NEA(largest teacher union) calls for nationwide teaching of CRT

[Sestak]

Just keep pushing this crap. The farther out of the mainstream you get the greater the conservative backlash is going to be. Don’t you lefties see that you can never implement your economic policy goals as long as the public just views you as anti-white anti-American radicals? Nobody wants to racialize  everything like this. It’s disgusting.

 Why is teaching the truth "crap for lefties"? Why does acknowledging racial facts of American history so offensive to you? Are you a special snowflake?

See you have bough into the lie that critical race theory means teaching the bad sides of American history. Which has already been done for decades. Nobody is not taught about slavery and Indian removal. Critical race theory pushes the idea that everything even today is some kind of struggle for power among races with whites oppressing everyone else. It has nothing to do with “teaching the truth”. It’s straight up racist propaganda

Not everything is taught. My mother stated that she never was taught that George Washington owned slaves and there are countless people who didn't know about the Tulsa Massacre until this year. Much of this country's history involves racism. There was a time when white supremacy was an actual mainstream goal.

That’s a horrible argument. Not everything that happened that’s important can be taught. What the left seems to want is to focus solely on the bad racial things to the exclusion of nearly everything else. Students already learn much more about the daily lives of black people in the history of the south than they do about say, Midwestern farmers, despite the fact that Midwestern farmers were a much larger part of the American experience. It’s good that things like the Tulsa massacre are getting more attention but the attempt to view everything in history through the lens of race is the problem.

An extended period of terrorism should be taught about. It wasn't just Tulsa, but there were other cities where there similar massacres and there were also lynchings that were ignored by the federal government. The fact that the government either ignored or supported racist actions means that it should be taught about.

I have no problem with that. If we want to add the Tulsa massacre to the curriculum then fine. That’s not CRT.

It would still be banned by all currently proposed “anti-CRT” legislation.

[Sestak]

Do you have a source for that? If so, I would not support such legislation. Somehow I don’t think that’s what the legislation does.

I seem to recall reading that at least one of the Texas proposals said that teachers teaching any negative events in American history had to be taught “from multiple perspectives” with no preference given to any - which of course raises the question of what it means to teach the Tulsa massacre (or slavery etc for that matter) from multiple perspectives. Implication was made that teachers would be incentivized not to teach and just avoid a potential legal minefield. Will try to find where I saw this when I have time.