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wrt CRT, I don't think anyone but the most hardcore stupid racists are opposed to teaching the history of racism. Things like civil rights movement, the civil war, slavery, are all important topics that kids need to understand. Where the whole argument falls apart is where it talks about "white privilege" as being a concept in 2021, which is seen and perceived as a direct attack on white people that are not successful. Even if there is a statistical truth there, statistics apply to the wide ranging population (i.e. arrest rates, sentencing lengths, etc), while the lived in experience of a lot of traditional GOP/Trump supporters is that they have not at all benefitted from being white.

This is further exacerbated when valid criticisms of CRT are met with derision and accusations of "racism", rather than a constructive conversation. We have a similar situation in Canada right now where the "woke" crowd are trying to present anyone with a European/Asian background as "evil colonizers" because we are "living on land traditionally controlled by First Nations". When you tell someone who's ancestors were poor farmers in Italy/Ireland that moved to Canada in the 1950s for a better life are "responsible" for all of the historical issues around first nations, there is a very strong pushback to that, as it makes literally zero sense.

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