Discussion: Racism - Part 4

[Sithborg]

And a reminder, this is a school that had a bit of a scandal with white students discussing a how much they would pay for black students in a slave auction.

 

[Sithborg]

Voted 7-0 not to renew his contract. Really could have just saved time and called him uppity.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Voted 7-0 not to renew his contract. Really could have just saved time and called him uppity.

What was this about exactly? I clicked on the timeline, but couldn't find it.

 

[Sithborg]

Colleyville Heritage High Principal James Whitfield Placed On Paid Administrative Leave Amid Controversy

District Calls Anniversary Photo of High School Principal and His Wife ‘Questionable'

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

This is why regardless of where on the American Spectrum of Right to Left you are if you aren't a RWNJ you gotta get involved with local politics like school boards, town councils etc.

The RWNJs have been focussed on them for a long time now.

There's a gap for sure in too many places that makes what happened to this principal possible.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

What was this about exactly? I clicked on the timeline, but couldn't find it.

Oh, this BS. Completely mask off.

 

[RockSP]

 

[Sithborg]

I think the kids will be okay.

 

[Sithborg]

So, you are fired from Marvel for being antisemitic. So, what are your plans for the future? Go indie, try to find somewhere to lay low to clean up your image in an attempt to get back into the big leagues?

Nope, join up with Vox Day.

God, it is going to suck when I eventually pick up Immortal Hulk.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Far-Right Group Wants to Ban Kids From Reading Books on Male Seahorses, Galileo, and MLK

School books about Martin Luther King Jr. are too “divisive,” claims a conservative group at the center of a Tennessee book ban battle. A story about the astronomer Galileo Galilei is “anti-church.” A picture book about seahorses is too sexy.

As the school year resumes, simmering fights over school books have returned to a boil. In some schools, like in Pennsylvania’s Central York School District this week, students have beaten back bans on books about racism. But elsewhere, like in Tennessee’s Williamson County School District, the battle is ongoing, bolstered by new state laws that ban the teaching of certain race-related topics. At the heart of that fight is a conservative group, led by a private-school parent, that has a sprawling list of complaints against common classroom books. Many of the books are about race, but other targets include dragons, sad little owls, and hurricanes.

Registering its website in late 2020, the group “Moms For Liberty” is one of a series of conservative education groups to spring up in the wake of 2020’s racial justice protests. The group is currently involved in battles against in-school mask mandates, as well as a particularly heated fight over school books in Tennessee’s Williamson County.

In June, the group’s leader, who does not have children in the district, authored a letter to the Tennessee Department of Education, complaining that the district’s curriculum violated a new state law against the teaching of some race-related subjects in public schools. (That law, one of multiple enacted over the past year on state and local levels, faced strong criticism, with opponents warning that it would impede teaching about racism in American history.) The MFL letter specifically took issue with curriculum items about Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Bridges, protests during the Civil Rights Movement, and school segregation.

 

[Teelie]

In other words they want to deny reality.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

It's also not a surprise that the Venn diagram of anti-maskers/vaxxers and anti-black history people has a lot of overlap.



These folks want to live in another reality, because according to the 2020 census whites are 47.3% of the population under the age of 18 in the United States, though obviously it varies by state.

In addition, there is now no majority racial or ethnic group for people younger than 18, as the share of non-Hispanic whites in the age group dropped from 53.5% to 47.3% over the decade.

Associated Press - Census shows US is diversifying, white population shrinking

 

[CaptainWagner]

Far-Right Group Wants to Ban Kids From Reading Books on Male Seahorses, Galileo, and MLK

This was always the plan all along. Nothing to do with the 1619 Project or Critical Race Theory. The masterminds behind this always knew CRT wasn't being taught in grade school and their idiot foot soldiers never bothered to attempt a middling understanding of what it even is.

It's always been just another moral panic, but not JUST another one. This is more effective than the fights against rock or "satanism." This time, they chose a vague concept unknown to the average citizen (CRT), that they could make any claim about that they wanted. The only people knowing the difference are historians, and no one ever listens to them to begin with.

So they roll out the new boogieman, their Fox-addicted followers clutch at their pearls and rush to the school boards while their useful idiots in the state government pass reactionary bills. And we're only just beginning to see the results of the true intent - To silence any educator who engages with the issues of race in America, or sexuality, or gender for that matter. Education has always been the greatest threat to the status quo. This is their Hail Mary attempt to end that.

And the feds do nothing.

 

[Detective Conan]

Far-right cryptocurrency follows ideology across borders

 

[Sithborg]

Jesus christ. Denouncing white supremacy is the softest of balls, and yet, it is telling that so many republicans can't do it.

 

[Teelie]

They don't like offending their base.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples' Day? The Damaging Christian "Doctrine of Discovery" at the Heart of the American Identity Crisis

Where racism and religion and false conspiracy theories intersect for centuries and prop each other up.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[Teelie]

Just like those Confederate statues. Most were put up decades after the Civil War and were most certainly not "moral" in their day either. Trying to use history to justify your racist ideology never works out.

 

[Erzengel]

I think many Italian Americans take offense with the removal of Columbus because of ethnic pride like it's a slam against them instead of the actual person.

 

[Teelie]

A lot of Southerners take it personal when Confederate monuments are taken down too. That doesn't mean we should leave the status quo.

 

[chamber-music]

This was always the plan all along. Nothing to do with the 1619 Project or Critical Race Theory. The masterminds behind this always knew CRT wasn't being taught in grade school and their idiot foot soldiers never bothered to attempt a middling understanding of what it even is.

It's always been just another moral panic, but not JUST another one. This is more effective than the fights against rock or "satanism." This time, they chose a vague concept unknown to the average citizen (CRT), that they could make any claim about that they wanted. The only people knowing the difference are historians, and no one ever listens to them to begin with.

So they roll out the new boogieman, their Fox-addicted followers clutch at their pearls and rush to the school boards while their useful idiots in the state government pass reactionary bills. And we're only just beginning to see the results of the true intent - To silence any educator who engages with the issues of race in America, or sexuality, or gender for that matter. Education has always been the greatest threat to the status quo. This is their Hail Mary attempt to end that.

And the feds do nothing.

Yep.

The Critical Race Theory panic is just an excuse for people who are clearly racists to block anything that doesn't fit with their views. They are terrified kids may challenge and change their views on topics like race.

There are some deeply weak insecure people that cling on hard to White supremacy beliefs because it is all they have. If they aren't the heroes of their own story and superior to other people then they might have to really reexamine themselves. The truth that they aren't better than anyone else is too much for these bigots fragile egos to handle.

 

[Detective Conan]