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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) I actually studied CRT at the graduate level and that's not what's happening in schools here. Letting children know racism exists and has been an important part of our history is not CRT. Here's a reading list for those asking what it is: https://researchguides.library.vanderbilt.edu/c.php?g=414672&p=3327226. I recommend this article: https://harvardlawreview.org/1993/06/whiteness-as-property/

2) I am in favor of kids learning about the history and presence of racism in the US at grade appropriate levels (e.g. my first grader can't learn about legal history because he still doesn't have much understanding of the legal system, but he can learn in a fairly basic way about segregation, and we talk at home about how this influenced our city and school system). [/quote]

Here's the answer.[/quote]
In a nutshell, it's basically an analysis on white privilege and what it means.  I think that's why a lot of people don't like it.  They don't want to be told that they have "privilege" because when they are struggling to pay for food, rent, they don't feel like they have any privilege.  What they cannot understand is that it's doubly hard when you are a POC and facing these struggles.

I think there's a bit of "walk a mile in my shoes" that needs to happen. Unfortunately, that's hard to do here.[/quote]

I think that the problem is that simply that the term "white privilege" itself sounds super mean.

Of course, everything being equal white people tend to have it a lot easier than Black people. Systemic racism is obviously a thing. But the idea of saying a poor white 8-year-old boy who has cancer and autism has more "privilege' than Barack Obama's daughters, simply because he's a white male, implies that the little boy has a pony and a butler. The connotations are absurd.

[b]The solution is to replace terms like those with some Greek.

Example: "Eleutheros" means "chained" in Greek. Maybe call members of the group linked to the discriminators "eleutherian" and the members of the discriminated against group "alisidan.[/b]" The new terms would mean roughly what the old terms meaned, but without the absurd connotations.[/quote]

:D You're a classics major?  You'll be cancelled for favoring western civilization if you persist with this.  [/quote]

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