Erich,
I agree wholeheartedly with your concerns over the teaching of CRT. I’d be interested to know your thoughts with respect to the Diversity and Inclusion movement, and the apparent shift in the last 20 years or so away from equality of opportunity as the goal for social justice?
Mike
Hi, Mike. Glad you are finding this topic interesting. It is so very complex on so many levels. I tend to follow (by reading them and more or less agreeing with them) this group of writers/podcasters on CRT: John McWhorter, Jonathan Haidt, Glenn Loury, Sam Harris, Jesse Singal, Bari Weiss, Daryl Davis, Peter Boghossian, Helen Pluckrose, Kmele Foster, Coleman Hughes, Andrew Sullivan and, most recently, Sheena Mason. The organizations that I follow include many of the writers and personalities at FAIR. It’s difficult to get a discussion off the ground because of quibbling and disingenuousness regarding the facts on the ground, including the meanings of words and phrases. The site New Discourses has been quite helpful for understanding the origin and current meanings of the phrases we so often hear when discussing “CRT.” I have collected a lot of material I have found helpful to these discussions, especially because there are many people out there who don’t want to know the facts on the ground and don’t want to take the time to understand that we are not dealing with classical CRT in schools (We are seeing new offshoots that are most definitely related to the classical CRT). So check out these two articles if you haven’t seen them before:
Hi Erich Vieth, I came across your article on Lego sets including guns from 2008, and I found it absolutely fascinating. I would love to discuss this topic more with you!!
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Erich,
I agree wholeheartedly with your concerns over the teaching of CRT. I’d be interested to know your thoughts with respect to the Diversity and Inclusion movement, and the apparent shift in the last 20 years or so away from equality of opportunity as the goal for social justice?
Mike
Hi, Mike. Glad you are finding this topic interesting. It is so very complex on so many levels. I tend to follow (by reading them and more or less agreeing with them) this group of writers/podcasters on CRT: John McWhorter, Jonathan Haidt, Glenn Loury, Sam Harris, Jesse Singal, Bari Weiss, Daryl Davis, Peter Boghossian, Helen Pluckrose, Kmele Foster, Coleman Hughes, Andrew Sullivan and, most recently, Sheena Mason. The organizations that I follow include many of the writers and personalities at FAIR. It’s difficult to get a discussion off the ground because of quibbling and disingenuousness regarding the facts on the ground, including the meanings of words and phrases. The site New Discourses has been quite helpful for understanding the origin and current meanings of the phrases we so often hear when discussing “CRT.” I have collected a lot of material I have found helpful to these discussions, especially because there are many people out there who don’t want to know the facts on the ground and don’t want to take the time to understand that we are not dealing with classical CRT in schools (We are seeing new offshoots that are most definitely related to the classical CRT). So check out these two articles if you haven’t seen them before:
https://dangerousintersection.org/2021/06/23/the-legacy-media-portrayal-of-critical-race-theory/
https://dangerousintersection.org/2021/06/20/but-where-is-critical-race-theory-actually-being-taught/
Hi Erich Vieth, I came across your article on Lego sets including guns from 2008, and I found it absolutely fascinating. I would love to discuss this topic more with you!!