Why CRT Hysteria?

[Cheerful Charlie]

Washington Post
“We have successfully frozen their brand—'critical race theory’—into the
public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions.
We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural
insanities under that brand category,” Rufo wrote. “The goal is to have
the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think
'critical race theory.’ We have decodified the term and will recodify it
to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular
with Americans.”
- Christopher Rufo


Rufo is the architect of anti-CRT hysteria. CRT is actually applicable only in American law, it is a narrow subject. Most certainly not taught in kindergartens as per Rufo. Why?

"In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw a line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever."
Jan. 14, in Montgomery, Alabama 1963

"CRT" is a dog whistle. If we fight racism, it will be labelled as "CRT". What is means is we are not allowed to challenge white racism, systematic racism in America. "Segregation, now segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever".

See Lee Atwater's admission as to dog whistle politics.
"You start out in 1954 by saying, “N-----, n-----, n-----.”
By 1968 you can’t say “n-----”—that hurts you, backfires.
So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and
all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re
talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re
talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct
of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to
cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing,
uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N-----, n-----.”
- Lee Atwater - 1981 interview

This is all to prevent systematic racism from being dealt with in the US by the GOP. Christopher Rufo, the main architect of CRT hysteria and disinformation is the Lee Atwater of the 2020's.

 

[Metaphor]

Rufo is the architect of anti-CRT hysteria. CRT is actually applicable only in American law, it is a narrow subject. Most certainly not taught in kindergartens as per Rufo. Why?

CRT is not "applicable only to American law". It is an analytical framework, not a 'subject' like history or mathematics. Left-leaning types are now obsessed with the idea that CRT is not taught as a subject in primary school, therefore Republicans are all scared racist morons.

"CRT" is a dog whistle. If we fight racism, it will be labelled as "CRT". What is means is we are not allowed to challenge white racism, systematic racism in America. "Segregation, now segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever".

Do you believe that all white people are racist by virtue of being white? Because that particular belief is one of the recent targets of the so-called 'anti-CRT' bills (like the Texas bill).

If you believe that all white people are racist by virtue of being white and that is something that should be taught to primary school children, directly or indirectly, then you are part of the reason the legislature has begun to outlaw the teaching of such beliefs in taxpayer-funded schools.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Rufo is the architect of anti-CRT hysteria. CRT is actually applicable only in American law, it is a narrow subject. Most certainly not taught in kindergartens as per Rufo. Why?

CRT is not "applicable only to American law". It is an analytical framework, not a 'subject' like history or mathematics. Left-leaning types are now obsessed with the idea that CRT is not taught as a subject in primary school, therefore Republicans are all scared racist morons.

"CRT" is a dog whistle. If we fight racism, it will be labelled as "CRT". What is means is we are not allowed to challenge white racism, systematic racism in America. "Segregation, now segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever".

Do you believe that all white people are racist by virtue of being white? Because that particular belief is one of the recent targets of the so-called 'anti-CRT' bills (like the Texas bill).

If you believe that all white people are racist by virtue of being white and that is something that should be taught to primary school children, directly or indirectly, then you are part of the reason the legislature has begun to outlaw the teaching of such beliefs in taxpayer-funded schools.

It is an analytical framework. Yes. It is about how racism is systematic in America's legal system. It is used by legal experts to understand how thgis is, why it is and what we need to do about it. That is all. Does this mean that all white people are racist? No. That is not what CRT claims. That is a Rufo disinformation claim, spread widely on platforms like Faux, OANN, Newsmax et al.

What this means is CRT has now been expanded to means something it has never meant, such as teaching about slavery, the civil war, reconstruction, Jim Crow et al in high school history lessons.

It is mean to keep systematic racism in America protected and make it a Lee Atwater dog whistle to ignorant MAGA morons. Read the quote I posted from Rufo himself. Nobody is trying to teach school children all whites are racist. This is a monstrous lie from Rufo and people of his ilk, not at all concerned with truth or facts, but with empty political hate mongering.

Read Rufo again, carefully. Wrap your mind around his stated goal.

"We have decodified the term and will recodify it
to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular
with Americans.”
- C. Rufo

If you are happy with this, you are not thinking rationally.
You have bought into this evil demagoguery which is about as evil as demagogury gets.

 

[Metaphor]

It is an analytical framework. Yes. It is about how racism is systematic in America's legal system. It is used by legal experts to understand how thgis is, why it is and what we need to do about it. That is all. Does this mean that all white people are racist? No. That is not what CRT claims. That is a Rufo disinformation claim, spread widely on platforms like Faux, OANN, Newsmax et al.

Whether CRT claims it or not is not the point. None of the "anti-CRT" bills that I've heard people complain about (on here and on Twitter) forbid teaching that racism is systematic in America's legal system (though that is a foundational assumption of CRT. The bills - like the Texas bill - forbid the teaching of specific problematic ideas. Whether and how much these specific problematic ideas are CRT, derived from CRT, CRT-adjacent, or are falsely associated with CRT isn't the point.

What this means is CRT has now been expanded to means something it has never meant, such as teaching about slavery, the civil war, reconstruction, Jim Crow et al in high school history lessons.

It is mean to keep systematic racism in America protected and make it a Lee Atwater dog whistle to ignorant MAGA morons. Read the quote I posted from Rufo himself. Nobody is trying to teach school children all whites are racist. This is a monstrous lie from Rufo and people of his ilk, not at all concerned with truth or facts, but with empty political hate mongering.

Read Rufo again, carefully. Wrap your mind around his stated goal.

"We have decodified the term and will recodify it
to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular
with Americans.”
- C. Rufo

If you are happy with this, you are not thinking rationally.

I am no more or less "happy" with it than I am with the near-complete reinvention of what the word 'racism' means over the past thirty years.

You have bought into this evil demagoguery which is about as evil as demagogury gets.

Simply because I reject other people's foundational religious beliefs doesn't make me evil.

 

[untermensche]

Left-leaning types.....

Ha ha ha.

How lost can one be?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It is simple, it is the latest thing to rile up the right. In the '04-'08 era, there were gay marriage bans to drive out the vote. Now it is lies about how children are being indoctrinated in school about how bad they are. They are simply running out of things to get people upset over.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

This CRT hysteria makes the Willie Horton stunt look amateurish by comparison. Politics based on race baiting.

 

[laughing dog]

Almost everyone needs a bogeyman or two. For many conservatives, the demographic racial shift has them worried about a reduction in their social standing and political power. So, ideas like critical race theory become bogeyman. Given the success the GOP has had with its bigoted dog whistles, it is not surprise at all to watch many people make fools of themselves with their outrageous and ridiculous interpretations of CRT and their blind defense of such silliness.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

CRT is not "applicable only to American law". It is an analytical framework, not a 'subject' like history or mathematics. Left-leaning types are now obsessed with the idea that CRT is not taught as a subject in primary school, therefore Republicans are all scared racist morons.

This educational video for conservatives that Trausti submitted to the other thread says it all.

 

[laughing dog]

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Do you believe that all white people are racist by virtue of being white? Because that particular belief is one of the recent targets of the so-called 'anti-CRT' bills (like the Texas bill).

If you believe that all white people are racist by virtue of being white and that is something that should be taught to primary school children, directly or indirectly, then you are part of the reason the legislature has begun to outlaw the teaching of such beliefs in taxpayer-funded schools.

A bigger problem is that the Texas Republican party policy is fueled by delusion and fear.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

https://www.rawstory.com/filling-the-trump-void-right-wing-media-s-calls-for-violence-grow-louder/

...
But even more concerning might be something else Carlson said in his Thursday night program, in which he suggested that white people are in imminent danger of being the target of genocide. "Pundit, after senator, after professor, after general: each one of them spewing race hate. Whiteness, white rage!" Carlson raved. "How do we save this country before we become Rwanda?"
....

Meanwhile over at Faux Nooz. Race baiting politics at it's finest.

 

[Rhea]

Washington Post
“We have successfully frozen their brand—'critical race theory’—into the
public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions.
We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural
insanities under that brand category,” Rufo wrote. “The goal is to have
the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think
'critical race theory.’ We have decodified the term and will recodify it
to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular
with Americans.”
- Christopher Rufo


Rufo is the architect of anti-CRT hysteria. CRT is actually applicable only in American law, it is a narrow subject. Most certainly not taught in kindergartens as per Rufo. Why?

"In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw a line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever."
Jan. 14, in Montgomery, Alabama 1963

"CRT" is a dog whistle. If we fight racism, it will be labelled as "CRT". What is means is we are not allowed to challenge white racism, systematic racism in America. "Segregation, now segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever".

See Lee Atwater's admission as to dog whistle politics.
"You start out in 1954 by saying, “N-----, n-----, n-----.”
By 1968 you can’t say “n-----”—that hurts you, backfires.
So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and
all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re
talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re
talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct
of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to
cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing,
uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N-----, n-----.”
- Lee Atwater - 1981 interview

This is all to prevent systematic racism from being dealt with in the US by the GOP. Christopher Rufo, the main architect of CRT hysteria and disinformation is the Lee Atwater of the 2020's.

This goes along with Swammer’s thread on the damage done by misinformation.

Rufo is right. He can turn reactionary people into haters with his reframing of this. They are ripe for it, ready to be swayed.

We have seen it right here, the grievance highway that all thought of understanding society is a plot out to get them. And they allow themselves to be led into sloganeering.

 

[Elixir]

Do you believe that all white people are racist by virtue of being white?

No, that's YOUR strawman....

If you believe that all white people are racist by virtue of being white and that is something that should be taught to primary school children, directly or indirectly, then you are part of the reason the legislature has begun to outlaw the teaching of such beliefs in taxpayer-funded schools.

... which you keep beating to death as though you were expecting some kind of recognition for extraordinary valor.

CRT is an attempt to get at truths that strawman-builders such as Rufo and yourself are desperate to ignore, hide, deny or obfuscate. Truths that have your ilk in a virtual panic.

 

[Politesse]

https://www.rawstory.com/filling-the-trump-void-right-wing-media-s-calls-for-violence-grow-louder/

...
But even more concerning might be something else Carlson said in his Thursday night program, in which he suggested that white people are in imminent danger of being the target of genocide. "Pundit, after senator, after professor, after general: each one of them spewing race hate. Whiteness, white rage!" Carlson raved. "How do we save this country before we become Rwanda?"
....

Meanwhile over at Faux Nooz. Race baiting politics at it's finest.

With this analogy does he mean to admit that a situation of mutual racial distrust based on structural inequalities created by a complex colonial history exists in the United States, as it did in Rwanda?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

CRT is an attempt to get at truths that strawman-builders such as Rufo and yourself are desperate to ignore, hide, deny or obfuscate. Truths that have your ilk in a virtual panic.

Looks to me like another way of trying to defend disparate result = proof of discrimination.

 

[Elixir]

CRT is an attempt to get at truths that strawman-builders such as Rufo and yourself are desperate to ignore, hide, deny or obfuscate. Truths that have your ilk in a virtual panic.

Looks to me like another way of trying to defend disparate result = proof of discrimination.

You’re talking about people who have had, and whose ancestors have had, consistent painful experiences and who continue to experience that pain. That you would unthinkingly define their motives for pursuing a relief as an attempt feed a Republican boogeyman (“discrimination”)… I find that disappointing, dismissive and simplistic.

 

[Metaphor]

No, that's YOUR strawman....

It is not an idea I invented. The so-called "anti-CRT" legislation (such as in Texas, for example) forbids the teaching that somebody must be racist by virtue of their race. If you don't have a problem forbidding the teaching of that idea, then you oughtn't have a problem with that part of the Texas legislation.

CRT is an attempt to get at truths that strawman-builders such as Rufo and yourself are desperate to ignore, hide, deny or obfuscate. Truths that have your ilk in a virtual panic.

CRT is an analytical framework that treats untested assumptions as facts.

 

[Elixir]

No, that's YOUR strawman....

It is not an idea I invented. The so-called "anti-CRT" legislation (such as in Texas, for example) forbids the teaching that somebody must be racist by virtue of their race. If you don't have a problem forbidding the teaching of that idea, then you oughtn't have a problem with that part of the Texas legislation.

CRT is an attempt to get at truths that strawman-builders such as Rufo and yourself are desperate to ignore, hide, deny or obfuscate. Truths that have your ilk in a virtual panic.

CRT is an analytical framework that treats untested assumptions as facts.

So you didn’t invent this idiocy, you just adopted it.
Ignoring the fact that “racist” is not a binary thing, it’s an adjective that describes various forms and degrees of the tribalism that is endemic to all human beings, the “by virtue of being white” thing is just as racist as the truth they’re trying to outlaw pointing out.
Got any links to actual CRT curriculum material that says you’re racist if you’re white?
Quotes from that material containing the assumptions that are assumed as facts?
You’re not the most credible source, especially given what you don’t know about the right wing extremist coup attempt of Jan 6. There’s little to make one believe you’ve ever seen CRT course material.

 

[laughing dog]

CRT is an analytical framework that treats untested assumptions as facts.

Name a theory that does not use untested assumptions.

 

[Metaphor]

So you didn’t invent this idiocy, you just adopted it.

No, I have not adopted the idea that white people are racist by virtue of their skin colour.

Ignoring the fact that “racist” is not a binary thing, it’s an adjective that describes various forms and degrees of the tribalism that is endemic to all human beings, the “by virtue of being white” thing is just as racist as the truth they’re trying to outlaw pointing out.
Got any links to actual CRT curriculum material that says you’re racist if you’re white?

Why have you repeatedly ignored that the legislation does not outlaw "CRT"? It outlaws certain ideas from being taught by teachers and school officials. One of those ideas that is outlawed to be taught is that all people of a particular race are racist.

Quotes from that material containing the assumptions that are assumed as facts?

CRT assumes that racism in America exists and is systemic. It believes that American institutions perpetuate racism. It simply states these as background assumptions.

You’re not the most credible source, especially given what you don’t know about the right wing extremist coup attempt of Jan 6. There’s little to make one believe you’ve ever seen CRT course material.

The Texas legislation does not mention "CRT". It forbids the teaching of certain assertions.