"Anti Racism" controversy getting ugly in Virginia

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You just quoted the Daily Mail.

All credibility lost.

The thing is they'll be really trivial things like this where some organization cringes away from association with someone after it's revealed they did something socially unacceptable and that's nothing new and not the result of wokeness or CRT or anything of the sort. It's something that's occurred for ages and the only thing that's changed is how the window has shifted.

Among things, it doesn't really matter who painted the mural and what it represented to the artist, if it's poorly received the entity that commissioned it is entitled to take it down. I'd be pretty disappointed if it was a piece of my art, it would probably sting personally, but ultimately it would be within whoever commissioned it's rights to do so.

As for the Flyers and the song, it wasn't the greatest reason to stop using it a complex discussion certainly would be interesting but also be beside the point. They're entitled to change their usage for any reason including none at all. It had a long run but it was bound to be replaced eventually.

I'm curious why Republican activists feel the need to working with local white parents, including a former Trump administration spokesman, to recall six Democratic Loudoun County school board members, at least some of whom joined the 600-member anti-racist Facebook group. Since when do politicians get involved in education curriculum.

As a parent, the last person I would listen to is a Trump activist on what's best for my child.

These parents probably hate the idea of black kids in their school more than the education of their kids.

Perhaps they should pool their money together (they have plenty of that) and start some type of "confederate" school or homeschool their kids rather than threaten POC and inclusionary white parents.

Are we talking about this Loudon County?

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9672569/Virginia-mom-survived-Maoist-Chinas-purge-slams-Critical-Race-Theory.html

Then again, no doubt this was just another of those "obnoxious racist parents" being "pushed" into getting vocal about CRT...

Biden won by 24 percentage points in 2020, while Clinton won by 17 percentage points in 2016.

The issue is not about first amendment rights, free speech, it is SHOULD these things be cancelled for these reasons, what should be priorities in judging people. Because a entity can cancel does not cancel my right to b***h about it or invalidate all criticism of these decisions.

I completely disagree about the Kate Smith cancellation being trivial. The song and Smith are of historical importance because the her song and her other activities was a rallying cry for American public during WWII. Besides the historical importance this cancelation and the assumed racism reasons for it is one of the most wrong headed assumptions and cancellations I have seen. In other words this is no Dr. Seuss cancellation.

Lessons that deal with critical race theory and “The 1619 Project” are not welcome in Florida’s public schools following a State Board of Education vote on Thursday.

At the request of Gov. Ron DeSantis, the board unanimously adopted a rule that, in the words of member Tom Grady, emphasizes historical facts over “fiction, projects or theory masquerading as fact.”

Grady offered an amendment that named critical race theory and “The 1619 Project” as examples of two well-known educational approaches that would not be acceptable in classrooms.

Grady’s proposal also spelled out more specifically which subject areas would be required to be taught beyond the Holocaust, which was the only one mentioned in the original version of the rule.

Those include civil rights and slavery. Grady suggested that those additions spoke to critics who accused the governor and board of attempting to gloss over history, while at the same time clarifying for teachers what the state expects.

The board, meeting in Jacksonville, did not offer details about how it expected the rule to be enforced. Teachers union leaders speculated that specifics would be left to districts, and largely center on complaints that come from students or parents.

State Sen. Janet Cruz, a Tampa Democrat who sits on the Senate Education Committee, said she worried the rule could give rise to more video recording of teachers in classrooms. That’s something the Republican legislative majority authorized this spring at the university level, where some contended liberal viewpoints were being advanced at the expense of conservative voices

Superintendents across the state have said they do not teach critical race theory in their schools. But that did not stop the State Board from considering the rule.

Many teachers protested in the days before the session, saying they do not attempt to indoctrinate their students as the governor and others have suggested, but rather present facts and allow children to explore the ideas.

Some have said it appears the governor is seeking to keep important lessons about Black history out of the schools in order to paint a partisan “patriotic” vision of the nation.

DeSantis said that’s not the case. He noted that state law requires the teaching of slavery, civil rights and more. “It is required to be taught, and it absolutely should be,” he said.

Teachers simply must not depart from the historical record to present a narrative that says the nation is rotten, he added.

DeSantis has been calling on schools to keep critical race theory out of schools for several months. His campaign falls in line with a national Republican effort to promote patriotism in civics and history lessons, while suggesting that school initiatives that focus on race and diversity engender hate and divisiveness.

DeSantis was unable to persuade Florida lawmakers to consider such a measure when he promoted a multimillion-dollar civics initiative earlier this year. So he looked to Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran and the State Board to implement a rule that targets the goal.

To have a long-lasting effect, lawmakers eventually will have to incorporate the rule into law, board member Gibson said.

She and others observed that when DeSantis recently signed a social media oversight bill into law he declared, “Speech that is inconvenient to the narrative will be protected.” He also said, “We cannot have people whitewash the Holocaust in Florida schools” during a town hall meeting in which Cruz also participated.

Yet DeSantis, they argue, is doing what he criticizes in others — advancing a narrative of his own when it comes to race relations.

“It is indeed hypocritical,” Cruz said.

Other recent comments have led many observers to a similar conclusion. During a May speech to a conservative Michigan college, Corcoran spoke about the need to “keep all the crazy liberal stuff out” of instructional material.

The State Board is scheduled to consider updates to standards relating to civics and Holocaust education in July.

This is all about religion. From the etymology: Religare, Italian for "to tie". That which ties us together.

I present you with two choices! Choose the secular, enlightenment, universalist, modernist religion; or choose the Hegelian, Marxist, group-oriented, grievance religion of Critical Theories.

There are no third options available!

Not a fan of woke-ness anymore. It sucks though that means I am in league with Conservatives. I do not think woke-ness is a good religion for the modern age, or any age, really. It does not recognize that the biggest Oppressor is reality itself, which is independent of any group. Science is not a white male thing, it is a process of applied doubt. CRT fans are 100% certain they are right, and also that you are "problematic."

(Go Vegan, right now! Today for goodness sakes!)

Who would be better placed to speak on the similarity between Mao's cultural revolution and CRT: some anonymous person making assertions who is unable to provide any evidence in support of those assertions at the time they made them, or a person with personal (first-hand) experience of both who points out the similarities based on their experience at the time of making their assertion?

the Republican faults that party is trying to protect their kids from being indoctrinated by a marxist, racist ideology that is going to make their kids hate themselves that vote may very well be Republican.

You are banking on this woman's assertions because they nicely align with your views on CRT.

Her views aren't really that earth shattering since
1. East Asians living the US who came from communist states generally vote republican because they are taught to associate the democrats with socialism. Many eastern Europeans and Cubans do the same.

2. East Asians associate university quotas with democrats which favor non-Asian students from a POC background over their kids

The Biden administration announced on Wednesday it had dropped a discrimination lawsuit against Yale University, which alleged that the institution was illegally discriminating against Asian American and white applicants.

While a judge must still sign off on the decision, justice department officials noted in the two-sentence filing in the US district court in Connecticut that it would voluntarily dismiss the action that had been filed by Donald Trump’s administration in October.

3. East Asians tend to be white adjacent in their outlook and have no interest in BLM or CRT. Confucianism teaches them to ally with those in power in order to achieve your goals.

I don't believe a word this woman is saying Brictoria, its is quite literally hyperbole/lip service that has no merit

So called "Black Culture" (Cornel West, et. al) in the US is now being linked with Marxist Black Nationalist Utopian dribble because of CRT.