Sat Dec 18, 2021, 12:48 PM

Helping CRT laws backfire

CRT bans are vague for a reason. Specificity has an unwanted effect of publicizing exactly the topics the RWNJ's want to hide.

I think it's our job to flood social media with innocent sounding questions about banned topics.

"Is the 3/5 compromise in the original constitution an allowable topic?"

How about ?:

Jim Crow laws
Economics of cotton in early U.S. history
Asian exclusion laws
redlining
History of civil rights pioneers like MLK, Susan Anthony etc.
Books by non-white authors, gay authors

The list is endless.

But simply posing the questions will publicize the topics. Probably 75% of Americans never heard of the "3/5 compromise" but asking about it's educational allowability will promulgate the topic.
You can't hide truth.

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14 replies	Author	Time	Post
Helping CRT laws backfire (Original post)	Pantagruel	Dec 2021	OP
The abbreviation CRT and its individual words are ripe for satire	Tetrachloride	Dec 2021	#1
Nascar CRT	Tetrachloride	Dec 2021	#8
Yes! The Streisand effect	CloudWatcher	Dec 2021	#2
The Streisand effect	Pantagruel	Dec 2021	#3
That's interesting. I'm sure that in the end Barbara enjoyed the increased focus on	abqtommy	Dec 2021	#4
Why do they crow "cancel culture" when they are the very ones wanting to cancel things	MagickMuffin	Dec 2021	#5
There aren't enough pixels in the universe to fill the Internet with smaples Republican hypocracy	NCDem47	Dec 2021	#7
Projection: The biggest bit in their drill.	dchill	Dec 2021	#13
Internment of Americans during WW2 (of Japanese descent). Dread Scott. Brown v Board. . . nt	Bernardo de La Paz	Dec 2021	#6
Thanks for help	Pantagruel	Dec 2021	#9
It will happen, and it will be quite entertaining	sanatanadharma	Dec 2021	#10
Do you have any evidence that there ever was a Civil War?"	Pantagruel	Dec 2021	#11
Because I saw a documentary on Sherman's March to Terminal B	Sympthsical	Dec 2021	#14
Well how about the Confederate soldier monument just down the street? /nt	localroger	Dec 2021	#12

Response to Pantagruel (Original post)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 12:53 PM

Tetrachloride (5,025 posts)

1. The abbreviation CRT and its individual words are ripe for satire

in schools or online.

Repeated use of CRT with alternative words. Cathode Ray. Cardiac Recreational Therapy

Chattanooga Rumba Tournament
Chicago Railroad Terminal

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Response to Tetrachloride (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 01:18 PM

Tetrachloride (5,025 posts)

8. Nascar CRT

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Response to Pantagruel (Original post)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 12:53 PM

CloudWatcher (1,629 posts)

2. Yes! The Streisand effect

Great idea, it sounds like a variant of the 'Streisand effect" ...

The Streisand effect is a phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information, often via the Internet. It is named after American singer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project’s photograph of her residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew greater attention to it in 2003.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

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Response to CloudWatcher (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 12:58 PM

Pantagruel (2,397 posts)

3. The Streisand effect

New to me, I love it!

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Response to CloudWatcher (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 01:06 PM

abqtommy (14,118 posts)

4. That's interesting. I'm sure that in the end Barbara enjoyed the increased focus on

herself. Not that she needed it. I'm among the many people who enjoy her music and
her movies and her desire for privacy.Thanks for being part of my daily DU education!

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Response to Pantagruel (Original post)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 01:07 PM

MagickMuffin (14,146 posts)

5. Why do they crow "cancel culture" when they are the very ones wanting to cancel things

they don't like, but screams and whines when politically correct topics can't even be discussed without triggering their sensibilities.

Ban books, Burn books

Poor poor babies can't handle the history of our nation building.

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Response to MagickMuffin (Reply #5)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 01:17 PM

NCDem47 (1,935 posts)

7. There aren't enough pixels in the universe to fill the Internet with smaples Republican hypocracy

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Response to MagickMuffin (Reply #5)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 03:38 PM

dchill (34,731 posts)

13. Projection: The biggest bit in their drill.

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Response to Pantagruel (Original post)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 01:14 PM

Bernardo de La Paz (44,182 posts)

6. Internment of Americans during WW2 (of Japanese descent). Dread Scott. Brown v Board. . . nt

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Response to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #6)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 01:21 PM

Pantagruel (2,397 posts)

9. Thanks for help

building the list of topics.

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Response to Pantagruel (Original post)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 01:22 PM

sanatanadharma (2,472 posts)

10. It will happen, and it will be quite entertaining

It will happen, and it will be quite entertaining when our 21st century "Nopes Trial" begins.

"My good sir, are you admitting, here in court, that you actually taught history?"

"Yes, Sir. I am. I teach that the Civil War did happen. I ask them to think about it"

"Boy, you test the patience of this court. Do you have any evidence that there ever was a Civil War?"

Adding: Crazy Republican Tall-tales

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Response to sanatanadharma (Reply #10)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 01:28 PM

Pantagruel (2,397 posts)

11. Do you have any evidence that there ever was a Civil War?"

No video-no war?

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Response to Pantagruel (Reply #11)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 03:45 PM

Sympthsical (6,067 posts)

14. Because I saw a documentary on Sherman's March to Terminal B

You know, when he burned Hartsfield-Jackson airport to the ground. I mean, it's named after Stonewall. Duh.

It's was at the same time he banned Coke and Donald Glover albums.

Helping CRT laws backfire

1. The abbreviation CRT and its individual words are ripe for satire

8. Nascar CRT

2. Yes! The Streisand effect

3. The Streisand effect

4. That's interesting. I'm sure that in the end Barbara enjoyed the increased focus on

5. Why do they crow "cancel culture" when they are the very ones wanting to cancel things

7. There aren't enough pixels in the universe to fill the Internet with smaples Republican hypocracy

13. Projection: The biggest bit in their drill.

6. Internment of Americans during WW2 (of Japanese descent). Dread Scott. Brown v Board. . . nt

9. Thanks for help

10. It will happen, and it will be quite entertaining

11. Do you have any evidence that there ever was a Civil War?"

14. Because I saw a documentary on Sherman's March to Terminal B

12. Well how about the Confederate soldier monument just down the street? /nt