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  Because everyone with an ounce of sanity has jumped ship and has switched parties or is voting for the Dems, at least for the time being.
context: Who could've guessed that voters would be more concerned with real issues than imaginary ones? >
  
  As a high school teacher, although things have generally calmed down from the height of the pandemic, I don’t necessarily think it’s that people have suddenly started seeing that all these right wing talking points are made up bullshit.
  It was pretty damn disconcerting how many of my boomer-and-older relatives asked me about “furries” in my school this holiday season. Even people who I generally thought knew better. >
  
  Crazy that that whole thing was because of “go buckets” in classrooms in case of a mass shooting event :/.  Not really the gotcha that they thought it was, and in fact highlights issues that they actively avoid talking about. >
  
  What is a go bucket?  Is … is it a bucket for the kids to piss in during an active shooter situation? >
  
  Yes >
  
  JFC America.  How does that sort of thing make people stop and think for a second?  It’s like the old Indian meme ‘DEsiGnATeD’ >
  
  Oh don’t worry it’s not just for that.
  It’s also for when a student gets shot, they can quickly soak up the blood!
  Most reasonable Americans realize the system is broken. It’s the insane and evil ones holding us all back. Plus even left leaning people lately are buying into gun culture out of the (justifiable) fear that one of their maga neighbors will shoot them up for having a pride flag >
  
  It's almost like people figured out that CRT isn't being taught in public school. Who knew people could see through BS. >
  
  It was also largely about getting materials they didn’t want out of school and public libraries. Unfortunately, that worked. >
  
  It's about slowly killing public schools and getting tax money to religious schools. >
  
  then end game is to give money directly to religious home schoolers. it's been a grift all along. >
  
  Can't risk children being exposed to anyone who votes different than their parents >
  
  Critical thinking skills?  But think of the CHILDREN! >
  
  I don't like how the headline doesn't acknowledge it's made up in the first place. Like it's an actual policy. >
  
  Well their definition of CRT is 'anything that makes white people feel guilty'... so ya know, actual history is the target of their agenda. >
  
  I know quite a few white people who feel their racial identity mandates a degree of responsibility towards countering racism.  But the only ones who I have ever heard describe it as "guilt" were either a little bit racist, a little bit dumb (and influenced by racists), or both.
  Personally, I think "White Guilt" was made up by white identitarian narcissists so self-obsessed and so tied to categorizing people by skin color (including themselves) that they couldn't even process the idea of being consciencious without making it about their own racial identity.
  The easy fix for not feeling guilty about what other people of your race have done is just not tying your identity to what is literally your most superficial quality. >
  
  Very well said.
  Do I feel shame about atrocities my ancestors committed?  Of course.  Do I personally hate myself because of it?  No.  Because I'm not doing those things. >
  
  CRT doesn't exist in any schools except graduate law work. When people say CRT, they're just lying and talking about the period from 1776 to at least the 1970s, but sometimes present day when blacks were treated differently than whites. AKA, they want the elimination of social studies. >
  
  
  
  they want the elimination of social studies
  
  
  Yep, it’s really disheartening if you’re a teacher or academic in social science disciplines. >
  
  Yup, over saturating the centuries old racist market. CRT was just the new way of saying “pc” which was just the new way of saying “white guilted” which was just a new way of saying “nword lover” which was just a new way of saying “scallawag”. >
  
  CRT hullabaloo was pushback/revenge for George Floyd protests. >
  
  You win the internet 4 today. I was just debating someone on YouTube stating that black people make everything about race. To which I replied this is America it's always about race. But that's not the issue really it's not for me the issue is for some strange reason they are under impression that I'm white and I say so still works I don't think they got the memo it doesn't >
  
  Americans have grown wise to these racist code words. >
  
  They have gone from having bad plans [trickle down and building a wall] to no plan at all. >
  
  This article is misleading, it’s just advocating for school choice, which is the Republican ploy to get taxpayers to pay for religious indoctrination. >
  
  When I ask my republican friends why they support the gop the only thing they say is because they’re against CRT and putting gay characters in Disney movies… oh so screw all the people dying because of gun violence and unaffordable healthcare right? >
  
  Yep >
  
  They might as well have a national campaign against Bigfoot in schools. Or the bogeyman.  
  Because there aren't any fucking public schools anywhere in the whole fucking country that are teaching CRT. It's a fucking high-level theory for understanding sociological and legal problems, and it's not being fucking taught to children. For fucks sake. >
  
  I can give you multiple examples that demonstrate otherwise, from the mouths of Critical Race Theorists and from publicly available documents from school boards across the US. I don’t know that it’s as widespread as the first link I’ll provide suggests, or that it’s “dangerous” to teach CRT (although I’d contend that teaching theoretical analysis as fact can be dangerous), but it is certainly not limited to grad school elective courses anymore. 
  This is data from polled students about exposure to concepts directly related to CRT. 
  This is a CRT textbook from 20 years ago with multiple excerpts on how CRT has spread from “narrow subspeciality” to “a literature read in departments of education, cultural studies, English, sociology, comparative literature, political science, history, and anthropology around the country.” 
  Here is a Washington Post article defending CRT that claims it was taught in high school.
  Here is promotion of teaching CRT in schools. >
  
  
  This is data from polled students about exposure to concepts directly related to CRT. 
  
  Oh, so not CRT then. Just racism as a concept, the exact thing we've been saying is the target from the start? And published by the rag that has  Christopher Rufo as a contributor? Yeah, no bias there.
  
  This is a CRT textbook from 20 years ago with multiple excerpts on how CRT has spread from “narrow subspeciality” to “a literature read in departments of education, cultural studies, English, sociology, comparative literature, political science, history, and anthropology around the country.” 
  
  Doesn't specifically say anything about K-12. Could all be college level, could be read and not used, could be read and offered as a possible source to read. Very far cry from any kind of indoctrination. 
  
  Here is a Washington Post article defending CRT that claims it was taught in high school.
  
  A completely optional elective for seniors that did none of the boogeyman bullshit CRT opponents claim? How horrifying. 
  
  Here is promotion of teaching CRT in schools.
  
  So, an opinion piece.
  CRT opponents have always been fearmongering liars, transparently trying to brand any discussion of race as "CRT". They tried to use it to remove discussions of fucking MLK from classrooms here in Virginia. Pretend it's some evil conspiracy if you want, you're not fooling people. >
  
  Gonna use the CRT textbook as a source on some “basic tenets of CRT,” if that’s okay?
  Basic Tenet 1: “First, that racism is ordinary, not aberrational—“normal science,” the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country.”
  Basic Tenet 2: “Second, most would agree that our system of white-over-color ascendancy serves important purposes, both psychic and material.”
  Basic Tenet 3: “A third theme of critical race theory, the “social construction” thesis, holds that race and races are products of social thought and relations.”
  These concepts sound quite easily malleable into the questions the polling asked of students. And it’s far from “racism as a concept.” If you’re going to accuse me of being disingenuous for having one source that builds upon Rufo, don’t be disingenuous yourself. There’s a difference between racism as a concept and ideas of systemic racism, white privilege, etc. 
  To continue with the second point: I concede that this textbook itself does not apply to K-12 education. But it does promote the notion that CRT has expanded from obscure legal theory into mainstream academia, at least at the college level, as of two decades ago. It is not difficult to suggest that a concept and framework that has more broadly been applied to collegiate education over the past 2+ decades is slowly drifting into K-12 education, as those who learned and adopted CRT in college become current educators. 
  And the book does in fact repeatedly state an activist intent within CRT, which further applies substance to the belief that CRT tenets exist within lower levels of education, whether or not the theory itself is explicitly taught. 
  I don’t feel I need to express how opinion pieces suggesting that CRT was offered in school and should be taught offer the notion that there is CRT in schools or at least some push to get it in schools. Refuting those as non-evidentiary makes no sense if you’re a proponent of CRT. >
  
  
  It is not difficult to suggest that a concept and framework that has more broadly been applied to collegiate education over the past 2+ decades is slowly drifting into K-12 education, as those who learned and adopted CRT in college become current educators.
  
  True. It is not difficult to suggest. It's entirely wrong to suggest it, but not difficult.  
  Dude. CRT being discussed in sociology classes in universities does not at all suggest that it's being taught in early childhood education courses. It's super easy to suggest that it is, but nowhere will you find evidence that it is.  
  You're kind of proving the point. You're making up shit about CRT (i.e. "it's not difficult to suggest") as justification of people's absurd reactions to that which you have easily suggested.  
  CRT is not being taught in K-12 public schools, Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, and rainbow fentanyl didn't kill any kids at Halloween. Come join us in reality, friend. >
  
  Merely asserting that CRT and tenets of it exist beyond obscure graduate programs is enough to be labeled as an election denier.
  Please, offer some valid disagreements and rebuttals, and stay away from unrelated bullshit. Disingenuous conversation is lame. >
  
  Damn, who knew that fictional culture wars aren't winning topics!? >
  
  “Cracking down”? That would require CRT to have actually been taught in public schools, which is not the case. >
  
  You're using the accurate definition of CRT.
  Republican Definition of CRT: "Any history or sociology lesson that doesn't paint america as a wonderland of equality or criticizes its racial politics in any way." >
  
  It’s not the actual thing they are saying, it’s them creating FEAR and then standing as the only possible line of defense against whatever bullshit was propped up as the boogeyman at the moment. 
  Fear. They exist from fear. Let them know how scared they sound when these nutters chirp >
  
  I'm sure it'll keep their existing racist voters motivated. >
  
  It's funny that CRT was to start "destroying public education" as the GOP has been trying for the past 20 years. The problem is, they can't 'get people to work in public, private or even charter schools. They get flack because they aren't certified and even Florida's: "If you are a vet or the spouse of the vet you can teach." Then they quit after a month because: "What do you mean I have to have lesson plans and classroom management? I just sit my kids in front of a tablet or tv." Then they scream: "We have such a massive teacher/admin shortage we can't even fill private schools and they get no money so now we have to close them." "But CRT and LBGQT got us here, but it's not our fault." >
  
  Teaching was made so unpopular because the pay sucks across the board. Private and charter schools pay worse than the public schools and comes with a lot of the same headaches, maybe to a smaller extent but still exist.