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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not black, so I can’t pretend to know what you’re experiencing, but I do think I kind of understand the feeling that maybe we’re not doing our kids any favors by bringing them into a world where there’s genocide, murder, rape, torture, racism, famine, disease, pestilence, climate change. There are many horrific things in the world that I wish I could keep my kids from even knowing exist, but . . .

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OMG.  Tone deaf much?  Do you even realize the point of OP creating this thread??

Your list does not even mention the white supremacy in Virginia and New Jersey demonstrated on Tuesday night, and the pervasive systemic racism her own child faces - particularly from genocidal racist police in the US. Your list just vaguely tosses in “racism” like it’s any other old problem day to day.

You really do not understand.[/quote]
Oh, FFS.  VA did not demonstrate white supremacy by electiing (barely) a Republican governor.  I'm black, and voted for McAuliffe, and don't like Youngkin, but I think your hysteria is misplaced and absurd.  VA's governors serve one term and they're out.  Hopefully we'll replace him with a better choice next go 'round.  [/quote]

I agree that “white supremacy” isn’t the quite right descriptor, but I do think that (and I hate this term) “white fragility” was on display as manifested by many parents who can’t tolerate the schools mentioning even the slightest uncomfortable facts of American history. The whole CRT thing was a ruse. The real goal is the erasure of unsavory episodes our history lest children (or more likely parents) feel a bit upset. It’s actually a long running project of the right and was very much emphasized. These folks want “patriotic” education full stop, which means sweeping a ton under the rug. That was the object no doubt. Now - will they be successful? Probably not at the school-by-school level, but it will continue to be a potent electoral force, which the GOP will use to win elections and then use enhanced electoral power to make it harder for black folks to vote (and/or easier to toss their votes out), which I guess approaches white supremacy.

But it’s all good so long as little Connor doesn’t have to learn about redlining, I guess.

Dems need to be smarter tho’ and realize that white folks can only tolerate so much…[/quote]

At what age is little Connor learning about redlining? Early elementary? [/quote]

if the GOP has its way, little Connor will never learn about it[/quote]

Yes, we don't want to reveal how systemic racism is hurting people today. 
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Well, it's important we don't hurt the feelings of white kids.  So let's go through the library and flag all the books about the civil rights movement.  [/quote]

And the sad thing is, you could easily point to many white civil rights heroes going back to the earliest days of American, ante- and postbellum, and into the 20th century.  Hell, how about the southern-born military officers that stayed loyal to the Union, unlike the traitorous, murderous Bobby Lee.

https://www.amazon.com/Lincolns-Loyalists-Union-Soldiers-Confederacy/dp/1555531245

But no, it's not enough to celebrate the white folks who were on the "right side" of history, let's just bury it all to spare little Johnny's feelings.  Of course, little Johnny may be just fine learning all this.  It's more likely his parents would prefer to avoid such difficult conversations at home.  [/quote]
It's none of that.  It's the next part we disagree with.[/quote]

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