tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post4560824104207330550..comments2024-03-30T10:34:44.982+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: From Emancipation To Denunciation: The Sad Descent of the Contemporary Left.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-61695076484060723532022-03-23T22:30:53.598+13:002022-03-23T22:30:53.598+13:00CTR or CRT? Perhaps initialism will go onto picto...CTR or CRT? Perhaps initialism will go onto pictograms?greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-40431606300890412812022-03-23T12:46:20.248+13:002022-03-23T12:46:20.248+13:00Personally Barron, I think that the whole Jordan P...Personally Barron, I think that the whole Jordan Peterson thing has all the makings of a cult. You essentially can't criticise the man – particularly without reading every word he's written and listening to every word he's said.<br />And of course as you said when he strays outside his area of expertise he's very vulnerable – except to those within the cult of course stop PZ Myers, an extremely well-known biologist has demolished his take on lobsters.Dietitians have "schooled" him about living entirely on red meat and salt.Even I can tell that he is completely wrong about the relationship between post-modernism and Marxism – from my undergraduate studies in my dotage. And the Czech? Philosopher Zizek made him look like a stunned mullet by asking a couple of simple questions. <br />If people need his anodyne advice on how to live properly I'm reasonably happy, although it's information they should have got from their granny years ago. But in so many areas the man is intellectually dishonest. Will they see it though? There's none so blind.....Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-64940880140150654102022-03-23T07:35:24.770+13:002022-03-23T07:35:24.770+13:00"In telling students what to think,"
Bu...<br />"In telling students what to think,"<br /><br />Bullshit sorry – when I was at school in the 1950s and 60s, we were told what to think. We were given the "facts", and AFAIK and none of the history courses I took ever mentioned Maori, it was if they never existed – in fact many of them never mentioned New Zealand. Years before that, my father learned that white people were superior and natural leaders – something he managed to cast off later in life. After volunteering in my son's high school library 10 years ago, I found that they were told HOW to think. <br /><br />"Ur-Fascism derives from individual or social frustration. That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups. In our time, when the old “proletarians” are becoming petty bourgeois (and the lumpen are largely excluded from the political scene), the fascism of tomorrow will find its audience in this new majority."<br /> Umberto EcoGuerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-85559459908108454992022-03-22T23:32:00.713+13:002022-03-22T23:32:00.713+13:00Perhaps it may be useful to have an understanding ...Perhaps it may be useful to have an understanding of CRT.<br /><br />The first point is that in the USA race is something that has been legislated, one drop of African blood meant you were classified legally and the constitution applied differently to you. After the civil war, institutions were developed around Jim Crow laws, which maintained social and legal restrictions. In the 1970s, the forerunner of CRT began with the view that the racial classification is in itself a social construct entrenched with institutional bias. Today, only a handful of racists maintain that race is a medical or scientific classification, especially based on skin colour.<br /><br />The CRT focus was on how the legal framework had developed from, and maintained, prejudice and inequality. This was an analytical tool under which existing laws could have the historical development viewed in terms of the impact upon those classified as African American. While it could include analysis of laws enabling education institutions, it was not in itself a tool used in education outside a handful of tertiary law faculties.<br /><br />The skeleton framework was seen as a way of analyzing other disempowered groups, both within the African American classification and outside. Bias against African American women in law could provide analysis, the same with sexual or gendered identity. It was also then transformed to be able to look at these sectors as a whole, and other ethic classifications such as Latino / Latina. However, once you started to reapply the model you were away from that which was developed as CRT.<br /><br />Pauline Hanson's hysteria over the teaching of Aboriginal and colonial history is an example of moral panic unrelated to what CRT actually is. Indeed, an indigenous model may be developed, but that is different than the basis of CRT - and history being taught can be enlightening but it is generally removed from the analysis of legal development of institutions. <br /><br />It does not exist in the school systems in the States. It is not being introduced to NZ through the new history curriculum. Indeed, NZ has has sophisticated legal analysis of indigenous law and lore for a longer period than CRT has existed in the States. As I stated, an indigenous rights framework is actually outside of the original CRT model.<br /><br />So, Tom, "you're too dumb to get it" could be willful ignorance, but it seems that any institutional racism or systemic racism set against and indigenous rights and ontology gets the strange reaction of invoking a post-slavery American analytical tool. I guess if your are the collector of right wing clichés, it would be a shame to waste them on context. The Barronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-35227444800450954752022-03-22T13:48:42.257+13:002022-03-22T13:48:42.257+13:00Tom, you cannot take CRT out of context and decide...Tom, you cannot take CRT out of context and decide that it is no longer what it was designed as, but it may fit into a wrapped definition if it is now a high school curricula and pedagogy. And not only this but teachers are 'explicitly embracing CRT in the pedagogy'. Explicitly? With all respect to the teaching profession both in the States and NZ, they do not have the time, resources or skills to take an analytical tool from the few high end University Law faculties and realign the curricula (meaning more than one curriculum program) and adjust their pedagogy.<br /><br />Proof of CRT in schools is certainly not found in Republican legislating against it. This is simply culture wars. As Paul Krugman said, it is a solution in search of a problem. This has been used not to prevent CRT, but to prevent the teaching of history that does not reflect well on the manifest destiny of the Walt Disney frontier land and the racialised violence of the south. It is also a panic not to show contemporary social ills.<br /><br />The right have simply taken CTR out of context, then very loosely redefined it for their purposes. If you want a debate as to history teaching rather than the evolution of legal frameworks, I am happy to do so, but as GS and I remind you - to widen the umbrella of CTR to include all things you don't like is disingenuous or simply misleading. <br /> The Barronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-18301686499070495082022-03-22T13:27:25.277+13:002022-03-22T13:27:25.277+13:00And all over the US, conservatives are cancelling ...And all over the US, conservatives are cancelling any discussion of race and racism, up to and including the mention of Martin Luther King. But it can't be cancel culture when you guys do it right?Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-89985816082502664852022-03-22T13:25:40.684+13:002022-03-22T13:25:40.684+13:00CRT in fact does not say anything about individual...CRT in fact does not say anything about individuals – but of course you conservatives want it all to be about individuals, because if it is then you can say "I'm not racist" (shading the truth in your case I'd say given at least one of your comments here) therefore I don't have to do anything about it. And that means of course we don't have to discuss it.<br />Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-16279646690168619992022-03-22T13:21:14.562+13:002022-03-22T13:21:14.562+13:00They are learning about systemic racism, and the h...They are learning about systemic racism, and the history of racism. Something we all could do with a bit more knowledge of Tom including you. Perhaps especially you.<br />As the meme goes, "they're not against CRT, they just don't want to explain what Granny is doing in the background of that picture from the social studies class." I.e. – Abusing a black student trying to enrol in a white high school.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-69744208996408878552022-03-22T13:15:13.989+13:002022-03-22T13:15:13.989+13:00Best description I heard for Peterson was that he ...Best description I heard for Peterson was that he is a stupid person's view of an intellectual. That is not calling Peterson stupid,there is an assumption that his specialist area of Clinic Psychology he is qualified and adequate. <br /><br />However, when he drifts to social issues, philosophy and political theory, the only people that give credence are those who are desperate to quote someone they think sounds profound.<br /><br />The dumb person's idea of an intellectual. The Barronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-67609524119996779972022-03-22T12:49:59.308+13:002022-03-22T12:49:59.308+13:00An excellent essay on what is happening in our ins...An excellent essay on what is happening in our institutions of higher learning; helps explains a lot of the polarisation we are seeing?<br /><br />"As for their thinking, they had the same relationship to their arguments as they had to their prose. They just made them; they didn’t and really couldn’t think about them in a metacognitive way. They couldn’t recognise contradictions, anticipate objections, entertain alternative interpretations, make essential distinctions, or delineate the limits of their propositions. Remember, this wasn’t freshman composition. This was an advanced writing seminar at some of the most prestigious colleges in the country."<br /><br /><br /><br />"Indeed, after decades of postmodernism, with its assault on the very idea of grand interpretive narratives, wokeism represents a return of the repressed — the repressed in this case being the ineluctable human hunger for meaning. For wokeism, like those earlier belief systems, offers a framework that is not only cognitive and historical, but also moral and existential. It tells you not only where you come in, but also who you are and how you are to orient yourself toward others and the world. In other words, it offers purpose and direction."<br /><br />"In telling students what to think, wokeism also provides them with something to say. The value of this should not be underestimated, particularly in the age of social media. Having opinions — easily, instantly, on everything — is essential to the contemporary presentation of the self. The process of forming them is aided immensely if you already know where you’re supposed to stand on every subject, including ones you haven’t heard of yet."<br /><br />https://unherd.com/2022/03/american-educations-new-dark-age/David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-50461609052540433482022-03-22T12:33:38.433+13:002022-03-22T12:33:38.433+13:00Oops, previously posted in the wrong discussion.
...Oops, previously posted in the wrong discussion.<br /><br />There is a comprehensive and widely acclaimed critique of critical theory available "Cynical Theories" by academics Pluckrose and Lindsay. "How activist scholarship made everything about race, gender and identity - and why it harms everybody".<br /><br />It looks at "theory", it's roots and it's branches: post colonial theory, queer theory, critical race theory, feminism and gender studies, fat theory and so on.<br />A pretty damning take down of these cartoon like representations of reality, their direct conflict with liberalism and the sustaining institutions developed over millennia, a warning of the dangers of their widespread acceptance and what should be done about it. The first step is to understand what we're dealing and this book is a good place to start.<br /><br />David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-21128603471423687392022-03-22T09:51:53.600+13:002022-03-22T09:51:53.600+13:00But I'll leave the final word to Trump Derange...<br />But I'll leave the final word to Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer and uber-Leftie, Andrew Sullivan (Mr Gay Marriage himself):<br /><i>[W]hen the Democrats and the mainstream media insist that CRT is not being taught in high schools, they’re being way too cute. Of course K-12 kids in Virginia’s public schools are not explicitly reading the collected works of Derrick Bell or Richard Delgado — no more than Catholic school kids in third grade are studying critiques of Aquinas. But they are being taught in a school system now thoroughly committed to the ideology and worldview of CRT, by teachers who have been marinated in it, and whose unions have championed it.<br />…<br />In 2019, the [Virginia DOE] sent out a memo that explicitly endorsed critical race and queer theory as essential tools for teaching high school. Check out the VA DOE’s “Road Map to Equity,” where it argues that “courageous conversation” on “social justice, systemic inequity, disparate student outcomes and racism in our school communities is our responsibility and professional obligation. Now is the time to double down on equity strategies.”</i><br /><br />A fact that was picked up in the election. Rather hard to deny a screenshot of the Virginia DOE website.<br /><i>The other big teachers’ union, the National Education Association, has explicitly called for teaching children CRT, pledging to publicize <b>“an already-created, in-depth study that critiques white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy… capitalism… and other forms of power and oppression.”</b> They back The 1619 Project as a teaching tool.<br /><br />So all the unions, the governor, the Virginia education department, the paper of record, and the federal government think CRT is obligatory for teaching children. But absolutely none of that ever, ever reaches into the classroom. Please.<br /><br />Of course it does. To use a term the woke might understand, it is, in fact, structural.</i>Tom Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17840988228699338463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-38766330565327521402022-03-22T09:51:23.205+13:002022-03-22T09:51:23.205+13:00It should alert readers to how vital CRT is to tea...It should alert readers to how vital CRT is to teaching, even in NZ, that both GS and "The Barron" are so intent on claiming that it isn't (complete with the usual, <i>"you're too dumb to get it"</i> claim that is almost always part of every Lefty argument.<br /><br />In the wake of the Virginia Governor's election the Democrats and their enablers went on quite the same rant, in full denial mode about CRT and stupid parents getting upset over nothing. As I described in <a href="https://nominister.wordpress.com/2021/11/21/the-democrats-are-not-learning/" rel="nofollow">The Democrats Are Not Learning</a>, where I collected some clips of the MSM going full retard on denial.<br /><br />I also included a couple of clips of teachers describing how CRT is taught in schools, starting with an Administrator of the largest school district in Indiana (very GOP state BTW):<br /><i>there are two elements of teaching: curricula (what is taught) and pedagogy (how it is taught).<br /><br />The game teachers are playing is saying “there is no CRT in the curricula,” which is true(ish) – but what they’re not telling you is that they are explicitly embracing CRT in the pedagogy – that is how they teach everything. Critical race theory is the lens through which they teach everything, even math.</i><br /><br />The theory itself - and sadly I have read some of the execrable Delgardo - is actually as stupidly racist as it sounds (Delgardo actually comes across like Jordan Peterson and his intellectual wank, <i>Maps of Meaning</i>). The left keeps pretending that Critical Race Theory is only this “high-level academic concept” that only very educated people could possibly fathom. That’s bullshit; it’s simple-minded pile of stupid nonsense and gobbledy gook terms that idiots can master in days, which is why it’s so fantastically popular among the stupid and academically ungifted.<br /><br />I also linked to an article by one Wenyuan Wu describing the smear job pulled on him and other parents who tried to tackle CRT proponents in an LA school:<br /><i>Let me set the record straight, as the expert “detractor” who volunteered to replace a vocal proponent of CRT at the OCBE meeting. Volunteer board members and their community supporters spent two months assembling a diverse expert panel… Each panelist holds an advanced degree in a social science discipline, and four are life-long educators. All panelists supported the teaching of history and ethnic studies in a constructive, unbiased, and unabridged manner. None gave even a slight indication that we should refrain from discussing racism.</i><br /><br />That last being the main attack point on him and others by CRT proponents.Tom Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17840988228699338463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-40616385459120711852022-03-22T08:52:53.800+13:002022-03-22T08:52:53.800+13:00Yes GS, to " pick on one isolated example of ... Yes GS, to " pick on one isolated example of something and claim that it is relevant" is poor form indeed. It's easy to be cynical, to dismiss things as impenetrable nonsense if you willfully try to not understand. That JP quote for example. "Meaning is manifestation of the divine individual adaptive path” <br /><br />Meaning, in this context, is the feeling we get when everything comes together, time disappears, there's a feeling of balance and harmony, you're engaged and interested, on the border between chaos and order, that we're in the right place doing the right thing. <br /><br />It's manifestation within us is a powerful guide to the path we should walk, religious and atheist alike. A manifestation of our divinity?<br /><br />“To straddle that fundamental duality is to be balanced: to have one foot firmly planted in order and security, and the other in chaos, possibility, growth and adventure. When life suddenly reveals itself as intense, gripping and meaningful; when time passes and you’re so engrossed in what you’re doing you don’t notice—it is there and then that you are located precisely on the border between order and chaos.”<br />― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos<br /><br /><br /> “Order is not enough. You can’t just be stable, and secure, and unchanging, because there are still vital and important new things to be learned. Nonetheless, chaos can be too much. You can’t long tolerate being swamped and overwhelmed beyond your capacity to cope while you are learning what you still need to know. Thus, you need to place one foot in what you have mastered and understood and the other in what you are currently exploring and mastering. Then you have positioned yourself where the terror of existence is under control and you are secure, but where you are also alert and engaged. That is where there is something new to master and some way that you can be improved. That is where meaning is to be found.”<br />― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos<br /><br />David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-3189332009631334712022-03-22T08:38:39.143+13:002022-03-22T08:38:39.143+13:00David, if you think that's great research, you...David, if you think that's great research, you should maybe ask for your money back – obviously the education system has failed you. I repeat.<br /><br />(My aim is) “... to have the public read something crazy and immediately think ‘Critical Race Theory’. We have decodified the term, and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.” <br /><br />It's obviously working isn't it?<br /><br />“And it seems an equally foregone conclusion that the patriarchy is order, so if the masculine symbolism is used by feminists themselves to represent order, what is left for the feminine to be represented by? Order? Well that’s already taken! And the reason your feminist friends object to it is … well, I would say fundamentally there’s two reasons: they object to everything and they don’t understand it and they don’t understand their own behaviour. So you ask them: well why is the masculine represented as order?”Jordan B Peterson – random shit he says.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-11154365415968584482022-03-22T07:44:40.522+13:002022-03-22T07:44:40.522+13:00Incidentally, thank you Tom for substantiating my ...Incidentally, thank you Tom for substantiating my research. <br />As Christopher Rufo said –(Our aim is )“... to have the public read something crazy and immediately think ‘Critical Race Theory’. We have decodified the term, and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.” Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-77011756878577362182022-03-22T07:32:21.557+13:002022-03-22T07:32:21.557+13:00It's also disingenuous to take anything that i...It's also disingenuous to take anything that is taught about race that you don't like, and call it Critical Race Theory. That's pretty much what Hunter is doing. And three black families? Out of how many in the US in? Conservatives do this all the time – one day I'm going to do a post on it. But you pick on one isolated example of something and claim that it is relevant. Not really.<br /><br />"Meaning is manifestation of the divine individual adaptive path” Jordan B Peterson. No idea where it's from, but another example of his impenetrability.<br /><br />"A more important reason why Peterson is “misinterpreted” is that he is so consistently vague and vacillating that it’s impossible to tell what he is “actually saying.” People can have such angry arguments about Peterson, seeing him as everything from a fascist apologist to an Enlightenment liberal, because his vacuous words are a kind of Rorschach test onto which countless interpretations can be projected."<br />Nathan J RobinsonGuerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-22603330224703602232022-03-21T22:07:13.058+13:002022-03-21T22:07:13.058+13:00Enough Tom-foolery.
GS is absolutely correct in ...Enough Tom-foolery. <br /><br />GS is absolutely correct in terms of the origin and definition of Critical Race Theory. It is disingenuous to take it out of context and definition and then claim internet examples outside of original theory proves something else. It is intellectually bereft. To justify this by claiming three black families said something loosely related to what you are asserting is disturbing on many levels. Then again, perhaps you sincerely cannot comprehend academic analytical tools aimed at a high end tertiary level.<br /><br />That may be the reality. The example of an eighth grader, when CRT is not used in US schools, is circular irrationality. Basically you are arguing, CRT exists in this example, this example proves CTR exists in schools, therefore, this is what CRT is. Only, it fits outside the establishment and implementation of CRT as a legal analytical tool. To claim it as CRT is cognitive laziness. <br /><br />The idea that those which can trace the origin of some legal practice to the antebellum south, restrictive immigration policies or displacement of the indigenous - are somewhat comparable to the KKK is simply obscene.<br /><br />Your second post is another example of circular conceptional crapology. "Beware of what is happening in the US, because it could happen here" is somewhat dependent upon the premise that it is happening in the States, and the that the new school history curriculum could result in an analytical tool used in a minority of legal facilities. This will result in... sorry, but the post became farcical long before this.<br />The Barronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-60918463875065613032022-03-21T22:02:58.231+13:002022-03-21T22:02:58.231+13:00Great research, great response Tom, probably a was...Great research, great response Tom, probably a wasted effort though. Wait for the "well he would say that" ad hominem response from the predictable, totalitarian ideologues. <br /><br />“If you pay attention, when you are seeking something, you will move towards your goal. More importantly, however, you will acquire the information that allows your goal itself to transform. A totalitarian never asks, “What if my current ambition is in error?” He treats it, instead, as the Absolute. It becomes his God, for all intents and purposes. It constitutes his highest value. It regulates his emotions and motivational states, and determines his thoughts. All people serve their ambition. In that matter, there are no atheists. There are only people who know, and don’t know, what God they serve.”<br />― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to ChaosDavid Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-40289443577105696282022-03-21T21:35:51.655+13:002022-03-21T21:35:51.655+13:00Thank you Barron, at least some attempt at a balan...Thank you Barron, at least some attempt at a balanced curriculum would be good.<br />The painting of one side as irredeemable villains and the sanctification of the other as victims is probably not a good thing to be laid at the feet of school children of all races. Or adults come to that, especially when it's plainly a lie.<br /><br />As has been pointed out, ignoring the pre treaty wars seems more than an oversight. A civil war that left a third or more of the Maori people dead? An atrocity proportionally in excess of the Rwanda massacre and one of that lead to the realisation of the need for an accord with Britain? Completely ignored. What's all that about? David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-28970326112050900842022-03-21T19:45:13.325+13:002022-03-21T19:45:13.325+13:00My point was not whether it is relevant, but that...My point was not whether it is relevant, but that it is colonial. As you note, it explains the introduced Parliamentary system. No problem with that, but with the idea that we have not had a curriculum vested in colonisation.The Barronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-24428258924642191892022-03-21T14:49:23.070+13:002022-03-21T14:49:23.070+13:00History is about cooperation and interaction, abou...History is about cooperation and interaction, about conflict and resolution, it is about innovation and dogma, repression, oppression and reconciliation. It is about humanity at its best, at its worst and mostly the spaces in-between. <br /><br />I am not sure the specific parts you wish excluded, David, but we are not preparing students for their knowledge of how we got to where we are, or for tertiary study, if we sanitize the past. Further, for almost all historical conflict there has been resolution, for those there has not been resolution only truth can lead to reconciliation. The Barronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-60017588014222971892022-03-21T11:18:31.206+13:002022-03-21T11:18:31.206+13:00And if anybody is wondering why CRT matters here i...And if anybody is wondering why CRT matters here in NZ let me just say that almost every dingbat theory originating in the USA will make it's way here sooner or later.<br /><br />After all, like the USA we too are dealing with the negative aspects of White Colonialist, Settlor Power Structures that must be dismantled. What better way than via the minds of the next generation in things like a history curriculum?<br /><br />The thing is that, knowing kids, especially teenagers, I wonder if this will actually backfire. Decades from now perhaps such teaching will result in an outburst of White Nationalism because that's preferable to being told you're a dumb, racist POS because you're white?Tom Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17840988228699338463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-32356427772270467172022-03-21T11:13:25.695+13:002022-03-21T11:13:25.695+13:00"Many highly respected historians and comment..."Many highly respected historians and commentators agree."<br /><br />A few names would be helpful.Because all I can find is Michael Bassett, who you'd expect to criticise it, being a radical libertarian, and a few criticisms around the edges by actual practising historians, who in the main applaud the inclusion of the Maori narrative, but say it ignores 600 years of pre-European history.<br />And the rest of course our "commentators" AFAIK few of which have any qualifications for commenting, other than their political stance.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-56999731860973364392022-03-21T11:11:03.687+13:002022-03-21T11:11:03.687+13:00So we’re back to Critical Race Theory again, inter...<i>So we’re back to Critical Race Theory again, interesting. I was just wondering though, have any of you people with your knickers in a twist about it read Delgardo and Stefancic’s Critical Race Theory, An Introduction?<br />...<br />Of course you bloody haven’t, let me suggest a more typical trajectory </i><br /><br />Heh. I see GS still indulging in his Motte and Bailey defence of Critical Race Theory; that it is merely some high-brow academic stuff taught in law schools and amounts to nothing more than a US Right-Wing bugaboo for elections. GS's "defence" amounts to what is seen in Lefty blogs and the likes of Jacobin in the USA:<br /><br />- Nobody really understands CRT. It’s just an academic theory.<br />- If bad things are happening it’s because “fringe groups” and “some individuals” are twisting the theory to their own purposes.<br />- It’s only about “racial justice” and “anti-racism” – and who could be opposed to such good things.<br />- It’s not about hating on White People. That’s just crazy talk.<br /><br />Well, let's take a look at three Black parents unloading on their school boards about .... their kids being taught the kiddie version of CRT: <a href="https://nominister.wordpress.com/2021/06/24/gaslighting-critical-race-theory-crt/" rel="nofollow">Gaslighting Critical Race Theory (CRT)</a>.<br /><br />Or how about <a href="https://nominister.wordpress.com/2021/06/21/its-just-an-academic-theory/" rel="nofollow">It's just an academic theory</a> with examples from high school students in the front line:<br /><br /><i>Namely, my eighth grade English teacher taught us for the first two weeks about pretty much how awful white men are. For two weeks, I did not speak a single word in her class. My fellow white male classmates left the classroom every time feeling the same way. For lack of a better word, those teachings made me feel like horse shit, like worthless scum undeserving of living.</i><br /><br />Well of course. Underneath the academic garb that's what CRT is: simple race hatred.<br /><br />Or how about <a href="https://nominister.wordpress.com/2021/02/18/which-one-are-you-white-person/" rel="nofollow">The Eight White Identities</a> put together by the Principal of a New York Prep School. The identities range from "White Supremacist" to "White abolitionist" and the creator of the graph used by the Principal is, of course, an academic, one Barnor Hesse, an associate professor at Northwestern University. His research interests include “black political thought, blackness and effect, and race and governmentality,” among others (check out his definitions to see where you lie on the chart). A direct translation from academic to lower-level schools.<br /><br />You can check out the same stuff as put up by none other <a href="https://nominister.wordpress.com/2020/07/29/the-smithsonian-hires-the-kkk/" rel="nofollow">than the Smithsonian Institute</a> where the CRT people appear to have imbibed the ideas of your average KKK member, who would undoubtedly cheer on all those White stereotypes.<br /><br />Finally, here's one of Rufo's <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1280277423846653953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1280277424794513408%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpjmedia.com%2Fcolumns%2Fstacey-lennox%2F2020%2F07%2F07%2Fhuman-resources-will-become-the-far-lefts-fifth-column-and-destroy-the-american-workplace-n612537" rel="nofollow">original reports on the Human Resources training</a> for employees of the City of Seattle. <br /><br />Also check out, at the <a href="https://nominister.wordpress.com/2021/01/12/the-struggle-sessions-everyday-life/" rel="nofollow">bottom of this post</a>, the satirist Titania McGrath's take on the grotesque "teaching" of this garbage:<br /><br /><i>The most effective way to combat racial discrimination is to continually remind white people that they are inhuman demons who are beyond redemption</i>Tom Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17840988228699338463noreply@blogger.com