re: Everything you need to know about William F. Tate

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I made no claims. You did. You can’t defend your claims that this guy has written dangerous stuff. Defend yourself. Quote the dangerous ideas

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I got you:

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Whiteness is constructed in this society as the absence of the “contaminating” influence of blackness. Thus, “one drop of black blood” constructs one as black, regardless of phenotypic m a r k e r s .8 0 In schooling, the absolute right to exclude was demonstrated initially by denying blacks access to schooling altogether. Later, it was demonstrated by the creation and maintenance of separate schools. More recently it has been demonstrated by white flight and the growing insistence on vouchers, public funding of private schools, and schools of c h o i c e .8 1 Within schools, absolute right to exclude is demonstrated by resegregation via tracking,8 2 the institution of “gifted” programs, honors programs, and advanced placement classes. So complete is this exclusion that black students often come to the university in the role of intruders— who have been granted special permission to be there.

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He starts by citing a fallacy to give himself a strawman, then goes on to say that advanced placement courses and related programs are exclusionary to black people because of their race. Of course, to a critical race theorist, this all goes back to some nebulous idea of systemic, inherent racism that isn't clearly defined, consistent from one academic to the next, or even provable. It just exists because they say it exists, and because it's something that only exists within the realm of CRT, is unable to be disproven.