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Idaho State Senate Passes Bill Banning Teaching Of Critical Race Theory In Schools

posted 4 years ago by Rorikon (18389)
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By a vote of 27 to 8, the GOP-dominated State Senate in Idaho banned the teaching of Critical Race Theory in public schools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

Critical race theory (CRT), intellectual movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour. Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans.

[–] Keelai (36155) 4 years ago

I didn't know slavery, genocide and Jim Crow in the U.S. were a theory.

[–] CoreyHaimFan (1031) 4 years ago

It's not. But telling kids to be ashamed for things people did generations before is appalling.

[–] CoreyHaimFan (1031) 4 years ago

Good for Idaho. The recent letter sent by the parent at the school in NYC should be a wakeup call. Hopefully more parents pull their kids from schools teaching kids that people should be judged by their skin color. MLK is rolling in his grave right now.