Did you take a class in critical race theory?

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

I've never heard of it until recently through talking heads only, never through academic sources. I suspect it may be a thing in some liberal arts classes in college and some very few people have been exposed in that way to the concept. But I'd like to observe how frequent such past class attendance is here in the forum.

 

[Patooka]

I'm curious if anybody knows anyone currently taking a class in critical race theory. I suspect it isn't as widespread as claimed by conservatives.

 

[untermensche]

If it's the theory we should be critical of evil people even if they are white Americans I never heard of it.

The slave owners and the people who hunted American natives were not criticized.

They were not to blame for their crimes.

Slavery was just something that existed.

There weren't any white people torturing black people on a daily basis to keep the system moving.

 

[Gospel]

Nigga you know damn well everybody on this forum left school at least 3 decades before Critical Race Theory became a thing.

 

[Trausti]

Nigga you know damn well everybody on this forum left school at least 3 decades before Critical Race Theory became a thing.

LOL.

 

[repoman]

If it's the theory we should be critical of evil people even if they are white Americans I never heard of it.

The slave owners and the people who hunted American natives were not criticized.

They were not to blame for their crimes.

Slavery was just something that existed.

There weren't any white people torturing black people on a daily basis to keep the system moving.

Slavery was a mistake

 

[laughing dog]

Nigga you know damn well everybody on this forum left school at least 3 decades before Critical Race Theory became a thing.

That is so true. Yet does not stop them from criticizing it.

 

[Trausti]

Nigga you know damn well everybody on this forum left school at least 3 decades before Critical Race Theory became a thing.

That is so true. Yet does not stop them from criticizing it.

Unless you attended seminary and have a degree in divinity, you can’t critique the Bible.

 

[laughing dog]

Nigga you know damn well everybody on this forum left school at least 3 decades before Critical Race Theory became a thing.

That is so true. Yet does not stop them from criticizing it.

Unless you attended seminary and have a degree in divinity, you can’t critique the Bible.

That is idiotic and irrelevant. It doesn’t take much to criticise ideas that you don’t understand.

 

[Gospel]

Unless you attended seminary and have a degree in divinity, you can’t critique the Bible.

That is idiotic and irrelevant. It doesn’t take much to criticise ideas that you don’t understand.

Delete asap. Fundies would love that quote.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Nigga you know damn well everybody on this forum left school at least 3 decades before Critical Race Theory became a thing.

It's interesting because I don't know much about it except from sources I don't think are too reliable. I have a suspicion this is also true for a lot of other people. So it's very possible for a huge mass of people to be misinformed about it. In Theory.

 

[bilby]

If it's the theory we should be critical of evil people even if they are white Americans I never heard of it.

The slave owners and the people who hunted American natives were not criticized.

They were not to blame for their crimes.

Slavery was just something that existed.

There weren't any white people torturing black people on a daily basis to keep the system moving.

Slavery was a mistake

What, some European sailors arrived in the Americas from West Africa, opened up their holds, and said "Holy shit, someone accidentally loaded a bunch of people instead of my cargo! Oh well, I guess I will just have to sell people this time"?

Slavery was very deliberate.

If by "a mistake" you mean "had some bad consequences", rather than "happened by accident", then you win the Sybil Fawlty Memorial Award for stating the bleeding bloody obvious. Slavery pretty much had zero good consequences.

 

[repoman]

I mean we are stuck with blacks here.

 

[ZiprHead]

I've never heard of it until recently through talking heads only, never through academic sources. I suspect it may be a thing in some liberal arts classes in college and some very few people have been exposed in that way to the concept. But I'd like to observe how frequent such past class attendance is here in the forum.

As far as I know, the only place it's actually taught is in graduate level law schools.

 

[ZiprHead]

I mean we are stuck with blacks here.

Maybe there's a final solution you could enact.

 

[bilby]

I mean we are stuck with blacks here.

You're stuck? How do you imagine they feel about it?

 

[Metaphor]

I mean we are stuck with blacks here.

You're stuck? How do you imagine they feel about it?

I know how I feel about being born in a wealthy Western democracy: I did not deserve to win such a fantastic prize in the geography-of-birth lottery, but I sure as hell am glad I got it.

 

[crazyfingers]

I mean we are stuck with blacks here.

Did really mean to say such a horrible thing?

 

[Rhea]

I have never taken a couse in that. My son who just graduated college last month has never taken a class in it. My daughter who is currently in college has never heard of it as a class to take. All of my friends currently have kids in college and none of them has taken anything like that.

When the folks on this forum who starting ranting nd raving about it started their rants and raves, I had never heard about it before. Despite having my kids in current USA colleges where the alleged evil is taking place.

(My daughter did take a class in illegal drugs, tho. She got an A)

 

[Politesse]

I've never heard of it until recently through talking heads only, never through academic sources. I suspect it may be a thing in some liberal arts classes in college.

It began in the legal profession and discipline, actually, though other disciplines have discussed the ramifications of the theory set to some degree.

I never took a course on critical race theory, though it was a topic of discussion in two of my graduate-level seminar courses (I am a cultural anthropologist), and I now mention the subject briefly in one of my courses each term. I would have no intention of submitting to censorship of academic theory, if that were a threat in my state. Luckily, sanity yet pervades on the coasts.