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In reply to the discussion: So doesn't the banning of Critical Race Theory kinda prove Critical Race Theory? [View all]paleotn
(17,911 posts)4. Obliquely, yes, it does. But it's also a symptom of a deeper problem...
The need to teach children lies instead of the truth. To teach them some "glorious", mythological lie about our nation's past. America has struggled with this symptom of fascism for a long time, and its feedback loops with the notion of exceptionalism.
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So doesn't the banning of Critical Race Theory kinda prove Critical Race Theory? [View all]
Mister Ed
Oct 2021
OP
yeah we impose 'political correctness' for criticizing racists and climate deniers, for instance, an
certainot
Oct 2021
#28
It wasn't actually posed as a proof, but on it's surface it would be open to those claims.
plimsoll
Oct 2021
#37
Those who ban it don't really use it...this was a college...I think PHD level course.
Demsrule86
Oct 2021
#13
Exactly. Don't talk about or record those things that are/were mistakes in our past or present.
Evolve Dammit
Oct 2021
#17
On the other hand, the same ones that want to make it illegal to discuss it
multigraincracker
Oct 2021
#26
Most of the people who worry so publicly about CRT know as little about it as they do about
Ford_Prefect
Oct 2021
#31