Republicans confuse Critical Race Theory and History. It's just a blast on the old dog whistle (Reply #48)

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Martin68 (19,964 posts)

48. Republicans confuse Critical Race Theory and History. It's just a blast on the old dog whistle

to warn other racists that liberals want children to study actual history in school, and that would be dangerous to their sly plot to pretend not to be racists and prevent their children from learning the truth.

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49 replies	Author	Time	Post
So doesn't the banning of Critical Race Theory kinda prove Critical Race Theory? [View all]	Mister Ed	Oct 2021	OP
Perpetuating the cycle.	MissMillie	Oct 2021	#1
Yes if we don't acknowledge and understand we are doomed to repeat it	scarytomcat	Oct 2021	#39
Yup.	thucythucy	Oct 2021	#2
That's good Mister Ed.	panader0	Oct 2021	#3
Obliquely, yes, it does. But it's also a symptom of a deeper problem...	paleotn	Oct 2021	#4
Teach The Idea Of It, Yes. But...	GB_RN	Oct 2021	#8
And most law schools do not teach it.	Dustlawyer	Oct 2021	#19
True	GB_RN	Oct 2021	#22
The problem in the minds of the Reich Wing is....	paleotn	Oct 2021	#21
They Don't Get That...	GB_RN	Oct 2021	#23
Yep. Blowback. They never take into account blowback.	paleotn	Oct 2021	#27
CRT as used by the RW is anything and everything that even remotely	Celerity	Oct 2021	#30
Brilliantly stated...	MiHale	Oct 2021	#5
Apparently.	plimsoll	Oct 2021	#6
This from the ones calling us lefties the "thought police"...	Wounded Bear	Oct 2021	#7
yeah we impose 'political correctness' for criticizing racists and climate deniers, for instance, an	certainot	Oct 2021	#28
Critical Race Theory is a metod of inquiry. No more, no less.	Beastly Boy	Oct 2021	#9
The Right Wing Wants To Hoodwink People About This	colsohlibgal	Oct 2021	#10
No, it's a kind of fallacy	Shermann	Oct 2021	#11
It wasn't actually posed as a proof, but on it's surface it would be open to those claims.	plimsoll	Oct 2021	#37
Excellent point!	Maine Abu El Banat	Oct 2021	#12
Those who ban it don't really use it...this was a college...I think PHD level course.	Demsrule86	Oct 2021	#13
"I'm not a racist", so let's move on is the drift. (I've been told)	czarjak	Oct 2021	#14
Yup	Picaro	Oct 2021	#15
Actually they project CRT is the 'racist' isdue	IbogaProject	Oct 2021	#16
Exactly. Don't talk about or record those things that are/were mistakes in our past or present.	Evolve Dammit	Oct 2021	#17
Purrrrrrrfectly logical.	jaxexpat	Oct 2021	#18
Indeed. But there are a lot, and I mean A LOT of cray-cray	PatrickforB	Oct 2021	#20
Confirms the desire of these Americans to continue their hatred/racisim.	BeckyDem	Oct 2021	#24
Look they know that all the lies and myths have been shattered	malaise	Oct 2021	#25
They are terrified of the truth.	Claire Oh Nette	Oct 2021	#40
On the other hand, the same ones that want to make it illegal to discuss it	multigraincracker	Oct 2021	#26
The first rule of Fight Club.	dchill	Oct 2021	#29
Most of the people who worry so publicly about CRT know as little about it as they do about	Ford_Prefect	Oct 2021	#31
Yes. Yes, it does. Racism -- the evil that dare not speak its name.	ancianita	Oct 2021	#32
Pretty Much	The Fifty Stateman	Oct 2021	#33
pure and simple	llashram	Oct 2021	#34
YES	MacKasey	Oct 2021	#36
yeah right!	llashram	Oct 2021	#38
It's really stunning to me how much we have to push back against, these days.	calimary	Oct 2021	#35
No doubt about it!	OLDMDDEM	Oct 2021	#41
Oh yeah. (n/t)	OldBaldy1701E	Oct 2021	#42
Irony is an utterly ungraspable alien concept to RWNJs.	eppur_se_muova	Oct 2021	#43
oooh! you used logic! and growth. not allowed!!!	pansypoo53219	Oct 2021	#44
It's also for colleges and law schools, not grade schools	IronLionZion	Oct 2021	#45
Book marked for future use	sellitman	Oct 2021	#46
Opposing education about racism is itself racism.	tclambert	Oct 2021	#47
Republicans confuse Critical Race Theory and History. It's just a blast on the old dog whistle	Martin68	Oct 2021	#48
Rename Critical Race Theory to a non-relevant name. No one	NCjack	Oct 2021	#49

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