Literally no one is actually teaching that kids are responsible or accountable for the crimes of their ancestors; that is entirely a made-up idea meant to stifle the teaching of basic US history in schools.
Manhattan Institute surveyed 1,500 Americans aged 18 to 20 on topics related to CRT and gender ideology.
Ninety-three percent of respondents said that they had heard about at least one of eight CSJ concepts from a teacher or other adult at school, including “white privilege,” “systemic racism,” “patriarchy,” or the idea that gender is a choice unrelated to biological sex. Additionally, 90% of respondents had heard about at least one CRT concept and 74% about at least one radical gender concept.
The more intensively pupils have been exposed to CSJ, the more… Read more
@VulcanMan6 7mos7MO
So not only are they not teaching that white people are responsible/accountable for the crimes of any ancestors, as previously asserted, but they're actually just teaching about normal historical and sociological parts of life, as they should. What exactly is the issue here? Do you just...not believe any of these things exist?
@SpiritedJellyfishRepublican7mos7MO
It appears there's a fine line being drawn on what constitutes "teaching". If an educator devotes a significant amount of time discussing the teachings of Jesus, although it may not be explicitly part of the curriculum, wouldn't that still be considered instruction on Christianity? The crux of the matter is that children are potentially being exposed to a subjective perspective on a topic that perhaps should be reserved for a more advanced academic setting, like a college elective course. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the Christianity example and if you believe it's appropriate for the teacher to be discussing it if she believes it's an objective part of history?
@VulcanMan6 7mos7MO
Considering that christianity is purely a religious belief, not supported by any objective scientific realities, yes, that would be a completely inappropriate and immoral thing to teach or enforce in public schools. Fortunately, CRT (as well as the historical and sociological things you mentioned above) are in fact supported by scholarly and scientific evidence, and therefore are justified parts of a public school curriculum (or at least should be, if they aren't). If you are worried that some of these subjects are too advanced, then it should be simplified for younger audiences to make it more easily accessible to k-12 students, rather than ignoring it entirely. This similar issue was debated decades ago about teaching evolution vs creationism in public schools, of which religious indoctrination ultimately lost to science then too.
@SpiritedJellyfishRepublican7mos7MO
I consider critical race theory to be a religion for how it posits certain beliefs as absolute truths.
@9CJ6CB67mos7MO
Yeah, the point is that systemic racism still exists as a whole, and that we’ve made progress but aren’t at the point where we’ve reached equality. So many times I’ve heard people cite MLK as a staple figure against things like affirmative action or trying to protect minorities, which is just hilariously far from what MLK actually believed. The guy himself said that we needed to either reform or dismantle institutions that are fundamentally racist, and that capitalism had seen its best days but needed to be dismantled. This was in the 60s and we haven’t reached that point.
