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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who doesn’t believe [b]children should be taught to see each other as a race first [/b]or that every bad result someone gets is due to race, I think a club that actually reads Derrick Ball et. al, their backgrounds, what they base the theory on and opposing arguments would be a great idea and really a lot of fun.

I hope the club is a great experience and helpful to the kids.[/quote]

What the heck does that have to do with CRT?  CRT is a lens to look at how racism is embedded in institutions and systems--not people.  [/quote]
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CRT assumes every individual unavoidably sees other individuals through the lens of race. See, e.g. "implicit bias" or "white privilege" enjoyed by people who are not, in any realistic sense, "privileged." [/b][/quote]

You don't need to invoke the boogeyman that is CRT to talk about these concepts. Whether or not people see others through the lease of race is a psychological question, and what constitutes privilege is an economic question as well as a sociological question. CRT was developed in the 1970s and people have been studying race and racism for much longer. [/quote]

It's well-established that people--including kids--see racist and make attributions about it that mirror the patterns in their larger society.  If you don't address the roots of some of the patterns, kids of all races are smart enough to notice some patterns through observation (which kids get into trouble more, who's getting arrested in their community, who is in the gifted program etc.) and not know why these patterns exist.  Actively discussing the history of race and how discrimination has been built and persists over generations, gives a lens for kids to see why the patterns they are already noticing are there. Does it explain everything and every individual variation --no. It's a lens to look at institutions for discrimination--and it is a powerful critical thinking tool.  People who use a CRT lens also use other lenses and care about different things as well--the tool may be about race, but it's one tool among many.  And to the PP engineering/IT departments are thinking deeply about equity issues --and what is missing when they are not getting perspectives of everyone on their teams.  Engineering involves designing for humans and communities not just using math. Thoughtful thinking about how race is embedded in institutions would be a good/compelling background for STEM students (I have a STEM degree myself!)[/quote]

One problem is dressing these things up in jargon. Your explanation here was excellent and so much more persuasive than the Twitter activists telling folks to "check their privilege" or calling white people "fragile."

Actions have consequences that ripple down through the years. Small advantages accumulate and snowball. Anyone who has ever noticed that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer can appreciate that. [/quote]

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