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>No, they are participating in an oppressive system. If they were not aware of its oppressive nature, it would be hard to fault them. Shaming children with acc

>No, they are participating in an oppressive system. If they were not aware of its oppressive nature, it would be hard to fault them. Shaming children with accusations of privilege and taking away opportunities from them based on the color of their skin is effectively faulting them. >The purpose of efforts to introduce a more honest educational overview of our country's history with racism There was nothing insufficiently honest about how we were taught about slavery, racism, and jim crow. What is dishonest is overemphasizing these past transgressions as though they are the most important lessons for white kids to learn. What is dishonest is, in practice, teaching white kids to be ashamed of their heritage, forbidding them from taking or expressing pride in their history by focusing so exclusively on the negative, and overtly blaming whiteness and white culture while simultaneously pretending that this isn't equivalent to blaming white people. If an ideology is so trivially and ubiquitously corruptible then there is a problem with the ideology. And this is obvious given that, as a critical theory, it is explicitly designed for the sole purpose of exploring the interaction between so called white supremacy and social outcomes. As a college level elective it may be justifiable to teach; as a tool in primary school classrooms it is exclusively a vehicle for anti-white indoctrination and, frankly, your dishonest apologism is offensive to me. And apparently also to so many of the parents who are being slandered as merely opposing it because Fox told them to; I have part white nephews. I hear what they are being taught in school. I hear how they are being effectively blamed and expected to act for the sins of past people who shared their skin color. I recognize what kind of effect this sort of toxic, racist rhetoric will have on the self esteem of young white boys. And if you listen to great intellectuals like DeAngelo and Kendi, that is the purpose: to knock whitey down a peg. Nothing good can come of this.

omegaworks 5y ago
This is the problem with the ”CRT” moral panic. The hyperbole knows no bounds: Shaming children with accusations of privilege? That’s not what a discussion of privilege is. Taking away opportunities? Expanding the pie so there are more opportunities available is only oppressive to the people that believe every opportunity belongs to them. There was nothing insufficiently honest about existing curriculum? Total bs. No one taught us about the bombing of Black Wall Street. No one taught us about how public works submerged Black free towns under water to protect white towns from floods. Forbidding people from expressing pride? Have you not seen the success of Hamilton? The American exceptionalist civic religion is alive and well. Everyone is taught about Washington and Grant’s strategic brilliance. How exactly are your nephews blamed and expected to act? Like decent people?

omegaworks 5y ago

This is the problem with the ”CRT” moral panic. The hyperbole knows no bounds: Shaming children with accusations of privilege? That’s not what a discussion of privilege is. Taking away opportunities? Expanding the pie so there are more opportunities available is only oppressive to the people that believe every opportunity belongs to them. There was nothing insufficiently honest about existing curriculum? Total bs. No one taught us about the bombing of Black Wall Street. No one taught us about how public works submerged Black free towns under water to protect white towns from floods. Forbidding people from expressing pride? Have you not seen the success of Hamilton? The American exceptionalist civic religion is alive and well. Everyone is taught about Washington and Grant’s strategic brilliance. How exactly are your nephews blamed and expected to act? Like decent people?