• BeamBrain [he/him]
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    746 months ago

    “Marxists are indoctrinating our children in schools” is just the reheated Nazi conspiracy theory of “cultural Bolshevism”

    • roux [he/him, comrade/them]
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      346 months ago

      God fucking thank you! I hate that you can’t explain this to anyone who says this shit because they only have a shallow view of the political world that goes back 4 years and won’t even consider reading an even tiny bit of history.

      Yet the same brainworm infested clown shoes will still drop the “history repeating itself” when apt for them…

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]OP
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      6 months ago

      They think racist means “bad person”, and America’s founders, of course, can’t be bad people. Also it was more “complicated” back then because nobody knew right from wrong until like eighty years ago. 🙄

      • CTHlurker [he/him]
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        They think racist means “bad person”, and America’s founders, of course, can’t be bad people. Also it was more “complicated” back then because nobody knew right from wrong until like eighty years ago. 🙄

        This explains why they keep coming back to that menacing picture of Trotsky where they claim that he invented the word “Racist” as a way to shut down free speech. I couldn’t really articulate why that one in particular had so much staying power, but I think you solved it for me.

      • be_excellent_to_each_other
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        Also it was more “complicated” back then because nobody knew right from wrong until like eighty years ago.

        I wonder what their excuse is for the past 80 years.

  • @Rooskie91
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    566 months ago

    It’d be nice if they just admitted they don’t know what Critical Theory is.

  • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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    506 months ago

    A core memory of elementary school for me was my teacher saying Africa was the largest continent. When asked if it’s actually Asia like the student had heard, the teacher put their hand over the mercator projection map on the wall to measure both continents and went “huh, I guess you’re right”

        • @pearsaltchocolatebar
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          316 months ago

          It was fun going to college with professors who weren’t used to students having instant access to information.

          I had a sociology professor who banned laptops in her class after I spent the semester fact checking her right wing soap box BS.

          Like, one time she got into an abstinence only rant, and actually claimed the CDC said condoms were absolutely ineffective at preventing pregnancy. Took me like 3s to pull up the website and show her.

              • VOLCEL_POLICE [it/its]B
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                46 months ago

                The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

                نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

                volcel-police

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      76 months ago

      I gotta say, a teacher willing to accept a student’s interpretation in front of a class…

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]OP
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    496 months ago

    I’ll never forget that day in third grade when Karl Marx assigned me my first CRT homework.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    356 months ago

    I love how much of a Boogeyman CRT became for chuds. It’s like whiplash even hearing them talk about it, because it used to be this humanities thing that only people in grad school for sociology talked about. Imagine if some conservative radio host mentioned Fredrick Jameson or Eve Sedgwick.

    Also when I was in college, the one Marxist professor tended to dislike critical theory and any of its associated tendencies because she thought they were idealist.

    • ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]
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      276 months ago

      Didn’t the Chuds who really spread it admit they chose to make that the enemy not because of anything actually in CRT, but because the name sounded scary and like something they could fearmonger with?

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        176 months ago

        I’m not sure. That’s the first I’m hearing of it. I thought they picked it because they wanted to cut funding to colleges so they picked something to point at. I’m surprised they didn’t pick queer theory instead.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        I had completely forgotten about the obsession with common core. Most of it had to do with opposition to teaching long division in a step-by-step way, right? I remember my uncle freaking out about a video of a woman teaching multiplication by showing how to add sets of numbers. He described it as common core math and for the life of me I can’t understand exactly what conservatives were trying to say. I think the idea was that schools wanted to dumb down math to make everyone pass.

        i think the reality was that American education is so poor and kids are so behind that teaching very remedial math is probably an improvement

        • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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          16 months ago

          A lot of it came from parents whose children were apparently confused about the methods. It’s understandable to be upset and confused, but to have a crusade about it was really weird to me. Personally I don’t like it, but that’s because I hate math and only see adding numbers as a tool rather than a way to understand the world. But it doesn’t hurt for children to learn in different ways lol

  • Groovy Lizard
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    326 months ago

    Funny how this is supposed to be absurd but we all agree with Marx 😂

    (At least the first statements, don’t know about the theory thing)

      • Groovy Lizard
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        226 months ago

        Scares me how fast “conservatives” are shifting to “fascists”. Looks like history is indeed cyclical and not linear as we might think, and if so, we must prepare for the escalation of this kind of hate discourse.

  • RoabeArt [he/him]
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    316 months ago

    Chuds try not to make milquetoast lib takes like “Trump is evil” look cooler than they actually are challenge. Difficulty: impossible.

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    “the critical race theory is a fact” from the same people who demand “in English, Einstein!” It says something about how information is transferred and observations are treated in their neck of the woods. When’s the last time you heard a lefty tell you that you’ve read too much theory? That you’re too well connected? That your weed’s too loud? That your drip’s too drippy?

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      I don’t think they even know how to summarize it or describe what it means. Critical race theory is just “what if the reason black people are overrepresented in prison is because the justice system is racist”?

      I think what conservatives believe it means is “white people need to apologize for being white every moment of the day because every white person is personally responsible for injustice, including children”

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        176 months ago

        It’s like when Florida had to define what woke meant in court and came up with something along the lines of “a belief that there are systemic injustices in society and that they should be addressed”.