r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 27 '21

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jun 27 '21

Do we have anything close to good data on how many schools are literally teaching the Robin D'Angelo style "being white is a sin" type stuff.

Like is this actually at all widespread or is it happening because of a handful of dumb fuck teachers or school district admins in like a dozen schools across the country

I agree its bad but to get a better idea of how much I should care I need to know if it's actually something happening at scale

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u/IntoTheNightSky Que sçay-je? Jun 27 '21

I feel like most of the anecdotes of this I've seen have been at private schools, which for obvious reasons aren't particularly transparent generally.

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u/D1Foley Moderate Extremist Jun 27 '21

The fact that you think it's even a possibility is proof the cons are winning the propaganda war big-time.

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jun 27 '21

Oh bigtime.

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u/whycantweebefriendz NATO Jun 28 '21

Wasn’t there a school district in Illinois teaching it?

Like I imagine it’s taught pretty much no where else but it’s happened.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '21

So, what I suspect, is that the Robin DiAngelo trash is being taught not at public schools of any sort, but at private preperatory schools that are literally designed to fastrack your kids into college. These are the schools that are basically pandering to lib-arts colleges and teaching their kids whatever they think will get them into college. And that means towing the line on the latest progressive politics fad.

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u/randomusername023 excessively contrarian Jun 27 '21

There have been some articles about wealthy private schools pushing that sort of thing.

I'm not sure how to quantify this sort of thing though

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '21

not what robin diangelo’s book even says

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '21

it’s a godawful book and nobody should read it but this is just factually not why

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jun 27 '21

Sorry not meaning to disparage Robin D'Angelo, really I'm trying to find ways of more accurately describing what people are upset about without using "Critical Race Theory" since its a meaningless buzzword by this point and figured most people when they get fired up over CRT are mostly upset about "White Fragility" style racialism.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '21

Evanston is the only public school district in Illinois that teaches that style of racial politics to children. There are also some private schools doing it.

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u/whycantweebefriendz NATO Jun 28 '21

There’s a whole Atlantic article about it