Hes now the Governor of Montana.
No that was Preston Brooks a congressman on May 22, 1856. The man he beat with the cane was Charles Sumner. He was a senator.
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by San Lumen » Wed Jun 16, 2021 6:21 pm
by Borderlands of Rojava » Wed Jun 16, 2021 6:37 pm
by The Reformed American Republic » Wed Jun 16, 2021 6:40 pm
Borderlands of Rojava wrote:The Reformed American Republic wrote:Most Americans don't like CRT according to Washington Resistance Army. It's not just a position amongst right-wingers.
The issue with CRT is it relies on narratives more than facts. CRT is the type of stuff where someone will say "you don't have a right to question my tale of racism cause you're white."
by Postauthoritarian America » Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:06 pm
...despite what Fox News is telling them, critical race theory — the actual academic framework that was developed in law schools to understand the historical reasons our legal system perpetuates racial inequalities — is not, in fact, being taught to 3rd graders or even 11th graders. Claims otherwise are a complete lie, ginned up by right-wing propagandists who are desperate to keep the GOP base whipped into a racist frenzy...the real issue at hand is that conservatives don't want white kids to learn even the most basic truths about American history.
...Schoolchildren aren't really being taught critical race theory, but critical race theory — the actual framework, not the right-wing scare term — is a legitimate academic pursuit that has turned up important facts that white supremacists of yore have covered up. And it's those facts — things like the practice of redlining, the truth about what the Confederacy stood for, what Martin Luther King Jr. really believed, and the history of lynching and events like the Tulsa race massacre — that conservatives want to silence. That is why, for instance, they are so afraid of schools teaching the 1619 Project by the New York Times. Not because, as they falsely claim, it's inaccurate. No, the real objection underlying all the noise is that the 1619 Project is true. Conservatives want facts, the thing that all people claim they want children to learn, to be replaced with flat-out lies about American history.
...Indeed, the idea that "critical race theory" was just the kind of phrase that would easily scare conservatives can be traced back to the time that Andrew Breitbart was still alive. He and the other editors at Breitbart understood that "critical," "race," and "theory" are three words their readers don't really understand well — but do fear — and smashed together, could be leveraged as a Voltron of racist paranoia. Salon reporter Alex Seitz-Wald found, in 2012, that a search for "critical race theory" on Breitbart "returns an astonishing 871 results, over 680 from the past month alone." Rarely, if ever, was the term used accurately.
...Moving away from the debate about what is or isn't "critical race theory" and instead focusing on what lawmakers are actually trying to do — replace factual information with fake history — helps recenter the debate on what's really going on. After all, the only reason Republicans and right-wing pundits lie about what is and isn't in the public school curriculum is because they know they can't win the debate by being honest. The truth terrifies them, which is why they go to such lengths to conceal it both in public debate and in our public schools.
by Kowani » Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:09 pm
by Alcala-Cordel » Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:11 pm
by Major-Tom » Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:11 pm
Kowani wrote:Give me a bit
I have a…second CRT effortpost on the way
Alcala-Cordel wrote:CRT is so vague it's almost meaningless IMO
by Uiiop » Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:25 pm
Alcala-Cordel wrote:CRT is so vague it's almost meaningless IMO
by The Greater Ohio Valley » Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:38 pm
by Zurkerx » Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:52 pm
by The Reformed American Republic » Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:25 pm
The Greater Ohio Valley wrote:The Reformed American Republic wrote:Most Americans don't like CRT according to Washington Resistance Army. It's not just a position amongst right-wingers.Thermodolia wrote:It’s not just right wingers. Nearly 60% of the nation has a problem with it.
And most of them probably don’t even know what it is so I don’t particularly care that they have a problem with it. .
by Shrillland » Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:29 pm
by Borderlands of Rojava » Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:36 pm
by Shrillland » Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:40 pm
Borderlands of Rojava wrote:I'm not gonna say this is my opinion on CRT since I can't tell where CRT ends and other shit begins, but there is such a thing as going too far left on racial issues. Yes there are cultural beauty standards but to keep it real, sometimes the reason people say you look like shit is just cause you look like shit, not because they're racist. It's like that time people said Trump was a racist for calling LeBron James stupid. #1 saying calling black people stupid is a stereotype is vague as hell and #2 trump calls people of many different ethnicities stupid. I don't think race factored into him calling LeBron stupid, I think he said it cause LeBron doesn't like him. You can overplay the racism issue. It's amazing tbh that you can cause it isnt like there isn't isn't actual racism out there, but when you tell a white person that "hard work is a white construct," you make people think you're a low intelligence moron, and it isnt because of whatever race you are, but indeed because you're hopelessly stupid. Not everything is a white construct, not everything is racism.
by Borderlands of Rojava » Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:42 pm
Shrillland wrote:Borderlands of Rojava wrote:I'm not gonna say this is my opinion on CRT since I can't tell where CRT ends and other shit begins, but there is such a thing as going too far left on racial issues. Yes there are cultural beauty standards but to keep it real, sometimes the reason people say you look like shit is just cause you look like shit, not because they're racist. It's like that time people said Trump was a racist for calling LeBron James stupid. #1 saying calling black people stupid is a stereotype is vague as hell and #2 trump calls people of many different ethnicities stupid. I don't think race factored into him calling LeBron stupid, I think he said it cause LeBron doesn't like him. You can overplay the racism issue. It's amazing tbh that you can cause it isnt like there isn't isn't actual racism out there, but when you tell a white person that "hard work is a white construct," you make people think you're a low intelligence moron, and it isnt because of whatever race you are, but indeed because you're hopelessly stupid. Not everything is a white construct, not everything is racism.
Oh, absolutely. It's like the "decolonise math" folks, unaware that math is meant to have specific answers.
by Kowani » Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:43 pm
Kowani wrote:Give me a bit
I have a…second CRT effortpost on the way
by Borderlands of Rojava » Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:43 pm
by Bombadil » Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:49 pm
Zurkerx wrote:That said, places with majoritarian(ish) democracies, or two very dominant parties dominating its politics have experienced similar issues- places like Australia, Britain, and Canada- all English Speaking Nations (well Canada is also French too!). Thus, the animosity towards political opponents, as well as trying to gain power in the short-term in order to destroy Democracy are some big reasons. It's just not Trump and the GOP: it's also our system, one that needs to change to something similar to our European Counterparts (IE, Germany is a good one).
by Caurus » Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:21 pm
Zurkerx wrote: -Snip-
by Caurus » Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:45 pm
Bombadil wrote: -snip-
by Neanderthaland » Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:45 pm
by Fauzjhia » Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:53 pm
Neanderthaland wrote:So you remember how when the power grid failed in Texas last winter, the GOP was like, "It's not a failure of our privatization scheme! It's just that the Texas grid is designed for high temperatures, not cold."
Well turns out that was a fucking lie.
by Shrillland » Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:06 pm
by Kowani » Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:17 pm
Thermodolia wrote:San Lumen wrote:
You have proof of that claim?
Americans reject critical race theory 58% to 38%
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