I say, if you want to ban CRT, you need to come up with another way of credibly telling minority kids that their society doesn't view them as trash.
CRT seems to me like a medication with a statistically significant effect size and a lot of side effects. But here's the thing...doctors prescribe that kind of medication every day. That's standard practice. If you don't like it, come up with a better medication.
Our nation is at a point where we need to focus on consolidating our nationhood and making sure Americans feel like they own America. I heavily doubt CRT is the best way of doing that, but...find me a better way, or CRT is what it's gonna be.
The last people to actually try hard to unite our whole country in a unified national identity were the New Deal liberals. They succeeded somewhat for a while and then it fell apart. Are we up for another try at that?
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The wars in the Middle East and North Africa -- and the Muslim world in general -- seem mostly to be winding down, and wars are springing up in other regions.
1/A quick thread about the origin of "Nigerian aircraft carrier", generally regarded as my most far-out idea (because I haven't told you the even crazier ones)...
2/I was walking through Shibuya with a Canadian friend of mine who lives in Japan, and he was telling me how he'd been reading about the bizarre racial supremacy theories that Japan's militarist leaders promulgated in the 30s and 40s.
3/In some ways, these theories were the mirror image of Western theories of White supremacy, as detailed in the book "War Without Mercy".
This post is actually quite encouraging. It shows that U.S. military spending is shifting rapidly in the direction of R&D. That's exactly what the military should be spending money on.
If you use the internet, you're benefitting from U.S. military R&D!
As I predicted, the pushback against wokeness at the elite level is underway...
The entire 2020s will be spent negotiating the new equilibrium, much as the 70s was spent negotiating the new equilibrium after the upheavals of the 60s. Eventually we'll probably arrive at something that satisfies no one, but which we can at least live with.
Actually this would be a good time for me to re-up the posts I've been writing about wokeness.
First was this one about how wokeness -- or something like it -- was inevitable, because of 2000s America's gaping inequality of respect.