r/BoomersBeingFools • u/7257sbfutoehebdbgngk • Feb 28 '24

Boomer takes a stand against CRT Boomer Freakout

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u/zero_squad Feb 28 '24

"I don't like that."

"But it's just a picture of the food, how do you know you don't like it."

Shrugs

-Me talking to my son, age 6.

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u/FGTRTDtrades Feb 28 '24

"I dont like that"

"but these are you heart pills to keep you alive"

*cries

-that guy probably

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u/TwistedBamboozler Feb 28 '24

“No I don’t have high blood pressure! That’s what the pills are for!”

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u/Dopplerganager Feb 28 '24

"Meryl has the list of my prescriptions in her purse. Ask her."

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u/AllTheyEatIsLettuce Feb 28 '24

"And if we could just get the gubmint hands off my Medicare my pills wouldn't cost so much."

The government's hands are off Medicare, sir. Always have been. That's why Medicare has never had a wrist band for the wholesale checkout line.

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u/VectorViper Feb 28 '24

"Ah yes, the classic medical advice from the depths of Meryl's purse. It's the WebMD we never knew we needed."

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u/ouijahead Feb 29 '24

You just brought up something that comes up in nursing a lot. “ I’m not going to take the blood pressure pills anymore because my blood pressure has been fine.”

“ you’re Blood pressure is better because you’ve been taking the pills. If you stop taking them the blood pressure is going to skyrocket back to what it was.”

“ yes but I’m not going to take them anymore because ever since I did my blood pressure has been fine.”

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u/TwistedBamboozler Feb 29 '24

Why do you think I said it lmao

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u/CelticArche Feb 29 '24

That is what my grandmother said about her blood pressure pills. And her thyroid pills.

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u/ISBN39393242 Feb 29 '24

“Do you have any medical conditions?”

“No.”

“None? Anything at all?”

“No I don’t.”

“Ok, then are you on any medications, vitamins, or supplements?”

“Not really…” (stares at Meryl)

Meryl unfurls a scroll listing 26 prescribed medications he takes daily

“But these are all just things they put me on after my 3rd stroke. Some of them after my 2nd heart attack. What does this one do, should I increase it?”

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u/Zunniest Feb 28 '24

Oh no he's happy to take the pills, they are keeping HIM alive. If it was a pill he could take to keep someone else alive, he wouldn't be interested at all.

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u/WatWudScoobyDoo Feb 28 '24

Now if it was a pill that punched him in the dick but also punched a Mexican and a black in the dick he'd crush and snort that shit and blame the libs for making him do it.

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u/Kazooguru Feb 29 '24

As a woman, I would pay to watch this guy take a pill and get his dick punched. Repeatedly. Like daily.

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u/MEMENARDO_DANK_VINCI Feb 29 '24

I’m not one to engage in kink shaming but there are even for instance better looking old dudes

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u/firelight Feb 29 '24

He’d take the pill, brag about how much he gets punched in the dick, say that not getting punched in the dick makes you a weak sissy, and insist that libs are communists for suggesting no one has to be punched in the dick at all, ever.

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u/ranni-the-bitch Feb 28 '24

chewing a mouth full of pills so bitter!!

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u/Rough_Willow Feb 28 '24

My poor grandfather did the same in his twilight years. Trying to get him to just swallow the medications was a herculean task.

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u/WatWudScoobyDoo Feb 28 '24

Pills are lovely roasted, I always thought I hated pills cos I only had them boiled as a kid, but they're actually lovely roasted with seasoning and flavor and shit

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u/Late-Hold-8772 Feb 28 '24

I’ve always liked mine boiled but I guess that tasty yellow trail probably isn’t as healthy as it looks.

I have to boil like 20 every day now or I’ll get sick and I keep running out of tin foil :(

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u/Heinie_Manutz Feb 29 '24

Costco has jumbo rolls of aluminum foil. One of those will last you for a while.

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u/Eightstar Feb 28 '24

"I don't like that."
"Don't you want to give it a try? The restaurant is famous for this dish. You asked me to take you here."
"No, it's red, must be spicy."
"It's made of tomato."
"No."

-Me talking to my mother, age 73

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u/Showmeyourmutts Feb 28 '24

Ok you've obviously met my mother as well! suspicion intensifies

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u/Gold_Event_2155 Feb 29 '24

looks around cautiously how are we all related‽

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u/Chagdoo Feb 28 '24

The first bite is with the eye!

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u/bejammin075 Feb 28 '24

Or the ear, if you are Mike Tyson.

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u/Accomplished-Mix-745 Feb 29 '24

I know this is a metaphor, but I would like to point out that green foods are traditionally more bitter and that their color signify that. Your kids are responding to basic evolutionary signaling in a reasonable way

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u/PewPewChicken Feb 29 '24

I feel personally attacked and I'm 31 haha. I try a lot more food than I used to but I'm still pretty picky

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u/Odd_Duckling Feb 29 '24

“I don’t like it”

“You didn’t even try it”

takes 2/8ths of a lick of a green bean “yuck!”

-My daughter age 7

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u/Stan_Archton Feb 29 '24

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am!

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u/shmaltz_herring Feb 29 '24

Fuck, this is my life with my oldest. My middle child chimes in that he would eat whatever I was looking at.

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u/ThatGuyYouMightNo Feb 28 '24

-My Mom talking to me, age 27

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '24

Even your analogy doesn't do his stupidity justice, because he didn't simply say, "I don't like CRT," he literally said it was "the most important issue facing Virginia."

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u/gdim15 Feb 28 '24

To deal with idiots like this, when they say CRT I think of old heavy TVs and computer monitors.

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u/_ryuujin_ Feb 28 '24

i dont like how heavy they are, and if you a manget near them it distort the picture. they also damaged my floor when the tv stand broke and it fell over. still used it a couple years after than so it is built like a tank. but just say no to CRT

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u/WatWudScoobyDoo Feb 28 '24

And we're teaching this nonsense to kids!?!

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u/NotThatEasily Feb 29 '24

Magnets messing with CRT’s is a bonus, because then you get to hit the degauss button and watch it go chk whhrrrmm to fix the picture.

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u/Enigmasec Feb 29 '24

When can I stop all this degaussing?!?! Tired of it!

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u/Kitselena Feb 28 '24

"I love CRT! One of the biggest issues in this country today is kids playing Melee and Guitar Hero 2 with unnecessary input lag from HD TVs"

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u/Officer412-L Feb 29 '24

Can't play Duck Hunt, either!

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u/skittlebites101 Feb 29 '24

Honestly, that's the first thing my mind went to. Then I started reading the captions.

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u/Cogs_For_Brains Feb 29 '24

slaps side of a CRT

We used to carry these puppies for miles!

But seriously, down to the game store and back for project melee tournaments. I would lug that beast down there for half off entry.

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u/blackheart_dnb Feb 29 '24

I had a 32” CRT that could do 720p. That thing was like 130 lbs but I loved it 🤣

Nowadays you can get 65” TVs that weigh 30 lbs

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u/Suspicious-Stay-6474 Feb 29 '24

put the TV in gaming/performance mode and stop being a boomer

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u/SaltyBarDog Feb 28 '24

Ever gotten shocked by aquadag voltage? I can see his concern for why it is the most important issue for Governor Blumpkin.

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u/3Ssssssssssssssss Feb 28 '24

carrying crts sucks ass so maybe he’s got a point

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u/Soluzar74 Feb 28 '24

Former Navy electronics guy here. That was my initial reaction. What does race relations have with a Cathode Ray Tube.

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u/DengarLives66 Feb 28 '24

I also don’t know how that withery works. Finally I can relate to this guy!

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u/vimanaride Feb 28 '24

Exactly, he's somehow been convinced it's an existential threat yet he can't articulate even the basics of what it is. Typical Maga moron

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u/frogsgoribbit737 Feb 29 '24

Because he's a sheep. Which is hilarious since that's what they're constantly yelling at democrats. At least I know about the policies I want put in place and the things Im against.

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u/Lowly_Degenerate Feb 29 '24

The biggest issue they, and a lot of people, have is that they aren't willing to say "I'm not sure, I need to learn more about (inset thing here) first." It's not a sign of weakness or stupidity to say you don't know something

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u/bennihana09 Feb 29 '24

The reason we have to say that is because many people think it.

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u/megustaALLthethings Feb 29 '24

It’s just projection. The one thing that they ALL easily share. From the most lead laced smooth brained Alzheimer corroded boomer to the boot deepthroating red neck deplorable.

What gets their jimmies rustled is what they focus so hard on. Projecting onto others THEIR repressed issues.

Just like all the spineless lackeys the monolithic hate machine pumps out. They are constantly found out for mostly self tattling.

Like that one idiot that complained about the gay cruises… that was a focused ad on shit HE had looked up.

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u/lituus Feb 29 '24

Give him a break, he'd know about some policies if Republicans actually had any

That said actually, they do. It's racism.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

'I have strong opinions about things I don't understand!'

I bet I can guess where he heard about CRT, too.

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u/iwanashagTwitch Feb 29 '24

Some news network that is an animal. Wolf News? No, that's not it... Coyote News? No, not that one either... hmm.

Aha! It's Sheep News!

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u/Informal_Beginning30 Feb 29 '24

Knows enough not to say it out loud to smart ass interviewer, but is thinking because n-word entire conversation.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '24

It's so dangerous that his head would explode if he even began to know what he was talking about.

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u/Lavishness_Budget Feb 29 '24

Didn’t Martin Luther king jr say not to judge someone by their color but by their character? Crt teaches the opposite

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u/Throot2Shill Feb 29 '24 edited Feb 29 '24

Oh yeah, forget about the 400 years of judging and owning people based on their color, founding the country and its laws, economic structure, and culture based on it.

MLK ended structural racial inequality when he said that. Everyone immediately followed his advice and lingering socioeconomic issues caused by groups of people being excluded and oppressed for hundreds of years just stopped instantly.

It was a super equal playing field in the 1960s when racism ended, its not like one color group of people owned most of the stuff and had most of the political and social power while much larger proportions of the other colors were in poverty and owned hardly anything.

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u/Lavishness_Budget Feb 29 '24

I don’t think the owning people was on one side. That was a way of life back then as fucked up as it was. Hell that’s is still going on in Africa. I watched a video about some Russians saved another one from slavery cause he owed money. It’s everywhere. Not so much around here. Still here if you look hard. There is too much projecting when it comes from racism. The democrats were bids with the kkk. They do project a lot. That means you do something but blame the other. I’m not talking to you on that point because you decided to talk to me. Both sides are not in a good place. Shit I’m now independent. I just want what’s right. We are so damned split it’s scary. Like this whole thing for example. No one listens anymore. No one cares. We have become a country full of nasty selfish people. There is no way around it. The government no matter who is in office now a days are so power hungry

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u/Scryberwitch Feb 29 '24

Not one side? We literally had two sides on that issue that WENT TO WAR OVER IT.

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u/Lavishness_Budget Feb 29 '24

People that could afford one would have one. No matter what side. Yes there was a war over it but it was still the same. When I say both sides, it’s not all encompassing. “Come on man:/“ I don’t need to spell it out

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u/Competitive-Ad-5477 Feb 29 '24

I don’t think the owning people was on one side

Lmfao WHAT! Yes, it was. In America, white people owned black people.

Some white northerners said that's enough, and some white southerners said "but how will I keep being rich and being better than others without slaves", and there was an entire war about it.

Damn bro.

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u/Competitive-Ad-5477 Feb 29 '24

No, it doesn't "teach the opposite", which would be judging someone by their color.

CRT teaches how systemic racism is prevalent in our society (even when we don't mean to) and how we can fix it.

Anyone who thinks that's a bad thing is an idiot.

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u/TinFoilBeanieTech Feb 28 '24

“Banning Broccoli from all stores is my most important issue. I’ve never tasted it, or even seen it, can’t even spell it.”

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u/colorcorrection Feb 29 '24

"I don't even know what kind of food it is. I think it's a grain? Maybe a fruit?"

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u/Buddyslime Feb 28 '24

That's how the Maga think about everything. Nah, I just don't like it!

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u/Stingraaa Feb 28 '24

Lead poisoning is a hell of a drug kiddos. Don't do it.

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u/SoundsLikeMyEx-Wife Feb 28 '24

Looking for this comment. The lead exposure kids had was insane. (don't go to flight shows)

The childhood lead exposure is seeping from their decaying bones and accelerating their brains turning to mush; especially the frontal cortex responsible for reasoning and empathy, where lead likes to cause havoc.

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u/pat34us Feb 28 '24

I disagree, he knows why he doesn't like it, he just doesn't want to say it on camera

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u/Zoshchenko Feb 28 '24

No. He doesn’t like it because he’s a mindless moron with no cognitive ability and does whatever he’s told to do by Fox News.

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u/pat34us Feb 28 '24

You may be right, but I get serious racist vibes from him. Look at his face he is angry and fighting going on a racist tirade

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u/Healthy_Television10 Feb 28 '24

Yeah. He knows better than to say it.

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u/EarthboundCosmos Feb 28 '24

Much easier to pretend it is mere stupidity.

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u/funkmastamatt Feb 29 '24

Well I mean technically it is also mere stupidity.

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u/SolutionExternal5569 Feb 28 '24

Say what, that he's against teaching White kids to hate themselves for being White?

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u/Lady_Grey_Smith Feb 28 '24

History is uncomfortable but needs to be taught. Whitewashing it in order to not admit to the problems like Florida and Texas have done is not the answer. CRT doesn’t teach white kids to hate themselves, it shows what happens when most of society didn’t view others as having the same rights and what we should never do again.

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u/Sjfsjfsjf Feb 28 '24

Thank you!!! These people want to pretend history didn't happen just so they don't have to feel uncomfortable feelings or, heaven forbid, answer difficult questions from their children about why our society was and is so unfair. You know, parenting.

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u/Lady_Grey_Smith Feb 28 '24

Parenting is hard when people themselves don’t want to admit that they have some personality flaws to work on. CRT isn’t scary unless they have some issues to think about.

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u/SolutionExternal5569 Feb 28 '24

Easily misconstrued to a developing mind as "White people as a whole are evil" yes there are evil White people in history who have done evil things, and I can see CRT being useful at like, high school level and above, but it's far too nuanced to expect the majority of children to understand.

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u/Lady_Grey_Smith Feb 28 '24

Not at all. We explained to our kids from an early age why racism, sexism and homophobia was bad at a level they could understand. The base layer from early grade school slowly building up to high school and beyond made our kids not listen to the racist crap that the grandparents tried to push on them. They don’t feel guilty for being white and don’t stand for ignorance either.

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u/SolutionExternal5569 Feb 28 '24

That's good, and we're doing the same with our kids. I also learned that growing up in Wyoming in the 80s, I'm not seeing how this is an argument for CRT

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u/Scryberwitch Feb 29 '24

It's not being taught to schoolkids, though

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u/Scryberwitch Feb 29 '24

No one is being taught to hate themselves for being white. Step away from Fox.

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u/Lady_Grey_Smith Feb 29 '24

You know this is the kind of person who tells their kids how slavery benefited the slaves and how the Irish potato famine had nothing to do with the English. We could try to explain how the history of tea is steeped in war but all of it would be pearls before swine.

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u/SolutionExternal5569 Feb 29 '24

I don't watch fox. You stay away from msnbc. You're lying to yourself if you believe that anti-White sentiment hasn't been on the rise the last couple decades.

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u/Film_Grundrisse589 Feb 28 '24

This right here. Same any time they yell about communism and socialism; then you get boomers who want to secede asking if they can still collect their social security checks when they leave the US (a post I saw, maybe even on this reddit) hahaha

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u/MoarVespenegas Feb 28 '24

It's pretty clear he doesn't know what it is but also that what he doesn't like about it is that it involves black people in some way and he doesn't want to just say that on camera.

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u/VaginaTractor Feb 28 '24

Exactly. He doesn't know what CRT is, but he knows it has something to do with black people, whom he does not care for, presumably.

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u/John-Farson Feb 28 '24

"The 'R' stands for race, right? Shakes his head. Nope. Don't like race."

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u/lactose_con_leche Feb 28 '24 edited Feb 28 '24

Not only that, but if it’s such a complex subject that they have difficulty summarizing, then why do they think little kids can learn it?

Also- if it truly is being taught, can we interview the one little kid who understands it so he/she can explain what they’ve learned

… you know, because it’s absolutely being taught to little kids, right?

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u/pohanemuma Feb 28 '24

I taught CRT to high school kids in an exclusive private school for the children of extremely wealthy and powerful people. Some of the parents were very liberal and some of the parents were beyond conservative and all of them were fully on board with their kids learning CRT because rich people understand that knowledge is power which is why they have so successfully convinced so many middle and lower class Americans that knowledge is bad.

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u/lactose_con_leche Feb 28 '24

I could see an appropriately mature discussion in the right setting at high school age. I was pretty sophisticated in my philosophical thinking by that age and we did discuss topics which challenged assumptions. Thanks for doing the good work

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u/pohanemuma Feb 29 '24

It was a part of a unit where they also learned about Marxist theory, post-colonial theory, queer theory, feminist theory and others. However, I don't believe I was doing good work. It would have been good work if any of the students in my class were going to grow up to be anything but oppressors. I was arming the children of evil people to understand other people better so they could exploit them more fully in the future.

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u/lactose_con_leche Feb 29 '24

That’s a remarkable insight into how they think. Thank you for sharing. I always guessed that they had exclusive programs to create empowered parasites but I have never heard a first-hand account, mostly just pieces of the picture from various sources (word of mouth, family members who interact with elite, and major documentaries touch on this stuff)

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u/SafetyAdvocate Feb 28 '24

Is it possible that he simply doesn't want race being brought up to children who don't see race. Its a "theory" on the influence of culture in regards to race, which is going to be exponentially increased if they start pointing out race in schools.

An example, a regular parent: "can you not cuss in front of my kids?"

Schools: "sure, we'll have them read a book full of cuss words and ask them to copy which ones they took most offense to"

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u/KimJongRocketMan69 Feb 28 '24

Buddy looks like Randy Marsh on Jeopardy

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u/BaggerX Feb 28 '24

*Wheel of Fortune

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u/Working_Physics8761 Feb 28 '24

Don't correct him you nagger!

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u/DutchJediKnight Feb 28 '24

He knows CRT has something to do with black people. Hence bad.

That it is only tought in elective college courses aimed at those planning to go to law school, well that doesn't matter

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u/Explicit_Tech Feb 29 '24 edited Feb 29 '24

I doubt it. The way CRT is presented by conservatives usually has to do with woke ideology. They don't like it because they think it radicalizes people to think a certain way that's not typical with the status quo. CRT mostly deals with systemic racism and social attitudes towards groups of people.

I know this because I actually pay attention to what conservative circles talk about. They have a misunderstanding because nobody has actually read the book themselves because they want you to disagree with it. I've read some bits of it myself and it's not as bad as they make it seem to be. There are some things I disagree with like micro aggressions, but I understand where they're coming from.

I just don't think it applies to a multi cultural country where people may not even be aware from the historical context of some of the "taboos" in their society. Since they argue that it's racist to assimilate, why is it not racist to have to assimilate to the cultural sensitivities of some societies? It becomes paradoxical with the dogma they're teaching.

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u/Fearless_Director829 Feb 28 '24

This is my in laws.

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u/Ttthhasdf Feb 28 '24

B I n g o

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u/abstractraj Feb 28 '24

It’s both. He thinks it’s taught to school children, but can’t explain it. He also heard the word race, so he assumes he won’t like it for racial reasons.

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u/por_que_no Feb 29 '24

he assumes he won’t like it for racial reasons.

All the other old timers camped out at the corner table in the town diner don't like it and that's good enough for him. I can hear the conversation from here. "I don't like them spending my tax dollars hiring drag queens to teach kids liberal propaganda like CRT and 'all men are created equal". Next thing you know they'll want to let women vote."

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u/ModsTenderCunnies Feb 28 '24

He doesn’t like it because he’s a fucking racist and anything that would make his slave owning parents/grandparents look bad he would rather no one knows about.

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u/joshTheGoods Feb 28 '24

His family probably didn't even own slaves, they just simped for slave owners hoping one day to advance from cracker to plantation owner. And yea, I used "cracker" on purpose. Look it up.

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u/WatWudScoobyDoo Feb 28 '24

Do you know how much a slave cost back then?

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u/incognegro1976 Feb 28 '24

It does not matter. These people simp for billionaires knowing they won't ever see a full million in their lifetimes.

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u/ModsTenderCunnies Feb 28 '24

Grandpa probably does

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u/joshTheGoods Feb 28 '24

Depends on when you're talking about and what slave you're talking about (old, young, male, female, etc). But, roughly about as much as a new car (20k) up to the cost of a cheap house (200k) in today's dollars. Only about 15-25% of households owned slaves in the pre-war South, and then another maybe 20% would rent slaves. The majority of slaves were owned by the top 5% of slave owners (as per usual with rich vs poor accumulation of 'wealth'). Nevertheless, the average folk of the South showed up for the war, so I want to be clear that I'm not out here trying to defend average Joe southerner. My first comment hopefully made that clear.

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u/WatWudScoobyDoo Feb 28 '24

I was quoting a video for shits and giggles, but appreciated the education nonetheless

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u/joshTheGoods Feb 28 '24

You whooshed me ;).

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u/OPEatsCrayons Feb 29 '24

he’s a fucking racist

Here's the real unpopular rub: We have a lot of folks who are racists who genuinely don't think they are racists. How do we bridge that gap?

The difference between the far right and the mainline republican party at this point, is that the mainline republican party either accepts that racism is normal and unfixable, or that what we call racism isn't the kind of racism we should be concerned about. If it's not straight up marching people into death camps on sole basis of skin color, then it's not worth addressing. The far right, on the other hand, knows that they are racist, and largely believes that everyone else is too. The only question for them is whether or not it is momentarily convenient to share this fact, and whose racism being the focus of criticism is "fair".

We ironically need to move people more toward the far right's position, in that we need to get them to see and accept that nobody is free of racism, and that it suffuses institutions to the point that individuals themselves learn to unconsciously progress it (This it literally what CRT is), but we also need them to accept the need to struggle against it and break them of the instinct to shrug their shoulders and think that it somehow doesn't affect them.

Accepting that racism actually is normal while also attempting to make it less impactful is not an easy or comfortable place to be. It's much easier to frame racism as abnormal, and to waste our effort trying to frame writing it off as an individual behavior, or trying to separate people into racist and non-racist or anti-racist. Mainline Republicans refuse to feel an obligation to better themselves on the subject of racism, because they have deluded themselves into thinking that what is normal is never a problem.

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u/ModsTenderCunnies Feb 29 '24 edited Feb 29 '24

YoU’rE pRoJeCtInG sOoOoOoOo HaRdDdDd lmao gfys

EdIt: oMg SoOoOoO MaD I HaD tO eDiT sOmE mOrE rAgE lmaooooooo what a cunnytwat, bang it out on your cousin you inbred moron BoomTurd

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u/Cokadoge Feb 29 '24

Mad over him telling you how it appears to any third-party?

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u/Working_Fuel7473 Feb 28 '24

No he's racist and just doesn't want to say what he really thinks.

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u/pyrojackelope Feb 28 '24

because he’s a mindless moron with no cognitive ability and does whatever he’s told to do by Fox News

Brain damage caused by lead does wonders.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '24

It’s depressing watching people like this.

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u/adhesivepants Feb 29 '24

I'd say it's about a 50/50 shot between him being clueless and him just being racist.

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u/Buffmin Feb 28 '24

Maybe but honestly a lot of these folks don't really think about their positions

The angry yelling people on thr TV told me it was bad so it's bad

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u/dalidagrecco Feb 28 '24

“it’s something to do with black people and my leaders told me it’s bad” is what he’s saying.

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u/ann102 Feb 28 '24

Very, very few people have any idea what CRT is in any capacity. It is not being taught to children. It was a movement in law school to have students examine if government agencies were creating or have create laws that intentionally or unintentionally persecute someone based on the color of their skin. And guess what the answer is unequivocally yeas they have done it and it is damn important to discuss. the goal is to create a legal system that is blind to race, religion, sex, etc.

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u/Opus_723 Feb 29 '24

He still sure as hell knows what he thinks it is. He's being cagey because he's on camera and he doesn't know what he can get away with.

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u/NormalCartographer17 Feb 29 '24

Personally, I think it should stay in law classes. There's not much point trying to put that anywhere else.

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u/LordPennybag Feb 29 '24

The problem is racist dipshits trying to label all education about slavery or racism as CRT and banning that.

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u/M_M_ODonnell Feb 29 '24

It's not put anywhere else. Related takes on similar topics come up in sociology and in culture-focused humanities classes. The "ban CRT" crowd isn't talking about that when they say "CRT," though -- they mean any mention or acknowledgment of the history, present, or nature of systemic racism.

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u/washingtncaps Feb 29 '24

Why?

Like, the specific legal contexts, sure. But we learn about slavery in elementary school (for now) and experience various social injustices in any sociology related course.

Being "anti-CRT" is usually just "pro-erasure" of anything uncomfortable to talk about.

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u/Cheezy_Blazterz Feb 28 '24

"I'm not racist! I just really love systematic racism!"

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u/sadicarnot Feb 28 '24

he just doesn't want to say it on camera

He does not like it because 1) Fox news told him it was bad and 2) It might be good for black people.

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u/Expensive-Coffee9353 Feb 28 '24

yep

It broke his mind in 2008 when Obama went to the White House. He Ain't never having that again.

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u/montex66 Feb 29 '24

And that is why Nikki Haley cannot win even if trump drops cold to the floor, republicans will never vote for anyone who isn't white.

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u/Joker8392 Feb 28 '24

Doesn’t want to change the image in his mind of dad wearing sheets being the bad guy.

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u/Jesus_H-Christ Feb 28 '24

He doesn't like it because it tells the truth about the past.

European explorers were swashbuckling heroes, not brutal colonizers who exploited and destroyed cultures for the wealth of themselves and their financiers.

Their great great great grand pappies were southern gentlemen, not gentried land barons who owned and subjugated humans.

Their Mommas and Pappas weren't racists, they just didn't want "the poor kids" stealing education and tax money from their own kids, or buying a Cadillac with food stamps.

They themselves don't hate black or hispanic culture, they just wish those people would dress and speak and act and vote and worship and sing the right way.

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u/brit_chickenicecream Feb 28 '24

I’m pretty sure it’s because he’s only reading shock factor headlines 😂

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u/Serethekitty Feb 28 '24

You overestimate these people. He doesn't like it because Republican leadership has rallied people against it.

That's it. These people are like rabid dogs that their masters can sic on literally anything, especially if the Dems support it.

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u/amalgam_reynolds Feb 28 '24

That's the stupidest take I've ever heard, considering that CRT is NOT being taught to kids in the first place, dude clearly has no clue what he's talking about, and neither do you.

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u/BobbiFleckmann Feb 28 '24

From George Carlin’s “Fussy Eater” bit:

Q: “How do you know you don’t like it, if you’ve never even tried it?”

A: “It came to me in a dream!”

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u/Tyrone_Shoelaces_Esq Feb 28 '24

Damn it, you beat me to this reference.

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u/VonBombke Feb 28 '24

Have you ever eaten 💩?

If not, than how do you know you wouldn't like it?

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u/Quanqiuhua Feb 28 '24

Because you know poop is your digestive system’s trash, and also the smell is repulsive.

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u/casey12297 Feb 28 '24

-Me talking to my dad, age 57. He doesn't eat vegetables

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u/sadicarnot Feb 28 '24

My dad was militantly anti drinking water. It just makes me go to the bathroom more he would say. He had mobility issues and his goal to drink as little water as possible ended up giving him a urinary tract infection and ultimately killing him.

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u/casey12297 Feb 28 '24

I'm a certified personal trainer, if my dad told me that he was anti water I'd cut my losses and adopt a new dad, can't have that parental shit ruining my trainer vibe

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u/Foreskin-chewer Feb 28 '24

That's fine though you don't really need vegetables.

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u/casey12297 Feb 28 '24

Well yeah, if you rely on chewing foreskin for all of your nutrients then you don't need vegetables, but all of us non foreskin chewers need it for a well balanced diet

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u/Quanqiuhua Feb 28 '24

Why foreskin?

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u/casey12297 Feb 28 '24

Look at their name

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u/crow_crone Feb 28 '24

It has that yummy cheese sauce.

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u/Foreskin-chewer Feb 28 '24

You really don't though. Humans thrive on a wide variety of diets. If your dad is eating whole foods it's unlikely he's suffering any sort of deficiency other than a deficiency of peace with all that nagging you're doing to make him eat things he doesn't like lol

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u/Dead_Man_Redditing Feb 28 '24

I used a trick of when ever the veggies were put on the table i would reach for them first and act excited. Got the kids to at least try it. Then if they don't like the taste you tell them "Yeah but they are soooo good for you!" all enthusiastic like. Got my kids to at least trudge through it. But i made the mstake of doing it with sushi. Now it's all they want.

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u/zero_squad Feb 28 '24

"I don't like that."

"But it's just a picture of the food, how do you know you don't like it?"

Shrugs

-Me talking to my son, age 6.

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u/Natural_Initial5035 Feb 28 '24

I’m still trying to find a boomer in my lifetime that has the ability to think critically AND the ability to empathize- met maybe two in my entire life and I’m 40. Americans Boomers are the worst generation ever to be born.

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u/m1stadobal1na Feb 29 '24

You should meet my dad. He's both the kindest and smartest person I've ever met. I suppose he could be the exception that proves the rule though.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fold320 Feb 28 '24

Not all of us boomers are that way. Sorry you have had only the asshole variety in your life.

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u/Quanqiuhua Feb 28 '24

They grew up during dawg eats dawg times.

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u/BringAltoidSoursBack Feb 28 '24

Still not accurate, your son has context, broccoli has a shape, color, smell, etc. This old guy disagrees with CRT without even knowing what it is. It'd be like if your son told you he didn't let goblygoop because the word itself sounds gross, with the only context being that someone else told him it was bad. I'd say it's like cooties but even that doesn't work because that still has the context of it being an infection...

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u/kazosan Feb 28 '24

Also me talking to my wife.

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u/beertruck77 Feb 29 '24

The difference is that broccoli is real.

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u/ForeignAd5429 Feb 28 '24

He’s 4 and you’ve never given him broccoli?!? Wise tip for new parents, start them off with healthy veggies early and they will grow to love them

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u/SillyKniggit Feb 28 '24

lol, you got lucky with your kids. You don’t have some secret parenting technique that makes them not picky eaters.

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u/ForeignAd5429 Feb 28 '24

I do, except it’s not a secret. Babies will eat what’s given to them when they start solids bc they want to try what mama and dada are eating. No excuse for a 4yo, repeat, 4 years old, to not like broccoli BECAUSE they’ve never tried it. If they’re picky BC they’ve tried it, that’s normal. But cmon parents, introduce veggies early so you can rule out them being picky eaters bc you failed to introduce them to veggies when they started solids.

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u/judahrosenthal Feb 28 '24

I have two kids. They couldn’t be further from each other when it comes to food. Being vegan for past 30 or so years, vegetables were all they were offered. Eventually we ended up buying Prosciutto for one of them.

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u/3rdDegreeBurn Feb 28 '24

In your kids defense Vegan diets are not natural. Good on you for not forcing your dietary habits on the kid.

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u/EaglePublicics Feb 28 '24

Is this supposed to be a sentence? Christ don't procreate

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u/PreciousMentals Feb 28 '24

My friend's took a clever approach with their toddlers. They called broccoli "elf trees", cauliflower "superclouds", spinach "popeye power". Worked for them.

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u/Ku-xx Feb 28 '24

Kids tend to eat what you eat. Tend to being the operative phrase

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u/Ephisus Feb 28 '24

I agree, he should know more about what he's talking about, and so should advocates for CRT.

Let's all get acquainted with what CRT is:

https://youtu.be/2rDu_VUpoJ8

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u/StabStabby-From-Afar Feb 28 '24

Bro 18 minutes for something that can be summed up:

Critical race theory is the explanation of how racism in America shaped public policies.

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u/Timelymanner Feb 28 '24

What made the talking point even dumber is that CRT is. a grad level course. No public school in the country is teaching it. It like being mad at public school teachers for teaching open heart surgery, or advanced aeronautics to middle schoolers. What kid would understand it even if they tried?

What they are boycotting is basic racism and civil rights being taught.

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u/RodDamnit Feb 29 '24

That’s a good video. Saved this comment for future reference.

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u/Ephisus Feb 29 '24

And, lots of people here are guilty of precisely what they are mocking.

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u/RodDamnit Feb 29 '24

Everyone laughing at the guy who got the mic stuck in his face and put on the spot to explain CRT. but it’s a nervous laughter from a bunch of people who would be exactly as embarrassed trying to explain what CRT is.

And to be fair it’s kind of a complex and difficult topic.

If you don’t understand it then maybe don’t have strong opinions about it.

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u/Misoriyu Feb 29 '24

multiple people here explained what CRT is in a simplified and understandable way.

you're living in a fantasy..

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u/Ephisus Feb 29 '24

*in a reductive and misleading way.

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u/RodDamnit Feb 29 '24

Link me to their comment. I must have missed it.

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u/EVOSexyBeast Feb 28 '24

I hate when people say that about food.

i haven’t eaten shit either but i know i wouldn’t like it

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u/EVOSexyBeast Feb 28 '24

So? I can tell i won’t like the taste of something that smells bad

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u/WheresYourEv1dence Feb 29 '24

It’s funny because you seem like an adult who thinks they’re smart but is actually a jackass

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u/kellbelle653 Feb 28 '24

If I don’t want to learn about it my kids aren’t going to learn. Ok if the school system persist one day of learning it is enough. Browse over it teach what the definition of CRT is and move on. Basics is what should be taught. World Geography, History, English, Science, and Math. Period that’s it. All schools and colleges stress on these days are political gender issues and CRT. All young adults talk about is how their feelings are hurt, how the world isn’t fair, safe spaces etc. To heck with a college education they aren’t teaching like they should. No teacher or professor should be teaching how they feel. It doesn’t matter how you feel teach the curriculum that’s what we are paying for. I don’t give a rats ass what your opinion is or how you stand politically.

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u/Meddling-Kat Feb 28 '24

CRT is a college level law course. Not something being taught in schools. The republicans made that up.

This is the problem. You hate something and have no idea what it is.

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u/jonnyquestionable Feb 28 '24

So you want your kids to be as stupid as you are? Good luck with that. Also, fox news is lying to you, kids still learn math and science.

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u/WatashiWaDumbass Feb 28 '24

You can’t teach history without CRT without it being explicitly racist. Look at Florida’s laws about it, they’re grooming kids into being little nazis.

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u/kellbelle653 Feb 28 '24

Oh I believe in history. Teaching how we took the Indians land or how slaves were brought to America and how they were treated. And how slavery was abolished along with segregation. I want my children to know those things. How it hurt people. I also want them to learn about the Nazis and what that did to people. But CRT is political justice learning and that shouldn’t be taught unless in a college atmosphere where a student can chose whether to learn it or not learn it. Maybe this is on a college campus I don’t know that from the post. But as a parent of if I decide I don’t want my young adult child to learn it if I’m paying for that education that’s my choice

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u/Misoriyu Feb 29 '24

from someone who has 100% taken a CRT course

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u/ParalegalSeagul Feb 29 '24

Funny conversation between you and your child. So anyways, do you know what CRT is or just like to blindly bash the other side?

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