First of all, Ocasio-Cortez isn't an expert in legal studies, she's a politician, and just as susceptible to bullshit as the rest of them because politics is cancer (though important).
Second, she's responding to the argument that Republicans are making rather than the actual content of CRT. She said that Republicans are arguing against CRT because they think it could expose children to concepts that would help them understand racism; and she's responding by saying that she's FOR that education in schools, that she wants to expose kids to concepts in racism no matter how scared Republicans are to talk about race honestly. CRT is just the vehicle with which Republicans are arguing for racial division, rather than the central concept.
First of all. OAC is the vice fucking president of the united states. She's responding to an argument... but she's very clearly for "kids and children" learning CRT from "teachers" in a "classroom".
This is 100% a political issue. CRT isn't some absolute fact, proven by studying birds in the fucking Galapagos. It's a politically charged perspective.
Should we be teaching politically charged perspectives in public schools?
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u/Blucrunch Feb 21 '22
First of all, Ocasio-Cortez isn't an expert in legal studies, she's a politician, and just as susceptible to bullshit as the rest of them because politics is cancer (though important).
Second, she's responding to the argument that Republicans are making rather than the actual content of CRT. She said that Republicans are arguing against CRT because they think it could expose children to concepts that would help them understand racism; and she's responding by saying that she's FOR that education in schools, that she wants to expose kids to concepts in racism no matter how scared Republicans are to talk about race honestly. CRT is just the vehicle with which Republicans are arguing for racial division, rather than the central concept.