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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He supports Trump, and the big lie, but distanced himself from it.  He made up some CRT bullshit that isn’t real to scare white women.  That it worked makes the lies successful, but he still clawed his way into office without a primary, without any real policy issues, and by telling lies.  Hard to feel good about that.

Im ok with switching parties in leadership from time to time, but id rather it not be a Trump Republican.  I just can’t trust people willing to tear down faith in democracy and politicizing a pandemic.  Their just isn’t anything beneath people like that.[/quote]
The fight against CRT in K-12 has been going on for about a two years.  Only recently did it rear it's head in VA so Youngkin didn't make it up.[/quote]

Forget about labels. Please articulate what specifically was being taught in VA classrooms that you think should stop.

Or is it the [i]possibility[/i] that CRT may be taught in the future, as other posters have said? 
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The most common way CRT is showing up in K-12 is the teaching of anti-racism which is more often than not, racism.  And the most common way anti-racism it taught it with books like Stamped by Kendi.  Kendi advocates for discrimination against whites and attempts to indoctrinate kids with this belief in his book.  His coauthor admitted this in an interview with Trevor Noah last year.[/quote]

So now we are calling anti-racism “CRT”? Along with anti-bias training (from another post)? These have been around for a while now - why the new label?

Can you provide examples of how Kendi advocates for “discrimination against whites”? Because that’s different than “antiracist discrimination”.

How should we talk about racism and biases? What are the acceptable ways? 
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There are a lot and I don't have the time right now to look them up. Will later. But one was that white parents should not be adopting black children and are racist to do so. My cousin has two adopted black children that he loves and takes care of way better than their birth parents would have and I was quite taken aback by this comment. Basically Kendi doesn't like being a minority in the US and wants to tell everyone in the US who is in a majority (wouldn't be surprised if he went after Hispanics soon too) that they are subjugating black people regardless of what they do. Not every interaction between whites and blacks is racist, but Kendi doesn't see life this way.[/quote]

Citation for the adoption reference?

That’s not what he’s saying here. 
[i] I’m challenging the idea that White parents of kids of color are inherently “not racist” and the bots completely change what I’m saying to “White parents of kids of color are inherently racist.”[/i]
https://mobile.twitter.com/DrIbram/status/1309926239407398913

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He sees racism in too many things. He wants society to focus on racism to the detriment of everything else. Excuse bad black behavior and blame every ill that befalls a black person on someone other than themselves. I get that he's saying that people can adopt a black person and still be racist, but he's as racist as they come so you can be black and racist too. So what? He was basically saying that white people shouldn't think they are helping the black community by adopting. What is really behind that is that he's afraid blacks will integrate too much with whites. It has nothing to do with their behavior and everything to do with his anti integration agenda. And in my world, if you adopt a poor black child and love them and care for them and don't commit a crime against blacks you are anti-racist enough to exist without my focus on your behavior as a potential racist. It's like he thinks he can police everyone's thoughts and actions and categorize them into a racist thought or an unracist thought and it's a project of how HIS mind works. [b]For most of us, our thoughts are way more complex[/b].[/quote]

That is actually something he has talked about. He thinks it boils down to a bunch of choices we all make. Some of those choices can be racist (as he has made himself) and some can be anti-racist (such as adopting a black child). He’s saying do you best for as many choices as you can. [i]“And, over time, make more and more anti-racist choices.“. [/i]

He’s saying that just because someone adopts a black child that doesn’t automatically make all of their other choices anti-racist. Basically, it’s complicated and hard but we should keep trying.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/23/927100641/racism-is-death-anti-racism-is-life-says-author-ibram-kendi

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And some of them do not have race as a top priority either way. But he sees choices as being one or the other. It's a projection of his own binary thoughts.[/quote]

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