Did you take a class in critical race theory?

[Trausti]

Mainstream news media: 'Nobody is teaching CRT in K-12 schools!'

Largest K-12 teachers unions: 'We must continue to teach CRT!'

We Need to Teach the Truth About Systemic Racism, Say Educators

 

[Trausti]

Reminder: Conservatives, please feel free to click Yes to the op question for any youtube or tiktok classes you took on CRT. For example, a special dispensation has been awarded to conservatives after Trausti posted his "educational" video in post#39. So you can click Yes and name this video as the source of your "class."

Also feel free to show how Critical Race Theory is falsifiable and not political/religious nonsense.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a framework that offers researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers a race-conscious approach to understanding educational inequality and structural racism to find solutions that lead to greater justice. Placing race at the center of analysis, Critical Race Theory scholars interrogate policies and practices that are taken for granted to uncover the overt and covert ways that racist ideologies, structures, and institutions create and maintain racial inequality.

Everything is racist. Really. Every. Fucking. Thing.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1406804138831265797[/TWEET]

That doesn't say what you think it says. It says they analytically examine policies and structures to test if they create and maintain racism. That isn't Everything.

 

[Trausti]

Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory (CRT) is a framework that offers researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers a race-conscious approach to understanding educational inequality and structural racism to find solutions that lead to greater justice. Placing race at the center of analysis, Critical Race Theory scholars interrogate policies and practices that are taken for granted to uncover the overt and covert ways that racist ideologies, structures, and institutions create and maintain racial inequality.

Everything is racist. Really. Every. Fucking. Thing.

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1406804138831265797[/TWEET]

That doesn't say what you think it says. It says they analytically examine policies and structures to test if they create and maintain racism. That isn't Everything.

If you don't think they put race at the center of everything, you ain't paying attention. Also - click the Tweet. You'll enjoy it. Promise.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Reminder: Conservatives, please feel free to click Yes to the op question for any youtube or tiktok classes you took on CRT. For example, a special dispensation has been awarded to conservatives after Trausti posted his "educational" video in post#39. So you can click Yes and name this video as the source of your "class."

Also feel free to show how Critical Race Theory is falsifiable and not political/religious nonsense.

I still don't understand most of it and so I am not qualified to even attempt that.

 

[Politesse]

Mainstream news media: 'Nobody is teaching CRT in K-12 schools!'

Largest K-12 teachers unions: 'We must continue to teach CRT!'

We Need to Teach the Truth About Systemic Racism, Say Educators

Once again, you yourself cite an article that explicitly contradicts your claim. None of the elementary educators interviewed in the piece cite CRT as part of their lesson plan, and Dr Buggs once again tries to patiently explain what the theory set does and does not say.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Mainstream news media: 'Nobody is teaching CRT in K-12 schools!'

Largest K-12 teachers unions: 'We must continue to teach CRT!'

We Need to Teach the Truth About Systemic Racism, Say Educators

The phrase systemic racism isn't in there, but also is not equivalent to CRT, nor does it mean everything is racist.

 

[Copernicus]

Or, more to the point, if we don’t know that guy, than your boogie man is under fewer beds than you thought.


You’re trying to tell us all that this “CRT curriculum” is in “all the schools” and being “forced on American children!”
And your proof is bringing up these ameteur youtubes and unrelated “spokespeople” that are examples whose relevance is landing like rotten pumpkins.

No, your boogie man is not under every bed. Your boogeyman is not powerful.
Your boogie man is kind of obscure and not widely relevant.

We can see why the untruthful right likes to manufacture fear with their catch phrases and their boogie men. Everyone can see them rather desperately try to erect a new effigy every year or so, THIS is the new left thing your should be terrified of!

And yet hear we are with Trausti lamenting, ‘if you don’t know my boogey-man, then you don’t know much abou this thing that I was telling you is just everywhere!


Ooops. Indeed. It’s not everywhere, is it.

What's untruthful is pretending that this isn't being pushed in schools.

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YWuD9RwJD4[/YOUTUBE]

Ultimately this is about imposing a political viewpoint on a captive audience. If Christian fundamentalist were attempting to do this, I suspect you'd raise objection. But because if fits your politics, you're okay with it.

There is no mention in your video of Critical Race Theory, nor is there anything to suggest that this student was told that there was anything wrong with his race. His grievance that he, not being a member of the minorities mentioned in an address to students, felt slighted that his "race"--what he freely admitted was the race of the majority of the audience--was NOT mentioned. What he talked about was a feeling of being characterized by his skin color, which was never mentioned, and his opinion that it felt that he was being branded as "wrong" just because of his skin color. That was an inference that he drew, but what made him a spokesperson for all of the other white kids in the audience? I suspect that individuals in the audience filtered their perception of the presentation through biases that they already brought with them into the school. There would also have been white kids who did not feel that the speech diminished them because of their race. He himself was given the opportunity to express his feelings and opinions about his experience, which I think was an excellent part of his educational experience. He probably got an earful of different opinions from many of his fellow classmates. Welcome to America.

Regardless, what is untruthful here is your spin on the video that implied it had anything at all to do with Critical Race Theory. You were just wrong about that. This kid was expressing a grievance that he personally felt and that he gratuitously attributed other white students in the audience.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

That doesn't say what you think it says. It says they analytically examine policies and structures to test if they create and maintain racism. That isn't Everything.

If you don't think they put race at the center of everything, you ain't paying attention. Also - click the Tweet. You'll enjoy it. Promise.

You are still trying to change what they wrote. It says they place race at the center of analysis of racism. It does not say they put it at the center of Everything--your claim. Your claim comes from the video you submitted in post 39.

Moreover, even if some type of analysis like CRT had flaws decades ago or by individuals using fallacious logic, it does not mean whenever the term "systemic racism" is invoked that those same potential flaws are used. The term "systemic racism" is a very trendy term and it is used in a lot of ways. One way it seems is to identify racism at a system level such that individuals working within are not necessarily overt racists but the outcome of the system is skewed to be more harmful to one or more races. You will have to tell the thread why this bothers you.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

CRT is the television and computer monitor technology that preceded flat screens. It stands for 'Cathode Ray Tube'.

Hope this helps.

Yeah. That's the term that always comes to my mind.

 

[Gospel]

CRT is the television and computer monitor technology that preceded flat screens. It stands for 'Cathode Ray Tube'.

Hope this helps.

Yeah. That's the term that always comes to my mind.

Yeah, when you're old AF.

 

[laughing dog]

Mainstream news media: 'Nobody is teaching CRT in K-12 schools!'

Largest K-12 teachers unions: 'We must continue to teach CRT!'

We Need to Teach the Truth About Systemic Racism, Say Educators

It seems to me that anyone, including you, would want the truth about systemic racism to be taught. After all, if it is true there is no systemic racism, that truth should be taught.

But for some reason, your secular religion has dictated to you that critical race theory and systematic racism are the same or that systematic racism is a basic tenet of critical race theory, and you believe it while posting links that rebut those ignorant secular religious claims.

From your linked article

Critical race theory, explains Buggs, originated from legal studies and, at its most basic definition, is thinking about the ways that racism—particularly White supremacy, anti-Blackness, and various kinds of racialized inequality—is embedded into law and legal practice, as well as other kinds of policy within institutions.
“If we're trying to make the law more equitable, if we're trying to make workplaces and other kinds of institutions function more fairly, then we have to consider the ways that racial inequality is literally embedded into how these things were designed in terms of who was recognized as having rights,” says Buggs.

Your cited article does not say anything that you claim.
If your claims are imputed summaries, they are grossly inaccurate.

 

[laughing dog]

Is there a white snowflake site where you can find all of these examples of people making unsubstantiated and sometimes irrational claims?

That child feels left out and that he has done something wrong because the principal in a speech didn't mention anyone who looked like him. Wow. If his story is true, then I have a little sympathy for him but for some reason neither he thought that might be how thousands of minority children have felt for decades.

Finally, and more importantly, public schools have been pushing political viewpoints on children forever. The only problem some people have is that they don't like what they think is the current viewpoint.

There is no neutral viewpoint in education. The decisions on what topics to cover and how to cover them are inherently political in nature.

Do I think there are schools or teachers that overdue it? Of course - but that is true regardless of the political viewpoint that is being promulgated.

But for some reason, pointing out or pushing the notion that minorities count for as much and are as important as the majority is getting the majority group in a fucking lather.

YOU probably have most of your working life behind you, while this kid is in the trenches.

I suspect that lg is one of the self-flagellants. He can't understand why the evil White boy just won't take the whip.

No, I get why there are people who are upset about this - I have relatives who sort of think like this. In their cases, it is a combination of fear of change and a feeling of being left behind. But, IMO, to their credit, they do not spout the pettiness, overt bigotry, vileness and delusional feelings present in this thread.

 

[thebeave]

CRT is the television and computer monitor technology that preceded flat screens. It stands for 'Cathode Ray Tube'.

Hope this helps.

Yeah. That's the term that always comes to my mind.

Yeah, when you're old AF.

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8EMndSFFMk[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Gun Nut]

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.

I know three people. They have become idiots.
Example: "Don't get a mortgage because banks give better rates to white people than black people."
By getting a loan, you are a racist. really.

 

[Gun Nut]

Mainstream news media: 'Nobody is teaching CRT in K-12 schools!'

Largest K-12 teachers unions: 'We must continue to teach CRT!'

We Need to Teach the Truth About Systemic Racism, Say Educators

From your linked article:

What’s happening within K-12 public education in certain areas around the country is a “misrepresentation of critical race theory,” she says.

“The fact that some politicians are naming the “1619 Project” [as critical race theory], which it is not; it’s a piece of journalism…is certainly rooted in a backlash to people…learning about the ways that the history of inequality in this country still informs the inequality that people experience today.”

Does that clear up your confusion as to why some say it is being taught and some are saying it is not?

 

[Politesse]

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.

I know three people. They have become idiots.
Example: "Don't get a mortgage because banks give better rates to white people than black people."

Aside from the part that either you or they invented ("don't get a mortgage" would not solve the problem, and CRT specialists aren't big fans of meaningless virtue signaling as a general rule) this is a fact, easily researched. Banks do, in fact, preferentially award mortgages and other associated loans to whites, and the reasons for that touch on the core ideas of CRT, that institutional racism survives less because of the actions of racist individuals than because the system was set up in such a way as to preserve class biases.

Disparity in home lending costs minorities millions, researchers find

A recent analysis of nearly 7 million 30-year mortgages by University of California at Berkeley researchers found that black and Latino applicants were charged higher interest — an average of nearly 0.08% — and heavier refinance fees when compared with white borrowers. That was in face-to-face transactions. When applying online or through an app, minorities still ended up paying more, though terms were slightly better than when borrowing in person.

The upshot: Long-standing discrimination faced by people of color in getting a home loan can be reproduced in software-based lending, technology that advocates say is supposed to prevent bias.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/lenders-deny-mortgages-for-blacks-at-a-rate-80percent-higher-than-whites.html

For refinances specifically, Black borrowers are denied mortgage refinance loans, on average, 30.22% of the time, far higher than the overall denial rate of 17.07%, according to an analysis of the HMDA data by LendingTree, an online mortgage marketplace.

Part of that high denial rate may be because minority consumers overall have lower incomes and lower credit scores than White consumers. They also tend to live in more disadvantaged neighborhoods with lower home values. None of that was the case with Akridge, whose townhome is in a brand new development in a quiet suburb just outside Washington, D.C.

Two more lenders called Akridge, and he decided not to disclose his race. Both offered him competitive market rates on a refinance. One even offered to beat the other.

 

[ZiprHead]

[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/fTcSVQJ2h8g[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Harry Bosch]

Aside from the part that either you or they invented ("don't get a mortgage" would not solve the problem, and CRT specialists aren't big fans of meaningless virtue signaling as a general rule) this is a fact, easily researched. Banks do, in fact, preferentially award mortgages and other associated loans to whites, and the reasons for that touch on the core ideas of CRT, that institutional racism survives less because of the actions of racist individuals than because the system was set up in such a way as to preserve class biases.

Disparity in home lending costs minorities millions, researchers find

A recent analysis of nearly 7 million 30-year mortgages by University of California at Berkeley researchers found that black and Latino applicants were charged higher interest — an average of nearly 0.08% — and heavier refinance fees when compared with white borrowers. That was in face-to-face transactions. When applying online or through an app, minorities still ended up paying more, though terms were slightly better than when borrowing in person.

The upshot: Long-standing discrimination faced by people of color in getting a home loan can be reproduced in software-based lending, technology that advocates say is supposed to prevent bias.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/lenders-deny-mortgages-for-blacks-at-a-rate-80percent-higher-than-whites.html

For refinances specifically, Black borrowers are denied mortgage refinance loans, on average, 30.22% of the time, far higher than the overall denial rate of 17.07%, according to an analysis of the HMDA data by LendingTree, an online mortgage marketplace.

Part of that high denial rate may be because minority consumers overall have lower incomes and lower credit scores than White consumers. They also tend to live in more disadvantaged neighborhoods with lower home values. None of that was the case with Akridge, whose townhome is in a brand new development in a quiet suburb just outside Washington, D.C.

Two more lenders called Akridge, and he decided not to disclose his race. Both offered him competitive market rates on a refinance. One even offered to beat the other.

Residential loans are extremely regulated through fair lending, reg b and etc. As a result, they are very formula driven. Banks have to have set criteria to determine these loans. For example: a borrower may need 700 beacon score, 40% D:I; 10% down to qualify for a loan. If they are denied a loan, it's not because of their race, it's due to them not achieving the criteria. If blacks were systematically denied loans despite exceeding these ratios, they could sue that bank out of existence. There is more lender discretion in commercial loans by the way...

 

[Politesse]

Aside from the part that either you or they invented ("don't get a mortgage" would not solve the problem, and CRT specialists aren't big fans of meaningless virtue signaling as a general rule) this is a fact, easily researched. Banks do, in fact, preferentially award mortgages and other associated loans to whites, and the reasons for that touch on the core ideas of CRT, that institutional racism survives less because of the actions of racist individuals than because the system was set up in such a way as to preserve class biases.

Disparity in home lending costs minorities millions, researchers find



https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/19/lenders-deny-mortgages-for-blacks-at-a-rate-80percent-higher-than-whites.html

Residential loans are extremely regulated through fair lending, reg b and etc. As a result, they are very formula driven. Banks have to have set criteria to determine these loans. For example: a borrower may need 700 beacon score, 40% D:I; 10% down to qualify for a loan. If they are denied a loan, it's not because of their race, it's due to them not achieving the criteria. If blacks were systematically denied loans despite exceeding these ratios, they could sue that bank out of existence. There is more lender discretion in commercial loans by the way...

You're almost there.

The whole point of CRT discourse is that the system itself, not just the individual feelings of gatekeepers like lending agents, often results in systemic discrimination against Blacks. Fixing overt racism would be good, but it's not enough if the goal to create genuine racial equity. If the end result is that Blacks are unfairly discriminated against in the housing market, that's the case even if the reasons for it are couched in other terms. Saying "that's just the way our system is set up" is not, from the perspective of someone who wants to end unfair and discriminatory practices, a sufficient answer to the problem. If a person can vastly change the outcome of a loan application simply by concealing their race, there's a big problem here, even if a computer algorithm presumably with no personal feelings at all is to blame.

Your statement that "they (all black people, I guess?) could sue the bank out of existence" contains some flawed assumptions. Banks are, in fact, routinely and successfully sued for discriminatory practices, despite the fact that it is statistically much harder for Black people to pursue and win lawsuits. Indeed, many of the largest suits ever pursued against this industry have been over racial discrimination issues. However, losing lawsuits does not put major lenders out of business. Countrywide, Wells Fargo, etc simply absorb the costs of those settlements and continue their malicious behavior.