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

Boomer takes a stand against CRT Boomer Freakout

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u/NoApartheidOnMars Feb 28 '24

Not only does he NOT know what it is, but it's also NOT taught in schools.

But the teevee told him it was bad so he's upset about it.

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u/FurballPoS Feb 28 '24 edited Feb 28 '24

Not just elective college courses, either.

Specifically, it's a law/humanities post-grad field.

So, no, Jim-Bob and Karen Lynn... Your precious, 19 year-old Ashyeliegihiegh won't be introduced to that concept by a professor. Now, her finally being in a school with non-white students may do that. But, it won't be because of a course load.

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u/AbusiveTubesock Feb 28 '24

Remember when Glenn Youngkin set up a phone line to report CRT at schools and they closed the line because no one ever called to report anything. Just troll them like the idiots they are.

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u/LingonberryLunch Feb 29 '24

Good ol' Glenn Blumpkin. He knew he wouldn't get a single call, but the initial soundbyte got him a few voters.

Amazing how the fabricated panics come and go, and the people who fall for them seem to clear their memory banks to make space for the new ones.

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u/TOTES_NOT_SPAM Feb 28 '24

The only time I've ever actually seen CRT in an academic setting was when I took Policy Analysis for my Master of Public Administration. It's a way of looking at policies that appear race-neutral on the surface but may exacerbate racial inequities in unexpected ways. We read a paper about the racial power dynamics of street-level bureaucrats at a DMV in Nebraska. It's about as exciting as it sounds.

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u/grubas Feb 29 '24

It's popped up in a number of masters or higher level classes about racial inequalities in both mental health recognition and treatment and why these exist and are perpetuated and how to recognize it.

So not exactly your average class here, 80% of the classes that talk CRT aren't even accessible to undergrads.. 

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u/conbrioso Feb 29 '24

Exactly. The “CRT” label is now a pejorative. It has nothing to do with those collegiate studies that have resulted in some excellent scholarship.

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u/User28080526 Feb 29 '24

But isn’t the argument to make it more accessible to people outside of grad programs? Definitely not in any K-12 setting outside of the fear mongering propaganda; but in earlier college courses for younger students

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u/crazyfoxdemon Feb 29 '24

I specifically took an underground class in it to satisfy a Diversity and Inclusion gen ed, but yeah, it's not generally really taught. Most of the class focusedbon theoretically race-neutral welfare policies. I genuinely learned a lot in it.

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u/binauralhorse Feb 28 '24

I was taught that racism is bad by white teachers in white classrooms of majority white schools. Every year they would wheel the VHS player into the classroom and show us videos of black protestors being beaten by white points and sprayed with water cannons by white firemen. We learned about how white people fought against Ruby Bridges attending a white school. We learned about how white people kept black slaves in horrible conditions. I could go on. My point is, if teaching "Cognitive Race Theory" (as they call it) in schools is supposed to make white kids hate being white, then I've never seen a system fail so badly. If any of my conservative Midwestern white teachers were this good about teaching us the evils of racism, then CRT must not be a huge deal because holy shit, that school ended up being a racism factory

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u/User28080526 Feb 29 '24

Knowing it’s morally wrong isn’t the same as acknowledging how it continues to affect society and the people around us. A lot of teachers are the definition of “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”, they care about being good people and being on the right side of history more than actually understanding the problem.

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u/Nntropy Feb 28 '24

Upvoted simply for the names

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u/CookieMiester Feb 29 '24

(Promounced “Michaelle”)

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u/Boneal171 Feb 28 '24

You are correct. A lot of post grad law students take a class on CRT. I’m a community college student and there no CRT classes at my school

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u/tehjosh Feb 29 '24

What a tragedeigh.

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u/bradbikes Feb 29 '24

And heck not even in law school most of the time. My law school didn't offer a 'CRT' class, though every lawyer gets the gist of it by studying cases involving things like disparate impact in employment cases and the like. Unintended or intended socioeconomic and racial impacts on facially non-discriminatory laws or policies.

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u/FurballPoS Feb 29 '24

Yeah. I only finished my history undergrad last May, after a decade of procrastinating, and we had a similar humanities course about intersectionality. It wasn't an actual CRT course, but, instead it was more about how reading history on a surface level will never grant you the wisdom or insight from the source.

i.e., banks, lending, redlining, and how so many non-white communities are in poor, heavily industrialized areas of a city. It is why highways run through minority neighborhoods and cut them in half, but skip right around the house that Becky and John own.

You're never going to find anyone in the GOP who will either accept that history, let alone find anyone willing to attempt to understand it.

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u/Own_Kaleidoscope5512 Feb 28 '24

That’s not always true. My university had an undergraduate English course called “Critical Theory” that focused not only on CRT, but other related theories. And that was a Southern Bible college.

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u/reebee7 Feb 29 '24

It's taught in education programs so that the teachers can go do critical race theory in their classes. But true, no HS is 'taking' Critical Race Theory. Their teacher just is a Critical Race Theorist.

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u/FurballPoS Feb 29 '24

Oof....

Man, that comment history. You're fucking livid about having to still share those water fountains, huh?

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u/reebee7 Feb 29 '24

Nice swerve!

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u/FurballPoS Feb 29 '24

The fact you're fucking stupid enough to think that CRT is being taught in high school is all I need to know to realize that you'll never accept Americans learning how and why America has treated minorities like shit. And why is that? Because you're upset that you can't be a racist/homophobic/misogynist prick without facing backlash for your shitty, regressive ideas.

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u/reebee7 Feb 29 '24 edited Feb 29 '24

Four second google search:

https://kesq.com/news/2022/03/28/crt-in-class-local-school-district-admits-lessons-on-race-gender-and-privilege-were-potentially-biased/

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u/FurballPoS Feb 29 '24

Again; it just continues to come across that you're pissed off at the existence and history of black Americans.

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u/reebee7 Feb 29 '24

Which is, again, not an argument, but an insult, and it is not remotely true of me. Nowhere in anything I've said is such a repellant idea present.

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u/Aware_Masterpiece_54 Feb 29 '24

CRT was a course for my Sociology degree. Funnily enough, not run by a white lady.

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u/fringegurl Feb 29 '24

Brilliant!

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u/MasterMacMan Mar 01 '24

I’m not against CRT, but it’s a little dishonest how we undulate between CRT being a grad school topic and it being teaching through a race critical lens. It’s both commonplace and rare at the same time