DC elementary school gave 4-year-olds ‘anti-racism’ ‘fistbook’ asking them to identify racist family members

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[–][deleted] 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

The "Fistbook for Kids" says anti-racism "isn’t a spectator sport" but requires "being loud, uncomfortable, confrontational and visible to ensure change is made."

FFS, this is the worst CRT example I've seen yet. The combination of how militant this is, and the age of the kids being indoctrinated is very concerning. The Republican folks weren't even exaggerating how bad this was it seems.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

And they want the kids to narc on their family members like they were commies.

[–]HiddenFox 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

That was in the book 1982. They encouraged kids to rat out family members. Scary shit.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

1984*, but they also do that in China and used to do that in Russia and Nazi Germany.

[–]HiddenFox 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Whoops.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I'm quite happy with people being more loud, uncomfortable, confrontational and visible, but isn't this exactly the stuff with makes people feel unsafe?

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Does that only apply to people forcing your ideology on others? Or do you think people should be vocal and confrontational with opinions you disagree with too? Should the Muslim kids berate the gays? Should the pro lifers shame those who had abortions? Should biologists publicly out the trannies?

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well all those things are already happening in the UK and I haven't done anything about it, so maybe.

What a lot of people don't get is if you don't let arseholes air their stupid opinions then you can't prove them wrong and make a good argument against them.

That means a whole lot more people will take up those opinions due to the same misunderstandings.

People worry charismatic bad guys will convert loads of people but such charismatic people are rare. It's much more common that a group of people get the same opinion because they see and experience the same things and maybe don't have access to perspectives outside that.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's one thing to let people speak, it is another to create a cult of extremists, which this teacher is doing. This is no different than the local mosque handing out "remove the gays" pamphlets. These are not about convincing others that they are wrong, they are about punishing others for being wrong without any discussion.

[–]proc0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This is beyond CRT into straight up communism (which anyone paying attention knows is the point of CRT)

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree this goes beyond CRT, but I don't think communism is the right word. Communism is an economic ideology concerned with public ownership of the means of production, which this doesn't have anything to do with. Yes, Communism often results in socially oppressive regimes, as combining the state with corporate powers is a recipe for dictatorship.

This is about indoctrinating youth with the values of wokeness, but social indoctrination has been part of many different ideological regimes

[–]proc0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The economic ideology is only part of communism. It's really a kind of religion. I think even Marx wanted this to be the case, and for his writing to be taken on faith. James Lindsay mentions this, although I couldn't verify the source, but apparently this is what Marx wrote in his manifesto, but was later edited out.

The main objective of communism is to create chaos at every level of society, and to use the weaknesses of a country against itself to destroy it, to then rebuild their utopia. From this perspective, anything that is indoctrinating people with the spirit of revolution, or the sentiment of rebellion against your own culture, is practically communism. It's just that it has evolved into sophisticated forms, especially after so much language manipulation, that it is now well camouflaged for the new generations.