R****t GOP-sponsored bill advances in the Arizona House during Black History Month
Feb 5, 2022 07:32:05 #
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic
EJ Montini, Arizona Republic
Fri, February 4, 2022, 8:00 AM
House Bill 2112, which Republicans lawmakers forced through the Arizona House this week, doesn’t mention critical race theory, even though its intent is to prevent instruction of critical race theory.
It’s just as well the Republicans who sponsored and v**ed for this bill didn’t mention CRT by name, since they seem to have no idea what it is.
For one thing, critical race theory is a rather broad concept that has been discussed for years at the university level, but not in K-12 schools.
The lawmakers who want to ban it, however, seem to believe that younger children must be protected.
That is a smokescreen. The purpose of a law like HB 2112 is not to protect children, but to protect the insecurities or prejudices of politicians, who are uncomfortable with telling school children the t***h about American history and world history.
Critical race theory contends that r****m exists within some of our social institutions. Things like criminal justice and education. And that over time it was embedded into all manner of laws and regulations that continue to impact individuals based on race. Admitting that such r****m exists is not the same as calling someone – anyone – a r****t.
However, as Victor Ray, a sociologist who works with the Brookings Institution, so succinctly points out, “Making laws outlawing critical race theory confirms the point that r****m is embedded in the law.”
Another view: Yes, critical race theory is a problem in Arizona schools
Yes. It is.
And it’s in the process of getting embedded into the law again, and in the worst possible way.
HB 2112’s language is so jumbled and obtuse as to make the case for objecting to nothing – and everything. And it carries with it a $5,000 fine for offenders.
Fines for teaching women's suffrage?
Among the offenses listed in the bill is “using public monies for instruction that promotes or advocates for any form of blame or judgment based on race, ethnicity or sex.”
Think of that.
Would a teacher get into trouble for violating the law’s prohibition by pointing out it was men who kept women from having the right to v**e prior to passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1919?
Would an educator be subject to some form of fine by discussing how native tribes were rounded up and marched to reservations under President Andrew Jackson, or having the gall to mention the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
And as far as ethnicity goes, would it now be impossible to educate students about the ethnic cleansing that has gone on in some form around the world for centuries? The crusades involving Muslims and Christians. The civil wars in the 1990s involving Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia and Croatia. The Armenian genocide during World War I. The Holocaust.
Not responsible for the past, but we can right wrongs
The law also says that teachers can’t say that “an individual, by virtue of their race, ethnicity or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed by other members of the same race, ethnic group or sex.”
That is not something critical race theory suggests.
It says, instead, that none of us is responsible for r****t actions or policies from the past, but that we are, if able, responsible for righting any lingering wrongs.
Who would not want to teach our young people that?
Arizona House Republicans, apparently.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/r****t-gop-sponsored-bill-advances-150028210.html
EJ Montini, Arizona Republic
Fri, February 4, 2022, 8:00 AM
House Bill 2112, which Republicans lawmakers forced through the Arizona House this week, doesn’t mention critical race theory, even though its intent is to prevent instruction of critical race theory.
It’s just as well the Republicans who sponsored and v**ed for this bill didn’t mention CRT by name, since they seem to have no idea what it is.
For one thing, critical race theory is a rather broad concept that has been discussed for years at the university level, but not in K-12 schools.
The lawmakers who want to ban it, however, seem to believe that younger children must be protected.
That is a smokescreen. The purpose of a law like HB 2112 is not to protect children, but to protect the insecurities or prejudices of politicians, who are uncomfortable with telling school children the t***h about American history and world history.
Critical race theory contends that r****m exists within some of our social institutions. Things like criminal justice and education. And that over time it was embedded into all manner of laws and regulations that continue to impact individuals based on race. Admitting that such r****m exists is not the same as calling someone – anyone – a r****t.
However, as Victor Ray, a sociologist who works with the Brookings Institution, so succinctly points out, “Making laws outlawing critical race theory confirms the point that r****m is embedded in the law.”
Another view: Yes, critical race theory is a problem in Arizona schools
Yes. It is.
And it’s in the process of getting embedded into the law again, and in the worst possible way.
HB 2112’s language is so jumbled and obtuse as to make the case for objecting to nothing – and everything. And it carries with it a $5,000 fine for offenders.
Fines for teaching women's suffrage?
Among the offenses listed in the bill is “using public monies for instruction that promotes or advocates for any form of blame or judgment based on race, ethnicity or sex.”
Think of that.
Would a teacher get into trouble for violating the law’s prohibition by pointing out it was men who kept women from having the right to v**e prior to passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1919?
Would an educator be subject to some form of fine by discussing how native tribes were rounded up and marched to reservations under President Andrew Jackson, or having the gall to mention the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
And as far as ethnicity goes, would it now be impossible to educate students about the ethnic cleansing that has gone on in some form around the world for centuries? The crusades involving Muslims and Christians. The civil wars in the 1990s involving Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia and Croatia. The Armenian genocide during World War I. The Holocaust.
Not responsible for the past, but we can right wrongs
The law also says that teachers can’t say that “an individual, by virtue of their race, ethnicity or sex, bears responsibility for actions committed by other members of the same race, ethnic group or sex.”
That is not something critical race theory suggests.
It says, instead, that none of us is responsible for r****t actions or policies from the past, but that we are, if able, responsible for righting any lingering wrongs.
Who would not want to teach our young people that?
Arizona House Republicans, apparently.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/r****t-gop-sponsored-bill-advances-150028210.html
Feb 5, 2022 07:33:26 #
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