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Showing Original Post only (View all)So doesn't the banning of Critical Race Theory kinda prove Critical Race Theory? [View all]
I mean, simply put, Critical Race Theory is the notion that racism may be more or less built in to our society's institutions, right?
So, if legislatures, municipalities, and school boards make it illegal to even discuss that notion in schools (and some other places), doesn't that pretty much prove the theory?
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So doesn't the banning of Critical Race Theory kinda prove Critical Race Theory? [View all]
Mister Ed
Oct 2021
OP
yeah we impose 'political correctness' for criticizing racists and climate deniers, for instance, an
certainot
Oct 2021
#28
It wasn't actually posed as a proof, but on it's surface it would be open to those claims.
plimsoll
Oct 2021
#37
Those who ban it don't really use it...this was a college...I think PHD level course.
Demsrule86
Oct 2021
#13
Exactly. Don't talk about or record those things that are/were mistakes in our past or present.
Evolve Dammit
Oct 2021
#17
On the other hand, the same ones that want to make it illegal to discuss it
multigraincracker
Oct 2021
#26
Most of the people who worry so publicly about CRT know as little about it as they do about
Ford_Prefect
Oct 2021
#31