Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary: "Education - The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties."
Education need not be a patriotic endeavor, but it can never be a morally or spiritually neutral one.
"No nation can exist if its citizens believe everything is for sale." Someone needs to tell the libertarians.
Fishes can continue growing only when the Pond is not left to die. So, a nation requires citizens to care for the whole as much or even more, as much for self. TulsiTawari@Gmail.com
This essay does well to criticize the teaching of critical thinking, evidently the author needs cover for his own lack of it. My goodness, what a litany of logical fallacies and unsupported arguments
Thank for you for this terrible, awful, no-good version of an argument in favor of a cause I support!
Instead of arguing CRT on conservative/liberal grounds, trying arguing its merits. You can’t, because it explains much of what we see in America. America is racist, always has been, toward any convenient group who couldn’t defend themselves. CRT tries to explain why. Until we talk about that, no amount of whining about how we should be colorblind will hold water.
Nobody said Americans were *more* racist than Europeans, but Americans brought it with them. Europe pretty much left it in the colonies, mostly.
You contradicted yourself when you said Muslims were racist, then gave examples where one group of Muslims was racist towards another. Islam had nothing to do with that, and the Christian church has alway had the same issue.
All that said, the US is the largest country with overt racism baked into its founding documents. There are other racist big countries, but they haven’t formalized it like we did.
No, CRT does not explain what you see in America. In fact the much better explanation is good old corruption. How things like segregation worked is that it allowed the wealthy to exploit the blacks, who couldn't turn to the courts or the state for protection. That in turn suppressed the wages and drove up the rents on working class whites. Hard to unionize when your boss can find an endless number of blacks willing to cross the picket line.
Why were blacks so ready to cross the picket line. They had no loyalty to their fellow working class whites who were "racists". I used quotes because it's easy to forget the effect that the KKK had on keeping the racism front and center. Anyone who started suggesting things like reforming the schools to get rid of all the nepotistic teachers and principles, like how they had done up north. Could easily be painted as a N-lover. If they didn't take the hint, burn a cross on their lawn, kick their wives out of her book club, and rough up their kids in school.
Now step back and take a look at how illegal immigration and corrupting the asylum system has largely recreated segregation. Look at how these left wing activists groups will go after anyone who attempts to call out the corruption of the schools in places like California or New York. History is repeating itself to a certain extent.
Now back to race. There was something funny about "Black Lives Matter". There were plenty of reasons to go with "All Lives Matter" or "Colored Lives Matter". So why did blacks insist on sticking with "Black Lives Matter".
Which group of Americans have been the most negatively impacted by the millions of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers. Which group has watched their leaders get sucked into the mainstream Democrat party. A party that has once again sold out to the biggest donners that often benefit from using all that immigrant labor to hold down labor costs and push up rents. Yet blacks face massive peer pressure to not only keep backing the democrats but not speak out against illegal immigration and the corruption of the asylum system.
Hence why we just saw a big increase in the number of black and brown voters turning out for Trump. Hence we the Democrats have fought tooth and nail to protect segregation 2.0.
The truth has always been that the majority of American just don't care about race. At least not when is comes to actions. There will always be a few racists but the much bigger problem in society is that there will always be a big incentive to corrupt things so that the rich and get a bit richer. Divide the populous. Make one group slightly superior to another and then use that to control and define the permissible arguments. It's a formula that is as old as dirt.
Your analysis starts 300 years too late. Unions were not a thing until the late 1800s; slavery started in the 1600s and had been going on before that in parts of Europe. The racism that was already there explains colonial conquest, actually dating back to the Crusades. CRT tried to explain and provide a framework for all of that.
Now, CRT is a theory, and one can always argue the theory by finding an observation it doesn’t explain, or proposing a new idea that explains it better. You’ve done neither. Corruption is a reasonable explanation for what happened after about 1890, but not before that. It certainly doesn’t explain the compromises that went into the founding documents or the situation that lead to the Civil War, based on the known comments of the people directly involved.
If my analysis starts 300 years too late, then yours' starts 30,000 years too late. Or maybe 300,000 years too late, historians and anthropologists can't seem to agree on when humanity kicks off. You know what all those real historians and anthropologists can agree on though, that conquest and enslavement are a regularly occurring feature of humanity.
Funny how the CRT theorist name check the crusades but ignore how the Muslims didn't take over those regions by vigorous debate and gentle persuasion. The Muslims, who were both the same race as well as a different race then the areas they conquered, took over by violently converting, killing, and/or suppressing the Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and Zoastrians they conquered and enslaved.
The Mongols did the same in the north of Europe. While the North African Muslims did the same to Spain and the south of France.
It's funny that you think corrupting the system by abusing ones power and authority didn't start until the beginning of the original progressive era. The introduction of competitive bidding and professional city managers is generally consider a major step in cleaning up a substantial amount of the corruption endemic to our system at that time. In fact, if modern progressive were following the script their earlier counterparts did, they would be pushing for school vouchers to break the corruption that teachers unions have created.
At the end of the day, Critical Race Theory, is less an attempt to better understand humanity and more of, another attempt at self selected elites trying to abuse their perceived authority to win un-earned and un-disserved benefits for their selected politically favored groups. Effectively they are once again trying to corrupt the system.
I could claim this is itself, a form of racism, but I'll stick with my theory of a people being inherently greedy and short sighted. As such, there will always be another attempt at corrupting things to increase the benefits of the already wealthy and powerful.
Looked at through this lens, the failure of free trade and mass immigration is that we have been rewarding corrupt and irresponsible businessmen that take advantage of exploiting foreigners both at home and abroad. Rather then rewarding the businessmen that invest in their workers and innovation to increase productivity while reducing the materials, energy, labor used for production. This better explains the rising income inequality and worsening race relations.
A couple of things. As you said yourself, Muslims who took over didn’t care about the race or nationality of who they enslaved. If they conquered you, you were slaves. That’s how it worked up until colonialism came along.
Second, CRT doesn’t attempt to “explain humanity”. Rather, it attempts to explain the racism that is baked into to our culture, and evidence of that is everywhere. American institutions are racist because they were deliberately designed that way, and we have the proof.
Muslim were and are racist as all get out. The Arabs, Persians and Turks are somewhat racist towards each other and all of them are very racist towards sub-Sahara (black) Muslims. Seriously, thats who created the slave trading networks that the European first started tapping.
You need to read more history. I once fell for these overly simplistic narratives. One of those is that we Americans were much more racists then the Europeans. The proof was how we practiced segregations. Yet turns out that that is total garbage.
Up until fairly recently, Africans, Asian, and Native Americans were so few and far between inside of Europe that having a family of them in your town was a novelty. Meanwhile over in Dutch Indonesia, the Belgium Congo, or the Caribbean islands under the French, "Whites only" schools, club, and grocery stores were quite the norm.
These days the most racist countries are Japan, South Korea and China. And they always were. Both before and after the Opium wars, Europeans were not only restricted to a few port cities but to the special trading zones in those cities.
Meanwhile the race hustlers pushing "CRT" are just getting desperate. Racism has greatly diminished in America. That's a problem because it means that the affirmative action these guys depend on has now become it's own source of corruption. Even Obama mentioned that it was unfair that his girls were getting extra points based on their sex and race.
The worst thing about these race hustlers is that rather then helping they are making things worse. Something that is showing the negative legacy of slavery has been much more prominent in England. The blacks that immigrated from their former colonies in Africa are much better at family formation. Where as those from the Caribbean, who are descended from slaves tend to have much higher rates of single mother households.
Generations of breaking up families for profit or punishment has produced a much bigger and lasting problem for America then racism. So how about quit listening to a bunch of hacks that are trying to double down on their un-earned privileges and protect the corruption they are profiting off of.
When white working class people in the United States are suffering de-industrialization, declining living standards, widespread substance abuse, faced with excessive costs for food, healthcare, housing and most everything else; it is not surprising that their tolerance for special efforts to help out even more troubled groups in society is waning.
I would say rather than condemn critical race theory that conservatives might want to consider embellishing it in order to find common ground with other segments of the working class.
Conservatives, in so far as they reject liberal individualism and its cult of expertise, basically are situated within the field of sociology.
Paint a richer fuller picture with your work, not one that pretends slavery for blacks and genocide of the American Indians did not happen.
Slavery for blacks was inherited from the British mostly. The genocide of the American Indians happened before the United States was even thought of. Patient Zero for smallpox in the New World was an African slave that came with Cortez. The epidemics that raged to the northward were probably started by contact with fishermen that were working coastal waters before settlement. Irish, English, Basque, who knows. While I acknowledge later atrocities, I refuse to feel guilty for stuff I didn't do.
This is this first time I’ve come cross an article on CRT and it’s opened my eyes to a new perspective. I think the most important issue is that if we are not teaching what we learned from the past, it is destined to repeat itself. Maybe some of those people who are up in arms about this and are more level headed are coming from that space.
However, I can see where the sins of the father are on the shoulders of his sons and grandsons . This is where the “CRT” becomes double an edged sword. In Germany, they did this, they review their tragic past so that it doesn’t repeat. There is no hanging of the head, no shaming, no need to keep another group down for generations or to edify another in atonement. “CRT” has become a thing because people like this paper’s author and its opponents drag it into a territory of winners and loosers, left and right. This double edged sword will cut through our country with the weight of both sides.
Let there be a new curriculum in the schools. I can’t agree that there is one way to shape a mind but I do agree that we have come far away from a proper way to do that. Schools now are teaching more emotional ideologies and it appears that the writer would like to replace those with more rigid ideologies of their own.
I don’t think anyone is going to break even here. I think there are some people who know that and still choose to fan the flames on this subject. It is my opinion that the nearest option is a working compromise. We revisit history as it moves. We forgive but we never forget. We raise our standards as a country and at the same time we raise our boats. We aren’t moving forward because we are all competing with each other and that is more embarrassing than anything in any portion of American history at any point in time.
Noah Webster's 1828 Dictionary: "Education - The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties."
Education need not be a patriotic endeavor, but it can never be a morally or spiritually neutral one.
"No nation can exist if its citizens believe everything is for sale." Someone needs to tell the libertarians.
Bravo! The Academy and their media lackeys have promulgated the toxins of "The 1619 Project". The Ministry of Truth will be difficult to demolish.
Fishes can continue growing only when the Pond is not left to die. So, a nation requires citizens to care for the whole as much or even more, as much for self. TulsiTawari@Gmail.com
This essay does well to criticize the teaching of critical thinking, evidently the author needs cover for his own lack of it. My goodness, what a litany of logical fallacies and unsupported arguments
Thank for you for this terrible, awful, no-good version of an argument in favor of a cause I support!
Instead of arguing CRT on conservative/liberal grounds, trying arguing its merits. You can’t, because it explains much of what we see in America. America is racist, always has been, toward any convenient group who couldn’t defend themselves. CRT tries to explain why. Until we talk about that, no amount of whining about how we should be colorblind will hold water.
Nobody said Americans were *more* racist than Europeans, but Americans brought it with them. Europe pretty much left it in the colonies, mostly.
You contradicted yourself when you said Muslims were racist, then gave examples where one group of Muslims was racist towards another. Islam had nothing to do with that, and the Christian church has alway had the same issue.
All that said, the US is the largest country with overt racism baked into its founding documents. There are other racist big countries, but they haven’t formalized it like we did.
No, CRT does not explain what you see in America. In fact the much better explanation is good old corruption. How things like segregation worked is that it allowed the wealthy to exploit the blacks, who couldn't turn to the courts or the state for protection. That in turn suppressed the wages and drove up the rents on working class whites. Hard to unionize when your boss can find an endless number of blacks willing to cross the picket line.
Why were blacks so ready to cross the picket line. They had no loyalty to their fellow working class whites who were "racists". I used quotes because it's easy to forget the effect that the KKK had on keeping the racism front and center. Anyone who started suggesting things like reforming the schools to get rid of all the nepotistic teachers and principles, like how they had done up north. Could easily be painted as a N-lover. If they didn't take the hint, burn a cross on their lawn, kick their wives out of her book club, and rough up their kids in school.
Now step back and take a look at how illegal immigration and corrupting the asylum system has largely recreated segregation. Look at how these left wing activists groups will go after anyone who attempts to call out the corruption of the schools in places like California or New York. History is repeating itself to a certain extent.
Now back to race. There was something funny about "Black Lives Matter". There were plenty of reasons to go with "All Lives Matter" or "Colored Lives Matter". So why did blacks insist on sticking with "Black Lives Matter".
Which group of Americans have been the most negatively impacted by the millions of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers. Which group has watched their leaders get sucked into the mainstream Democrat party. A party that has once again sold out to the biggest donners that often benefit from using all that immigrant labor to hold down labor costs and push up rents. Yet blacks face massive peer pressure to not only keep backing the democrats but not speak out against illegal immigration and the corruption of the asylum system.
Hence why we just saw a big increase in the number of black and brown voters turning out for Trump. Hence we the Democrats have fought tooth and nail to protect segregation 2.0.
The truth has always been that the majority of American just don't care about race. At least not when is comes to actions. There will always be a few racists but the much bigger problem in society is that there will always be a big incentive to corrupt things so that the rich and get a bit richer. Divide the populous. Make one group slightly superior to another and then use that to control and define the permissible arguments. It's a formula that is as old as dirt.
Your analysis starts 300 years too late. Unions were not a thing until the late 1800s; slavery started in the 1600s and had been going on before that in parts of Europe. The racism that was already there explains colonial conquest, actually dating back to the Crusades. CRT tried to explain and provide a framework for all of that.
Now, CRT is a theory, and one can always argue the theory by finding an observation it doesn’t explain, or proposing a new idea that explains it better. You’ve done neither. Corruption is a reasonable explanation for what happened after about 1890, but not before that. It certainly doesn’t explain the compromises that went into the founding documents or the situation that lead to the Civil War, based on the known comments of the people directly involved.
If my analysis starts 300 years too late, then yours' starts 30,000 years too late. Or maybe 300,000 years too late, historians and anthropologists can't seem to agree on when humanity kicks off. You know what all those real historians and anthropologists can agree on though, that conquest and enslavement are a regularly occurring feature of humanity.
Funny how the CRT theorist name check the crusades but ignore how the Muslims didn't take over those regions by vigorous debate and gentle persuasion. The Muslims, who were both the same race as well as a different race then the areas they conquered, took over by violently converting, killing, and/or suppressing the Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and Zoastrians they conquered and enslaved.
The Mongols did the same in the north of Europe. While the North African Muslims did the same to Spain and the south of France.
It's funny that you think corrupting the system by abusing ones power and authority didn't start until the beginning of the original progressive era. The introduction of competitive bidding and professional city managers is generally consider a major step in cleaning up a substantial amount of the corruption endemic to our system at that time. In fact, if modern progressive were following the script their earlier counterparts did, they would be pushing for school vouchers to break the corruption that teachers unions have created.
At the end of the day, Critical Race Theory, is less an attempt to better understand humanity and more of, another attempt at self selected elites trying to abuse their perceived authority to win un-earned and un-disserved benefits for their selected politically favored groups. Effectively they are once again trying to corrupt the system.
I could claim this is itself, a form of racism, but I'll stick with my theory of a people being inherently greedy and short sighted. As such, there will always be another attempt at corrupting things to increase the benefits of the already wealthy and powerful.
Looked at through this lens, the failure of free trade and mass immigration is that we have been rewarding corrupt and irresponsible businessmen that take advantage of exploiting foreigners both at home and abroad. Rather then rewarding the businessmen that invest in their workers and innovation to increase productivity while reducing the materials, energy, labor used for production. This better explains the rising income inequality and worsening race relations.
A couple of things. As you said yourself, Muslims who took over didn’t care about the race or nationality of who they enslaved. If they conquered you, you were slaves. That’s how it worked up until colonialism came along.
Second, CRT doesn’t attempt to “explain humanity”. Rather, it attempts to explain the racism that is baked into to our culture, and evidence of that is everywhere. American institutions are racist because they were deliberately designed that way, and we have the proof.
Two different subjects. You can’t conflate them.
Muslim were and are racist as all get out. The Arabs, Persians and Turks are somewhat racist towards each other and all of them are very racist towards sub-Sahara (black) Muslims. Seriously, thats who created the slave trading networks that the European first started tapping.
You need to read more history. I once fell for these overly simplistic narratives. One of those is that we Americans were much more racists then the Europeans. The proof was how we practiced segregations. Yet turns out that that is total garbage.
Up until fairly recently, Africans, Asian, and Native Americans were so few and far between inside of Europe that having a family of them in your town was a novelty. Meanwhile over in Dutch Indonesia, the Belgium Congo, or the Caribbean islands under the French, "Whites only" schools, club, and grocery stores were quite the norm.
These days the most racist countries are Japan, South Korea and China. And they always were. Both before and after the Opium wars, Europeans were not only restricted to a few port cities but to the special trading zones in those cities.
Meanwhile the race hustlers pushing "CRT" are just getting desperate. Racism has greatly diminished in America. That's a problem because it means that the affirmative action these guys depend on has now become it's own source of corruption. Even Obama mentioned that it was unfair that his girls were getting extra points based on their sex and race.
The worst thing about these race hustlers is that rather then helping they are making things worse. Something that is showing the negative legacy of slavery has been much more prominent in England. The blacks that immigrated from their former colonies in Africa are much better at family formation. Where as those from the Caribbean, who are descended from slaves tend to have much higher rates of single mother households.
Generations of breaking up families for profit or punishment has produced a much bigger and lasting problem for America then racism. So how about quit listening to a bunch of hacks that are trying to double down on their un-earned privileges and protect the corruption they are profiting off of.
So much fear mongering. So many scare tactics. So little time. I pine for the day when my former party was the party of ideas. Not grievance.
When white working class people in the United States are suffering de-industrialization, declining living standards, widespread substance abuse, faced with excessive costs for food, healthcare, housing and most everything else; it is not surprising that their tolerance for special efforts to help out even more troubled groups in society is waning.
I would say rather than condemn critical race theory that conservatives might want to consider embellishing it in order to find common ground with other segments of the working class.
Conservatives, in so far as they reject liberal individualism and its cult of expertise, basically are situated within the field of sociology.
Paint a richer fuller picture with your work, not one that pretends slavery for blacks and genocide of the American Indians did not happen.
Slavery for blacks was inherited from the British mostly. The genocide of the American Indians happened before the United States was even thought of. Patient Zero for smallpox in the New World was an African slave that came with Cortez. The epidemics that raged to the northward were probably started by contact with fishermen that were working coastal waters before settlement. Irish, English, Basque, who knows. While I acknowledge later atrocities, I refuse to feel guilty for stuff I didn't do.
What it appears you are doing is trying to prevent anyone else from considering the history, sociology and economics of their lives.
This is this first time I’ve come cross an article on CRT and it’s opened my eyes to a new perspective. I think the most important issue is that if we are not teaching what we learned from the past, it is destined to repeat itself. Maybe some of those people who are up in arms about this and are more level headed are coming from that space.
However, I can see where the sins of the father are on the shoulders of his sons and grandsons . This is where the “CRT” becomes double an edged sword. In Germany, they did this, they review their tragic past so that it doesn’t repeat. There is no hanging of the head, no shaming, no need to keep another group down for generations or to edify another in atonement. “CRT” has become a thing because people like this paper’s author and its opponents drag it into a territory of winners and loosers, left and right. This double edged sword will cut through our country with the weight of both sides.
Let there be a new curriculum in the schools. I can’t agree that there is one way to shape a mind but I do agree that we have come far away from a proper way to do that. Schools now are teaching more emotional ideologies and it appears that the writer would like to replace those with more rigid ideologies of their own.
I don’t think anyone is going to break even here. I think there are some people who know that and still choose to fan the flames on this subject. It is my opinion that the nearest option is a working compromise. We revisit history as it moves. We forgive but we never forget. We raise our standards as a country and at the same time we raise our boats. We aren’t moving forward because we are all competing with each other and that is more embarrassing than anything in any portion of American history at any point in time.
But the current cadre of educators are on the other side. Who shall do this?