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Anonymous
You don't WANT CRT, you use it as a theoretical lens to understand institutions. You don't have to dismantle institutions to improve them--desegregating schools was an example of examining systemic racism in institutions and working for change. Are you purposefully being dense? |
Anonymous
The cotton quotas isn’t anything surprising. However, I’d like to see your citations page because I can also write stories for Hollywood too |
Anonymous
It is in a myriad of academic papers. And are you seriously questioning this, when we know that inequality of racial health care exists even today? To this day we have segregated hospitals. If you question it, search for it. Instead, when you google it, you get a whole page of white supremacists denying it. |
Anonymous
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Chris Hayes on Twitter: “ The CPAC t-shirt vendor who told a reporter that the Hillary and Obama merch was still flying off the shelves but he couldn't move the Biden stuff might be the single most important anecdote to understanding the current moment.”
All this CRT stuff is just about keeping conservatives (which are now pretty much limited to people who are white and fearful of minorities gaining power) fired up since Biden isn’t giving them much to work with |
Anonymous
How is it possible that we have slavery apologists in 2021? WTF is wrong with you people? |
Anonymous
What a bunch of crap. People who are complaining are NOT just conservatives. And, there are plenty of conservatives who are black and Hispanic. And, a variety of other races. Your comment demonstrates that you are totally out of touch. |
Anonymous
Go back and watch the video on the first page of this thread. The only person of color I see is the official videographer. |
Anonymous
Trump voters in 2020: white men: 58 percent white women: 55 percent black voters: 12 percent -- 9 percent if you just look at voters under 30 (Trump got older voters across the board) Hispanic voters: 33 percent -- 21 percent of just younger voters Asian American voters: 36 percent -- 13 percent of just younger voters |
Anonymous
The american economy exploited slaves, but was not dependent on them. Keeping the fruits of labor in the hands of oligarchs *was* dependent on them. Land was plentiful and Labor was cheap; millions of willing immigrants would've freely farmed cotton for profit. However, the relatively few large slaveowners would not have been able to get richer. Had enslaved people been suddenly granted full freedom, they'd have simply moved west and farmed their own lands, to their own profit rather than the profit of their owners (or those they were indentured to). Slavery was NOT required for America to grow into a superpower: it was inevitable once the globe-travelling European surplus population discovered a fertile continent sparsely populated by neolithic peoples. Plentiful Labor and Plentiful Land with few restrictions on production will always result in an explosion of Wealth and Capital. The enslavement angle was necessary to capture the slaves rightful wages for the benefit of the relatively few large slaveholders and the northern bankers they depended on. This enriched a few families at the expense of many enslaved people as well as the free poor who had to compete with them. This alone justifies shifting Federal Taxes from current period wages (most income taxes, payroll taxes) and onto accrued, non-labor produced wealth -- namely Land Values and Government Privileges (Intellectual Property, Extraction Rights, Pollution Rights) |
Anonymous
These people can’t function without whataboutism. |
Anonymous
Sigh. It's like an elementary schooler wrote the first post. The US wasn't a superpower until long after slavery- after WW2. "When you see your boss who is unhappy with your productivity, that is a call back to when slaves were punished."- yeah no. |
Anonymous
| Actually it is. Most of you are just not consuming history from historians and haven’t actively thought about history or how you learned one narrative of it since you left high school. I think it was Throughline that did an amazing episode last summer about how quotas for sales jobs, the tactics and punishments used, are DIRECTLY related to how overseers drove that productivity in the enslaved. It was an entire series on how our entire economic system is still very based on the slave economy we began with. It was fascinating to see it all interconnected. |
Anonymous
NP. It's loudoun county. There are tons of Hispanics and Asians, but if by "person of color" you mean black- you're right. The whole county is only 7% black. My neighborhood is very diverse, just doesn't have any AA. |
Anonymous
Most of the Hispanic and Asian families aren’t opposed to what their kids are learning though. Only white parents seem to be frothing at the mouth about equity and inclusion . Some Asian families who don’t want admissions to the academies and TJ to be changed in response to the known finding of discriminatory practices are mad about that but they aren’t “anti CRT.” That is pretty much the purview of mad white parents. |
Anonymous
How many black people are agaist CRT? I said up thread, Asian Americans who are against CRT are afraid that accepting it may lead to affirmative action in higher ed. They don't care about history. They care about now. You can't teach history as just "facts" without understanding the reasoning behind what happened, ie, CRT. Look at the Chinese Exclusion laws as an example You can teach that this law was passed, but without teaching why it was passed, the impetus behind it, that fact is meaningless. It's like teaching math via rote memorization and not the logic behind the math concept. It leaves the student with a superficial understanding. |