CRT was designed as a college course & is not being taught in K-12 - so STFU.

[kpete]

[Ocelot II]

1. It's not really even a course as much as an academic concept that fits into other courses,

and it evolved in the late '70s as a further development of Critical Legal Studies ideas. You're not likely to encounter it outside law schools and some advanced college courses. If somebody tells you their kid is learning CRT, tell them congratulations for having an eight-year-old who's smart enough to get into law school.

[unblock]

2. Technically correct but missing the point

In practice they will use this to challenge the teaching of anything involving race, other than maybe that slavery ended in 1865.

And rhetorically, any discussion about race will be derided as crt and dismissed with a scorn the same way any discussion of economic fairness is derided and dismissed as socialism.

[Walleye]

3. Too true

[Ocelot II]

4. Exactly.

CRT is a convenient piñata, but they really don't want any discussion suggesting that racism is still an issue because they don't want their little snowflakes to feel bad about themselves - which, of course, isn't the intent of teaching accurate history at all. When I was in school all we learned in our basic history classed was that slavery was bad but Lincoln freed the slaves and since then everything has been just fine. We also learned that white people came to the New World in search of prosperity, but in order to get the land they were destined to have, they had to chase off a lot of violent savages. So that part of history needs a lot of work, too.

[unblock]

6. Yes that too. Lewis and Clark. Manifest destiny. Louisiana purchase.

French and Indian wars.... carefully.

Not a whole lot teaching of mass evictions or uprooting from homes or genocide. If they ever talk about fighting Indians, they always paint Americans as the victims.

[mopinko]

8. same w irish history.

growing up in the 60's & 70's, i believed that orangemen and greenmen hated each other. i had no idea it was the brits they hated. and i had no idea how far back that went.
also had no idea the extent to which it was about the pope, and not the catholic people.

i was told all my life to be proud to be irish. but not why. i knew none of my history.
one plague project was learning that history. over the years i did pick up some of it.
but part of that was tracing my own family tree. found an ancestor that led the 1798 irish rebellion.

history is a funny thing, and personal/family history all the more so.

[SYFROYH]

5. CRT was not designed as a college course. WTF?

[Ocelot II]

7. It's mainly a law school thing.

[Thomas Hurt]

9. CRT has been appropriated and used as christofascist newspeak...

a means to control the narrative in "fascist selective populism". It doesn't matter how many people actually believe that CRT is the devil, it matters that they spread the propaganda to make it appear the majority or everyone thinks it is the devil.