@SethAbramson 1/ No one serious is claiming children are being assigned essays from professional legal studies journals. The point is a whole new K-12 pedagogy is emerging downstream from these grad-school ideas.
@SethAbramson 2/ Founders of CRT and curriculum designers/ instructional coordinators have explicitly used the term “CRT” to describe educational practices.
@SethAbramson 3/ From *Rethinking Ethnic Studies*, on K-12 ed.
"As Ethnic Studies courses enter K-12 school contexts, critical race theory offers concrete tools for framing pedagogies of race..."
@SethAbramson 4/ From ‘Critical Race Theory, Second Edition: An Introduction (Delgado and Stefancic, 2012):
“Although CRT began as a movement in the law, it has rapidly spread beyond that discipline. Today, many in the field of education consider themselves critical race theorists.”
@SethAbramson 5/ From Education Post (funded by the Walton Family Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative):
“CRT...provides educators tools they need to transform current practices in teaching & learning. [...] CRT allows for creation of new curricula that
@SethAbramson 6/ help students think critically about institutions that shape their lives & develop their own affirmative racial identities.”
Buffalo Public Schools has implemented antiracist curricula at various grade levels, including “the disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics.” In the kindergarten curriculum, children are required to watch a video dramatizing the death
@DB1212013@mattyglesias 2/ of black children and warning them (kindergarteners) to beware of “racist police and state-sanctioned violence.” Middle school students are taught that “white elites work to perpetuate racism through politics, law, education, and the media,” and that “all white people play a
@DB1212013@mattyglesias 3/ part in perpetuating systemic racism.” High school students are encouraged to begin “confronting whiteness in classrooms.”
It’s not just TikTok, Trump is banning WeChat. The consequences?
-Disruption of communication between family members in the US and China
-Disruption of communication between Apple manufacturing engineers (and other ODMs) and Chinese factories
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-Disruption of Walmart’s business in China (9% of Walmart’s international market) that rely on WeChat microapps
-Disruption of American brands in China that rely on the WeChat payment platform (e.g., Starbucks)
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-Potential disruption of the video game and sports industries: Tencent (WeChat’s parent company) owns stakes in, or has deals with, e.g., Activision, Electronics Arts, Epic Games, and Riot Games, and shares
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