(05-08-2022, 02:04 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(05-08-2022, 12:15 PM)mikesez Wrote: Political correctness is simply changing vocabulary in ways that are supposedly more sensitive.  It's usually ridiculous but harmless.
Good Wokeness is being aware of our colonial and slaveholding past, and being aware of how it has lasting impacts that we need to be aware of and work on.  Good Wokeness means you understand that, despite your own ancestors' positive experiences as immigrants in places like New York City in the 20th century, the United States will never have a European or even Canadian social model from sea to shining sea. Our colonial and slaveholding past makes that impossible.
But bad Wokeness is blaming people who weren't alive then for what happened. Bad Wokeness is when we toured Kingsley Plantation in 3rd grade and one of the Black girls in class told every white kid that their ancestors lived in the plantation house while hers lived in the tabby house.  Bad Wokeness is also insisting that your way is only one way to address the lasting impacts.

In other words, Critical Race Theory is just bad "Wokeness".

That's part of it.  The law Florida recently passed defines CRT that way.  And it's a good law.  We shouldn't make people feel bad just because their ancestors owned slaves.  
But Critical Race Theory also has some positive implications to what is happening today as we enforce laws that were written yesterday.
Consider zero tolerance in schools.  When a principal discovers drugs, and knows they belong to a middle class white kid who usually doesn't give him any problems, he might discreetly dispose of the drugs and privately tell the student not to let it happen again.  Officially, there were no drugs.  But when he discovers drugs and they belong to a black kid from a poor family that's always getting in fights and has bad grades, he probably tells the cops.  
Is the zero tolerance policy racist? No, on its face it doesn't consider race at all.  Was the principal racist? Not necessarily, there were more differences between the two kids than just race. 
Critical theory simply points out that the zero tolerance policy was written by people who are highly respected and connected in society and who envision their own kids as receiving discretion and grace if anything bad happens.  Critical race Theory takes it a step further and says these highly respected and connected people are always white people, and we know that isn't true.  They're definitely rich, but not necessarily white.
All that said, it's a law school course, not a high school course.

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