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

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This is merely a call for it, not proof that it is actually being taught.

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CRT needs to be banned in all public K12 schools nationwide.  The vile racism and America hatred promoted by it is repugnant.

It's not racist to teach about history. By that logic you could justify Holocaust denial.

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I've come to realize that most teachers unions are far left political machines which weaponize their members and the children they teach and use them as bargaining chips for political clout.  They don't actually care about teachers or quality of education.  Perfect example of why public labor unions are bad, and why states should be right-to-work.  

Is that why right-wingers running for school board seek their endorsements? They only turn on teacher's unions when they deny them the endorsements.

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I've come to realize that most teachers unions are far left political machines which weaponize their members and the children they teach and use them as bargaining chips for political clout.  They don't actually care about teachers or quality of education.  Perfect example of why public labor unions are bad, and why states should be right-to-work.  

Is that why right-wingers running for school board seek their endorsements? They only turn on teacher's unions when they deny them the endorsements.

The same reason why until very recently left wingers still wanted cop endorsements .

Fewer left leaning candidate seek police union endorsements than right-wing candidates seek teachers union endorsements. At the local level right-wingers try to play both sides and when it fails they attack teachers unions for not giving endorsements.

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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.

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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.

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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.

A lot of conservatives do not want any negative history taught. They want to teach their children a sanitized version of history.

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Almost nobody wants this and there will be electoral consequences if the left decides to die on this hill.

Copying Trump's racism is not going to do Democrats any good. Yes, you are talking about one thing, but it's only part of the larger narrative by some "Democrats" that the Democratic Party should be more like Trump on issues of race and call out "the blacks" and "the Mexicans" and "the orientals" on stealing jobs from white men.

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Almost nobody wants this and there will be electoral consequences if the left decides to die on this hill.

Copying Trump's racism is not going to do Democrats any good. Yes, you are talking about one thing, but it's only part of the larger narrative by some "Democrats" that the Democratic Party should be more like Trump on issues of race and call out "the blacks" and "the Mexicans" and "the orientals" on stealing jobs from white men.

When did I or anyone else say that the Democrats should emulate Trump on the subject of race? All I said was that we shouldn't defend incoherent, pseudo-academic drivel when close to a supermajority of voters are opposed to it.

After Trump won there were a number of Democrats on here implying that the Democratic Party was too pro-minority and needed to be less so in order to win white working class voters. With that said a lack of education is what gives Republicans an edge. If there was better education on the subject of race then Republicans would not be able to peddle lies to win white voters. That is why they don't want better education.