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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why has this devolved to talking about teaching slavery? It isn't about not teaching about slavery and the associated political history.

This is about so-called anti-racist and CRT influenced ideas being used in public schools. Call it the successor ideology, whatever you want. If this were about not teaching slavery or Jim Crow, and so on, it would have been an issue three, four, five, six, seven... years ago. But it wasn't. Why?[/quote]

Because white conservatives are not allowed to be against teaching the history of slavery and civil rights movement of the 1960s. There's social consequences for things like that (or there were...). So, instead, they attack adjacent movements and modern leaders in the civil rights struggle.

It's called Dog Whistle politics. And wealthy conservatives have been doing it since forever to get poor whites agitated. [/quote]

DP.  BS.  No one - NO ONE - is advocating not teaching the history of slavery and civil rights.  It's been taught all along and that's NOT the problem, as much as you dunces want to insist it is.  The issue is framing [b]everything[/b] through the lens of race.  This is what teachers are being trained to do, and THAT is the problem.  Educate yourself before spouting off so ignorantly.

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/BTFRCZ6CA62E/$file/Final%20Anti-Racism%20Anti-Bias%20Curriculum%20Work%20Session%20Sept%2014%202020.pdf[/quote]

It's only "everything" to you because you want it to be nothing.

Stating facts about the racism (and sexism, etc.) of this country is not "crt."

Just because you don't recognize the inherent racist bias in this country doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We need only look at the George Floyd (and many other) cases to know that it is. Red lining was still prominent not all that long ago. You want to sweep it under the rug as "CRT" and pretend it didn't and does not exist. But it is in the very foundation and fabric of this country. And people should be taught the facts about it. It's the same with how history white washes lots of things, from Christopher Columbus and up through Civil rights. [/quote]

I'm going to go with PP on this one.  Teaching historical and current issues is important.  Teaching lenses is important.  There is the racial lens, and there are others.  Race is one lens among many, in history and today.[/quote]

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