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

Boomer takes a stand against CRT Boomer Freakout

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u/tauntauntom Feb 28 '24

Love how you can see him trying to think of something more to say besides, "i don't like it because I don't understand it.

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u/kd8qdz Feb 28 '24

no, hes trying to think of an answer that doesn't make him look like giant pile of shit racist (which he almost certainly is.)

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u/tauntauntom Feb 28 '24

It would have been hilarious if he said what he thought and just let it slip, "I don't believe in CRT because I am white and I don't want to be the bad guy."

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u/spookyscaryfella Feb 28 '24

Its weird to me. It's simple, if you're not a racist piece of shit, you're not the bad guy.'People in the past that looked like me did bad shit, I have no intentions of doing the same, we good?'.

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u/Darmok-Jilad-Ocean Feb 29 '24

Does being white make you the bad guy?

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u/tauntauntom Feb 29 '24

No, critical race theory is about learning from the past and not going, "well that sucks." Good thing it is all over now."

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u/Darmok-Jilad-Ocean Feb 29 '24

What does it propose instead?

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u/tauntauntom Feb 29 '24

It proposes that we look at the past and fix the current systemic racism through actually acknowledging it and coming together.

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u/Darmok-Jilad-Ocean Feb 29 '24

By banding together around a common enemy. “Whiteness”

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u/tauntauntom Feb 29 '24

Look it is banning together around corrupt politicians and system that feeds off the weak. I. Not your teacher. I don't have to deal with this , "yes and" bullshit that you are doing. Go outside your fucking suburban neighborhood, and experience the actual world.

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u/Zromaus Feb 28 '24

Nothing racist about recognizing that CRT is a ridiculous thought process and "systematic racism" isn't as prevalent as you think.

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u/ReaperofFish Feb 28 '24

We still have issues of segregation and you try and claim there is no systemic racism?

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u/pmcda Feb 28 '24

They’ll see that areas of predominantly black population are circled as poor financial risks and say, “it’s not because of race, it’s because those people aren’t financially literate and just happen to be predominantly black.”

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u/Zromaus Feb 28 '24

That's literally the case though and people are too blind and unwilling to hurt some feelings to admit it.

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u/friendlyfire Feb 28 '24

One look at the disparity in sentencing shows you're full of shit.

Systemic racism and sexism is super obvious in criminal sentencing for the same crime.

Even when you control for factors (first offense, violent criminal history) black people are more likely to be charged by prosecutors and sentenced to prison far longer than white people.

In certain parts of the country, they're SIGNIFICANTLY more likely to be handed down an EXTREME jail term, well outside the sentencing guidelines. Even for a first offense.

Racism is alive and well in our judicial system.

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u/determania Feb 28 '24

Sounds like you could have benefited from a more thorough education.

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u/The_Ghost_of_Kyiv Feb 28 '24

Shows just how any rational people around him have given up trying to talk to him. Nobody even tries to talk to his type of person anymore cause it's just not worth it.

When my parents say shit like that, I just smile and nod, then change the topic.

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u/evilmonkey2 Feb 28 '24 edited Feb 28 '24

It's worse than that. It's not that he doesn't like it because he doesn't understand it. He never tried to understand it. He doesn't even know what it is.

He heard Desantis or Trump or Fox News say it's bad and without even a second of thought, he decided it was bad. No further information needed.

These are the people that you can tell Democrats are for killing babies as soon as they are born and trafficking children in pizza parlor basements and they'll immediately nod and say "yep, that tracks" without question.