How can anyone not understand that critical race theory is a manufactured panic?

The same way they fail to understand nearly every political con game.

Panic is the free lunch cooked up by powerful people, and served to everyone else.

I understand it.

Critical Race Theory itself is not manufactured panic. It is the right wing’s misunderstanding of it that is a manufactured reaction to incite negative reactions and create a false threat.

Because they are all in on the perceived culture war.
They do not know that CRT is not taught in school. They do not even know what CRT is.
They do not care what CRT is. All they care is that it is a neat bogeyman, like “wokeism”, “SJWs”, and “groomers”, that they can hide behind, while they tirelessly work to purge and white-wash the history books from anything that could paint their ancestors in a negative light. Slavery, the Civil Rights movement, even the Holocaust. Nothing is off limits.
They need their hatred for their perceived enemies, because their existence is defined by it.
So they will believe any negative claim about them, even when they are contradictory.
So you end up with the rubes believing that liberals are simultaneously weak-minded and weak-bodied “soyboys”, and hyper-secretive masterminds behind a global conspiracy to kill all men, all white people, and turn everyone else into a gay, muslim, transgender, baby-eating and baby-raping communist.

This was wild and came out of left field.

Even though I didn’t learn about this stuff in school, all the information is easy to obtain from credible outside sources.

It’s a fact that in the past, policy was put in place to prevent african americans from attaining certain things in society.

Even in the present day….a black couple and a white couple received different appraisals for the same house…..

That’s the nature of moral panics. It’s just unfortunate that they keep happening and people keep falling for them, despite the obvious ploy that they are (they even often follow the same structure). In the 80s it was preschool teachers sacrificing children, now it’s groomers teaching white kids to hate themselves (the best moral panics involve children and those who create these panics are well aware of that; no one is primed for panic like a parent)...people never realize when they’re being played.

Sheep are so silly!

Probably because there are so many conflicting opinions in the education field.
Example:
https://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/2021/10/21/yes-form-crt-being-taught-our-schools-opinion/6116736001/

I think the people “falling for them” are the ones who were raised to deny evidence and common sense under pain of hell fire.

I guess I have a hard time understand why anyone would believe it is a manufactured panic and then get upset when the same theories being taught in the college class are removed from grade school books.

It IS NOT a manufactured panic. It is a response.
Critical Race Theory is an academic and legal framework that denotes that systemic racism is part of American society. From education and housing to employment and healthcare. Critical Race Theory recognizes that racism is more than the result of individual bias and prejudice. It is embedded in laws.
Critical Race Theory was first developed by legal scholars in the 1970s and ‘80s following the Civil Rights Movement. It was, in part, a response to the notion that society and institutions were “colorblind.” The basis is that racism was not and has never been eradicated from our laws, policies, or institutions, and is still woven into the fabric of their existence.

Now I see that I should have stated that the so called crisis is manufactured.

It’s not CRT that’s manufactured. It’s the panic surrounding it that is manufactured.

It doesn’t matter what words you wrap around it. Arguing about it like this shows you are in denial and are wrapping it up in some stance.
It needs to be recognized, accept that there are many things screwed up, admit it, and work to resolve it.

@HP I understood what you meant. The notion of applying panic for distraction isn’t new lol.

Yes, applying words like panic and manufactured are there to continue to deny the truth about our nation’s history, silence dissent, and punish those who speak the truth to counter whitewashed falsehoods.

CRT is a valid intellectual and social framework: a belief that race isn’t a biological, scientific feature of humanity, but merely a social construct used to categorize certain people, and that the law, societal hierarchies, politics, and economics have inherent, institutional racism.

The “manufactured panic” is caused by people who have no idea what CRT is (apparently, the term is too complicated to search online), and who have knee-jerk beliefs that CRT’s some nefarious cult intended to pervert children’s minds.

It’s rather daunting that to actually teach the truth about the country and its history is so threatening.

I don’t know why Republicans can’t just brag that it was their party that ended slavery, and be done with it.

Their current members don’t think that was a good idea.

I don’t know if anyone remembers, but Apple music used to have free college lectures (they still could)....and about 15 years ago I listened to some basic sociology lectures from Stanford I believe.

Stanford’s sociology lecture included segments about race, referring to studies where people basically perceived african americans to be taller, more muscular/larger in stature, and more dangerous than they actually were. Covered discrepancies in sentencing between races etc.

So it’s obvious the basics of race studies has always been taught in some form or another.

I personally haven’t been to college, but I’m sure this is a basic information to a freshman or sophomore at least.

@Blackberry…but blacks dominate sports. Why is that?

@Dutchess_III
@Blackberry answered that. ”...people basically perceived african americans to be taller, more muscular/larger in stature, ...” which is correct if you study any art books concerning physical attributes of the different types of human beings.

So are they percived or are they are?
Throw out “more dangerous” please.

They are!
“More dangerous” is a matter of opinion.

@Dutchess_III
It’s been awhile, they described a series of tests used on people to explain their findings.

For example I believe they showed participants a series of pictures/videos on a screen and were asked how they initially felt about the pictures or scenarios presented.
Basically trying to allude that a person may find a black man on a street at night more dangerous than a white man.

I can try to do some digging and find the old studies.

@Dutchess_III

“In the 2017 study, “People See Black Men as Larger, More Threatening, Than Same-Sized White Men,” it was revealed that people have a tendency to perceive black men as larger and more threatening than similarly sized white men. “Unarmed black men are disproportionately more likely to be shot and killed by police, and often these killings are accompanied by explanations that cite the physical size of the person shot,” said lead author John Paul Wilson, PhD, of Montclair State University. Wilson and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments involving more than 950 online participants in which people were shown color photographs of white and black male faces of individuals who were all of equal height and weight. The participants were asked to estimate the height, weight, strength and overall muscularity of the men pictured. “We found that these estimates were consistently biased. Participants judged the black men to be larger, stronger and more muscular than the white men, even though they were actually the same size. Participants also believed that the black men were more capable of causing harm in a hypothetical altercation and, troublingly, that police would be more justified in using force to subdue them, even if the men were unarmed.”

This is pretty basic stuff that I assumed most people knew.

https://www.adl.org/education/resources/tools-and-strategies/table-talk/race-perception-and-implicit-bias

There is much more to muscularity than just “size and weight.” On average, black men are more muscular than whites, and that’s why they dominate in sports.

@Dutchess_III

Well I guess that would be a separate topic, as no one cares about sports except gamblers lol…..but it was to illustrate how college level students are being taught about institutional racism and how “CRT” isn’t anything new except the name and how people perceive knowledge given to their kids.