Telling the truth is never BS. We should look to the example of Germany and how they wrote and taught all school children the truth about the Holocaust 20 years after the war!
Telling the truth is never BS. We should look to the example of Germany and how they wrote and taught all school children the truth about the Holocaust 20 years after the war!
I'm a Jew, and Germany did an excellent job. I knew a kid from Germany 20 years after the end of the Holocaust, and I saw first hand how well that had worked.
But the truth about privilege, and lack thereof in the US is much more complex than critical race theory makes it out to be. Money often has more power than race in this day and age. Think about all the working class whites in places like Appalachia and the rust belt, whose jobs have migrated to other countries or have been filled by immigrants, the amount of opioid addiction, and the numbers of deaths by opioid overdose--much of which are suicides (I've written about that). Substantial quantities of money trump skin color.
I remember reading about that incident. And one of the commenters on there mentioned that there was no investigation into what would have happened if the student was white! Good question. But the whole issue was allowed (& almost encouraged by the college) to get way out of line. The student didnt do any favors for the already dicey race relations on that campus. Doubt it changed any "hearts and minds".
Telling the truth is never BS. We should look to the example of Germany and how they wrote and taught all school children the truth about the Holocaust 20 years after the war!
I'm a Jew, and Germany did an excellent job. I knew a kid from Germany 20 years after the end of the Holocaust, and I saw first hand how well that had worked.
But the truth about privilege, and lack thereof in the US is much more complex than critical race theory makes it out to be. Money often has more power than race in this day and age. Think about all the working class whites in places like Appalachia and the rust belt, whose jobs have migrated to other countries or have been filled by immigrants, the amount of opioid addiction, and the numbers of deaths by opioid overdose--much of which are suicides (I've written about that). Substantial quantities of money trump skin color.
And I highly recommend this article to show you how badly critical race theory is often implemented. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/smith-college-race.html
I remember reading about that incident. And one of the commenters on there mentioned that there was no investigation into what would have happened if the student was white! Good question. But the whole issue was allowed (& almost encouraged by the college) to get way out of line. The student didnt do any favors for the already dicey race relations on that campus. Doubt it changed any "hearts and minds".