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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of this is exemplary of what would have been considered anti-racist 5 or 10 or 20 years ago.

It bothers the CRT proponents because it's an impediment to holding certain groups back in order to favor others in educational settings, or expressly advocating in the public schools for the confiscation of private wealth and redistribution of societal resources to benefit Black and Hispanic people.  It won't prevent anyone from teaching about slavery or past racism as part of the nation's history. [/quote]

Actually it bothers me because it enshrines in state law a particular, ideological, view of American history and forbids teaching children the full range of perspectives on that history.[/quote]

It doesn't.  You simply are pissed because one particular perspective (CRT) won't be shoved down kids' throats as the preferred and/or only way to study history.  [/quote]

The extent to which it's actually binding isn't totally clear to me, but assuming it is (it certainly wants to be binding), it forbids teaching that slavery and racism are anything other than deviations from, betrayals of, or failures to live up to the authentic founding principles of the United States. You can agree with that position, and I basically do with some caveats, but you can't honestly argue that that isn't an ideological perspective on American History. This attempts to make it illegal to teach the alternative position.. To say that making it illegal to teach one perspective is simply keeping it from being shoved down kids' throats is totally backwards. This usurps the classrooms teacher's ability to teach diverse perspectives and forces them into teaching one and only story of American history. Even where I agree with the story it wants to teach and would probably emphasize it in my own classroom if had one, that's inappropriate.[/quote]

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