"Critical race theory" is 21st-century McCarthyism.

[Nevilledog]

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With new anti-CRT laws, the Republicans give the impression they stand against brainwashing. But their goal is brainwashing

With new anti-CRT laws, the Republicans give the impression they stand against brainwashing. But...
“Critical race theory” is 21st-century McCarthyism.
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9:31 AM · Oct 27, 2021

https://www.editorialboard.com/with-new-anti-crt-laws-the-republicans-give-the-impression-they-stand-against-brainwashing-but-their-goal-is-brainwashing/

Three things need saying. One, that “critical race theory” is becoming the most destructive political boogeyman since Joseph McCarthy fear-mongered about Communists hiding behind every bush and tree.

Two, that this political boogeyman is being used by Republican state lawmakers to achieve what they have wanted — to use the power of the state to censor information and to police thought. We are close to updating the old Cold War pursuit of “un-American activities.”

Three, that by censoring information and policing thought, the Republicans can replace knowledge and understanding with lies and propaganda advancing a preferred way of seeing America, to wit: In America, everyone gets a fair shake in life. Social ills like poverty and racism are individual failings, not societal ones. Everything is fine. Nothing to worry about. Except “those people” making trouble.

The desired outcome of such rhetoric, of course, is preempting serious and legit challenges to a social order in which white men are on top.

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[JohnSJ]

1. The irony is it isn't even part of the curriculum in Virginia, and the racist republicans are

pushing the lie that it is

[Caliman73]

2. It isn't part of the curriculum anywhere, except for some Law Schools.

CRT is the new PC, is the new "Communist" is the new "foreign horde". Conservatives ALWAYS have to have something that they are fighting against. They have to have something that is "threatening the American way of life".

So we have communism, which was proposed as a more egalitarian economic system (regardless of its implementation) in which the wealthy cannot hoard the wealth of a nation. We have PC which was basically the desire to treat marginalized people with the human dignity and respect we all deserve. Now we have CRT, which is a method by which to view the impact of systemic and structural racism that was built into the laws and institutions of the US and how that affects non-White people.

These are the things that Conservatives are saying are destroying the "culture" of the US.

Leads to the question.... What is the culture of the US, that those three concepts inspire an existential fear in Conservatives?

[LastDemocratInSC]

3. Women have faced systemic discrimination, too.

Black men got the right to vote in 1870 (15th amendment) long before women got the right in 1920 (19th amendment) . Women were finally given the right to have an individual bank account in the 1960s and gained equal access to credit in 1974, not that long ago (Equal Credit Opportunity Act).

Systemic discrimination, codified in law, has affected many groups of people in the US. I suppose the wing nuts will pitch fits if these topics are also taught.

We're never been "a shining city on a hill".

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4. similar to gop efforts a few years ago to pass laws banning 'sharia law'. nt