Unraveling Myths About Critical Race Theory in Education | SXSW EDU 2024 Keynote

[@DrMarvel562]

I'm baffled at all these negative comments. Like, did you guys listen at all?

[@gheorghemita5096]

Yes, and her arguments are not compelling.

[@DrMarvel562]

@@gheorghemita5096 who exactly was she arguing with in that video? Either the things she said are wrong or they're not. At least, watch a debate before you start labelling ordinary discussions as arguments.

[@kchris5326]

@@DrMarvel562arguing your point just means giving your opinion.

[@DrMarvel562]

@@kchris5326 Opinions are either true or false, they don't need to be compelling.

[@hueyiroquois3839]

Apparently, her definition of a critical race theorist is someone who is blind to straw manning, exaggeration, and false dichotomies.

[@someguyonyoutube-b9w]

He says, "ironically" sporting a frog mascot popular with online Neo-Nazis.

[@michaelpcoffee]

The ones who most adamantly deny that it's there are the same ones who most vehemently object to its removal. Ironic.

[@ChickVicious237]

They should bring on James Lindsay, the opening argument being that most opponents of CRT have no idea what it is. He would be an invaluable resource to help clear that up for the discussion.

[@Spookybacon]

🤣🤣🤣wait...wait🤣🤣🤣 Ok. James Lindsay crumbles like the liar he is when face to face with a person who understands and can honestly and clearly explain CRT. Little Lindsay got his a$$ handed to him by Marc Lamont in front of the nation, leaving little Lindsay mumbling "You know a lot about this. A really large amount of detail actually." kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHzMYYl-idSmnrcsi=HLpx2-LL8vnd5CjM&t=116 Little Lindsay is half joke half clown shoe who vomits up meaningless word salad and pale redefinitions of history’s philosophers to push anti-Black alt-right authoritarian think tank agendas.

[@Changeling9au]

He'd clear up a good deal more than that, methinks :) Lindsay would have a field day tearing apart her disingenuous "explanation" of what CRT is.

[@nigelralphmurphy2852]

James Lindsay knows a lot about nothing. Why bring him on to do anything? I'd rather listen to a duck quacking. At least a duck is funny and has stage presence.

[@Changeling9au]

@@nigelralphmurphy2852 Don't be silly.

[@Spookybacon]

​@@nigelralphmurphy2852 Spot on. Lindsay's knowledge ends at theoretical math, faking "gotcha" academic papers, and massage therapy. Oh!, Lindsay is also good at fooling fools!

[@jwf2125]

Oh- I saw “debate” in the description and thought there’d be some challenging questions. My bad. Anyone have a link to her in an actual debate?

[@nigelralphmurphy2852]

Not the video or her fault. It's your inability to read that's the problem.

[@TinaVon]

Read the sentence out loud and try again.

[@jwf2125]

@@nigelralphmurphy2852 It tells me a lot that you think my misreading of the description excuses them from addressing any challenging questions.

[@jwf2125]

@@TinaVon It tells me a lot that you think my misreading of the description excuses them from addressing any challenging questions.

[@TinaVon]

@@jwf2125 it tells me a lot that you copy and pasted the same "retort" in the same thread to two different people. Quite the gotcha lol

[@gonesville6873]

I'm here because a guy talking to himself on the train is wearing a tee shirt from this conference and I googled it to see what this lunatic is into. I wasn't disappointed. 🤣🤣🤣

[@PetterNe]

“You don’t need to know what you’re talking about these days.” This is something you are demonstrating exceptionally well.

[@ishanloomba788]

Absolutely not. She literally, along with her colleagues, CREATED critical race theory, so she knows more than almost anyone else about it. She devised this structure of knowledge to understand what is going on in America.

[@michaelpcoffee]

The operative question is: Do you support using government force to implement racial discrimination? All the rest is academic.

[@michaelpcoffee]

CRT obviates the need for any thought, word or act of racism as proof of their presumed verdict. All they need is their preferred race measuring less favorably than another. Regardless of the cause: they declare their favored race to be victims of the other. Then they would use real government enforced discrimination in response to their presumed discrimination; altering laws, policies and practices to favor their preferred race. All for the stated purpose of forcibly making the measurements between races identical. The operative question is whether you support using government force to implement racial discrimination. All the rest is academic. My answer is no.

[@kevinboone2178]

Sad. One clearly doesn't understand how American History has derailed Black American prospects since forever and a day. Consider this: CRT isn't taught in grade (K-12) schools/graduate and law students can opt to take courses in it. Exposing realities, laws and policies adversely affecting racial outcomes is one goal. And because political and legal pornography are the root of this, politics, the courts, and education are the antidote. Furthermore, COLLECTIVE SELF-DETERMINATION FOR BLACK AMERICANS (BAs) is another goal, recognizing that in the past and today violence and contempt by the state and misguided whites always derail it. It's why, for example, BA households headed by college graduates have significantly less average household net worth than white ones steered by high school dropouts. History doesn't lie, but our K-12 American History textbooks do. Today, a cult leading former president, with his powerful political, media and corporate acolytes, and his citizen-supplicants, are perpetrating a cynical, (largely) race-based disinformation campaign via Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives, Voting Suppression, Critical Race Theory, The 1619 Project, Anti-Racism, Book Banning & Burning, Black Lives Matter, Affirmative Action in College Admissions, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, Supreme Ct. Justice Ketanji Jackson Brown, and packing our courts with anti-Black judges, the purposes of which are to divert attention from his mountainous legal troubles, to rile and fortify his base to support him regardless, to gain political power the GOP could not otherwise with integrity obtain recognizing its decreasing demographics and, many insist, to instigate civil and race wars. That individual, a convicted felon facing numerous criminal indictments, formented a failed insurrection to regain a presidency he lost in a fair election, is a doctoral-level expert at disinformation and political shenanigans, and openly heads a White Nationalist Movement using ANTEBELUM tropes of racist imagery and language, the goal of which is to keep White Supremacy alive, a treachery enabled by numerous (mostly) white Evangelical Christians who, by treating it as a suggestion, mock the commandment to "love your neighbor as yourself," and who have forgotten, or couldn't care, that ethics, morality, the U.S. Constitution and democracy matter, and grifting, mendacious sociopaths are no remedy. GASLIGHTING Black Americans who created the country's stealth economics takes nerve. And here we are. VOTE BAs because your future and lives depend on it. Don't sit at home. Trump and his minions know how to create INFERNOS -- and some BAs are more than willing to jump into it. DON'T PLAY WITH FIRE. This political independent is letting charity prevail, fella. With due respect. (KFB 61824)

[@TinaVon]

Most of those in this comment section are proving her point beautifully. I found this talk to be very inspiring, and i will definitely be looking into her book for further reading. 😊

[@jamespierce7006]

After all this the Asian Hate Bill passed

[@churchofsausageology4770]

Why is CRT only about black people?

[@Agoni-222]

Because it's the biggest load of ideological bs you ever heard

[@tokenhollow]

Because it was developed as a part of african american studies

[@williamkloezeman7502]

What's with all the smarm and snark? If CRT is just describing the unfortunate reality of our society, why are these people so proud of themselves for making (some) people believe nonsense?

[@kchris5326]

Based on her quiz, it sounds like black people have an excuse for everything. It would be sad to go through life feeling less valued because you are taught to feel that way from a young age. A better option would be to teach the kids empowerment and not that everything is based on skin color. It’s easy to discuss CRT with other CRT supporters and believe you are correct in your assessment. Why not invite someone who is knowledgeable about CRT, but disagrees with it?

[@ishanloomba788]

what do you mean? The quiz is impeccable. It shows that most of the audience inevitably thought "B" was a much better or more probable explanation of the facts presented. Think this is wrong? Read the thousands of academic research papers on systemic racism, discrimination and disparities in this country, then come back to me. If you want to argue that all of those are laden with fraudulent scholarship, be my guest, but you will have to do so with HARD evidence and proof!

[@ishanloomba788]

"teaching that everything is based on skin color", no, that is a total strawmen. NO ONE is advocating that we should teach people that everything under the sun is tied to skin color. However, if the data keep coming in regarding bias, discrimination and disparities, it behooves us to call a spade a spade, if we care about truth in the first place.

[@sz1404]

Protests don't matter. Long term political strategy matter.

[@johnpaulgettelman86]

Of course the social construct, called " race" , has an impact on social life. I get it that the arbitrary concept of race, is relevant to the human race I just know that the fundamental framework of Critical Race Theory, does NOT take account of The vital social science based work, by Thomas Sowell. So I find you Anti-social and ill-liberal.

[@johntobey1558]

These people lack any insight whatsoever.

[@JessieIsreal]

Wait what

[@godotkrull579]

how can you even teach us-american history without dr.king? #it-s a bit like teaching it without ape...or george washington that the race discourse in the usa atm seems to be so much about education (even about libraries) as someone who thinks very much in terms of discourse critique - #it scares me, im happy not to live in the usa... take care, good luck.

[@churchofsausageology4770]

This is a propaganda video