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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For all of you who day CRT is bad - read this

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Teaching about the Tulsa massacre is not CRT.  That's teaching history.  It's good to know what happened in the past, so we don't repeat it.

CRT is about teaching kids they are inherently racist or oppressors simply because they are white.  That has no place in the classroom.[/quote]

Here's the thing though - Southerners like the GA Board of Education are equating any in-depth look at history in this country pertaining to race, including the Tulsa Massacre and scholarship like the 1619 Project, as CRT. They want to throw out the whole lot.[/quote]

"scholarship" such as saying the revolutionary war was fought to preserve slavery, which had to be retracted about 5 seconds later?

Truly rigorous.

Teach all the ugly, leave nothing out.  Lying is unneccessary.[/quote]

That statement was removed from the 1619 Project materials because people got upset, but it wasn't retracted. In fact, the NYT supported it with the work of historians of the period when it defended the project (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html).

It's a genuinely debated point in the scholarship of Revolutionary America, it's not "lying" to credit the work of different historians than you'd like.[/quote]

So is the moon landing. The 1619 project is more creative writing than actual historical scholarship. Tell me who in academia was saying the Revolutionary War was about slavery prior to the 1960s? When universities started the publish or perish mess academics started writing all sorts of crazy crap. And as I vaguely remember, Britain was offering slaves freedom if they fought against their masters, so how could it be about preserving slavery? Publish or perish makes people write some crazy stuff.

I think we can all agree we don't want a struggle session in 3rd grade social studies. Yes, teach about the Tulsa massacre but make it age appropriate, same way you make the Holocaust age appropriate. They have the same theme, humans suck. And when the Holocaust is taught the teacher doesn't/shouldn't point out all the kids of German heritage and explain how they are nothing but evil and need to be held back and down so the Jewish kids in class get special attention, which does the Jewish kids no good.[/quote]

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