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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that’s a pretty absurd lesson. It reminds me of Buzzfeed quizzes. And if isn’t “critical race theory.” 
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The whole "it's not CRT" response is pedantic.  No, it's not a college-level grievance studies course.  Yes, it springs directly from CRT.  "Identifying privilege" is CRT implementation step one, because the next step is privilege shaming.

[quote=Anonymous]Privilege is just saying you have a benefit that others don’t. It’s not you shouldn’t have that benefit. Lots of people here acknowledge they have privilege but they use different language. Maybe are nicer to them because they’re beautiful. Maybe their parents helped them buy a house. Etc. The response isn’t “you shouldn’t be pretty” or “your presents shouldn’t have helped you.” [/quote]

That's not it at all.  CRT adherents (which include the entirety of the FCPS board and 90% of administrators and teachers) it's assumed that so-called privilege has granted some people things that others don't have [b]at the expense of those other people[/b].  To them, life is a zero-sum game and it's the place of government to make people who they identify as having privilege give something up - money, community, good schools, a nice quiet neighborhood, etc. - in order to make the world "fair". And the people who have to give something up are always, always white and middle-class.  See Kendi, DiAngelo et al.

[quote=Anonymous] It’s that in an ideal world, everyone would be treated with dignity and everybody would have equal access to buying a home. [/quote]

The government already treats everybody with the same level of dignity (or lack thereof).  Everybody already has equal access to buy a home.  Sure, you can find individual instances where it doesn't happen, because sometimes people suck and [b]there is no such thing as an ideal world[/b], and in those instances, there are laws that can be enforced.  CRT and all of its downstream implementations are not about making sure everybody is treated equally by the government, they're about government-mandated equality of outcomes that take away from some and give to others based on immutable characteristics.  That's what makes it racist.    The end goal is to teach children to feel bad about advantages they may have, given, inherited, earned, or natural, so that they don't fight back when the government comes for them and their stuff.[/quote]

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