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Post by ripvanwinkle on Jun 11, 2021 0:40:55 GMT -5
Back in the late 60's and throughout 70's I can somewhat recall the news stories about Mao's "Cultural Revolution". Best I can remember it was reported as Mao's realizing a socialist revolution and "reeducation" of the masses to his idea of a better society. The population was forced into reeducation camps, schools taught the hard party line and people were executed who did not toe the line. I'm sure there was more to it but that's what sticks in my brain.
Now I'll confess that I don't to know all about this "Critical Race Theory" that I've been hearing about but it sure sounds a lot like Mao's socialist "reeducation" plan.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jun 11, 2021 1:39:11 GMT -5
if "a lot" and "nothing" have the same meaning to you, then we agree.
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Post by Opti on Jun 11, 2021 7:26:22 GMT -5
I don't know what critical race theory is, but I do know its not a program designed by a leader in power to sway minds and make them biddable. Different from critical race theory, but much closer to Mao's cultural revolution is Trump's insistence that the big Lie is true. The embrace of QAnon because they made up false stories that made him a star and his detractors into child abusing demons.
Critical Race theory, whatever it is, cannot have the scope or mind change like Mao's Cultural Revolution or Trump' s riding one fact so hard its messy and broken. Yes he did receive the most votes a sitting President has ever gotten,
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he ignored and forgot the bigger point. He so screwed up the US's pandemic response that people literally were willing to risk their lives and health to vote him out.
No Sitting President has been voted against ever by so many votes. That's the real story. That's the truth. Trump trying to steal the election and marketing it as opposite to that, was obvious earlier in his campaign when he'd tell people to vote twice for him. Even his brain knew then he didn't have the numbers and popularity.
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Post by Opti on Jun 11, 2021 7:35:02 GMT -5
I've got serious things to get done this month given my car insurance renews and my rent will go up 8% next month. But I will put reading about critical race theory on my list as a book to read during the summer reading challenge. Just looking at Wiki though, it seems a reasonable things to do. With anything, best to check what actual practice it means, but unlike some GOPers, as a white woman I want the playing field more level for all. I don't want to codify being in second place or worse, always passed over for a man of any race, color, or creed. Its 2021. I was done with that shit while in college, but change is slow and now I am 61. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theoryCritical race theory (CRT) is an academic movement of civil rights scholars and activists in the United States who seek to critically examine the law as it intersects with issues of race and to challenge mainstream liberal approaches to racial justice.[1] Critical race theory examines social, cultural and legal issues as they relate to race and racism.[2][3]
Critical race theory originated in the mid-1970s in the writings of several American legal scholars, including Derrick Bell, Alan Freeman, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Richard Delgado, Cheryl Harris, Charles R. Lawrence III, Mari Matsuda, and Patricia J. Williams.[1] It emerged as a movement by the 1980s, reworking theories of critical legal studies (CLS) with more focus on race.[4] Both critical race theory and critical legal studies are rooted in critical theory, which argues that social problems are influenced and created more by societal structures and cultural assumptions than by individual and psychological factors.[5]
Critical race theory is loosely unified by two common themes: first, that white supremacy, with its societal or structural racism, exists and maintains power through the law;[6] and second, that transforming the relationship between law and racial power, and also achieving racial emancipation and anti-subordination more broadly, is possible.[7]
Critics of critical race theory argue that it relies on social constructionism, elevates storytelling over evidence and reason, rejects the concepts of truth and merit, and opposes liberalism.[8][9][10]
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Post by Tennesseer on Jun 11, 2021 9:45:05 GMT -5
I am guessing the thread author believes trump's 'Big Lie'.
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 11, 2021 9:59:56 GMT -5
Actually I minored in biology and biologists divide organisms into domains, kingdoms, phylums, class, order, family, genus and species. Not races. Generally members of the same species are recognized as being able to procreate together and create viable fertile offspring. For example, horses and donkeys are two separate species that can mate and create viable offspring (mules) but mules are never fertile, so those are two different species.
All human beings existing right now are Homo sapiens. All existing humans can mate with each other and create viable fertile offspring. The phenotypic characteristics (like skin and hair color) that people identify as ‘race’ are not significant, in terms of genetic coding.
Humans want to divide ourselves up by ethnicity, but the that’s hardly any difference at all, biologically.
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Post by Bob Ross on Jun 11, 2021 10:29:11 GMT -5
Back in the late 60's and throughout 70's I can somewhat recall the news stories about Mao's "Cultural Revolution". Best I can remember it was reported as Mao's realizing a socialist revolution and "reeducation" of the masses to his idea of a better society. The population was forced into reeducation camps, schools taught the hard party line and people were executed who did not toe the line. I'm sure there was more to it but that's what sticks in my brain.
Now I'll confess that I don't to know all about this "Critical Race Theory" that I've been hearing about but it sure sounds a lot like Mao's socialist "reeducation" plan.
Where have you been hearing about it from?
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Post by bean29 on Jun 11, 2021 10:49:52 GMT -5
I think there is some truth to CRT. My issue is how the Republicans responded. You can not teach this. You can only teach concepts we approve of. This is not a Democratic Norm.
Personally, I think students should be taught the Pro/Con arguments together like old school Journalism used to require. I am very uncomfortable with where our government is headed. I don't see a lot of freedom of choice and economic opportunity for the common man. I think all the benefits and opportunities are tilted to the ultra wealthy. They have the funds to buy the legislators. I really am feeling that our Democracy is already lost.
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Post by Tiny on Jun 11, 2021 11:26:29 GMT -5
Back in the late 60's and throughout 70's I can somewhat recall the news stories about Mao's "Cultural Revolution". Best I can remember it was reported as Mao's realizing a socialist revolution and "reeducation" of the masses to his idea of a better society. The population was forced into reeducation camps, schools taught the hard party line and people were executed who did not toe the line. I'm sure there was more to it but that's what sticks in my brain.
Now I'll confess that I don't to know all about this "Critical Race Theory" that I've been hearing about but it sure sounds a lot like Mao's socialist "reeducation" plan.
Wow Rip! You get me! I was "re-educated" in Catholic Grade School. I was also "reeducated" by my parents (had my mouth washed out with soap, sent to bed hungry, got spanked (with my dad's belt!) ) when I misbehaved. I now have a "name" and something to compare my religious and family life upbringing to - Mao's socialist "reeducation" plan. THANK YOU! Who knew! Gee, did you go thru something like that too growing up? Were your parents and religious upbringing "socialist" based??
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jun 11, 2021 11:38:13 GMT -5
The idea that there is a biological construct to race is absurd. Genetically, there is very little difference in our dna across races, not enough to make meaningful difference. We share 98% of our dna with chimps. How little difference can there be between humans?
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Post by Opti on Jun 11, 2021 11:49:51 GMT -5
Back in the late 60's and throughout 70's I can somewhat recall the news stories about Mao's "Cultural Revolution". Best I can remember it was reported as Mao's realizing a socialist revolution and "reeducation" of the masses to his idea of a better society. The population was forced into reeducation camps, schools taught the hard party line and people were executed who did not toe the line. I'm sure there was more to it but that's what sticks in my brain.
Now I'll confess that I don't to know all about this "Critical Race Theory" that I've been hearing about but it sure sounds a lot like Mao's socialist "reeducation" plan.
Wow Rip! You get me! I was "re-educated" in Catholic Grade School. I was also "reeducated" by my parents (had my mouth washed out with soap, sent to bed hungry, got spanked (with my dad's belt!) ) when I misbehaved. I now have a "name" and something to compare my religious and family life upbringing to - Mao's socialist "reeducation" plan. THANK YOU! Who knew! Gee, did you go thru something like that too growing up? Were your parents and religious upbringing "socialist" based??
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Post by Opti on Jun 11, 2021 11:55:00 GMT -5
I think there is some truth to CRT. My issue is how the Republicans responded. You can not teach this. You can only teach concepts we approve of. This is not a Democratic Norm. Personally, I think students should be taught the Pro/Con arguments together like old school Journalism used to require. I am very uncomfortable with where our government is headed. I don't see a lot of freedom of choice and economic opportunity for the common man. I think all the benefits and opportunities are tilted to the ultra wealthy. They have the funds to buy the legislators. I really am feeling that our Democracy is already lost. I'm going to have to read up on it, but of course laws should be studied for systemic racial discrimination. Its also not just the laws but those who operate for and against laws we have. I looked at an apartment one year in an area I had never lived but had worked in for two different companies. The person who showed it to me told me he'd be happy to push my application through due to many ethnic renters bringing in family after renting a one bedroom apartment. He said they've discovered as many as 7 people living in a one bedroom with at most one or two actually on the lease. Because it was there, and they had the problems, I would have to pay a $75 inspection fee upfront designed to combat those issues. In the end, I decided on a place that did not have those issues nor that kind of fee.
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Post by Bob Ross on Jun 11, 2021 12:02:05 GMT -5
Since CRT is little more than a much-exaggerated GQP scare tactic (like Antifa), I wonder when they'll start combining the two? Antifa wants to teach your kids CRT!
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Post by swamp on Jun 11, 2021 12:11:50 GMT -5
Back in the late 60's and throughout 70's I can somewhat recall the news stories about Mao's "Cultural Revolution". Best I can remember it was reported as Mao's realizing a socialist revolution and "reeducation" of the masses to his idea of a better society. The population was forced into reeducation camps, schools taught the hard party line and people were executed who did not toe the line. I'm sure there was more to it but that's what sticks in my brain.
Now I'll confess that I don't to know all about this "Critical Race Theory" that I've been hearing about but it sure sounds a lot like Mao's socialist "reeducation" plan.
It sure sounds like you don’t have a clue what critical race theory is and don’t care to learn either.
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Post by Tiny on Jun 11, 2021 12:14:59 GMT -5
So, Rip and Diogenes - are you guys of the race of Male Pattern Baldness men? Or perhaps the race of Short Stature men? I'm curious?
Cause if physical characteristics determine your race - I'm guessing that's why men are so touchy about their hair and height... as it might imply they are part of an inferior race of humans. (hee hee hee -- perhaps your kids are biracial and you don't even know it!) Perhaps that why men hide their baldness and receding hair lines (and wear lifts and are careful to avoid being in a group of men standing around) they don't want their own children to be ashamed of their "lesser race" fathers... hee hee hee!
(You can make fun of my Neanderthal genetic back round -- (as it totally explains my older brothers...) so I'm owning it. )
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Post by billisonboard on Jun 11, 2021 12:22:59 GMT -5
What you know is like an island. What you don't know is like the sea. What you know you don't know is like the shoreline. The more you know, the more aware you are of what you don't know. That is why those who know little think they know everything.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 11, 2021 12:56:47 GMT -5
Can't teach critical race theory, can't teach evolution, must include the Juedo Christian theory of creation but no mention of the others, purity culture sex education only.
Which party wants this? Doesn't strike me that the Democrats are the ones forcing their educational system on others.
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Post by Opti on Jun 11, 2021 13:13:09 GMT -5
Back in the late 60's and throughout 70's I can somewhat recall the news stories about Mao's "Cultural Revolution". Best I can remember it was reported as Mao's realizing a socialist revolution and "reeducation" of the masses to his idea of a better society. The population was forced into reeducation camps, schools taught the hard party line and people were executed who did not toe the line. I'm sure there was more to it but that's what sticks in my brain.
Now I'll confess that I don't to know all about this "Critical Race Theory" that I've been hearing about but it sure sounds a lot like Mao's socialist "reeducation" plan.
Where have you been hearing about it from? Tucker Carlson? Fox commentators? From the desk of Donald J Trump? PBP?
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Post by Opti on Jun 11, 2021 13:16:34 GMT -5
Since CRT is little more than a much-exaggerated GQP scare tactic (like Antifa), I wonder when they'll start combining the two? Antifa wants to teach your kids CRT! Like Game theory only your race is critical? Hmmmm CRT means Cathode Ray Tube to me.
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Post by happyhoix on Jun 11, 2021 15:57:43 GMT -5
GOP is looking for another scare tactic. They have meetings to figure out what they can leverage to rile up their base, right now it’s Fauci and CRT. A Nevada group called the Nevada family alliance wants teachers to have to wear cameras so they can make sure the teachers are not teaching critical race theory. That doesn’t sound like George Orwell’s 1984 at all, does it.
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Post by bean29 on Jun 11, 2021 16:07:50 GMT -5
GOP is looking for another scare tactic. They have meetings to figure out what they can leverage to rile up their base, right now it’s Fauci and CRT. A Nevada group called the Nevada family alliance wants teachers to have to wear cameras so they can make sure the teachers are not teaching critical race theory. That doesn’t sound like George Orwell’s 1984 at all, does it. Teaching is already perceived as a non-desirable profession. There is a desperate need for teachers for Classrooms in Fall. Can you imagine having everything you do scrutinized by Administrators/Parents/Students/Politicians/and the General Public. I never wanted to be a teacher, but if I had, I would be looking for a new career. Actually let's propose that lobbyists and politicians wear cameras all day and all night. Maybe then we can prosecute them for bribery
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Post by pulmonarymd on Jun 11, 2021 16:14:17 GMT -5
The idea that there is a biological construct to race is absurd. Genetically, there is very little difference in our dna across races, not enough to make meaningful difference. We share 98% of our dna with chimps. How little difference can there be between humans? All in the adjectives, as you contradict yourself from the first sentence to the second and back again in the second. Biological difference in DNA is just that, a construct. 'Very little', 'not enough', 'meaningful', changes nothing in regards to 'difference'. What's next, a little bit pregnant ? The difference between any 2 humans is 0.1% or less. Accurate enough for you. Enough for YOU to conclude there is no meaningful difference between 2 human beings in regards to dna, let alone race. Your continued parsing of remarks is tiresome. I guess you have nothing better to do
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Post by djAdvocate on Jun 11, 2021 16:25:38 GMT -5
All in the adjectives, as you contradict yourself from the first sentence to the second and back again in the second. Biological difference in DNA is just that, a construct. 'Very little', 'not enough', 'meaningful', changes nothing in regards to 'difference'. What's next, a little bit pregnant ? The difference between any 2 humans is 0.1% or less. Accurate enough for you. Enough for YOU to conclude there is no meaningful difference between 2 human beings in regards to dna, let alone race. Your continued parsing of remarks is tiresome. I guess you have nothing better to do differences in DNA are real. race is a construct.
I remember when the human genome project was completed. Bill Clinton commented at how little difference there was between us. at that moment, any sensible person would simply say we are one race. but human beings are not sensible.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jun 11, 2021 16:26:59 GMT -5
science is what made America great.
you really want MAGA?
MSGA!
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Quote; Critical race theory is an academic discipline, formulated in the 1990s, built on the intellectual framework of identity-based Marxism. Relegated for many years to universities and obscure academic journals, over the past decade it has increasingly become the default ideology in our public institutions. It has been injected into government agencies, public school systems, teacher training programs, and corporate human resources departments in the form of diversity training programs, human resources modules, public policy frameworks, and school curricula.
There are a series of euphemisms deployed by its supporters to describe critical race theory, including “equity,” “social justice,” “diversity and inclusion,” and “culturally responsive teaching.” Critical race theorists, masters of language construction, realize that “neo-Marxism” would be a hard sell. Equity, on the other hand, sounds non-threatening and is easily confused with the American principle of equality. But the distinction is vast and important. Indeed, equality—the principle proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, defended in the Civil War, and codified into law with the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965—is explicitly rejected by critical race theorists. To them, equality represents “mere nondiscrimination” and provides “camouflage” for white supremacy, patriarchy, and oppression.
In contrast to equality, equity as defined and promoted by critical race theorists is little more than reformulated Marxism. In the name of equity, UCLA Law Professor and critical race theorist Cheryl Harris has proposed suspending private property rights, seizing land and wealth and redistributing them along racial lines. Critical race guru Ibram X. Kendi, who directs the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, has proposed the creation of a federal Department of Antiracism. This department would be independent of (i.e., unaccountable to) the elected branches of government, and would have the power to nullify, veto, or abolish any law at any level of government and curtail the speech of political leaders and others who are deemed insufficiently “antiracist.” imprimis.hillsdale.edu/critical-race-theory-fight/I don't know where you have got this from but this is what I have been trying (with little success ) to tell you. Quite a lot of the current trendy thinking which people seem to be going along with because they don't understand what is going on............ is Marxist Critical race theory, cancel culture, impediment to the freedom of speech under the guise of racism, Wokeness. I'm done trying....... but truth will out, eventually.
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Quote; Critical race theory is an academic discipline, formulated in the 1990s, built on the intellectual framework of identity-based Marxism. Relegated for many years to universities and obscure academic journals, over the past decade it has increasingly become the default ideology in our public institutions. It has been injected into government agencies, public school systems, teacher training programs, and corporate human resources departments in the form of diversity training programs, human resources modules, public policy frameworks, and school curricula.
There are a series of euphemisms deployed by its supporters to describe critical race theory, including “equity,” “social justice,” “diversity and inclusion,” and “culturally responsive teaching.” Critical race theorists, masters of language construction, realize that “neo-Marxism” would be a hard sell. Equity, on the other hand, sounds non-threatening and is easily confused with the American principle of equality. But the distinction is vast and important. Indeed, equality—the principle proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, defended in the Civil War, and codified into law with the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965—is explicitly rejected by critical race theorists. To them, equality represents “mere nondiscrimination” and provides “camouflage” for white supremacy, patriarchy, and oppression.
In contrast to equality, equity as defined and promoted by critical race theorists is little more than reformulated Marxism. In the name of equity, UCLA Law Professor and critical race theorist Cheryl Harris has proposed suspending private property rights, seizing land and wealth and redistributing them along racial lines. Critical race guru Ibram X. Kendi, who directs the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, has proposed the creation of a federal Department of Antiracism. This department would be independent of (i.e., unaccountable to) the elected branches of government, and would have the power to nullify, veto, or abolish any law at any level of government and curtail the speech of political leaders and others who are deemed insufficiently “antiracist.” imprimis.hillsdale.edu/critical-race-theory-fight/ I don't know where you have got this from but this is what I have been trying (with little success ) to tell you. Quite a lot of the current trendy thinking which people seem to be going along with because they don't understand what is going on............ is Marxist Critical race theory, cancel culture, impediment to the freedom of speech under the guise of racism, Wokeness. I'm done trying....... but truth will out, eventually. I highlighted it for you. You're welcome.
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Post by Opti on Jun 11, 2021 17:09:06 GMT -5
Quote; Critical race theory is an academic discipline, formulated in the 1990s, built on the intellectual framework of identity-based Marxism. Relegated for many years to universities and obscure academic journals, over the past decade it has increasingly become the default ideology in our public institutions. It has been injected into government agencies, public school systems, teacher training programs, and corporate human resources departments in the form of diversity training programs, human resources modules, public policy frameworks, and school curricula.
There are a series of euphemisms deployed by its supporters to describe critical race theory, including “equity,” “social justice,” “diversity and inclusion,” and “culturally responsive teaching.” Critical race theorists, masters of language construction, realize that “neo-Marxism” would be a hard sell. Equity, on the other hand, sounds non-threatening and is easily confused with the American principle of equality. But the distinction is vast and important. Indeed, equality—the principle proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, defended in the Civil War, and codified into law with the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965—is explicitly rejected by critical race theorists. To them, equality represents “mere nondiscrimination” and provides “camouflage” for white supremacy, patriarchy, and oppression.
In contrast to equality, equity as defined and promoted by critical race theorists is little more than reformulated Marxism. In the name of equity, UCLA Law Professor and critical race theorist Cheryl Harris has proposed suspending private property rights, seizing land and wealth and redistributing them along racial lines. Critical race guru Ibram X. Kendi, who directs the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, has proposed the creation of a federal Department of Antiracism. This department would be independent of (i.e., unaccountable to) the elected branches of government, and would have the power to nullify, veto, or abolish any law at any level of government and curtail the speech of political leaders and others who are deemed insufficiently “antiracist.” imprimis.hillsdale.edu/critical-race-theory-fight/I don't know where you have got this from but this is what I have been trying (with little success ) to tell you. Quite a lot of the current trendy thinking which people seem to be going along with because they don't understand what is going on............ is Marxist Critical race theory, cancel culture, impediment to the freedom of speech under the guise of racism, Wokeness. I'm done trying....... but truth will out, eventually. OK here goes, I'm going to blow the tops off some conservative minds. Not all Marx's ideas were bad. What he wanted to implement and what happened are not the same thing. The GOP loves labels but they almost originated cancel culture. What is voter suppression laws, but the ultimate in cancel culture? You suppress the voices you do not want to hear. So I will shed zero tears over conservatives complaining about "WOKENESS" and cancel culture. There are many levels of wokeness. At its best it is being awake to the discrimination around you in the current usage. Wokeness is also a spiritual term often used in New Thought churches. (New Thought, is almost a misnomer now. Might be at least 100 years old by now.) One can become spiritually awake and closer to God and shed one's misperceptions.
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Quote; Critical race theory is an academic discipline, formulated in the 1990s, built on the intellectual framework of identity-based Marxism. Relegated for many years to universities and obscure academic journals, over the past decade it has increasingly become the default ideology in our public institutions. It has been injected into government agencies, public school systems, teacher training programs, and corporate human resources departments in the form of diversity training programs, human resources modules, public policy frameworks, and school curricula.
There are a series of euphemisms deployed by its supporters to describe critical race theory, including “equity,” “social justice,” “diversity and inclusion,” and “culturally responsive teaching.” Critical race theorists, masters of language construction, realize that “neo-Marxism” would be a hard sell. Equity, on the other hand, sounds non-threatening and is easily confused with the American principle of equality. But the distinction is vast and important. Indeed, equality—the principle proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, defended in the Civil War, and codified into law with the 14th and 15th Amendments, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965—is explicitly rejected by critical race theorists. To them, equality represents “mere nondiscrimination” and provides “camouflage” for white supremacy, patriarchy, and oppression.
In contrast to equality, equity as defined and promoted by critical race theorists is little more than reformulated Marxism. In the name of equity, UCLA Law Professor and critical race theorist Cheryl Harris has proposed suspending private property rights, seizing land and wealth and redistributing them along racial lines. Critical race guru Ibram X. Kendi, who directs the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, has proposed the creation of a federal Department of Antiracism. This department would be independent of (i.e., unaccountable to) the elected branches of government, and would have the power to nullify, veto, or abolish any law at any level of government and curtail the speech of political leaders and others who are deemed insufficiently “antiracist.” imprimis.hillsdale.edu/critical-race-theory-fight/I don't know where you have got this from but this is what I have been trying (with little success ) to tell you. Quite a lot of the current trendy thinking which people seem to be going along with because they don't understand what is going on............ is Marxist Critical race theory, cancel culture, impediment to the freedom of speech under the guise of racism, Wokeness. I'm done trying....... but truth will out, eventually. Lol. No, that’s not marxist.
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Post by Opti on Jun 11, 2021 17:24:03 GMT -5
Marxism is a GOP/conservative dog whistle just like socialism and now critical race theory.
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