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Why is CRT a hot button issue and how did it become one?

Probably faux wanted ratings.
 
Mr Person said:
The usual reason:

The concept has been around for more than 40 years, according to EducationWeek, but it has become a major programming theme on Fox News only in recent months . . . . The term “critical race theory” was mentioned just 132 times on Fox News shows in 2020. In 2021, it has been mentioned 1,860 times, according to a tally using the media monitoring service Critical Mention. After being mentioned just 51 times in February, it was mentioned 139 times in March and 314 times in April. It really blew up in May, when it was mentioned 589 times on the network’s shows. In June, the topic has been mentioned 737 times on Fox. On Tuesday, it was mentioned 48 times on shows across the network’s lineup.




Someone around here posted a great chart of it. Fox's wish is their command. There's a reason they're always on about "brainwashing" and "re-education", and it isn't that someone else is doing it.
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They (Right Wing Republicanism) are afraid of the facts that will contribute to exposures of truth, and that truth will give people the information that is necessary for the continuing downfall of white nationalism. As that happens, we move closer to being the Representative Democracy, that respects person as individual, in Civic, Civil, Economic, Political and Social Reality.

Everything that is happening now in Right Wing and Republicanism is:
  • a desperation grasp to hang on to "White Nationalism of wealthy white male dominance".

They Knows that CRT will show the strings through time of how racist and abuse of people for profit has led to the racist structures that exist in the systems within society.

The people who are truly ignorant to the truth are the poor whites of the right wing capture, where the wealthy of Republicanism's Confederacy Agenda, uses them to fight against CRT, because
  • the poor whites they use, still have not figured out, every policy that was set up to disenfranchise blacks had a secondary component that was designed to keep poor whites poor, and appeasing them with access to credit, while they never awakened to realize their lives have been targeted to be wrapped in perpetual debt.
The history of racism was always about enriching the wealthy by any means, with regard for nothing but Profit by any means, and to retain that wealthy among a segment of society.
 
Olddemocrat said:
CRT seems to be all the rage among the right and the far right. When and how did this become a thing? Who made it a thing? What, specifically is CRT, how old is it, what does it do, is it even an "it"?
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CRT was created to fight racism that obviously originated from the far-right. Conservatives are racists, so they don't want people to learn CRT.
 
Break CRT down to its basics.

Critical
ADJECTIVE
(of a situation or problem) having the potential to become disastrous; at a point of crisis.

Race
NOUN
any one of the groups that humans are often divided into based on physical traits regarded as common among people of shared ancestry

Theory
NOUN
a: a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigation
b: an unproved assumption : CONJECTURE

Critical Race Theory (CRT) was stated 40 years ago by a bunch of ‘legal scholars’ under the guise of exanimating racism as embedded in America’s laws and America’s institution. Now it’s being twisted into teaching about activism disguised as social justice reform. Using shame and guilt with terms like systemic racism and White privilege, forcing White people to defend themselves for being born White.

To understand it in its current usage it must be taken in reverse order:

Theory Race Critical

I.e.

A hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigation, based on unproved assumption or conjecture about various human races that has the potential to become disastrous to the point of crisis.
 
lwf said:
Because it supports a convenient conservative narrative that white people are the new "minorities" in America in an attempt to terrify ignorant blue-collar white folks to vote against their own interests and vote "Republican" at the polls.

You can get some white people to surrender anything to you if you can convince them that you are the only thing standing between them and an army of brown folks razing their home and brainwashing their children into worshipping Satan, or worse, becoming a "Democrat."
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Rather ironic when you consider CRT is nothing more than an attempt to scare brown folks into believing they face an irredeemable system of white oppression.
 
Olddemocrat said:
CRT seems to be all the rage among the right and the far right. When and how did this become a thing? Who made it a thing? What, specifically is CRT, how old is it, what does it do, is it even an "it"?
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Because it is being used to perpetuate anti white racism and advocate for socialist revolution. It is an offshoot of critical theory, a bunch of nonsense invented by a child raper and demented homosexual named Focault from France
 
Olddemocrat said:
CRT seems to be all the rage among the right and the far right. When and how did this become a thing? Who made it a thing? What, specifically is CRT, how old is it, what does it do, is it even an "it"?
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People simply do not like being characterized a being racist.
And they don't want some Left-leaning Progressive lackey of the teachers union telling their kids they are a member of a race that oppresses black people.
And people don't like being told they live in a society that is systemically racist.

Want more reasons to be up in arms about Critical Racy Theory?
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
Imagine learning that some parts of your society's history was so terrible that not only was it erased from YOUR history books, but you decide to make it illegal to teach it to future generations.
On second thought, don't do that. Instead, TEACH it in the hopes that future generations use better judgment.
Just be honest and tell the whole story.
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It's the old Republican mantra: "those who fail to learn from history.... are ripe for the picking."
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Because it is being used to perpetuate anti white racism and advocate for socialist revolution. It is an offshoot of critical theory, a bunch of nonsense invented by a child raper and demented homosexual named Focault from France
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According to the ABA web site it emerged from critical legal studies.
 
trixare4kids said:
Firstly, it's important to understand what it is before one can say at what age appropriate level it should be taught as part of a public school curriculum.

Ask yourself this question. Would you want your child being taught this in the Elementary grades or even middle school or high school?
Why or why not?



www.britannica.com

Critical race theory (CRT) | Definition, Principles, & Facts

Critical race theory, intellectual and social movement and framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is a socially constructed category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color. Critical race theorists hold that racism is inherent in the law and legal institutions of...
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Well, yeah. They should be taught the reality, and not your preferred fantasy. It was amusing, I admit, to see someone so thoroughly owning themselves, though. Thanks for that.
 
NWRatCon said:
Well, yeah. They should be taught the reality, and not your preferred fantasy. It was amusing, I admit, to see someone so thoroughly owning themselves, though. Thanks for that.
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Where did you get the idea that the thread us about me?
Poor deflection for not even attempting to answer my question.
 
trixare4kids said:
Firstly, it's important to understand what it is before one can say at what age appropriate level it should be taught as part of a public school curriculum.

Ask yourself this question. Would you want your child being taught this in the Elementary grades or even middle school or high school?
Why or why not?



www.britannica.com

Critical race theory (CRT) | Definition, Principles, & Facts

Critical race theory, intellectual and social movement and framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is a socially constructed category that is used to oppress and exploit people of color. Critical race theorists hold that racism is inherent in the law and legal institutions of...
www.britannica.com www.britannica.com
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So long as other competing theories on the topic were taught as well. But it don't think one can judge a topic like this based on one brief definition.

en.m.wikipedia.org

Critical race theory - Wikipedia

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Nickyjo said:
So long as other competing theories on the topic were taught as well. But it don't think one can judge a topic like this based on one brief definition.

en.m.wikipedia.org

Critical race theory - Wikipedia

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Do what you'd like, but I will take their definition over the left's any day of the week.
 
What has surprised me is that our cadre of mis- and dis- informationists has not invaded this thread en masse, as they have with virtually every other.
 
Olddemocrat said:
CRT seems to be all the rage among the right and the far right. When and how did this become a thing? Who made it a thing? What, specifically is CRT, how old is it, what does it do, is it even an "it"?
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The right flitters from one social issue to another. Anything to avoid having to talk about their policies or solutions to real problems facing Americans. They have none. They are truly the party of nothing but the perceived enemies that they are the victims of.
 
NatMorton said:
CRT's roots are not new. Racism and Marxism each go way back. It's the marriage of the two in the form of CRT that is perhaps the novelty.
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LOL Exhibit B
 
EMNofSeattle said:
Because it is being used to perpetuate anti white racism and advocate for socialist revolution. It is an offshoot of critical theory, a bunch of nonsense invented by a child raper and demented homosexual named Focault from France
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Exhibit C
😂 :ROFLMAO:
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
This thread and every other thread involving history that you have EVER participated in.
Next!!
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Care to explain your derailing nonsense above? The thread is not personally about me.
 
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