When you don't want to teach kids about slavery but want to preserve Confederate monuments

[Martin Eden]

That's called hypocritical race theory.

I can't take credit for this, as I just read it at the end of Eric Zorn's column in today's Chicago Tribune. He holds a reader poll of funniest tweets, and this was the winner in Zorn's final column at the Trib.

Zorn, along with several other long time columnists, accepted a buyout from the newspaper's new ownership.

[CTyankee]

1. Um, what was the tweet? Am I missing something here?

[Martin Eden]

4. The tweet was the subject title of the OP, then the first line of text.

I have no link to the tweet, as I just read it in the newspaper.

It shows the hypocrisy of idiots on the right who are getting all hot and bothered about critical race theory.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. What's missing in the CRT "debate":

Without a comprehensive, inclusive teaching of American History, students are left with a FALSE and FRAUDULENT narrative.

Myths, not facts.

Slaves were happy on their plantations.
Slaves didn't want "freedom".
Slaves loved their masters.
Slaves didn't see themselves as "slaves".

And students with such distorted historical "facts" will be allowed to graduate from high schools. And they won't be corrected college because: 1) less students are taking liberal arts (e.g., history) and 2) less liberal arts programs and schools generally.

Trying to "correct" a new generation of neo-Confederates will be near impossible.

[marble falls]

3. I thought it would die out with my father's generation. But, it won't be gone when I am gone ...

... it has the regenerative skills of a flat worm. And half a flat worm's intellect for a basis.

We're generations away from beating it, but we have to keep chipping at it and never let our guard down, not even to count any victories along the way.

[cbabe]

5. Monumental Lies:

Revealnews.org June, 2021.

Excellent report on Confederate monuments, the lost cause, deep south thinking, taxpayer monies supporting white racist organizations.

This is America.