Republicans asks Universities to ban all teaching of racism

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And the thesis put forward has been rejected. I am not opposed to ideas being proposed but the proponents needs to accept their work will be subject to peer scrutiny.

Geoffrey Blainey was a historian but spoke about social psychology (a subject he was not qualified to comment on) in response to Asian migration claiming (based on past history) Australians weren't ready. Given we are now swamped with Asian migrants (to borrow Pauline Hanson's language) and the country hasn't collapsed it suggest Blainey's predictions have not come true.

Keith Windschuttle (a former editor of Quadrant) made bizarre claims that there was never a genocide of aboriginal people in Tasmania. He cherry picked sources to bolster his claims. His books have been demonstrated to be fabricated to serve some ulterior purpose.

There has been "cherry picking" on both sides, Dr Jekyll.
Nice to see you back, btw.

If you read Mein Kampf I think Hitler's megalomania was he always planned a battle against global jewry. The Nazis never made any overtures to other countries to take their Jewish population and initial plans to ship Jews to Madagascar was only mean't as a "holding pen".

The window of opportunity for German jews to initially escape was not due to the beneficence of the German people, it was because it was to take the Nazis several years for their tentacles to take over the infrastructure of government and civil service.

The influential Turner diaries (followed by all far right groups) are based on Nazi doctrine where the only place where non-white people (including Jews) would exist is in human zoos or museums.

The proof was how much resources the Nazis wasted in hunting out and killing Jews in occupied western and eastern Europe and Russia. This took precedence over winning the war as even when German civilians were surrendering, Nazi officers were still rounding up and murdering Jews literally minutes before their camps were overrun by the allies. That's some mighty stiff indoctrination.

I acknowledge that, Dark Emu isn't part of school curriculum because it has holes. That's what peer review is for.

Just making sure!

You reference CRT a lot, as if it's the only way black history can be kept alive. The educators are pretty passionate about Black History Month in the US, we do a good job.

Agreed, after all I believe both Hitler and Mel Gibson are/were Christian. It makes absolutely no sense to go off on an entire race of people as the reason Christ was crucified, when without Christ's sacrifice there would be no salvation for Christians. Some people just want to hate...

I understand this. I don't understand how CRT will help blacks succeed. In my mind, if they succeeded there wouldn't be the need for BLM, black crime, black injustice, etc... because there would be no need for them to come in contact with the police.

We've had affirmative action since 1965, that hasn't helped. We're lowering college admission standards and we have had an 8% increase in admission for blacks in 2018, which is something. We have stayed in the problem and CRT is another way of staying in the problem. As you said, we desegregated but we still discriminated. And just smashing something down the throat of Americans has never worked, a curriculum based on 'white man bad' isn't going to have the expected outcome. People who are not Liberals are becoming more and more resentful, not more and more enlightened. The same can be said for the young black man. The more people harp on the straight and narrow, the greater the appeal of the streets seem to become. Obviously this doesn't apply to everyone, but it does apply to enough to affect an entire generation. No one is on the same page because we do not have the same goals, we need one point we can all agree on and go from there. Start small, then work up. If they can experience success, maybe more will be persuaded.

I didn't reference CRT in the post you quoted. However, republicans and their supporters do overuse the theory where it doesn't belong

I am curious how Black history month is going to be delivered in states like Florida in the future. If I was a highschool history teacher in Florida I would be very very careful before prescribing reading that might get one parent to complain to a school board resulting in my termination. This might not be a problem for you or me, but it is a problem for teachers (and now university lecturers)

And it looks like the executions of university professors have started
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/18/11645303 ... stice-woke

It's never going to be gotten rid of. We will continue the same way we always have with what it was like, what happened. The people who stood up to discrimination and fought, died, risked everything for equal rights. There's nothing to fear in that. What has never been a part of the curriculum is how everyone in the US who isn't black is inherently racist. There is no benefit in shaming an entire generation who had nothing to do with slavery.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious ... olf_Hitler

Yup.
With me, the more someone wants to dominate me, the more defiant I become.

Agreed.
And there is no positive benefit in shaming people of German descent for what happened during the war.
Psychology 101.

That's not CRT. What you are referring to is "white privilege" and in the US mental health system it comes under the umbrella of systemic racism. I would find it somewhat farcical if every mental health worker was forced to revoke their oath to their code of ethics
https://www.apa.org/about/policy/racism-apology