@sim @sullybiker I’ve seen reports that a woman in her 70s got a black eye, but nothing more concrete.
@Flick @sim @sullybiker She was punched, apparently.
@LostInCalifornia @sim@shitposter.club @Flick They will push it too far, and won't recognise it until it's far too late. This is what happens when you let radicals dictate the tempo.
@LostInCalifornia @sim@shitposter.club @Flick Irresponsible and dangerous ideas have crept into the mainstream discourse (from cozy little faculty offices) and anybody opposing them gets characterised as some sort of terrorist.
@sullybiker @sim @Flick Yes, but politicians and bureaucrats don’t listen to academia unless they need something.
Donations talk to politicians, and when politicians listen, bureaucrats do.
@LostInCalifornia @sim@shitposter.club @Flick Someone said to me on Twitter a decade ago "Why is my child repeating the tenets of critical theory? The question is where this has come from, and how. It didn't just materialise"
@sullybiker @sim @Flick School policy isn’t set in the local USD these days.
@LostInCalifornia @sim@shitposter.club @Flick For whatever reason, these ideas were not challenged at all. Now they're fucking *everywhere*.
@LostInCalifornia @sim@shitposter.club @Flick There's no moral absolutes, everything is a social construct (which makes the moral judgements passed down especially weird) and things mean whatever people want them to mean, simply by repeating the lie. it's so very, very odd. *Almost* like the birth of religion.
@sullybiker @sim @Flick A moral core is necessary, even if you see everything through a social construct. Otherwise you’re a formless sociopath.
On my part, I picked up a used high school social history textbook back in 2010 or so. It discussed changes in the 1970’s. Most of it was about race. A couple of chapters on gay rights, and the only chapter on women’s rights was about how rape is often he said/she said.
IMO, the problem predates CRT. Race is taken seriously. Other social changes are not. Race should be taken seriously, but we need to stop pretending everything is about race. That book seriously short-changed the kids.
@LostInCalifornia @sim@shitposter.club @Flick It's also extremely divisive. It's sold as a systemic disease with no actual cure, the only remedy being constant recognition of original sin and defining yourself strictly along racial lines which is just super for any civilisation.
@sullybiker @sim @Flick I don’t have a problem, per se, with teaching using critical race theory. I have a problem with how’s it doctrinates rather than teaching critical thinking children can use themselves to reach conclusions.
BUT the mandate comes from DC.
@sullybiker @sim @Flick it’s what happens when social changes are dictated from on high and not from ordinary people IMO.