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Erin E.'s avatar

Everyone's struggles are tragic, but perhaps Americans would gain perspective by considering the worse material conditions that exist. I've lived in a country under martial law. And I am relieved to be an American. One of our country's most visible and unattractive flaws to outsiders is a sense of entitlement and the consequential lack of empathy.

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Ian G's avatar

You are right that poor conditions in country X are not justification for not addressing inequities in our own country. They should give pause to those seeking revolutionary change.

Life in the US vs. Life in Afghanistan is not a binary choice. The choice has always been between incremental change and revolutionary change. The former has been a success the later historically a disaster. As Delgado defines it CRT "rejects incrementalism and step by step progress, critical race theory questions the very foundation of the liberal order including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitution law." These principals are why the West is relatively safe and prosperous and its citizens have freedoms and rights unknow through most of the world and time. CRT seems oblivious to this. The inequities Delgado points to are minor and can and are being dealt with through existing civil rights laws. I repeatedly see CRT scholars calling for revolution.

An example the attack on math as White the CRT based curriculums being pushed will do nothing to improve our children's already dismal math ability. Spending fed $$ for tutors for low income students would. But teaching math is no longer the goal, indoctrination is.

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