Critical Race Theory: Two Views
The opposing points of view:
The facts and the truth…
If this isn’t a prime example of false equivalence, hypocrisy, and an outright lie there is no such creature.
Far too many white Americans would rather cling to their racism than preserve their democracy.
Ted Cruz ought to be ashamed of himself, but he isn’t….
It doesn’t seem possible that both Barack Obama and Ted Cruz graduated from Harvard Law School.
Even if Cruz isn’t ashamed of himself, Harvard should be….
06/21/2021 @ 11:11 pm
Conservatives want to pretend that Critical Race Theory is something that it’s not. It is not about blaming every White person for racism. It is about identifying and acknowledging disturbingly common practices that keep disadvantaged minorities disadvantaged, which is not good for the country ethically and is not good for the country economically. It is not racist to acknowledge this. It is not reverse racist to acknowledge this. The data exist. There is nothing anti racist about pretending they don’t.
06/21/2021 @ 11:12 pm
And where did Cruz get that Marxist crap?
06/22/2021 @ 8:19 pm
“And where did Cruz get that Marxist crap?”
Equatng Critical Race Theory with Marxism is so far beyond the pale that doing so might be taken for a punchline in a standup comedy routine…
The problem with it is not so much the absurdity of the assertion, but the fact that Trump Republicans are likely to pick it up and run as far as they can go with it…
Cruz clearly feels that there’s nothing wrong with throwing a bit of the ‘Red Scare’ gasoline on the fires of division, bigotry, and hatred…
Can they all be that ignorant or that stupid?
06/23/2021 @ 12:35 am
Oh, easily. Have you looked at QAnon?
06/27/2021 @ 6:16 pm
According to US Census Bureau data, April 1, 2010 (estimates base) to July 1, 2019, … Black or African American alone are 13.4% of the American population.
According to a recent poll conducted by the New York Times, 15% of the American population believe and adhere to QAnon conspiracy theories…
The fact that more people accept QAnon conspiracy narratives than there are black people in this country ought to be alarming, if not terrifying, to the majority of white folks who don’t subscribe to the QAnon trash…
But it isn’t…
06/28/2021 @ 12:58 am
That is a wild pair of figures. Did someone that out to you or did you come up with the comparison?
06/29/2021 @ 9:07 pm
My comparison…
Striking, isn’t it?
07/28/2021 @ 8:56 am
Very.
08/17/2021 @ 8:50 am
What I’ve figured about about conservatives is that they’re people who are afraid of learning. Inconvenient truths scare them. When they can find a source that tells them what they want to hear, they cling to it. This is true about racism, global warming, COVID, and the last election. And who they trust has everything to do with content and nothing to do with method. They’ll blame mainstream media for all sorts of bias and ignore the same practices and worse from their own sources.
Once in a while they’ll get hit in the face with a truth that’s unavoidable. For some reason this didn’t happen in the Eric Garner case but it did in the George Floyd case, at which point an enormous percentage of the population erupted in anger and found the status quo unacceptable. But that status quo had been unremittingly true for over two centuries. It wasn’t the first eruption by any means but the bar is way too high, the threshold of accepting something you don’t want to accept.
Do they think liberals like the idea that if we don’t reduce emissions the planet will become unlivable? Do they think we like the idea that our normal practices are oppression the crap out of minorities? Do they think we like the idea that we all have to wear masks and get vaccinated? Do they think we like the idea that someone tried to overthrow the government? I think they do because they have this myth that we really, really want to control them, never understanding that we find that imperative inconvenient and even tragic.