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Offline Kamaji

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No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t About Teaching That ‘Slavery Is Real’

Parents who oppose teaching critical race theory in schools have nothing against teaching America’s checkered history of race relations.

BY: JULIAN ADORNEY
OCTOBER 06, 2022

Prominent voices continue to frame the debate over whether critical race theory (CRT) should be taught in schools as a debate over whether we should teach accurate racial history.

A few days ago, in an interview with Time magazine, Harvard University researcher Donald Yacovone (author of “Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity”) said of the controversy: “…one of the major reactions is this resistance to the teaching of the past. … Slavery is real. Racial domination is real. But they’re doing their best to deny it, to affirm the innocence of whiteness.”

This is a strawman attack. Few Americans of any stripe or generation object to teaching about slavery and Jim Crow. The problem with CRT in schools is there’s a lot more to it than just teaching America’s checkered history of race relations, and it’s this “more” that many parents are objecting to.

For starters, CRT is essentially postmodernism. Stephen Sawchuk, associate editor of Education Week, notes in a piece praising CRT that, “Critical race theory emerged out of postmodernist thought.”

Postmodernism is the idea that there is no truth, no universal morality, and no reality except what we create. There are no facts because everything is socially constructed. According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica’s entry on postmodernism, it dismisses as “naive realism” the idea that “there is an objective natural reality.”

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2022/10/06/critical-race-theory-isnt-about-teaching-that-slavery-is-real/

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CRT is horse shit. Pure and simple.

The ONLY thing you need to know about the USA and slavery was that before the USA slavery was everywhere. It is Britain and her daughters, and particularly the USA that are responsible for nearly ending slavery in all the civilized world.

It is a distinctly protestant, and distinctly American notion: All men are created equal... Without that notion, where would we be? A timely question. Because thanks to race mongers, that's where we're going.

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Critical Race Theory is a revolutionary dogma.  If all institutions and persons in power are systemtically racist, that's an incremental step towards justfying revolution and overthrow of those institutions, akin to Communism.
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CRT is horse shit. Pure and simple.

The ONLY thing you need to know about the USA and slavery was that before the USA slavery was everywhere. It is Britain and her daughters, and particularly the USA that are responsible for nearly ending slavery in all the civilized world.

It is a distinctly protestant, and distinctly American notion: All men are created equal... Without that notion, where would we be? A timely question. Because thanks to race mongers, that's where we're going.

Not quite.  America is responsible for ending slavery in America, thanks to the Union victory in the Civil War.  Britain not only ended slavery in its own empire when abolitionism won the day in the House of Commons.  It went to the trouble of stamping out the slave trade world wide, at such a great cost that the British government's debts run up to buy freedom for slaves and to support the Royal Navy's anti-slavery campaign begun in the early 19th century were only recently retired.  A great deal of British colonialism in Africa was actually due to the need to take control of the centers of the slave trade to stamp it out.

And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was all about.

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Not quite.  America is responsible for ending slavery in America, thanks to the Union victory in the Civil War.  Britain not only ended slavery in its own empire when abolitionism won the day in the House of Commons.  It went to the trouble of stamping out the slave trade world wide, at such a great cost that the British government's debts run up to buy freedom for slaves and to support the Royal Navy's anti-slavery campaign begun in the early 19th century were only recently retired.  A great deal of British colonialism in Africa was actually due to the need to take control of the centers of the slave trade to stamp it out.

I can accept that - with my argument being one more of emphasis and effect... The declining British Empire in fact did not fare too well, as indicated by Africa's slave trade to this very day, as well as the unaffected cast system of India. I will grant their success in her direct daughters, alright.

And the visceral argument in the US created a profound resolve - That resolve was transmitted to the world as Britain pretty well passed the torch some time between WWI and WWII - Not as much a decree as a way-of-life thing.

But, as I said, the argument is picking nits more or less.

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Not quite.  America is responsible for ending slavery in America, thanks to the Union victory in the Civil War.  Britain not only ended slavery in its own empire when abolitionism won the day in the House of Commons.  It went to the trouble of stamping out the slave trade world wide, at such a great cost that the British government's debts run up to buy freedom for slaves and to support the Royal Navy's anti-slavery campaign begun in the early 19th century were only recently retired.  A great deal of British colonialism in Africa was actually due to the need to take control of the centers of the slave trade to stamp it out.
Interestingly enough many African chieftains were dead set against eliminating slavery and fought the British to keep it.
I find it a amusing that the recent flick about African female warriors in Dahomey "The Woman King" supposedly makes them out to be anti-slavery when in reality they fought for their king to keep slavery.
The tv series "Roots" fed many millions the lie that European slavers went inland to capture black slaves when in reality none of them went inland...they bought their slaves from the black chieftains who had captured them in war.
I wonder what liberals would think if they actually made an honest movie depicting the slave trade as it was...both white and black were guilty of perpetuating the evil institution.