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Poll: The real reason Republicans are so riled up about 'critical race theory'
Yahoo ^ | July 1st, 2021 | Andrew Romano·West Coast Correspondent

Posted on 07/01/2021 7:01:38 AM PDT by Mariner

Conservatives claim that schools are indoctrinating students in “critical race theory.” Liberals argue that conservatives don’t even know what critical race theory is — and that if they did, they’d realize teachers aren’t actually exposing kids to it.

But a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll suggests that the roiling culture war over so-called CRT isn’t about whether today’s schoolchildren are suddenly probing the complexities of an academic approach to race that originated among legal scholars in the mid-1970s.

Rather, the clash over CRT — aside from whatever the term now connotes in the public imagination — appears to be a supercharged spinoff of a deeper dispute between conservatives and pretty much every other group in the United States.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andrewromano; dnctalkingpoints; endwhiteshaming; yahoooonews
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Fascinating, and entirely plausible.

Certainly it resonates with me.

1 posted on 07/01/2021 7:01:38 AM PDT by Mariner
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Theories are MOSTLY CRAP


2 posted on 07/01/2021 7:03:21 AM PDT by butlerweave
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CRT teaches that every white person is irredeemably racist. The conversation ends there. There’s no point in discussing anything after that.


3 posted on 07/01/2021 7:06:07 AM PDT by Spok (There are many more things that frighten us than can cause us harm.)
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In the month of June alone, The Fighting Republicans have given us Juneteenth as a national holiday and have agreed to tear down confederate statues in the Rotunda.

Why would I take their resistance to CRT seriously?

4 posted on 07/01/2021 7:07:16 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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‘Yahoo News and YouGov also asked — before ever mentioning “critical race theory,” so as not to influence the answers — whether respondents agreed or disagreed with the concept that “racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies.” We then asked if that concept is “something students should be exposed to in schools.” [...] A full 54 percent agree with it; just 27 percent disagree.’

Of course - the MSM has been pushing that line for a long time.


5 posted on 07/01/2021 7:10:44 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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Don't be fooled. The fundamental concept behind "systemic" is that society is structured, driven, and controlled by groups, the government, and other systems within society, not the actions and ideas of individual people.

The foremost proponents of society being structured by the politics of groups were and are Marxists. The foremost proponents of society being structured by the actions and beliefs of individuals were our Founding Fathers and those who still believe in freedom and the role of the individual in society.

As they often do the Yahoo poll is slanted to get the results they are trying to get.

6 posted on 07/01/2021 7:11:19 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
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So far, up to this post, it appears none have actually read the article.


7 posted on 07/01/2021 7:11:32 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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The real reason Republicans are so riled up about 'critical race theory'

Republicans, hate it though they do, are the white party, and CRT is anti-white.

That's all there is to it.

8 posted on 07/01/2021 7:13:20 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice)
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They are riled up because critical race theory is utter nonsense and destructive. It denigrates individuals and casigates them into groupings that inhibits their ability to realize their potential and personal happiness. It fosters disunity. If accepted it gives credence to the very worst beliefs and practices of racists.


9 posted on 07/01/2021 7:13:35 AM PDT by allendale
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However, it’s clear the fundamental divide is between those who believe there is “systemic racism” and those who do not.


10 posted on 07/01/2021 7:14:06 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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“racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies.”


Fact is, it IS only a product of individual bias. However, many racist individuals are players in legal systems and policy generation and enforcement. The system and policies themselves are not the least bit racist, except that they will sometimes overtly FAVOR minorities.


11 posted on 07/01/2021 7:14:29 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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the complexities of an academic approach to race that originated among legal scholars in the mid-1970s.

CORRECTION:

the stupidty of giving credence to rabid, insane, Hate America nutjobs who want the US wiped out.

12 posted on 07/01/2021 7:15:04 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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Wow!! Let’s make up some more BS.


13 posted on 07/01/2021 7:15:47 AM PDT by Agatsu77
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This article is BS and a misguided sophistry..


14 posted on 07/01/2021 7:15:56 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Problem for me is that I think ALL human beings are racist. The only real question is, “to what degree?”

Kinda like all human beings are liars, but usually you need to cross a line to be called a liar, the same is true with racism. Or ageism, or attractivenessism or sexism, or classism, or all the other ways people size up people they don’t personally know.


15 posted on 07/01/2021 7:16:33 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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It’s all about “systemic racism”.

A fantastic lie.


16 posted on 07/01/2021 7:17:00 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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“they’d realize teachers aren’t actually exposing kids to it.”

Uh, stop straw-man arguing.

Yes, no one has been “exposed” to CRT in school - yet.

That is the point - schools are TRYING to start up CRT as BLM has pushed it on them and all bow to BLM, despite their whining protests that “we’re powerless”.


17 posted on 07/01/2021 7:17:22 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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It used to be called using “judgement” ...before all the “isms” became vogue


18 posted on 07/01/2021 7:19:54 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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systemic

the system they are referring to is the constitutional republic. it is inherently racist.

we are going to have to start all over, folks, with a governing document that is not inherently racist and, of course, will not even mention your unalienable rights.

It will be full of positive rights given by the government. You know, like the Soviet constitution.


19 posted on 07/01/2021 7:21:08 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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agreed to tear down confederate statues in the Rotunda”

is that true, and actually decided?


20 posted on 07/01/2021 7:21:17 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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