Gov vetoes North Carolina bill limiting K-12 racial teaching

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: AP

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed two bills on Friday that would have limited how public school teachers can discuss certain racial concepts and raised penalties on those who engage in violent protests.

The vetoed education bill was part of a national effort by Republicans in more than two dozen states to combat views they associated with “critical race theory,” a framework legal scholars developed in the 1970s and 1980s that centers on the belief that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions and maintains the dominance of whites in society.

GOP lawmakers across the country have used “critical race theory” and “indoctrination” as catchall phrases to describe racial concepts they find objectionable, including white privilege, systemic inequality and inherent bias. Republican governors in eight states have signed bills or budgets into law banning the teaching of critical race theory in K-12 schools or limiting how teachers can discuss racism and sexism.

North Carolina's bill would have prevented educators from compelling students to personally adopt any of 13 beliefs, and it was the focus of heated debate in the legislature.



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[BumRushDaShow]

1. Good and this whole argument is silly

Just manufacturing "culture wars" because of the complete GOP failure and lack of any cogent policies outside of those that cause harm to others (including their own craven supporters).

[iluvtennis]

2. Well said - ditto. n/t

[summer_in_TX]

3. Dunno about silly.

Things you publicize tend to increase…and spread.

These conservative states may find themselves hoist with their own petard. We can hope, anyway.

[GB_RN]

4. "Critical Race Theory" Isn't Even Taught In Undergrad...

Much less in K-12. It's a law school-level stuff. Here's a good description from Electoral-Vote.com:

If you would like a bit more detail, University of Alabama law professors Richard Delgado (one of the founders of CRT) and Jean Stefancic wrote a book entitled Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, which was first published in 2001, and is now in its third edition (released 2017). In the introduction, they make the same observation that we make above, namely that different scholars have different ideas of what CRT is. Nonetheless, Delgado and Stefancic assert that most CRT-embracing academics would agree on these six basic tenets:

Race is socially constructed, not biologically natural.

Racism in the United States is normal, not aberrational: it is the common, ordinary experience of most people of color.

Owing to what CRT scholars call "interest convergence" or "material determinism," legal advances (or setbacks) for people of color tend to serve the interests of dominant white groups. Thus, the racial hierarchy that characterizes American society may be unaffected or even reinforced by ostensible improvements in the legal status of oppressed or exploited people.

Members of minority groups periodically undergo "differential racialization," or the attribution to them of varying sets of negative stereotypes, again depending on the needs or interests of whites.

According to the thesis of "intersectionality" or "antiessentialism," no individual can be adequately identified by membership in a single group. A person of color, for example, may also identify as a woman, a lesbian, a feminist, a Christian, and so on.

People of color are uniquely qualified to speak on behalf of other members of their group (or groups) regarding the forms and effects of racism.

Glad Cooper vetoed this bullshit bill. The folks we have running the General Assembly are assclowns of the first order.

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. Yup. (n/t)

[madville]

5. Vetoing the other bill is questionable

"The other vetoed measure would have allowed business owners to sue individuals who damaged their property for three times the actual damages they incurred, charged those who assault emergency responders with a more serious felony, even if nobody was physically injured, and jail those charged with rioting or looting for up to 48 hours without bond."

Didn't sound like it was all that bad.