Biden reportedly regrets ending re-election campaign and says he’d have defeated Trump

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[–]xoenix 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

So you figure the institutional critical race and gender theory didn't take? Or was this the intended outcome?

[–]cunninglingus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

So you figure the institutional critical race and gender theory didn't take?

Putting normal history about the abuses of the past in history books is a normal update, nothing to worry about. It teaches kids the actual history, rather than the 19th century lies of white saviour "providence" of the "rise of the West" (at the expense of the lives and land of those without guns, immunity to germs, and steel; see Guns, Germs and Steel by J Diamond, albeit much too simplistic). "Rise of the West" histories have dominated school studies for two centuries. A recent interest in looking at history throught the eyes of those who were conquered, exploited, or merely misrepresented is an approach to factual history. It developed at a time when interdisciplinary courses and 'critical thinking' components in courses were developing. Hence the name critical race theory may have crept into the same "paradigm" shift in history studies. Anything wrong with that? Of course not.

Meanwhile, radical Republicans attacked public school systems because an educated public would never vote for Republicans. Recall the woman Trump made director of the Dept of Education, who used our tax dollars for religious schools. That was another attack and in that case, part of the violation of the separation of church and state offerd by Trump &co when promising the overturning of RvW. Moreover, a couple parents could disrupt an entire school district with their complaints about 'critical race theory'. It worked. There was also a movement for home schooling, which has fucked up a lot of kids.

TLDR: complaints about critical race theory are for political manipulation by Republicans. Nothing more.

Or was this the intended outcome?

School textbooks in Texas and Florida contain lies and religious content. I've not seen complaints about textbooks in other states. School boards in Texas and Florida have also been overtaken by crazy people. Republicans achieved some of their goals in those states.

Trump has promised to abolish the Dept of Education. And there's much more planned in Project 2025 for the destruction of public education (which should however be the cornerstone of the Democracy). Moreover, Musk has noted that Americans are too stupid to take on IT jobs for which he wants more Indians to be imported. We're fucked.

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

Critical theory is communist revolution through the institutions. It is not "correcting history", it's propaganda - communist praxis. This is the root cause of the culture war.

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

Perhaps read that out loud. It's tin-foil hat stuff. (There's no evidence that teaching history is part of a comminist conspiracy. None. Ironically, use of the word 'praxis' also developed along with the conversion of traditional political positivist historicism into social history - about the lives of the 99% from their perspectives - in the 1980s. You can use the word "process", and you shouldn't support the establishment's attempt to negate the significance of the histories of the 99%. That would be a fascist 'process' similar to their book burning 'praxis'. The brainwashed MAGATs are now convinced history is bad if it includes the 99%'s histories, because that a communist plot to spread "INSERT CATCHY BUZZWARD PHRASE HERE". Just like the attempts to question scientific fact, right wing assholes also want you to question historical fact. Hence we're now discussing lies, constantly, rather than facts. Return to facts, please. No, facts are not communist, nor are they political.)

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

It's not about teaching history. It is specifically about teaching people to be racists to combat racism. The paradox is that there is no such thing as "negative racism" so they are just producing more racism.