Teaching children CRT reinforces the idea in children that they are irreconcilably different than people of other skin colors, which is the same sentiment that racists all throughout history have spouted. It's not progressive to teach kids to judge other people based on the color of their skin. Even Martin Luther King Jr. said we should judge each other, not by the color of our skin, but by the content of our character. Teaching a child that they are inherently disadvantaged sets them up to expect handicaps because of their "disadvantage". It is racist to think that black people aren't just as capable of success in any field as other races and need handicaps in order to barely make it. Yes, we should get rid of or reform all systems that spout racial discrimination and segregation.
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What do you actually think CRT says? Martin said that, yes, but I doubt you've listened to much else. He also said measures need to be put into place to ensure that racial bias ceases in our institutions, that capitalism is a system that has seen it's best days, and that the measures to stop racial bias as much as possible would feel like the reverse, but were actually going to help the process. I'm sick of that one damn statement being viewed in the wrong sense. Of course we should stop deciding who we're friends with because of race, and it's astonishing how much… Read more
