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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Marxists are indoctrinating our children in schools" is just the reheated Nazi conspiracy theory of "cultural Bolshevism"

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

It's concerning.

speech-r jbp

[–] roux@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago

God fucking thank you! I hate that you can't explain this to anyone who says this shit because they only have a shallow view of the political world that goes back 4 years and won't even consider reading an even tiny bit of history.

Yet the same brainworm infested clown shoes will still drop the "history repeating itself" when apt for them...

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

referring to it as "the" critical race theory is very funny to me for some reason

Death to America

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

Honey I'm on The YouTubes!

[–] RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"I'm going to the Walmart to get me some books on the critical race theory. Anyone need some Pepsi?"

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 63 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do... Do conservatives just thnk slavery and racism isn't real?

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

They think racist means "bad person", and America's founders, of course, can't be bad people. Also it was more "complicated" back then because nobody knew right from wrong until like eighty years ago. 🙄

[–] RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"They were a product of their times!"

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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It'd be nice if they just admitted they don't know what Critical Theory is.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

They don't even really know what racism is

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

it doesn't matter what it is, it's just a boogeyman for them to rally hate

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A core memory of elementary school for me was my teacher saying Africa was the largest continent. When asked if it's actually Asia like the student had heard, the teacher put their hand over the mercator projection map on the wall to measure both continents and went "huh, I guess you're right"

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ lmao.

Greenland is now bigger than Africa

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

School before accessable Internet was awesome

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It was fun going to college with professors who weren't used to students having instant access to information.

I had a sociology professor who banned laptops in her class after I spent the semester fact checking her right wing soap box BS.

Like, one time she got into an abstinence only rant, and actually claimed the CDC said condoms were absolutely ineffective at preventing pregnancy. Took me like 3s to pull up the website and show her.

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll never forget that day in third grade when Karl Marx assigned me my first CRT homework.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I love how much of a Boogeyman CRT became for chuds. It's like whiplash even hearing them talk about it, because it used to be this humanities thing that only people in grad school for sociology talked about. Imagine if some conservative radio host mentioned Fredrick Jameson or Eve Sedgwick.

Also when I was in college, the one Marxist professor tended to dislike critical theory and any of its associated tendencies because she thought they were idealist.

[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't the Chuds who really spread it admit they chose to make that the enemy not because of anything actually in CRT, but because the name sounded scary and like something they could fearmonger with?

[–] axont@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure. That's the first I'm hearing of it. I thought they picked it because they wanted to cut funding to colleges so they picked something to point at. I'm surprised they didn't pick queer theory instead.

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[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

Chuds try not to make milquetoast lib takes like "Trump is evil" look cooler than they actually are challenge. Difficulty: impossible.

[–] groovyLizard42 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Funny how this is supposed to be absurd but we all agree with Marx 😂

(At least the first statements, don’t know about the theory thing)

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The absurdity comes from conservatives thinking that the things he's saying are wrong, or that American schools are Marxist hahaha

[–] groovyLizard42 24 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Scares me how fast “conservatives” are shifting to “fascists”. Looks like history is indeed cyclical and not linear as we might think, and if so, we must prepare for the escalation of this kind of hate discourse.

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[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

don’t know about the theory thing

Neither do they.

[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"the critical race theory is a fact" from the same people who demand "in English, Einstein!" It says something about how information is transferred and observations are treated in their neck of the woods. When's the last time you heard a lefty tell you that you've read too much theory? That you're too well connected? That your weed's too loud? That your drip's too drippy?

[–] axont@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't think they even know how to summarize it or describe what it means. Critical race theory is just "what if the reason black people are overrepresented in prison is because the justice system is racist"?

I think what conservatives believe it means is "white people need to apologize for being white every moment of the day because every white person is personally responsible for injustice, including children"

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Apparently Dick Wright here also thought grammar lessons were Marxist indocrination.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

America was founded by a single guy named "Racist".

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My science teacher believed the earth was flat

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Had a biology teacher who was also the baseball coach, he did not believe in evolution

[–] roux@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My 6th grade world history class started with the birth of Jesus.

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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

Founder of America: John Racist

CEO of America: Wyatt Supremacist

[–] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago

cheeto-man

-Corl Marks

[–] M68040@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is ran by a singular white supremacist? The critical race theory?

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