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[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.

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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. [b]The real goal is the erasure of unsavory episodes our history lest children (or more likely parents) feel a bit upset.[/b] 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]

People who say things like this have little knowledge of what is being taught in schools.  History classes have been quite focused on the failings of America toward minorities, women and other countries for several decades.  In fact, so much so that young adults have little knowledge of the efforts of their country to expand rights and freedoms in ways that no other country had.  That their very ability to speak and protest is due to the sacrifice of those racist Founders.

[b]Real history is definitely taught.[/b]  People are objecting to the "anti-racist" ideas that white people today are responsible for and benefitting from the suffering of previous generations of Black people.  And that somehow current minorities are both more virtuous and unable to be racist due to their skin color.  And finally, that these ideas require a massive investment from society in equity reparations.  These ideas, in a country whose only remaining cultural bind are the Founding documents that call for equality before the law, is a bridge too far.

People know that dividing people by race will not lead to a better place.
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Exactly.
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You [i]cannot [/i]generalize about what is being taught in American schools. Yes, real history is being taught in some places, but certainly not in places with right-wing school boards, which cover much of the country. And where so-called "real" history is being taught, it's of recent enough vintage that many of today's adults were not privy to those "real" history lessons.  Hell, many of them were raised on the Lost Cause narrative of the Civil War and Reconstruction, which was the [i]mainstream[/i] take in this country well into the late 20th century.

There is most certainly a project to make it more difficult for schools to teach the darker chapters, as exemplified by the moves to ban titles about civil rights heroes, etc.  When the standard (as inscribed in legislation being pushed around the country) is we can't teach anything that makes any group feel bad, the real goal is a scrubbing of American history of anything but the heroic (even though the heroic and tragic are often inextricably linked).

No. This is part of a long-term project to establish Patriotic Education such as that seen in the PRC.  The parents that got riled up by so-called CRT were useful pawns in that enterprise, as were the wokie dokes of the day (i.e., Kendi and co.) who played the role of convenient foils that even most black folks could care less about. Classic strategy of misdirection that the GOP used (and will continue to use) to scare up votes, win elections, and then [i]continue[/i] their effort to make it more difficult for black folks to vote (and/or easier to toss their votes out). That is the real material, practical outcome of all this.

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