I haven't been on in a minute because there is only so much toxic stupidity I can handle. Plus I can probably predict the stupid bullshit that has gone on in my absence.
Now being completely serious. The topic of the title.
Here's why they aren't going to be teaching CRT to grade school kids. The short version is that it is too complex for grade school kids to understand.
I actually did the research into what Critical Race Theory is and in a nutshell it's applying Critical Theory to Race Relations. So I'm going to have to break my argument down step by step as I'm starting to see educate about the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory and it starts with Marx.
The first step in understanding the Frankfurt School goes back to the Communist Manifesto. Since certain people on here throw around the term Marxism in their discussions and don't know what it means they should probably read it so they can have an informed opinion. It's about 124 pages and written at about an 8th grade reading level since given the educational level of the working class at the time that was their reading level. But in essence it is a treatise on the rights of the working class.
At the end of the Communist Manifesto it predicted a Communist Revolution in Germany that didn't happen. So in 1929 the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research was founded using a multi disciplinary approach (economics, psychology, sociology, political science, history, philosophy, law etc) to figure out why it didn't happen. In essence to distill what pure Marxism is as opposed to Stalinism after the Russian Revolution. Since this was an academic situation not only do you have to understand the Communist Manifesto but also Capital which is 3 volumes the first of which is about 984 pages without the appendices (which I'm about to start reading). This further outlines History, Economics, Labor Relations etc from a class standpoint.
From there you get into Dialectics of Enlightenment which critiques US Culture from the perspective of Jewish, Marxist Immigrants fleeing Nazi Germany into the US which under Capitalism uses similar tactics to get the individual to surrender his individuality to an ultimately destructive system. Add to that The Authoritarian Personality which sought to figure out what is it about the populace that allows authoritarians to come into power in the first place.
That's all dealing with classism. After that you have to figure out where classism intersects with racism.
Now try explaining that to a grade schooler. You can't do it. When it is taught academically it is only taught at the post graduate level. Even the brief synopsis I've given is nowhere near as complex as it actually is.
The Right has handed you a boogeyman and you are too lazy to figure out that it doesn't exist.
I've decided that since there are still bookstores I can easily find the literature and see what it says for myself rather than taking other peoples word for it. So far I've read The Communist Manifesto and am getting ready to read Capital Vol 1.
C/S,
Rev J
Now being completely serious. The topic of the title.
Here's why they aren't going to be teaching CRT to grade school kids. The short version is that it is too complex for grade school kids to understand.
I actually did the research into what Critical Race Theory is and in a nutshell it's applying Critical Theory to Race Relations. So I'm going to have to break my argument down step by step as I'm starting to see educate about the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory and it starts with Marx.
The first step in understanding the Frankfurt School goes back to the Communist Manifesto. Since certain people on here throw around the term Marxism in their discussions and don't know what it means they should probably read it so they can have an informed opinion. It's about 124 pages and written at about an 8th grade reading level since given the educational level of the working class at the time that was their reading level. But in essence it is a treatise on the rights of the working class.
At the end of the Communist Manifesto it predicted a Communist Revolution in Germany that didn't happen. So in 1929 the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research was founded using a multi disciplinary approach (economics, psychology, sociology, political science, history, philosophy, law etc) to figure out why it didn't happen. In essence to distill what pure Marxism is as opposed to Stalinism after the Russian Revolution. Since this was an academic situation not only do you have to understand the Communist Manifesto but also Capital which is 3 volumes the first of which is about 984 pages without the appendices (which I'm about to start reading). This further outlines History, Economics, Labor Relations etc from a class standpoint.
From there you get into Dialectics of Enlightenment which critiques US Culture from the perspective of Jewish, Marxist Immigrants fleeing Nazi Germany into the US which under Capitalism uses similar tactics to get the individual to surrender his individuality to an ultimately destructive system. Add to that The Authoritarian Personality which sought to figure out what is it about the populace that allows authoritarians to come into power in the first place.
That's all dealing with classism. After that you have to figure out where classism intersects with racism.
Now try explaining that to a grade schooler. You can't do it. When it is taught academically it is only taught at the post graduate level. Even the brief synopsis I've given is nowhere near as complex as it actually is.
The Right has handed you a boogeyman and you are too lazy to figure out that it doesn't exist.
I've decided that since there are still bookstores I can easily find the literature and see what it says for myself rather than taking other peoples word for it. So far I've read The Communist Manifesto and am getting ready to read Capital Vol 1.
C/S,
Rev J
And yeah, we can hardly blame you for only dropping in sporadically. Glad you did anyway 
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