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Originally Posted by PointlessWords
Could only read halfway through before the terrible arguments and mental gymnastics were too much.
CRT is right wing for we donÂ’t want white kids to be taught that white Americans enslaved black Americans for money, sex and politics?
Just wanna make sure I know what IÂ’m talking about here.
Unfortunately it's a little more complicated than that. You ask a good question, what's it really mean. That's a good question because it points to the underlying manipulation of the discourse undertaken by opponents of CRT. I would recommend skipping what it actually means, like before it became a curse word. Or if you really want to know, do a google search but make sure the date range of the search excludes anything in the past 7 (?) years. Maybe 10 to be safer.
What CRT really means now, as popularly understood, is education which makes racism a topic of study. The conservative playbook is to take a term, something maybe nebulous or not well understood, portray it as evil since the lack of understanding serves as a sort of blank canvas, then proceed to shovel everything they don't like which is loosely associated, into the term. Once everything is shoveled into one term it can be focused on for a clean attack. Anything race related in education becomes "CRT" and forever linked to some one-off untoward incident initially attributed to CRT . A transgender teacher is an exercise in "grooming". Then it's like a ramp for handicapped people is "wokeism" and we don't like wokeism because it wasn't cool all those times when our favorite entertainer was piled on for a few gay jokes in his distant past 3 years ago.
CRT is the constructed concept bundle that everything that raises awareness of racism is packed into so it all be attacked at once.