As someone who feels passionate about CRT (Critical race theory, not Culturally Responsible Teaching which seems like a silly choice of name over the CRT kerfuffle), doesn't have school, and left high school within the last ten years. I grew up in very diverse (in not-America) private schools and the idea of teaching with the racial context of my fellow students would not have helped me develop the relationships I have across many cultures. I feel like the response of "its not taught in public schools" feels like a misdirect.
Much like Rayne talks about how cancel culture is anti-liberal (liberalism, not Left), I believe CRT, or perhaps a better term race essentialism, to be the same. And like cancel culture, the left leans into 'it doesn't exist' defense rather than looking at the examples of it, whether or not it is happening in public schools, and denouncing it. Instead you get debates like the one John McWhorter and Gloria Ladson-Billings had for the Munk Debates where McWhorter brings up examples and Ladson-Billings says that they don't see such things and how its a non-issue. How have we gotten so far off track that we can't acknowledge something as 'bad' rather than treating it as a talking point of some 'other' who is 'evil'?
Know this isn't recent, but just starting my default friend dive. Completely different from my normal and excited to hear more.
As someone who feels passionate about CRT (Critical race theory, not Culturally Responsible Teaching which seems like a silly choice of name over the CRT kerfuffle), doesn't have school, and left high school within the last ten years. I grew up in very diverse (in not-America) private schools and the idea of teaching with the racial context of my fellow students would not have helped me develop the relationships I have across many cultures. I feel like the response of "its not taught in public schools" feels like a misdirect.
Much like Rayne talks about how cancel culture is anti-liberal (liberalism, not Left), I believe CRT, or perhaps a better term race essentialism, to be the same. And like cancel culture, the left leans into 'it doesn't exist' defense rather than looking at the examples of it, whether or not it is happening in public schools, and denouncing it. Instead you get debates like the one John McWhorter and Gloria Ladson-Billings had for the Munk Debates where McWhorter brings up examples and Ladson-Billings says that they don't see such things and how its a non-issue. How have we gotten so far off track that we can't acknowledge something as 'bad' rather than treating it as a talking point of some 'other' who is 'evil'?
Know this isn't recent, but just starting my default friend dive. Completely different from my normal and excited to hear more.
I think Rayne may have more in common with the rad fem perspective on sex than she may think, at least how it's expressed in second wave texts.