Critical race theory and elections

[n_huffhines]

Like I said, you clearly aren't paying attention.

So no link?

 

[Vol423]

So no link?

Have fun in your liberal heaven. Be sure to send us a postcard and tell us how wonderful it is.

San Francisco's progressive nightmare

 

[n_huffhines]

Have fun in your liberal heaven. Be sure to send us a postcard and tell us how wonderful it is.

San Francisco's progressive nightmare

This all ya got? This is merely someone's opinion that reducing certain drug possessions from felonies to misdemeanors is part of San Francisco's problems. You might as well have linked to your own opinion here on VN.

Inadvertently, you have confirmed they are still fighting the war on drugs in San Francisco. It's failing there, just like it is elsewhere.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

This all ya got? This is merely someone's opinion that reducing certain drug possessions from felonies to misdemeanors is part of San Francisco's problems. You might as well have linked to your own opinion here on VN.

Inadvertently, you have confirmed they are still fighting the war on drugs in San Francisco. It's failing there, just like it is elsewhere.

Intentionally.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Indiana school admin explains how schools teach CRT without using that term: 'We're lying'

'When we tell you Critical Race Theory isn't taught in our schools we're lying'

A public school administrator in Indiana went viral after posting a video explaining that Indiana schools are teaching Critical Race Theory and intentionally deceiving concerned parents about whether or not their children are being subjected to it.

"When we tell you that our schools aren’t teaching Critical Race Theory, that it’s nowhere in our standards, that’s misdirection," Indianapolis district science coordinator, instructional coach, and administrator Tony Kinnett posted on Twitter Thursday.

Kinnett explained that he is an administrator in the largest school district in Indiana which means he is present in "dozens of classrooms a week" so he "sees exactly what we are teaching our students."

"We don’t have the quotes and theories as state standards per se," Kinnett said. "We do have Critical Race Theory in how we teach."

Kinnett continued, "We tell our teachers to treat our students differently based on color. We tell our students every problem is a result of ‘white men’ and that everything Western Civilization built is racist. Capitalism is a tool of white supremacy. Those are straight out of Kimberle Crenshaw’s main points verbatim in ‘Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement.’"

Indiana school admin explains how schools teach CRT without using that term: 'We're lying'

 

[Franklin Pierce]

 

[ButchPlz]

All I'm going to say is that the most "racist" (read: ethnostates) countries I've visited have been the cleanest, safest, and nicest.

 

[NCFisher]

Don't forget, he votes for your kids' curriculum too.

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Okay...but he does have the essence which is a large Marxofascist contingent in government threatens the nation, and we are a constitutional republic, not a democracy ('social' or not).

This deficiently literate, nipple-teasing guy is logically ahead of the intellectual naval-gazers, which ought to frighten one somewhat more.

 

[NCFisher]

I appreciate his desire for transparency and sharing his experiences. I hope he follows up with specific examples, including lessons and assignments. It may also help if he gave parents directions on how to look rather than just generalizing.

He does, here's an outtake:
Indiana STEM Admin: ‘When We Tell You CRT Isn’t Taught ... We're Lying'

This means, “I’m in dozens of classrooms a week,” he said. “So, I see exactly what we’re teaching our students.”

“When we tell you that schools aren’t teaching Critical Race Theory that it’s nowhere in our standards, that’s misdirection,” Kinnett declared, addressing the fact that many parents who have voiced concerns about the teaching of the tenets of CRT in their schools have been told the Marxist-based philosophy is not to be found in K-12 classrooms.

“We don’t have the quotes and theories as state standards per se,” Kinnett explained in his video. “We do have Critical Race Theory in how we teach.”

He elaborated, citing some sources of the instruction used to indoctrinate students in his school district:

We tell our teachers to treat students differently based on color. We tell our students that every problem is a result. of “white men,” and that everything Western civilization built is racist. Capitalism is a tool of white supremacy. Those are straight out of Kimberly Crenshaw’s main points, verbatim, in Critical Race Theory, the Writings That Formed the Movement.
This is in math, history, science, English, the arts, and it’s not slowing down. If students of color have lower reading scores, it’s because of inequity. Therefore, we take from the “white students” and give to the “color” students. That’s Richard Delgado straight out of CRT an Introduction.
All teaching is political, with reality and facts taking a back seat. That’s Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, who outlined how she saw Critical Race Theory flushed out in public schools in 1995.​

 

[NCFisher]

89th Annual Meeting: August 31 - September 4, 2021 in Austin - usmayors.org

2021 Adopted Resolutions
In Support of Critical Race Theory in Public K-12 Education
Resolution Number: 68
WHEREAS, Critical Race Theory ("CRT") is the practice of interrogating the role of race and racism in society, in which racism can be seen across systemic, institutional and interpersonal levels operating over the course of time and across generations; and

WHEREAS, historical racism and racist systems have caused de jure and de facto discrimination against people of color and have created racial inequities in all facets of life in the United States, and these racial inequities continue to the present day; and

WHEREAS, the basic tenets of CRT are as follows:

1. Recognition that race is not biologically real, but it is socially constructed and socially significant as a product of social thought not connected to biological reality;
2. Acknowledgement that racism is a normal feature of society and is embedded within systems and institutions, like the legal system, that replicate racial inequality, meaning that racist incidents are not aberrations but instead manifestations of structural and systemic racism;
3. Rejection of popular understandings about racism, including claims of meritocracy, colorblindness, and arguments that confine racism to a few bad apples, in recognition that the systemic nature of racism, which is codified in law, embedded in structures, and woven into public policy, bears primary responsibility for reproducing racial inequality;
4. Recognition of the relevance of people's everyday lives to scholarship, embracing the lived experiences of people of color, including those preserved through storytelling, and rejecting deficit-informed research that excludes the epistemologies of people of color; and

WHEREAS, CRT transcends a Black/white racial binary and recognizes that racism has impacted the experiences of various people of color, including Latinx, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and other racial groups; and

WHEREAS, this evolving, malleable practice critiques how the social construction of race and institutionalized racism perpetuate a racial caste system that relegates people of color to the bottom tiers and recognizes that race intersects with other identities, including sexuality and gender identity; and

WHEREAS, CRT recognizes that racism is not a bygone relic of the past, but instead acknowledges that the legacy of slavery, segregation, and the imposition of second-class citizenship on people of color continue to permeate the social fabric of this nation; and

WHEREAS, it can be used to theorize, examine, and challenge the ways which race and racism implicitly and explicitly impact social structures, practices, and discourses; and

WHEREAS, CRT notes that learning and scholarship that ignores race is not demonstrating "neutrality" but adherence to the existing racial hierarchy, challenging white privilege and exposing deficit-informed research that ignores, and often omits, the scholarship of people of color; and

WHEREAS, Black, Indigenous, & People of Color (BIPOC) have experienced a gap in achievement compared to their White counterparts, and these students need an equitable allocation of resources to fill in the gaps; and

WHEREAS, the examination of racial inequities and education gaps between white students and students of color must consider the following factors:

1. the predominance of curriculum that excludes the history and lived experiences of Americans of color and imposes a dominant white narrative of history;
2. deficit-oriented instruction that characterizes students of color as in need of remediation;
3. narrow assessments, the results of which are used to confirm narratives about the ineducability of children of color;
4. school discipline policies that disproportionately impact students of color and compromise their educational outcomes (such as dress code policies prohibiting natural Black hairstyles);
5. school funding inequities, including the persistent underfunding of property-poor districts, many of which are composed primarily of children of color; and
6. the persistence of racially segregated education.

WHEREAS, mayors understand that policies focused on equity can reduce gaps within public institutions, including public-school systems; and

WHEREAS, policymakers and educators have the opportunity to identify solutions and implement evidence-based programs that advance academic achievement and provide culturally-aware resources for students of color for post-secondary and career readiness,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the nation's mayors support the implementation of CRT in the public education curriculum to help engage our youth in programming that reflects an accurate, complete account of BIPOC history; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that The United States Conference of Mayors supports access to equitable programs that reflect history, decrease achievement gaps, and better ensure that BIPOC students receive resources to ensure their success upon the completion of their primary education.

 

[NCFisher]

Kind of typifies the word salad resentment cauldron of the right these days. Virginians voting Republican because they are worried about critical race theory when it isn't even taught there.

But they hear that and get freaked and word salad comes out.

"We have a nice VA-grown, ligonberry vinaigrette you might enjoy with that"

https://www.doe.virginia.gov/suppor...nstitute/Legal_implications_of_discipline.pdf - this was McAuliffe's DoE.
Culturally-Responsive Alternatives (Continued)  Incorporate Critical Race Theory (CRT) Lens  Critical Race Theory
Culturally-Responsive Teaching and Learning Principles 1. Embrace Critical Race Theory Engage in race-conscious teaching and learning

I really like the blurring of Culturally Responsive Teaching and Critical Race Theory, the saying of something with two tongues for even more, gooey CRT-ness
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Spend a few minutes with the various links provided and you won't have to be this wrong again:
Virginia Dept. of Education website promotes CRT despite McAuliffe claims it's 'never been taught' there

 

[NCFisher]

Nope, not real. Some racist white supremacist made this up. Fake news. Ignorant whites voted against a bunch of old ass white people and an inexperienced AG choice in favor of a diverse leadership in Virginia because of white supremacy. Racists everywhere. As a self-identified transblack I fear for my life every day. ACAB.

You're a prime target for the "black faces of white supremacism".
A man without a race....sucks to be you, bro.

 

[NCFisher]

IDK what you mean by this, but institutional racism means that there are laws that disproportionately hurt certain races, and I can say with 100% certainty that the draconian attack on personal liberty known as the war on drugs disproportionately hurts minorities. Some of the people who pushed for the war on drugs did it with racist intent, and they have all fallen by the wayside, and few/nobody is racist now, but the result is the same.

Just no; you can't make such an assertion as statement of fact without looking at offender rates and criminal history. For instance:
U.S. DOJ Statistics on Race and Ethnicity of Violent Crime Perpetrators | Prison Legal News
Based on data compiled by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program, it found that while Black people make up 13% of the U.S. population, they were 33% of persons arrested for non-fatal violent crime (NVC), which includes rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and other assaults. Black people were 36% of those arrested for serious non-fatal violent crimes (SNVC), including rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.

Similarly, Hispanics make up 18% of the US population and were 21% of those arrested for serious non-fatal violent crimes. Whites, who are 60% of the population, were 46% of persons arrested for non-fatal violent crimes, and 39% of those arrested for serious non-fatal violent crimes.

The designation “Black” and “white” often did not include those who are Hispanic. In 9% of single-offender incidents and 12% of multiple-offender incidents, the victim was unable to tell whether the offender was Hispanic.

The study compared the UCR statistics with those from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Whereas the UCR relies on reports of criminal arrests submitted by law enforcement officials to the FBI, the 2018 NCVS was based on interviews from 151,055 U.S. households. Thus, the NCVS identifies crimes that are not reported to law enforcement. In the 2018 NCVS, Blacks accounted for 29% of violent crime perpetrators in 35% of the violent crimes reported to police. By comparison., the UCR statistics showed Blacks were 33% of all people arrested for violent crimes.

In the NCVS, whites accounted for 52% of violent crime perpetrators and 48% in those reported to police. The UCR showed whites accounting for 46% of the people arrested for NVC.

Hispanics made up 14% of violent crime perpetrators in the NCVS and 13% of the violent crimes reported to police, but made up 18% of the people arrested for NVC according to UCR statistics.

The report concluded that for whites and Blacks, “there were no statistically significant differences by race between offenders identified in the NCVS and persons arrested per the UCR. White and Black people were arrested proportionate to their involvement in SNVC overall and proportionate to their involvement in SNVC reported to the police.”

At 21%, Hispanics were overrepresented among the persons arrested for serious non-fatal violent crimes compared to 12% of those reported to police. “However, some of this difference may be due to victims not knowing the ethnicity of the assailants, even if they knew their race.”

Victims were able to identify the race or ethnicity of their assailants in 86% of violent crimes.

The average number of assailants was 1.29 and did not vary significantly by the victims’ race or ethnicity. Crimes involving multiple assailants, 43% of the assailants were Black, 38% were white, and 16% were Hispanic. For single-assailant crimes, 22% of the assailants were Black, 59% were white, and 14% were Hispanic.

Other racial groups were tracked, but lacked sufficient numbers for reliable statistics except Asians, who were consistently underrepresented among violent offenders with the exception of rape and sexual assault. For those crimes, Asians were 5% of assailants, about the same as their 5.7 percent representation in the U.S. population.
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I haven't run the numbers from the 2020 FBI UCR report, but I did it for years until about three years ago, and these numbers comport with those reports historically.

Black people commit a shite-ton of violent and other crime that spectacularly outstrips their per capita population.
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Over 50% of murder offenders are black and is a decades long stat; that's literally 13% of the population committing more murder than the other 87%! Are police not arresting white murderers so they have more prison space for black murderers? Unless you're proposing that police willfully, knowingly don't arrest white and Hisp/Latinos in order to target black people and boost their incarceration numbers, I'm not sure what point you have.

 

[BreatheUT]

Three eloquent well spoken voices.





Parents tell Fox 'wokeness disease' is spreading in schools

Nov. 06, 2021 - 7:08 - New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz and moms Quisha King and Asra Nomani react to a school administrator revealing how teachers embed critical race theory into curriculum

 

[Christian Lowe]

Posted without comment. EDI working wonders.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Critical race theory pervasive in Virginia teacher training materials, contrary to Democratic claims

Teacher training materials in Virginia provide instructions for incorporating critical race theory into the classroom, and the state's education department website specifically recommends books promoting the framework — contradicting claims from prominent Democrats that it isn't taught in schools.

Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education by Edward Taylor, David Gillborn, and Gloria Ladson-Billings is on a list of recommended reading for the Virginia Department of Education's Office of Equity and Community Engagement, which designed the department's “EdEquityVA ” initiative. The recommendation is just one of several for integrating critical race theory and related concepts into education.

Critical race theory pervasive in Virginia teacher training materials, contrary to Democratic claims

 

[KB5252]

I don't understand your logic about this. Letting people shoot up drugs doesn't seem to be making a positive contribution in the liberal states of the west coast. Nobody cares about marijuana, but heroin, crack etc. seem to really be a bad thing to allow.

Good point I haven't really considered. The prohibition argument has long been lauded as the real issue and legalization as a cure. While it isn't legalized decriminalization is a step in that direction and we should expect to see some results from that alone. We aren't, things have actually gone much worse.

I bet there are some really good studies out there to parse the info.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

High school test asks students if 'Texans,' 'Fox News,' 'KKK,' or 'all of Florida' are 'complete idiots'

Are all Floridians and Texans "complete idiots"?

A California high school principal said there will be disciplinary action taken after a teacher reportedly put that question on a test, which also included the KKK and Fox News as options for the multiple-choice question.

The question from a Whitney High School test issued Nov. 4 asked students, "A group of complete idiots is" followed by four options: "KKK," "all of Florida," "Fox News," or "Texans ," according to a report.

High school test asks students if 'Texans,' 'Fox News,' 'KKK,' or 'all of Florida' are 'complete idiots'

 

[RikidyBones]

High school test asks students if 'Texans,' 'Fox News,' 'KKK,' or 'all of Florida' are 'complete idiots'

Are all Floridians and Texans "complete idiots"?

A California high school principal said there will be disciplinary action taken after a teacher reportedly put that question on a test, which also included the KKK and Fox News as options for the multiple-choice question.

The question from a Whitney High School test issued Nov. 4 asked students, "A group of complete idiots is" followed by four options: "KKK," "all of Florida," "Fox News," or "Texans ," according to a report.

High school test asks students if 'Texans,' 'Fox News,' 'KKK,' or 'all of Florida' are 'complete idiots'

You pay $8 for gas and no one leaves their house CA... Take a lap but watch out for the homeless, their needles and poop when you leave your driveway.

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Arizona State University professor says traditional grading system is 'racist' and demands an end to 'white supremacy' by grading papers based on EFFORT: Some students have 'privilege' because they 'embody those habits of white language already'

A professor at Arizona State University is arguing that the traditional grading system is 'racist' and is calling for an end to 'white language' by encouraging teachers to grade students based on the labor they put into their work instead of factors like spelling, grammar or quality.

Asao Inoue, a professor of rhetoric and composition, has given a series of lectures on the topic and most recently delivered one during a virtual event Friday, during which he argued that labor-based grading 'redistributes power in ways that allow for more diverse habits of language to circulate,' the College Fix first reported.

During his lecture, titled The Possibilities of Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, Inoue said: 'White language supremacy in writing classrooms is due to the uneven and diverse linguistic legacies that everyone inherits, and the racialized white discourses that are used as standards, which give privilege to those students who embody those habits of white language already.'

Arizona State University prof says grading system is 'racist' and should be based on labor | Daily Mail Online

 

[luthervol]

High school test asks students if 'Texans,' 'Fox News,' 'KKK,' or 'all of Florida' are 'complete idiots'

Are all Floridians and Texans "complete idiots"?

A California high school principal said there will be disciplinary action taken after a teacher reportedly put that question on a test, which also included the KKK and Fox News as options for the multiple-choice question.

The question from a Whitney High School test issued Nov. 4 asked students, "A group of complete idiots is" followed by four options: "KKK," "all of Florida," "Fox News," or "Texans ," according to a report.

High school test asks students if 'Texans,' 'Fox News,' 'KKK,' or 'all of Florida' are 'complete idiots'

That is a trick question. There wasn't an option E?

 

[Franklin Pierce]

How Teachers Can Lead Us Out of Our Worst Cultural Excesses | Opinion

As long as there have been teachers, there has been the hope that there would one day be an election in which American voters ranked "education" as their top priority. Last Tuesday night in the Virginia governor's race, we educators finally got what we had long been hoping for. Theories abound about why education rose meteorically in importance—parental backlash to CRT, or parents' deep frustration with school districts keeping their children at home for over a year, or parents listening to school lessons on Zoom that many found objectionable or wholly unnecessary. There were also the heavy handed mask mandates and new vaccine requirements for young children.

But add up these grievances and frustrations with American education and it reveals a far graver concern: American parents have a general but palpable sense they have lost the ability to shape and mold the lives of their own children. And they are angry about it.

Everywhere they look, parents find themselves fighting an uphill battle against a culture making it harder to raise normal, decent, well-adjusted human beings. Washington is awash in cynicism and increasingly populated by provocateurs instead of high-minded legislators. Hollywood monetizes violence, vulgarity, and the cult of celebrity. Silicon Valley supplies meaningless endorphins by the trillions as students spend thousands of hours a year consuming unfiltered content on their devices, all while becoming more miserable, socially isolated, and in some cases, even developing mysterious ticks.

How teachers can lead us out of our worst cultural excesses | Opinion

 

[Franklin Pierce]

American Medical Association pushes pro-critical race theory materials in 'Health Equity' guide

Document cites guide for how to advocate for critical race theory

The American Medical Association recently released a guide on "Advancing Health Equity" that promotes how to fight for critical race theory, includes a list of words not to say and their "equity-focused alternatives," and criticizes concepts like "meritocracy," "individualism" and the "'free' market."

The 55-page document released on Oct. 28 cites a guide by the organization Race Forward for how to advocate for critical race theory (CRT), which is called "Guide to Counter-Narrating the Attacks on Critical Race Theory."

American Medical Association pushes pro-critical race theory materials in 'Health Equity' guide

 

[Franklin Pierce]

Critical Race Theory taught at many of America’s 50 most elite private K-12 schools, according to new study

A website that features a database with information on critical race theory (CRT) curricula and training in higher education found the controversial ideology is infiltrating many of the most elitist K-12 private schools in America.

Last month, the project focused on the top 25 private schools in the country and researchers found some openly admit to teaching CRT, while others are more subtle.

Critical Race Theory taught at many of America’s 50 most elite private K-12 schools, according to new study

TENNESSEE

Tennessee became one of the states passing laws against teaching CRT in K-12 education in May, shortly after Idaho passed their law. The Department of Education still has a strong dedication to equitable outcomes. Despite no CRT mandates at the state level for public institutions, Tennessee’s higher education system is infused with CRT at all levels.

Tennessee

 

[luthervol]

Critical Race Theory taught at many of America’s 50 most elite private K-12 schools, according to new study

A website that features a database with information on critical race theory (CRT) curricula and training in higher education found the controversial ideology is infiltrating many of the most elitist K-12 private schools in America.

Last month, the project focused on the top 25 private schools in the country and researchers found some openly admit to teaching CRT, while others are more subtle.

Critical Race Theory taught at many of America’s 50 most elite private K-12 schools, according to new study

TENNESSEE

Tennessee became one of the states passing laws against teaching CRT in K-12 education in May, shortly after Idaho passed their law. The Department of Education still has a strong dedication to equitable outcomes. Despite no CRT mandates at the state level for public institutions, Tennessee’s higher education system is infused with CRT at all levels.

Tennessee

Maybe it's because CRT isn't the "boogie man" the right is trying to make it out to be.
The right has always so desperately needed a boogie man. I wish they would find a motivator other than manufactured fear.
CRT is becoming the right's COVID - just not nearly as real and deadly.