Don2 (Don1 Revised)
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MODEL SCHOOL BOARD LANGUAGE TO PROHIBIT CRITICAL RACE THEORY
The broad topic is again critical race theory, but this time, in particular, a document sent out top-down, giving the appearance to come from grass-roots (citizens for blah blah blah). The document has been used by Republican legislators in states to create anti-anti-racist legislation and you can see the language similarities between the document and the new legislation in a number of states. Originally, this has been pushed by a former member of the Trump administration Russ Vought who worked with OMB under Trump. Prior to that, he worked for the Heritage Foundation (Heritage Action) which has a similar strategy of pushing propaganda to people, but then phrasing their group as if it is coming from the people directly like "grassroots" whatever. Heritage Action also has a document, though not suggesting legislation, just FOIA requests to local boards of education by Republican activists.
In any case, just like at Heritage Action, this group Citizens for Renewing America, is pushing some serious propaganda including lies by omission, focusing on indirect connections, hyperbole, and just plain fabrication. What I'd like to do is to get people to peruse the document, give it a skim and get a feel for just how much dishonesty and tricks are in there so that we all know what is going on. I will start with an example and in a poll, I'll ask how many shenanigans do you reckon are there from your observing the text within.
So, here I think is an example of shenanigans. On page 6, the document lists some 88 additional terms for which it makes the following claims:
But the "above clauses" contained a lot of hyperbole and other shenanigans and making a list like this, while it DOES contain some radical terms, it also contains a lot of innocuous terms that are going to be used as a tactic to scare parents into further going down the rabbit hole. The example I'm bringing is Social Emotional Learning. Social Emotional Learning is "soft skills" like how to keep yourself safe, how to communicate, how to make friends, etc. After my 13 year old was off from school because of the pandemic and then returned to a hybrid learning environment, the school sent out a message that for the first 2 weeks the children were back, they'd focus on Social Emotional Learning. OMFG, the HORROR!!111one11! They were making the kids Reverse Racialists!!11!11one. No, not really. Can SEL somehow work with concepts like diversity and empathy? Yes, that is because that is how social skills themselves are integrated with those concepts. But listing SEL is at-best superfluous since if you remove reverse discrimination, it's removed, and at-worst, it's a scare tactic to paranoid parents. So I'm calling shenanigans!
My question to you is how many shenanigans do you observe and can you list a few in the thread?
The broad topic is again critical race theory, but this time, in particular, a document sent out top-down, giving the appearance to come from grass-roots (citizens for blah blah blah). The document has been used by Republican legislators in states to create anti-anti-racist legislation and you can see the language similarities between the document and the new legislation in a number of states. Originally, this has been pushed by a former member of the Trump administration Russ Vought who worked with OMB under Trump. Prior to that, he worked for the Heritage Foundation (Heritage Action) which has a similar strategy of pushing propaganda to people, but then phrasing their group as if it is coming from the people directly like "grassroots" whatever. Heritage Action also has a document, though not suggesting legislation, just FOIA requests to local boards of education by Republican activists.
In any case, just like at Heritage Action, this group Citizens for Renewing America, is pushing some serious propaganda including lies by omission, focusing on indirect connections, hyperbole, and just plain fabrication. What I'd like to do is to get people to peruse the document, give it a skim and get a feel for just how much dishonesty and tricks are in there so that we all know what is going on. I will start with an example and in a poll, I'll ask how many shenanigans do you reckon are there from your observing the text within.
So, here I think is an example of shenanigans. On page 6, the document lists some 88 additional terms for which it makes the following claims:
Additional terms and concepts below that either wholly violate the above clauses, or which may if taught through the framework of any of the prohibited activities defined above, partially violate the above clauses in what is otherwise broadly defined as “critical race theory”:
But the "above clauses" contained a lot of hyperbole and other shenanigans and making a list like this, while it DOES contain some radical terms, it also contains a lot of innocuous terms that are going to be used as a tactic to scare parents into further going down the rabbit hole. The example I'm bringing is Social Emotional Learning. Social Emotional Learning is "soft skills" like how to keep yourself safe, how to communicate, how to make friends, etc. After my 13 year old was off from school because of the pandemic and then returned to a hybrid learning environment, the school sent out a message that for the first 2 weeks the children were back, they'd focus on Social Emotional Learning. OMFG, the HORROR!!111one11! They were making the kids Reverse Racialists!!11!11one. No, not really. Can SEL somehow work with concepts like diversity and empathy? Yes, that is because that is how social skills themselves are integrated with those concepts. But listing SEL is at-best superfluous since if you remove reverse discrimination, it's removed, and at-worst, it's a scare tactic to paranoid parents. So I'm calling shenanigans!
My question to you is how many shenanigans do you observe and can you list a few in the thread?