical, if it wasn't so pathetic. Imagine having to research the demographics before traveling a new city to ensure your safety (The Green Book) or checking the demographics of a local school because you want your child to have friends, teachers and administration that look like them.

Some people live off the idea that if it doesn't effect me or anyone that I love then I don't care. Black people aren't victims but they sure as hell aren't properly represented in history.

It’s affect me, not effect me. You did know that, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Certain people surely get upset when they are asked to step out of their comfort zone to consider how other people live. The sheer ignorance of half the population would be borderline comical, if it wasn't so pathetic. Imagine having to research the demographics before traveling a new city to ensure your safety (The Green Book) or checking the demographics of a local school because you want your child to have friends, teachers and administration that look like them.

Some people live off the idea that if it doesn't effect me or anyone that I love then I don't care. Black people aren't victims but they sure as hell aren't properly represented in history.

It’s affect me, not effect me. You did know that, right?

That is literally ALL YOU HAVE TO CONTRIBUTE to a post explaining just two of the myriad of issues that Black people face?! A grammar edit?!? What a clown

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Anonymous wrote:Certain people surely get upset when they are asked to step out of their comfort zone to consider how other people live. The sheer ignorance of half the population would be borderline comical, if it wasn't so pathetic. Imagine having to research the demographics before traveling a new city to ensure your safety (The Green Book) or checking the demographics of a local school because you want your child to have friends, teachers and administration that look like them.

Some people live off the idea that if it doesn't effect me or anyone that I love then I don't care. Black people aren't victims but they sure as hell aren't properly represented in history.

That is such BS.

People get upset when you tell them it's their fault for creating a system that makes some people unsafe -- when of course they didn't create it. Maybe they aren't actively working to dismantle it. Or maybe that system has been modified and other systems are more relevant.

People don't get upset when asked to consider how other people live. They get upset when they are called oppressors and/or are blamed for the problems with the ways that other people live. If you consider it, that's natural. But then you'd have to put yourself in someone else's shoes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Certain people surely get upset when they are asked to step out of their comfort zone to consider how other people live. The sheer ignorance of half the population would be borderline comical, if it wasn't so pathetic. Imagine having to research the demographics before traveling a new city to ensure your safety (The Green Book) or checking the demographics of a local school because you want your child to have friends, teachers and administration that look like them.

Some people live off the idea that if it doesn't effect me or anyone that I love then I don't care. Black people aren't victims but they sure as hell aren't properly represented in history.

In the DMV, everyone does that. Not just Black people or Asian people or Hispanic people or White people or biracial people...

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Anonymous wrote:All I can say is vote. I've never voted anything but D in my life and I"m so over all this nonsense. I never thought that I would vote R in my life but I am strongly considering it moving forward. Sadly, we have no good options.

Sure, Jan.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a even a crazy liberal. I guess you could call me a center left if that? Anyway, CRT doesn't scare me. what scares me is the obvious right wing trolling that has permeated DCUM recently and now even the school forums.

Yes, this scares me too. I continue to believe this forum is targeted by "conservative" groups as a place to engage is misinformation.

Yes. The groups would be the “coalitions.” The Coalition for TJ and the OpenFCPS Coaltion (sic). Feel free to look up the latter on the IRS website and see who the people are behind it.

They have a bot net and they are attempting to game public opinion in the same way that the former WSJ reporter who spoke at the meeting this week did. They are creating scenes and then using their connections in the media to people like Laura Ingraham to whip up national outrage. This results in silencing parents with legitimate concerns who want to speak at school board meetings.

It’s disgusting and it has to stop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Certain people surely get upset when they are asked to step out of their comfort zone to consider how other people live. The sheer ignorance of half the population would be borderline comical, if it wasn't so pathetic. Imagine having to research the demographics before traveling a new city to ensure your safety (The Green Book) or checking the demographics of a local school because you want your child to have friends, teachers and administration that look like them.

Some people live off the idea that if it doesn't effect me or anyone that I love then I don't care. Black people aren't victims but they sure as hell aren't properly represented in history.

In the DMV, everyone does that. Not just Black people or Asian people or Hispanic people or White people or biracial people...

I totally understand but every Black person in America makes that calculation. It's not not just a DMV thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Where do you get the idea that someone wants to take YOUR personal private property? It's like playing a game of telephone where you only hear the most outrageous interpretation. The argument from PP was that whites will not have a MONOPOLY on private property and wealth anymore.

They already don't. Where do you live where only white people own property?

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Anonymous wrote:I am not a even a crazy liberal. I guess you could call me a center left if that? Anyway, CRT doesn't scare me. what scares me is the obvious right wing trolling that has permeated DCUM recently and now even the school forums.

Yes, this scares me too. I continue to believe this forum is targeted by "conservative" groups as a place to engage is misinformation.

Yes. The groups would be the “coalitions.” The Coalition for TJ and the OpenFCPS Coaltion (sic). Feel free to look up the latter on the IRS website and see who the people are behind it.

They have a bot net and they are attempting to game public opinion in the same way that the former WSJ reporter who spoke at the meeting this week did. They are creating scenes and then using their connections in the media to people like Laura Ingraham to whip up national outrage. This results in silencing parents with legitimate concerns who want to speak at school board meetings.

It’s disgusting and it has to stop.

Ah, yes: the totalitarian instincts of those who comfortably assert that the expression of views in opposition to our new civic religion “has to stop.” I’m sure you have no idea how unsettling people find that, especially if they already have had direct experience with authoritarian regimes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Certain people surely get upset when they are asked to step out of their comfort zone to consider how other people live. The sheer ignorance of half the population would be borderline comical, if it wasn't so pathetic. Imagine having to research the demographics before traveling a new city to ensure your safety (The Green Book) or checking the demographics of a local school because you want your child to have friends, teachers and administration that look like them.

Some people live off the idea that if it doesn't effect me or anyone that I love then I don't care. Black people aren't victims but they sure as hell aren't properly represented in history.

It’s affect me, not effect me. You did know that, right?

That is literally ALL YOU HAVE TO CONTRIBUTE to a post explaining just two of the myriad of issues that Black people face?! A grammar edit?!? What a clown

PP was helping you improve. Least you can do is be thankful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not a even a crazy liberal. I guess you could call me a center left if that? Anyway, CRT doesn't scare me. what scares me is the obvious right wing trolling that has permeated DCUM recently and now even the school forums.

Yes, this scares me too. I continue to believe this forum is targeted by "conservative" groups as a place to engage is misinformation.

Yes. The groups would be the “coalitions.” The Coalition for TJ and the OpenFCPS Coaltion (sic). Feel free to look up the latter on the IRS website and see who the people are behind it.

They have a bot net and they are attempting to game public opinion in the same way that the former WSJ reporter who spoke at the meeting this week did. They are creating scenes and then using their connections in the media to people like Laura Ingraham to whip up national outrage. This results in silencing parents with legitimate concerns who want to speak at school board meetings.

It’s disgusting and it has to stop.

Ah, yes: the totalitarian instincts of those who comfortably assert that the expression of views in opposition to our new civic religion “has to stop.” I’m sure you have no idea how unsettling people find that, especially if they already have had direct experience with authoritarian regimes.

That’s a whole lot of words to say “I believe what Fox tells me to believe.”