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Dwoods44 lol, I grew up Catholic in a town full of Protestants. A Packers family in Bears territory. We were outsiders because it was an old town and we were new. Even though I was born there, I was still an outsider. There are many, many more forms of discrimination than race and gender based. If you grow up in a 99.9% white town like I did, you'll still find that there are socio-economic divisions. The same can be found in towns of 99.9% any race in the nations they hail from. There is ALWAYS a way to "other" people. It is the hierarchical nature of non-nomadic communities. It is how you decide who gets what resources when resources are limited. I'm not saying it's right, but it's better than using CRT to decide who is in and who is out.Artex - I grew up after my formative years in Charlotte, NC. When we moved there in 1978 there were more Jews per capita then Catholics. I don't think that is the case now. I came from a tight-connected nun-administrated serious and fine Catholic School grades kindergarden through 8. I can still remember chasing Lisa M. around in kindergarden - she was the light of my eye then. After 7th grade my family moved to North Carolina and all I can say is I was a fish out of water - big time. Looking back I wouldn't change a thing........I think this teacher needs to meet with the principle and the principle needs to encourage the teacher to focus his or her energies as the case may be (I didn't read the article real close) on just helping the kids understand math and grammar. Schooling lately has been so distracted and the kids ain't even learning the basics unless they get lucky and get a good teacher. Have I said I know two already?
I was anti-racist before any of these Nazi ass-hats ever conceived of the term, and I say that because I grew up in a white town with deep racism which I never understood and challenged at every turn (to my own detriment), because how can you hate people you've never spoken to, lived with, or interacted with?
The racism existed so deeply because (as I recently learned) this town was full of hillbillies that moved there after the Civil War. The counties I lived on the border of were both named for Confederate leaders. And I don't mean hillbilly as pejorative, it's a culture. And a rural town just doesn't change at the same pace as a city does in 100 years.
Rural America isn't conservative for the sake of conservatism, they are conservative because there isn't the need to make progressive and urgent changes to accommodate an ever-changing demographic. It's taken the majority of my adulthood to understand this. To dismiss it out of hand is the mistake of the far-left. And failing to understand that is also the willful ignorance of the far right.
Also, to put this on display in a classroom is mental and emotional child abuse.