@doctor-phibes said in Meanwhile, in Wisconsin...:
Thanks for all that.
I still don't know what it is.
On a recent podcast, two of the most respected and influential mainstream CRT academics discussed CRT with Ezra Klein (founder of Vox). I hope you'll allow that these people have a foothold in pop culture, considering one of them, a Ms Hannah Jones, is the architect of the NYT's much lauded 1619 Project, and the other, Ta-Nahesi Coates, is probably the most famous Black Studies intellectual in America.
Here's what I said about it in another thread.
In the Ezra Klein podcast, the other race baiter, Nicole Hannah-Jones of the 1619 project, claimed, in this serious intellectual discussion, that our media has dropped the ball in its obligation to talk about race and be on the correct, moral side of those discussions. The 1619 project is her example of media doing it right.
So, for those of us trying to triangulate what a lefty might actually have in their heads while they refuse to take discussions of CRT seriously, the 1619 project may be a good example. They can admit that they take that seriously, at least.
Ms Hannah-Jones says that all public figures and thinkers are bankrupt unless they realize that race is the primary organizing factor in America's political life. I bet some of you thought I was exaggerating when I told you that mainstream leftist thought was that race underpins all of American politics. Nope.
I bet Ms Hannah-Jones lacks the self-awareness to realize that she thinks that because it means she automatically wins all discussions due to her genetically endowed virtue. Which is to say, I don't think she's an intentionally manipulative douche. She's just a bog-standard human being, seeking and claiming advantage wherever she can, in her social climbing lifestyle. As it happens, this particular opportunism is socially encouraged, and even enforced, by the indoctrinated masses.
Here is more:
My take-home points from this cutting edge intellectual discussion about race, between three of the smartest, most racially educated people in the country:
American history is about the black experience.
Jefferson and Washington were good in some ways but also bad slave owners.
The ignorant backlash against CRT is predicated on white people being afraid of losing their power.
White people were deeply unsettled when Obama got elected (twice), and thus elected Trump. (Lots of talk about Trump, that he established that America is racist, and that he was a direct response by white Americans having been offended by having a black president.)
America does not live up to its ideals and it is absurd for anybody to consider America to have any moral authority vis a vis the rest of the world, such as the Middle East.
White progressives are too often all talk. They don't go far enough to establish their true virtue.
White people are being paranoid and ignorant if they have any issue with high school history being taught as centered on slavery and the black experience. (As in the 1619 project)
Obama's skin color was the main reason for the political opposition to him. His political ideas, speeches, and policies were unimportant factors, compared to his skin color.
Trump had no policies, and only appealed to people's ignorance and racism.
Children's imaginations are programmable, and it's important that we program children to have the correct imagination about politics and race. It is accepted as a given that adults, set in their ways, are not as programmable. Such people are not reachable by these cutting edge leftist intellectuals.
Now, that stuff is not explicitly taught per se, but the teachings of CRT are designed to fashion in the students a set of beliefs that would lead them to those conclusions.
