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Ummm the Salem Witch Trials, hello! 😋

CRT is ABSOLUTELY mainstream! Now, is CRT in its original form that was taught in law schools decades ago mainstream? Not so much (writers at the New York Times probably don’t have a Kimberle Crenshaw poster at their desk); however, CRT is a *movement* (literally said in the first paragraph in “Critical Race Theory: An Introduction”). It is a movement of “activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power.” As all movements do, CRT expanded, and added more activists and scholars who were intent on studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power. Anyone who uses the tools of Critical Theory and Post-Modernism to deconstruct race is furthering the CRT movement. This includes Barbara Applebaum, who wrote “Being White, Being Good: Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy.” This includes Carol Anderson, who wrote “White Rage”, a book I happened to see as a centerpiece at Barnes and Noble. This includes Ibram X. Khendi. This includes Peggy McIntosh, who first coined the term, “White Privilege” in her three-page paper from 1989 that didn’t have a single citation, reference, or actual data to support her claims. This includes many other professors and authors who teach these things on college campuses and are paid to teach “Diversity” training to employees of companies. Students who learn these things in college go into the “real world” and spread this ideology into their workplaces. A new job entitled “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer” has emerged. These are also not fringe jobs. They are, unsurprisingly, particularly concentrated within higher education, where, according to some reports in the United States, diversity officers are rapidly increasing in number and earn three times as much as the average American and more than the academic faculty. “Bias response teams” now exist at many colleges in the U.S. STEM is even being impacted. One 2015 paper proposes that an engineer should “demonstrate competence in the provision of sociotechnological services that are sensitive to dynamics of difference, power, and privilege among people and cultural groups.” “Dynamics of difference, power, and privilege”… All concepts that came directly from the CRT movement. The most visible manifestations of CRT is in Social Justice activism. Antifa has pretty much destroyed Portland and downtown Seattle. Phrases such as “cultural appropriation” are said with frequency online, along with telling people to “check their privilege.” Google, the BBC, and Asda have fired employees on the bases of complaints couched in Social Justice terms and brought wider attention via social media. Dr. Seuss was cancelled because, like CRT always does, it intends to solve racism by seeing racism everywhere, which is the first tenant of CRT: “racism is ordinary, not aberrational”, and because it draws influence from the Post-Modernist belief in the power of language and knowledge, it believes that society will never be free of racism if children read certain Dr. Seuss books. Conservatives have every reason to be outraged and alarmed by the Woke, and in my opinion, so do liberals. CRT denounces liberal values. Identity politics and intersectionality place the ultimate value in group identity and rejects the concept of the individual. This is stated verbatim by Ozlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo in their Critical Theory education manual, “Is Everyone Really Equal?”: “[Critical] movements initially advocated for a type of liberal humanism (individualism, freedom, and peace), but quickly turned to a rejection of liberal humanism. The ideal of individual autonomy that underlies liberal humanism (the idea that people are free to make independent rational decisions that determine their own fate) was viewed as a mechanism for keeping the marginalized in their place by obscuring larger structural systems of inequality. In other words, it fooled people into believing that they had more freedom and choice than societal structures allow.” All of this traces back directly to CRT in its purest form and to CRT’s roots in the Neo-Marxist thought that came out of the Frankfurt School. Derek Bell, one of CRT’s founders stated: “Progress in American race relations is largely a mirage obscuring the fact that whites continue, consciously or unconsciously, to do all in their power to ensure their dominion and maintain their control.” And in terms of this being based in Critical Theory, Karl Marx believed that we were all living in a “False Consciousness.” That the ruling class had fooled people into believing they could be happy in their state of affairs. The Frankfurt School reified the work of Marx and asserted that to arise from this “False Consciousness” that had been created, not by the economic ruling elites, but by the powerful in order to retain their cultural hegemony, that one had to develop a “Critical Consciousness”, hence the term “Woke.” True liberals and conservatives alike should be alarmed by this attack on American values.

These are two of my favorite people to listen to, especially John McWhorter. Super smart and not Republican, so people can't use that ad hominem fallacy to decide what they're saying is irrelevant. McWhorter's appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher was excellent. He has a new book coming out in October titled "Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America."

OK, Strawman

Well, I think that's where a distinction must be made. Public schools are funded and run by the state, and therefore they can decide on what curriculum they want their students to be taught. I also wouldn't want my kids to be taught creationism as the truth, or have it mandated that schools lead their students in prayer every day, but I have no issues with people who believe in creationism or who pray. In a normal forum I veer strongly libertarian on not censoring what people say even if it does constitute "hate speech", but publicly funded education should be scrutinized to ensure what is being taught is most valuable to the students.

The Woke and "Blue No Matter Who" crowds are the Q'Anon of the left. They live in the countries of MAGA-stan and Woke-stan.

The framework of liberalism that CRT attempts to undermine is what we should stick to. It's what was put forth by MLK Jr., and it's what has enabled us to make the incredible racial progress we've seen over the past 60 years. You don't abandon the vehicle that got you there just because a bunch of grifters say it doesn't work.

But it is one thing to push memes on Twitter, quite another to draft legislative bans on ideas or theories (think evolution and the Scopes Monkey trial). Even some of CRT’s fiercest critics are skeptical of the legislative offensive. Andrew Sullivan, in particular, has been relentless in his criticism of the ideology behind race theory. As our colleague, Jim Swift, noted last week, Sullivan recently highlighted an incident in which an Illinois high school that was apparently teaching students that the question “What does it mean to be white?” can be answered with “segregation,” “individualism,” and “focus on intentions over impact.” Andrew Sullivan @sullydish This is not the teaching of vital history previously white-washed. This is an indoctrination into racism. It’s a direct assault on the core epistemology of liberalism and the West. https://t.co/wTdYiF8LVb June 13th 2021 102 Retweets378 Likes But, the attempt to write legislation banning this sort of thing, Sullivan writes, has been a fiasco. In Tennessee, for instance (as David French points out), legislation bans “Promoting division between, or resentment of, a race, sex, religion, creed, nonviolent political affiliation, social class, or class of people.” This is vague to the point of incoherence, but gives a taste of the difficulty of crafting this sort of legislation. Sullivan suggests an alternative to the blunt instrument of government suppression: But that is not what the GOP wants right now. Instead, as Jacqueline Alemany writes this morning, Republicans have seized on CRT “to fire up the outrage machine powering the GOP's culture wars.” Which brings me to a serious question: Why ban just CRT? And why just now? ** With more than a touch of defensiveness, Ted Cruz is insisting that he understands what critical race theory is all about. Over the weekend, he recounted his answer to a reporter who asked him to define CRT. “I explained to him, I said it’s a theory that derives from Marxism. Karl Marx viewed the entire world as a conflict between classes, between the owners of capital and the working men and women, the proletariat,” said Cruz. “Critical race theory takes that same Marxist concept, except it replaces class with race.” Marco Rubio also tried his hand at a definition. “Critical race theory at its core is a theory that teaches that Americans are divided between oppressors and the oppressed,” he explained. But if we are banning this sort of thing, why stop there? If CRT derives from Marxism, why not ban Marxism too? (Or would that smack too obviously of censorship, cancel culture, and the attack on free speech?) If critical race theory is beyond the pale, where are the bills banning or restricting all of the other criticals, like critical social theory and critical legal theory (or anything developed by the Frankfurt School)? If conservatives really want to take on political correctness in education, why not also ban post-modernism, deconstructionism, moral relativism, and anything written by Jacques Derrida? If we are really worried about anything suggesting that there is oppression, why not also ban the teaching of “intersectionality,” which is “the theory that the overlap of various social identities, as race, gender, sexuality, and class, contributes to the specific type of systemic oppression and discrimination.” And since Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are so concerned about Oppression Studies, where is the legislative push to ban Radical Feminism, including arguments that science is deeply aligned with “sexist, racist, classist, and imperialist social projects”? This is hardly a new issue. Feminist educators have challenged “masculinist distinctions,” such as “objectivity vs. subjectivity . . . reason vs. emotion, mind vs. body.” One writer from this school of thought refers to Newton’s Laws as “Newton’s rape manual.” So why aren’t GOP legislators banning this sort of thing? Yes, I know this is a trick question. If the concern was really simply political correctness, their agenda would be far wider, wouldn’t it? But by focusing solely on critical race theory, they sort of give away the game, don’t they? "RePuBlIcAnS cAnT eVeN dEfInE iT!!" I guess the left is gonna milk that dick dance for all its worth. This logical fallacy is called a "Fallacy Fallacy": Presumption that because a claim has been poorly argued (allegedly, though plenty have been spot on), or a fallacy has been made, that the claim itself must be wrong. It is entirely possible to make a claim that is false but still argue with the logical coherency of that claim, just as it is possible to make a claim that is true and justify it with various fallacies and poor arguments. This is an avoidance technique by the left to negate having to address the actual merit of whether the various tenants of CRT should be taught or not. There is no definition a Republican could give that would be good enough for the left. Why not ban teaching Marxism or Post-Modernism as well? Because it's the application of the principles associated with the two schools of thought in the form of Identity Politics that has been so divisive. Ever tried reading Post-Modernist literature? Good luck. It's incredibly difficult to follow. Zealots in academia who used Post-Modern tools and Critical Theory to shape various disciplines, such as CRT, and make them more palatable is what enabled the ideas to go mainstream. Also, in terms of the bills introduced, they mostly say things along the lines of: - Don't teach that any particular identity group is superior or inferior - Don't treat individuals adversely based on sex, race, ethnicity, etc. - Don't scape goat - Don't teach revisionist history (e.g., The 1619 Project) What about those do you have any problem with?

Really? So you agree with Derek Bell that there's really been no progress at all on race? That racism just simply became better at disguising itself? You really believe that all white people benefit from white privilege and are complicit in white supremacy? You really believe that it's never a question of IF racism occurred but HOW racism occurred? Because those are all things being taught by CRT. Additionally, to call CRT an analytical tool is laughable. As someone who is an Intel professional that actually works with analytical tools on a daily basis, none of them start with a conclusion (racism) and simply twist anything in such a way that it reinforces that conclusion. Actual analytical tools are diagnostic and self-critical. Critical Race Theory is not. It's anti-analytical. To understand how ridiculous this ideology is, think of it this way: Imagine that kids in modern Germany were being taught that Nazism never went away and that all of them are benefiting from Nazi privilege and complicit in a system that perpetuates the systemic oppression of Jews. Sounds ridiculous, right? That's pretty much what our kids are being taught, except in an American context.

Regression and division. Grouping people together by race and characterizing them as being a certain way based on the color of their skin or other immutable traits is not a recipe for progress. It's a recipe for endless division. It's ironic that anyone can call themselves a liberal and favor the teaching of Critical Race Theory. Critical Race Theorists actually resent liberalism, as is seen in the Introduction to Critical Race Theory by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic: "[C]ritical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order” and “[C]ritical race scholars are discontented with liberalism as a framework for addressing America’s racial problems. Many liberals believe in color blindness and neutral principles of constitutional law. They believe in equality, especially equal treatment for all persons, regardless of their different histories or current situations.” I consider myself a liberal. Many today brand themselves as such but then promote ideologies that are fundamentally against liberalism, such as Critical Race Theory.

Wrong. CRT is absolutely being taught in schools and it is teaching students to hate America and others based on race. There are multiple BS responses the far left is providing such as, "You don't even know what CRT is!" Or "This isn't really CRT!" Or "CRT is just an analytical tool." Or they'll flat out lie and say that they're trying to prevent racism and slavery from being taught in schools. This isn't about not teaching slavery and racism. It's about not teaching students distorted histories that are proven to be factually incorrect in order to perpetuate a narrative that America is a fundamentally, irredeemably racist nation (e.g., The 1619 Project) and that all white people are guilty of racism and continue perpetuating it unknowingly. https://www.city-journal.org/racial-equity-programs-seattle-schools https://www.city-journal.org/radicalism-in-san-diego-schools https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20459636/oppression-matrix.pdf https://thepostmillennial.com/fifth-graders-in-philadelphia-forced-to-celebrate-black-communism-simulate-black-power-rally-to-free-angela-davis-from-prison https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2021/02/24/buffalo-students-told-all-white-people-play-a-part-in-systemic-racism/amp/ https://www.thecollegefix.com/california-county-teacher-training-u-s-a-parasitic-system-due-to-invasion-of-white-men/

What about the earth being flat? Gotta love that one. Did you hear about the two conspiracy theorists who died and went to heaven? They got to there and asked God, "Who killed JFK?" God said, "Uh... Lee Harvey Oswald...." They both looked at each other and said, "This goes even deeper than we thought!" Conspiracy theorists are so frustrating to talk to because their belief in these things is so illogical and no amount of logic can convince them otherwise. It's legitimately a religious-like faith that they have.

I'm not very familiar with ACA, so I'm not going to take a firm stance either way—though I do tend to believe that the government component of Healthcare should be managed at the state level vice Federal—but didn't the Supreme Court just uphold ACA as Constitutional?

The pushback against teaching CRT in schools is anything but fear mongering or nonsense.

Seeing that old track brings back bad memories. Good riddance! I'm excited for the new facilities.

2012: 49-0 Started from the bottom... 2020: 42-6 ...Now we here!

Slayton is slaying on MNF!

I don’t need this poor treatment! I see all the time on the internet that there are singles out there dying to meet me!

I’m offended Gwill. How does everyone else get so many more exclamation points from you than I do? Do I not do it for you anymore? Lol

The last one I remember was Harry Adams in the 2008-2010 timeframe.

Oops. I'll fix that. Thank you!

Despite the passing grade on special teams, I think Fountain needs to go. If not for Carlson, our ST would have been a dumpster fire this year. EDIT: Horton. Not Fountain.

I'd be more of a proponent of Roberts and Dinson spying. They can match the speed of Hurts and tackle really well in the open field. If we can stop their conventional running attack, and Carlton Davis can minimize Ridley's effectiveness, I think that would be a good blueprint for stopping their offense.