FL Gov. Ron DeSantis wants schools to deny existence of racism. Wants to bribe teachers @ $3000 each

[Towlie]

DeSantis lashes out at ‘critical race theory’ in push to overhaul Florida’s civics curriculum

Saying Florida needs to take the politicization out of its civics curriculum, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday announced a $106 million proposal to support civics literacy and civics education in public schools.

“Our schools are supposed to give people a foundation of knowledge, not supposed to be indoctrination centers, where you’re trying to push specific ideologies,” DeSantis said during a press conference in Naples.

The proposal will direct the Florida Department of Education to create the Florida Civic Seal of Excellence, a new professional endorsement for civics education. Teachers who complete the training will be eligible for a $3,000 bonus, DeSantis said.

“Let me be clear: there’s no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory,” DeSantis said. “Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.”

Former President Donald Trump, who has received support from DeSantis, has also attacked critical race theory, calling it “toxic propaganda” that will “destroy our country” as he ordered all federal agencies to stop funding any training that “teaches or suggests” that the United States is a racist country.

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The Wikipedia article on Critical race theory is a bit confusing. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but it must be something good if DeSantis and Trump are against it.

[Amishman]

1. Critical Race Theory is a reasonable concept taken to unreasonable extremes

Some takes on it really do cross the line into trying to shame whites, and some other bad takes. Standpoint epistemology in particular is foolishness.

That being said, I doubt they will stop at using this to muzzle the outliers, and use this as an excuse for overreach if their own

[stillcool]

2. what is taking 'it' to extremes?

Being anti-racist is unacceptable to a large portion of elected officials in this country. Apartheid is not an extreme. But our own history, needs to be whitewashed, because that might mess with our created reality.

What is critical race theory?
Critical race theory offers a way of seeing the world that helps people recognize the effects of historical racism in modern American life. The intellectual movement behind the idea was started by legal scholars as a way to examine how laws and systems uphold and perpetuate inequality for traditionally marginalized groups. In Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic’s book Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, they define the critical race theory movement as “a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power.”

Kimberlé Crenshaw, one of the founding scholars of CRT and the executive director and co-founder of the African American Policy Forum, says that critical race theory “is a practice—a way of seeing how the fiction of race has been transformed into concrete racial inequities.”

“It’s an approach to grappling with a history of white supremacy that rejects the belief that what’s in the past is in the past, and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it,” Crenshaw told TIME in an email.

While critical race theory was initially conceived as a framework specifically for understanding the relationship between race and American law, it’s also provided a way to consider how other marginalized identities—such as gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, class, and disability—are overlooked.

“What critical race theory has done is lift up the racial gaze of America,” says John Powell, the director of the Othering & Belonging Institute at the UC Berkeley. “It doesn’t stay within law, it basically says ‘look critically at any text or perspective and try to understand different perspectives that are sometimes drowned out.'”

[TreasonousBastard]

3. CRT appears to be a chicken/egg quandary. Do social pressures influence personal feelings, or do...

original personal feelings (including prejudices) create social pressures?

[Baitball Blogger]

5. No surprise.

I took a Criminal Law class at UCF after the turn of the Millenium and there was a footnote in the textbook regarding the police racial profiling of cars on a major highway. The prof, who was a prosecutor, failed to bring that up in class. In fact, as long as I was stuck inside Anglo society, it was always like that. They downplayed racism, continually. And then they claimed they weren't racist.