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[Cubs79]

Can we all agree that the 1619 project is not honest history?

I havent read it so I cant commment on it.

 

[UCFBS]

The post you are commenting on I wasnt talking about kids, I was talking about adults. You teach it to kids just by teaching honest history, and not a whitewashed version of it.

Can we all agree that the 1619 project is not honest history?

Indeed. While the concept of the 1619 project is noble, but the implementation is political advocacy at the expense of accurate history.

Huh? I am not stretching the definition, CRT is not something that just sprung up. Derek Bell is kind of considered the "founder" of CRT (for lack of a better word) and his writings on it started in the 70s, though there were certainly writings before him that would fit. It is a specific area of study, which boosted already illustrated. It is basically the study of how race played/plays a role in our policies and institutions.
Here is a short but I think decent definition of what CRT actually is.
CRT was coined and grew within academic legal studies in the 1970s-1980s by scholar-advocates who were interested in exploring how law and other forms of public policy could secure/protect civil rights, yet also serve to reproduce and codify racial hierarchy and discrimination.2 Importantly, CRT was not created de novo. Rather it is a bundling of tenets or suppositions that have a longer history in scholarship attempting to understand persistent racial disparities in economic, political, and social experiences and outcomes, including outcomes related to health. Taken alone or combined as CRT, these tenets are widely used in the humanities and myriad sciences, including the social and population sciences. Thus, CRT is a framework for a critical (i.e., deep, historical, complex) analysis of what drives ongoing racial inequality that builds upon long-standing scientific theories and concepts, and is supported by decades of multidisciplinary scholarship.

I didnt erroneously claim anything. This is a tweet from Chris Rufo, who was the top Republican strategist in the Virginia state elections, he also works with Desantis, and I am sure other Republicans. He tweeted this in March of last year. ANd he clearly states the plan is to turn it toxic by placing various other issues under the category. And it was probably the biggest factor in the VA races, he did just what he said he was going to do in this tweet.

"We have successfully frozen their brand—"critical race theory"—into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category."

Although I'm not going to defend Republicans, if the Democratic party is going to push political advocacy on anything and everything, if the Republicans can pick it apart for the elitest academia it is, I hardly blame them ... even if they have ulterior motives.

I.e., I'm the first one to say that most objective Democratic leaders and voters do have 'common sense,' but ... their entire platform, and the narratives of the US Mass and Social Media force them to abandon 'common sense.'

The Republicans just then take that to the bank, especially since their 'full retard' -- beyond hypocrisy -- is easily proven.

Spoiler: Space Force and Bill Nelson

E.g., take even today's NASA head honcho, and former Representative Bill, Nelson.

He utterly supported the creation of Space Force (it's been flirted with since the late '90s), including the prior 60-1 House Appropriation vote in favor for it in 2017, back when Mattias (so Trump) was against it. But after Trump reconstituted the old NSC (from the JFK-Nixon and Reagan-Bush Sr. days) and they recommended it for 2018 appropriations, once the US Mass and Social Media tried to paint it as a stupid Trump idea (especially since Trump 'owned it', ego and all) on the order of Reagan's SDI ('Star Wars'), Bill Nelson went -- purposely -- 'full retard' and was against it. Why?

Again, US Mass and Social Media forces them to abandon 'common sense.'

Same with trying to say Huntsville Alabama was chosen for Space Force HQ because of Trump and Conservatives. No, the USAF Space Command has long considered it the final destination, as the US Congress isn't going to let them have 2 branches HQ'd in the same state (even the US Marine Corps isn't all-in with the US Navy on facilities), especially since Huntsville has core NASA, MDA and other civilian agencies that have resulted in the most engineers per capita in the US.

Even Bezos Blue Origin Engine facility is here, among the ULA and others too ... especially since it's cheap. Only ignorant fools -- who look like such -- are against Space Force in Huntsville, especially those in Colorado who want a second branch, which they will never get. That's like arguing MDA should be in Colorado, or California for that matter, as well. There are local facilities, but not new, needed facilities. Huntsville is cheap and, again, has more engineers per capita than anywhere in the US.

When Democrats go full retard because of the moronic, conflict-generating US Mass and Social Media, and the Republicans take advantage of that, even if I question the Republican motives, I don't blame them. CRT is one of those that the left walked right into, and tried to lambast it as only racists being against it.

Bill Maher nailed it on why the left is losing the supermajority of citizens, all but the most Progressive 10%, as even The Atlantic tries to point out repeatedly. America is sick of the Elitists.

 

[UCFloridaTech]

Too much emphasis on race in our society... We'll never reach King's vision of a color-blind society when so many of our policies, teachings, even a month-long celebration put focus on race.

“Let us be dissatisfied until that day when nobody will shout ‘White Power!’—when nobody will shout ‘Black Power!’—but everybody will talk about God’s power and human power.”