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So you agree that all white people are racist, and carry responsibility for lynchings in the 1950s? Even recent immigrants who have no relation to the perpetrat

So you agree that all white people are racist, and carry responsibility for lynchings in the 1950s? Even recent immigrants who have no relation to the perpetrators of said lynchings? We're supposed to be uncomfortable too, just because we bear a passing resemblance to some assholes? Isn't that a bit... racist? Also, so far as CRT being taught to children: https://nypost.com/2021/04/13/nyc-teacher-were-damaging-kids-with-critical-race-theory/ https://nypost.com/2021/04/13/nyc-teacher-were-damaging-kids... Please explain to me how a young child can be an oppressor.

jessaustin 5y ago
That appears to be about a parochial high school in NYC. It's my impression that we're supposed to be very concerned about "young children" in public elementary schools in the heartland. There's really no accounting for the shenanigans these weird churches will get up to. I don't consider myself responsible for lynchings that occurred before my birth. I feel like I have to take a bit of blame for e.g. Michael Brown's murder, since I've voted in Missouri for years. But if someone wants to criticize me for both of them, it won't break my heart. Occasionally humans face discomfort.
- thegrimmest 5y ago
  > That appears to be about a parochial high school in NYC How about all of these then: https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-lawsuits-say-antiracism-and-critical-race-theory-in-schools-violate-constitution-11625151879# https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-lawsuits-say-antiracism... Acting like these are small isolated events and don't represent a wider shift in educational policy just doesn't seem sincere. This article identifies some of the very same practices of using race to determine whether students fall into oppressor or oppressed classes. Excerpts: > She alleges that teachers and students are required to participate in racially segregated antiracist exercises and that teachers are required to teach material depicting white people as inherently racist oppressors > ...a biracial high-school student who claims he received a failing grade in a required “Sociology of Change” class because he declined to complete an assignment that required students to identify their gender, racial and religious identities to determine whether they qualified as oppressors This is racism. > I feel like I have to take a bit of blame for e.g. Michael Brown's murder, since I've voted in Missouri for years. If you feel like taking some of the blame off of Darren Wilson's shoulders, I can't stop you. I would however object to any placing of blame onto other Missouri residents who didn't kill anybody. It seems like this would allude to a disagreement about whether responsibility for action is fundamentally collective or individual.

jessaustin 5y ago

That appears to be about a parochial high school in NYC. It's my impression that we're supposed to be very concerned about "young children" in public elementary schools in the heartland. There's really no accounting for the shenanigans these weird churches will get up to. I don't consider myself responsible for lynchings that occurred before my birth. I feel like I have to take a bit of blame for e.g. Michael Brown's murder, since I've voted in Missouri for years. But if someone wants to criticize me for both of them, it won't break my heart. Occasionally humans face discomfort.

thegrimmest 5y ago
> That appears to be about a parochial high school in NYC How about all of these then: https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-lawsuits-say-antiracism-and-critical-race-theory-in-schools-violate-constitution-11625151879# https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-lawsuits-say-antiracism... Acting like these are small isolated events and don't represent a wider shift in educational policy just doesn't seem sincere. This article identifies some of the very same practices of using race to determine whether students fall into oppressor or oppressed classes. Excerpts: > She alleges that teachers and students are required to participate in racially segregated antiracist exercises and that teachers are required to teach material depicting white people as inherently racist oppressors > ...a biracial high-school student who claims he received a failing grade in a required “Sociology of Change” class because he declined to complete an assignment that required students to identify their gender, racial and religious identities to determine whether they qualified as oppressors This is racism. > I feel like I have to take a bit of blame for e.g. Michael Brown's murder, since I've voted in Missouri for years. If you feel like taking some of the blame off of Darren Wilson's shoulders, I can't stop you. I would however object to any placing of blame onto other Missouri residents who didn't kill anybody. It seems like this would allude to a disagreement about whether responsibility for action is fundamentally collective or individual.