"Woke" Is a Four-Letter Word

Informative thread. It's remarkable how much of the critical race theory hysteria boils down to white people getting mad that people are taught about structural racism in America. https://t.co/To0auAK8Ht

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 12, 2021

What did you think it was about? People afraid their schools were teaching complex legal theory that is far above grade level for non-college students? I mean, I appreciate Legum's efforts; but fear of CRT boils down to white fear of a brown planet. When it isn't just a catch-all phrase for education and its discontents (a discontent largely brewing, IMHO, because Covid upset so many apple carts. People really don't like that kind of fundamental change. It moved their cheese (to use the old catchphrase from the last century), and people don't like it when you move their cheese. For example:

8. An effort "to consider how to modernize and update math instruction to Virginia’s K-12 students to prepare them all to be life ready and succeed in their post-secondary pursuits."

This is an example of "Critical Race Theory," according to the group pic.twitter.com/STjp58IBdu

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 12, 2021

This is pretty much "I'm mad as hell, and it's critical race theory!"  In my childhood the anxiety was "New Math," but our parents accepted we had to learn it even if they didn't understand it (we had a space race to win!).  Now that anxiety is CRT, because...sure, why not?

13. That said, there is a reason why people want to talk about "Critical Race Theory" instead of the things they actually oppose.

The details tell a much different story.

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 12, 2021

Mostly because they don't know how to talk about them; or what they want to talk about is so explicitly racist even they dare not speak its name. I'm gonna go with both and a little bit of neither for that one. So it's not ALL about teaching structural racism in America; but we have a long way to go in this country to reach the point where we can look at our national original sin and know it for what it is. There's a reason we all revere a few sentences Dr. King said, take them out of context, and ignore what he spent his life fighting for. Nobody wanted to shoot him because he had a lovely dream. But our lovely white people's dream? Nobody wants to wake up from that, either.* 

*"Nobody"=white people of a certain mindset. Generalizations are a bad thing, kids. Stay away from 'em.