Make them defend the opposite view.

[kpete]

Perhaps the response to CRT should simply be “We will never waiver from teaching kids that slavery was evil.”

NOT this bullcrap:
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Published in 1956 and used in Virginia classrooms through the late 1970’s, Virginia: History, Government, Geography by Francis B. Simkins and Spotswood H. Jones, and Sidman P. Poole describes the life of a Virginia slave as “happy”, “cheerful”, and “prosperous.”

“.…The Negroes learned also to enjoy the work and play of the plantations…Virginia offered a better life for the Negroes than did Africa…”

https://civilrightsheritage.com/2019/10/03/happy-slaves-described-in-7th-grade-virginia-textbook-used-for-20-yrs/

[lagomorph777]

1. Damn right. We have to flip the narrative against them.

Weaselly wimping out will not do the job.

[Wounded Bear]

2. K & R...nt

[LakeArenal]

3. OMG. Even as a third grader I knew bullshit when I heard it

[Tanuki]

4. Even a relatively recent textbook was called out and revised for referring

to enslaved Americans as "workers" in a pattern of "immigration."

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2015/10/23/450826208/why-calling-slaves-workers-is-more-than-an-editing-error

"Coby Burren was reading his textbook, sitting in geography class at Pearland High School near Houston, when he noticed a troubling caption. The 15-year-old quickly took a picture with his phone and sent it to his mother.

Next to a map of the United States describing "patterns of immigration," it read that the Atlantic slave trade brought "millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations."...(more)

[mcar]

5. Yes!

[jmbar2]

6. Someone needs to put up a great educational site "What THEY don't want you to know about CRT"

Access to the forbidden fruit.

[blm]

7. Critical White Dominance Theory

“was good enough for our parents and grandparents, dammit.”

[2naSalit]

8. +1

[2naSalit]

9. As a person who...

Has "white" written in on my birth certificate yet was called the "N word" to my face all through my first two decades, I started out with a jaded view of the textbook version of life at a very early age.

[Hekate]

10. "We will never waver from teaching kids that slavery was evil" is an excellent frame. TY