I get it. But a lot of his ideas towards a solution is about 'not doing things'. We shouldn't talk about it in certain ways or come from certain angles. While I might agree to an extent about calling people who disagree names, and attaching labels to them, that feels like the primary focus of his idea towards progress. I agree with him in some cases, but the idea of using social media and publicity to achieve change is one of the few tools the people fighting against the power discrepancy have. They don't have the wide variety of tools to use as those that hold the power. If those that are under-served only use the tools available to those in power, no change will happen. It might occasionally be used at the wrong times, but it isn't wrong to use that tool. In the end, I think both sides make a mistake of not recognizing that racism exists on a spectrum. When people who aren't usually the victims hear the word 'racism' they imagine cross burnings in people's yards and wanting to drive all people of color out of the country. They think, "I'm not like that, I can't be racist." But the security guard who follows a person of color disproportionately around the store to prevent shoplifting is also behaving in a racist way. It doesn't mean that the security guard thinks everyone who isn't white should be kicked out of the nation or at least out of their neighborhood. But, unless the whole spectrum of racism, is addressed, real change won't happen. The examples I used are just examples and not the only manifestations of racism at all.
The intolerance for discomfort continues to expand. What's striking is most Texans do not trust the government in deciding which book to ban and which to keep on the shelves. What's not surprising is the GOP politicians are catering more and more to a minority of the extreme right. Book banning in Texas schools: Titles are pulled off library shelves in record numbers (nbcnews.com) KATY, Texas — From a secluded spot in her high school library, a 17-year-old girl spoke softly into her cellphone, worried that someone might overhear her say the things she’d hidden from her parents for years. They don’t know she’s queer, the student told a reporter, and given their past comments about homosexuality’s being a sin, she’s long feared they would learn her secret if they saw what she reads in the library. That space, with its endless rows of books about characters from all sorts of backgrounds, has been her “safe haven,” she said — one of the few places where she feels completely free to be herself. But books, including one of her recent favorites, have been vanishing from the shelves of Katy Independent School District libraries the past few months. Gone: “Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts),” a book she’d read last year about a gay teenager who isn’t shy about discussing his adventurous sex life. Also banished: “The Handsome Girl and Her Beautiful Boy,” “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and “Lawn Boy” — all coming-of-age stories that prominently feature LGBTQ characters and passages about sex. Some titles were removed after parents formally complained, but others were quietly banned by the district without official reviews. “As I’ve struggled with my own identity as a queer person, it’s been really, really important to me that I have access to these books,” said the girl, whom NBC News is not naming to avoid revealing her sexuality. “And I’m sure it’s really important to other queer kids. You should be able to see yourself reflected on the page.” Her safe haven is now a battleground in an unprecedented effort by parents and conservative politicians in Texas to ban books dealing with race, sexuality and gender from schools, an NBC News investigation has found. Hundreds of titles have been pulled from libraries across the state for review, sometimes over the objections of school librarians, several of whom told NBC News they face increasingly hostile work environments and mounting pressure to pre-emptively pull books that might draw complaints. Records requests to nearly 100 school districts in the Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin regions — a small sampling of the state’s 1,250 public school systems — revealed 75 formal requests by parents or community members to ban books from libraries during the first four months of this school year. In comparison, only one library book challenge was filed at those districts during the same time period a year earlier, records show. A handful of the districts reported more challenges this year than in the past two decades combined. All but a few of the challenges this school year targeted books dealing with racism or sexuality, the majority of them featuring LGBTQ characters and explicit descriptions of sex. Many of the books under fire are newer titles, purchased by school librarians in recent years as part of a nationwide movement to diversify the content available to public school children. Banned Katy Independent School District administrators have pulled these nine books off library shelves after deeming them “not appropriate for any grade level,” records show. (see link) ... Similar debates are roiling communities across the country, fueled by parents, activists and Republican politicians who have mobilized against school programs and classroom lessons focused on LGBTQ issues and the legacy of racism in America. Last fall, some national groups involved in that effort — including No Left Turn in Education and Moms for Liberty — began circulating lists of school library books that they said were “indoctrinating kids to a dangerous ideology.” And during his successful bid for governor in Virginia, Republican Glenn Youngkin made parents’ opposition to explicit books a central theme in the final stretch of his campaign, leading some GOP strategists to flag the issue as a winning strategy heading into the 2022 midterm elections. The fight is particularly heated in Texas, where Republican state officials, including Gov. Greg Abbott, have gone as far as calling for criminal charges against any school staff member who provides children with access to young adult novels that some conservatives have labeled as “p*rnography.” Separately, state Rep. Matt Krause, a Republican, made a list of 850 titles dealing with racism or sexuality that might “make students feel discomfort” and demanded that Texas school districts investigate whether the books were in their libraries. A group of Texas school librarians has launched a social media campaign to push back. “There have always been efforts to censor books, but what we’re seeing right now is frankly unprecedented,” said Carolyn Foote, a retired school librarian in Austin who’s helping lead the #FReadom campaign. “A library is a place of voluntary inquiry. That means when a student walks in, they’re not forced to check out a book that they or their parents find objectionable. But they also don’t have authority to say what books should or shouldn’t be available to other students.” ...
Alabama superintendent says parents want to cancel Black History Month because they think it's CRT Or the other other 11 months of the year White History Month? Asking for a friend.
I interrupt this thread about right wing sociopaths burning books that mention racism to talk about critical race theory as taught in public institutions
REGULARLY. SCHEDULED. PROGRAMMING. Nice that they're blowing a Shofar during their bookburning. Is that acceptable appropriation? @basso you know about all this stuff.
republicans continue their assault on education... 'We have educators in complete fear' | Indiana education bill passes House, onto Senate committee Pam McCoy said the controversial HB1134 would put undue pressure on teachers, and drive some from the profession. https://www.whas11.com/article/news...ture/417-2a48717e-5313-47dd-9fee-106da05160bf
Ban that book! Just a gool ole white suburban housewife from Katy. Trump and Texas Republicans love women like this. The book “Michelle Obama: Political Icon” by Heather E. Schwartz was described by a parent from Katy as unfairly depicting former President Donald Trump as a bully, according to reporting by NBC News. The book made NBC’s list of 50 books that Texas parents want to be banned from school libraries. The Katy parent who asked for the book to be removed stated that Obama’s reflections on race gave the impression that “if you sound like a white girl you should be ashamed of yourself,” according to NBC News. I bet your bottom dollar she wouldn't be caught dead letting her daughter own a black Barbie doll. The sad part is that almost anything coming out of Trump's mouth should be not heard by children. Yes, he is a bully, a lying juvenile minded nasty mouthed one at that. https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/l...-removal-Obama-biography-library-16834030.php
It would be interesting get tafoya explain (1) what she believe "CRT" is and (2) how is it being taught in public schools (with examples). My guess is tafoya is gunning for a job at fox news.
And, Dan Patrick doesn't think it should even be taught in college. https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/po...ncil-approval-of-critical-race-theory-support
Somebody actually found one example of it being taught and shockingly once the principal found out she did away with it. So tell us again how prevalent this is and why governors need to run on it? People should know about what some teachers inject into lessons about the civil war, like the war was mainly about states rights.
I have stopped reading all the things he post from this author because it's usually hogwash, but this is bad even for him. I can't believe he is trying to relitigate the Martin and Brown killings on the basis that Trayvon was not honestly portrayed in his private life and the fact that Brown did not have his hands up at the time of the shooting, as if no one should have any issue with these shootings on the basis of those things. Also nobody thinks that's what blackness means maybe some white people but not black people. He is more of a hack than I thought. Do better @Os Trigonum
