ChatterBank2 mins ago
An Englishman Speaks Up For Freedom Of Speech In America
Answers
Good God AH, did a large bill just land on your doorstep? You sure do seem very grumpy. Thanks for sharing Khando its very interesting, more people need to stand up to those that wish to cancel others. Eh AH?
11:29 Tue 13th Jul 2021
The KKK tag was used by the School Board to title an agenda responding to his complaint, and Campbell was highlighting its sly use. His complaint was that the previous recorded minutes had been tampered with. What was cancelled was whole tracts of recorded minutes at a previous School Board session. Edited versions were saved. Any idea why?
It's about Critical Race Theory being taught in schools.
https:/
https:/
I've already posted as best I can what happened (and pointed out that I have no desire to watch three hours of videos of school meetings in order to be any clearer).
I did see Mamya's link, which provides the best background, and made reference to a complaint about Critical Race Theory being taught. The problem is that CRT is *not* taught in US high schools, and in that sense the complaint is misguided. The term CRT is often misapplied to any discussion of racism in general.
I did see Mamya's link, which provides the best background, and made reference to a complaint about Critical Race Theory being taught. The problem is that CRT is *not* taught in US high schools, and in that sense the complaint is misguided. The term CRT is often misapplied to any discussion of racism in general.
You missed mamya's link from page one. I've recopied it here, but you should have just gone back a few pages:
https:/
https:/
did someone really ask what is critical race theory? - - here
Critical race theory (CRT) is a body of legal scholarship and an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists in the United States that seeks to critically examine U.S. law as it intersects with issues of race in the U.S. and to challenge mainstream American liberal approaches to racial justice.
sounds OK from a Brit point of view - altho I dont think as a kid I could stand an hour of critical race theory and compulsory lesbianism on Thursday afternoons for a year
Critical race theory (CRT) is a body of legal scholarship and an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists in the United States that seeks to critically examine U.S. law as it intersects with issues of race in the U.S. and to challenge mainstream American liberal approaches to racial justice.
sounds OK from a Brit point of view - altho I dont think as a kid I could stand an hour of critical race theory and compulsory lesbianism on Thursday afternoons for a year
Several things seem to have been edited.
The unedited March video is here:
http://
As best I can tell, the comments edited initially, now restored, begin at 47:10. I have transcribed below, as best I can. It's not verbatim but close enough I think that it captures everything he wanted to say. Obviously the paragraphs are my own.
// My name is Doug Marshall... I wanted to briefly discuss the diversity, equity and inclusivity curriculum that we're teaching. I have questions about how beneficial it is for the students. Specifically, I don't know that we should be implanting this idea that America is inherently and racist, and ... being taught that white people seem to have a proclivity toward racism as well. I just don't think there's any evidence to suggest that that's the case, [at least] I don't know of any.
When I watch the conversation on social justice, the head of the program used a metaphor of an escalator, where at one end you have people who were actively racist, at the middle you have people who are passively racist and on the other end there are people fighting their inherent racism. It occurred to me that that was an inversion of Martin Luther King [Jr.]'s message that we should be colour-blind, and evaluating people based upon deeds and words and not upon the colour of their skin, and I think that is what we should be emphasising to people. We're creating a group of children who are essentially handicapped -- they're being taught that they are either victims or victimisers. It creates a wedge between students, and it's divisive.
We live in a country which is divided by gender, race, sexual orientation... I can't imagine walking around the halls of this school and people feeling guilty because of the colour of their skin.
Historically, quite frankly it's the left that's always been problematic regarding race. Only the left owned slaves. We had the Emancipation Proclamation to which the left responded with a terrorist group, the KKK. We had the Jim Crow Laws.. the Eugenics Society which eventually became Planned Parenthood. That was the 1930s... LBJ created the Great Society which incentivised the destruction of many black families, the Clinton Crime Bill created much larger penalties for possession of cocaine among young black men...
I don't think this is a political argument, I don't think in any way that Republicans are innocent. I think Republicans, frankly, are controlled opposition. But what we're talking about is the proper approach to teaching our children. This is not a political issue but I think it's a complex issue that shouldn't be approached through the prism of diversity, equity, and inclusivity.
The facts are all over the place, in 2019 FBI stats showed that only nine unarmed black men were killed by police, and 19 unarmed white men. That's not focused on by the media. You have thousands of young black people killed in inner cities, the media doesn't focus on them. We're going to exacerbate that problem with a curriculum like this.
I couldn't help but notice that we began the meeting with a pledge of allegiance talking about a nation which was indivisible, an that's not what we're doing here.
Again, this is a highly complex issue I don't claim to have the answers. I noticed Governor DeSantis in the last week has said no more Critical Race Theory, we're just going to teach Civics in our classroom, maybe that's something we could explore.
My recommendation is let's open up to see what else people are doing, because I just don't think that this is a way to resolve the divisions that we see. I think we're hurting the students and creating guilt and victims and victimisation which is not productive for them. Thank you. //
The unedited March video is here:
http://
As best I can tell, the comments edited initially, now restored, begin at 47:10. I have transcribed below, as best I can. It's not verbatim but close enough I think that it captures everything he wanted to say. Obviously the paragraphs are my own.
// My name is Doug Marshall... I wanted to briefly discuss the diversity, equity and inclusivity curriculum that we're teaching. I have questions about how beneficial it is for the students. Specifically, I don't know that we should be implanting this idea that America is inherently and racist, and ... being taught that white people seem to have a proclivity toward racism as well. I just don't think there's any evidence to suggest that that's the case, [at least] I don't know of any.
When I watch the conversation on social justice, the head of the program used a metaphor of an escalator, where at one end you have people who were actively racist, at the middle you have people who are passively racist and on the other end there are people fighting their inherent racism. It occurred to me that that was an inversion of Martin Luther King [Jr.]'s message that we should be colour-blind, and evaluating people based upon deeds and words and not upon the colour of their skin, and I think that is what we should be emphasising to people. We're creating a group of children who are essentially handicapped -- they're being taught that they are either victims or victimisers. It creates a wedge between students, and it's divisive.
We live in a country which is divided by gender, race, sexual orientation... I can't imagine walking around the halls of this school and people feeling guilty because of the colour of their skin.
Historically, quite frankly it's the left that's always been problematic regarding race. Only the left owned slaves. We had the Emancipation Proclamation to which the left responded with a terrorist group, the KKK. We had the Jim Crow Laws.. the Eugenics Society which eventually became Planned Parenthood. That was the 1930s... LBJ created the Great Society which incentivised the destruction of many black families, the Clinton Crime Bill created much larger penalties for possession of cocaine among young black men...
I don't think this is a political argument, I don't think in any way that Republicans are innocent. I think Republicans, frankly, are controlled opposition. But what we're talking about is the proper approach to teaching our children. This is not a political issue but I think it's a complex issue that shouldn't be approached through the prism of diversity, equity, and inclusivity.
The facts are all over the place, in 2019 FBI stats showed that only nine unarmed black men were killed by police, and 19 unarmed white men. That's not focused on by the media. You have thousands of young black people killed in inner cities, the media doesn't focus on them. We're going to exacerbate that problem with a curriculum like this.
I couldn't help but notice that we began the meeting with a pledge of allegiance talking about a nation which was indivisible, an that's not what we're doing here.
Again, this is a highly complex issue I don't claim to have the answers. I noticed Governor DeSantis in the last week has said no more Critical Race Theory, we're just going to teach Civics in our classroom, maybe that's something we could explore.
My recommendation is let's open up to see what else people are doing, because I just don't think that this is a way to resolve the divisions that we see. I think we're hurting the students and creating guilt and victims and victimisation which is not productive for them. Thank you. //
// but even if so that doesn't justify being compared to fascists.//
I thought he used Musso - because he cdnt use German of the Nz word because of you know non christians on the school board
they did it twice which I wd have thought was running your losses
( er note to Abers who need yet more interpretation: running a loss is waiting and losing more money rather than selling early, and making a smaller loss but a loss anyway)
I thought he used Musso - because he cdnt use German of the Nz word because of you know non christians on the school board
they did it twice which I wd have thought was running your losses
( er note to Abers who need yet more interpretation: running a loss is waiting and losing more money rather than selling early, and making a smaller loss but a loss anyway)
Latest Posts
Food & Drink4 mins ago
Nothing Is Unbelievable Anymore.
News8 mins ago
What If The Labour Party Got Rid Of...
Politics11 mins ago
Related Questions
Sorry, we can't find any related questions. Try using the search bar at the top of the page to search for some keywords, or choose a topic and submit your own question.