re: Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry bans teaching of critical race theory in schools

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.says a woman so racist that she tells her kids that race doesn't exist and is proud of it.

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What are you even talking about?

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can't wait until your son decides he can tell a black boy that he's not black.

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What are you even talking about?

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He's going to get his arse handed to him and it will be you and your husband's fault.

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What are you even talking about?

Guys it just so happens that white people disproportionately get away with high profile murder at rates sufficient to eliminate the statistic gap of racial murder disproportionality

Isn’t that something

Huh?

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There is no way of knowing who commits more crimes

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You’re a total nut job.

Nobody is being mean to you.

If you want to dip out because it’s become apparent you have strongly held beliefs on CRT but haven’t bothered to, you know, read any CRT scholarship - be my guest, but it’s not because anyone is being mean to you.

You had the audacity to belittle those of us who know about the topic at hand without having “done the work”?

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If the evidentiary record holds no weight to you

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I posted the evidentiary record. Can you post the one you referenced that Indicates most crimes are cleared and black people are convicted of committing them? We are clearly looking at different sources.

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You’re just trying to get laughs and upvotes.

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This doesn't make sense.

I've spent pages outlining the origins of CRT and the progeny of it, which is present in K-12 (and pretty much every other institution).

Instead of substantively responding to anything, you've spent two pages talking about how your opponents are just after upvotes while claiming - without actually engaging in any meaningful way - that you're here for actual discussion.

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Your child has never noticed that someone of a different race looks differently than them? Has your child noticed that women look differently than men? Sure, they may not know the terms "black" and "white", or "man" and "woman" until they are taught those terms, but anyone can perceive differences. My daughter is 3 years old, we had a plumber here the other day to work on our water heater, he was a black man (very dark skin with an African accent), and she asked me "daddy, why does that man have a black face?". It doesn't take a genius to notice that some people look different than others.

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Three year olds have a limited lexicon so describing the man as having a black face is how he described the plumber. This is the same, simple construct society uses too. This makes sense and is commonplace but... the reality is, it's an ignorant, archaic method to describe an individual because it removes proper secular judgement of that individual person, as the unique individual they truly are. Rather, it lumps them into a socially constructed group of individuals, typically not even created by the members of the group being analyzed themselves... White people didn't see themselves as white until other ethnic peoples started saying they were different. Same thing with black people. They didn't call themselves fellow black folk until other peoples of the world pointed out they're different from them. We can only know the world from our own perspective. Notice how you described the plumber as being very dark (black) and African. This is an example of what is meant by a socially created construct. In your mind, and rightfully so (it's your mind after all), the plumber belongs in the socially created grouping of immigrants from Africa. It's perfectly normal and not racist whatsoever for you to think the plumber is from Africa. You hear his voice, see his skin, and your decision is made based on personal past experiences. These assumptions are totally normal for the society you, personally/individually, find yourself in right now, in these circumstances but is still somewhat inaccurate and definitely incomplete. In reality, the plumber might not have ever even been to Africa, the accent came from his family; maybe he just arrived a year ago. If I ask you what your views on his citizenship status what would be your answer? It could only possible be derived from your personal experiences, thus assuredly incomplete, therefore inaccurate. However, your neighbor might have a completely different inference about the plumber's citizenship status. Recognition of individuality and open mindedness is exactly what parents are trying to teach. Parents want their kids to be able to assess each person on their own individual merit and value. A traditionally beautiful conservative value that our society needed in the past as we are all immigrants. Further it's a just value... Individuality.

CRT teaches your individual and specific perspective at this moment in time is just that... Yours alone, and therefore different from any one else at any time in history. The subject is extremely nuanced and still developing overall. It's not binary like arithmetic, or proper English so it's unsettling. Professors of soft sciences like of theology, philosophy, etc. never stop learning themselves because humans don't know everything in these fields. These reasons and many more are why these advanced concepts are only taught in college. Most majors don't ever get into at all. CRT isn't the boogeyman everyone is making it out to be. This is all making a mountain out of a mole hill. I urge parents to give an honest look into the topic for the sake of your children's education. Learning about issues is never a bad thing.

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that you're here for actual discussion.

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I think 4chubbies has a good heart but has let that block common sense.