I can’t imagine what a teacher might teach that would be the cause of such a question, but if a child asks that question then the parents, be they good parents, can just answer the question.
Right. Actual CRT isn’t being taught in elementary schools, but that’s irrelevant, because what Republicans think CRT means is just acknowledging that racism exists, and that is taught in every civilized school on the planet.
Seriously? I want what hes tripping on.
… which conflicts with their iron-clad belief that America is the Greatest Country the World Has Ever Seen. Can’t have that.
I strongly suspect there are preachers who do not really believe the shit they spew, but it brings in the dough, so they put on the act. Republiopathic belief in the unassailable greatness of America (which we need to restore to her) is at least in large part a marketing tool.
I guess a teacher in an American History course might factually describe the common practices of “redlining” and other forms of residential segregation in the US, such as racially restricted housing development policies? And they might even mention the former use of such policies in the school’s own area. That kind of connecting history lessons to local specific practices is an excellent pedagogical strategy for getting students interested in and retentive of the material being taught.
Then, I suppose, little Suzie on her way home from school might be struck by the fact that there still aren’t any black people in her neighborhood, and wonder if it has anything to do with the racial segregation policies she just learned about, and ask her parents about it. And as you note, they in turn can just answer the question.
Sounds to me like a very positive educational outcome all around.
Hadn’t seen that before. Looks like a very useful term for a lot of phenomena we’ve been seeing–and, sadly, will continue to see.
Well, sure, but then the parents have to confront reality, and that would make them uncomfortable, so it’s obviously much better for them to have the child remain ignorant.
And they just keep going:
How much more evidence that these people should never, ever, be given control of government do we need?
I seem to have coined it, and been excoriated for using it (actually on a SRIotD thread, IIRC, as well as one or two other places). Some people draw the impression that the term applies to all Rs, rather than a specific subset.
(I cannot decide whether that last sentence calls for winkage)
They don’t want to defund the police, and say that if you didn’t do anything wrong, you shouldn’t be afraid of the cops. But they want to defund the IRS. Did they do something wrong to fear the tax man?
QAnon Trumpista who was interviewed in an HBO documentary saying Democrats are pedophiles, exposed as a pedophile…
Ronna Romney is attacking her opponent for Chair of the Republican Party over her religion.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t income tax and the IRS itself established by constitutional amendment?
I don’t know, but you know, “Pft, details”.
I am not sure about the IRS.
The 16th amendment allows for a federal income tax.
But that just says that the feds can do it, not that they have to.
The IRS is a government agency. And such agencies make sense. Congress realized they cannot be involved in the minutiae of the day-to-day operation of the government. So, they made agencies to deal with it within some parameters that congress decided.
Republicans seek to hobble some of those agencies…the IRS being one. I do not think there is anything to stop them (constitution-wise). There is no way this will pass the senate or the president’s desk (with the current government) so it won’t happen but it shows you where their head is at.
I guess my school lied to me when I lived in Virginia. They told me the state’s mott was Sic sember tyrannis. Evidently it’s actually Tyrannis semper.
However,
the House, led by a hostile Speaker, has the power to hold the government, yes, the entire country, hostage.
“ Some members who were disturbed by reports that Dhillon’s faith was being scrutinized were worried that the surfacing of the whisper campaign would portray the Republican Party as bigoted.”
Inconceivable!
Guys, I’m concerned that this racist thing we’re doing is going to make people think we’re racists.