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I feel increasingly like I’m surrounded by competing moral panics and prefer to just opt out of the panic war altogether. I don’t see how to get invested in this CRT issue without getting sucked into one moral panic or another. I do think the anti CRT hysteria is a moral panic. Yeah I get it, there are some repugnant things that could be taught under a true CRT-dictated curriculum but just no part of me actually believes that my kids are going to be taught any of this in a disciplined way. I really do think that things will mostly go on same as they ever were, with most of school being watered down basics aimed at a level some common denominator of kids can get, with some teachers teaching some weird shit (which they ALWAYS HAVE, just usually from a markedly dishonest pro american exceptionalism perspective) that will probably not really stick with most kids anyway. Their main influence will continue to be their own pop culture which is now social media. This honestly reminds me of the sex ed panic that happened when I was in school myself. My own parents opted me out so that I wouldn’t have the school overriding their parenting. Guess what, didn’t work - I had sex before marriage, use birth control and support abortion and gay people. I mean maybe my parents were reacting to some genuinely weird stuff going on in some parts of the curriculum or training, but overall teaching kids about sex and making condoms available didn’t turn kids into sex maniacs and it did lower the teen pregnancy rate and make gay kids more accepted. I just see the most likely path of “CRT” influence in curriculum not as a bunch of white kids feeling suicidal over whiteness, but just a generally more racially progressive curriculum which I don’t see as a bad thing over all, or at the least neutral compared with curriculums historically.

To be fair I also see the hysteria over white supremacy in our current culture as a bit of a moral panic as well. Not that racism isn’t real or anything like that. It is and it continues to harm people and cause inequalities. But the focus on language and micro aggressions and the “safety” of the highest economic and social class of people in their elite institutions is absolutely a moral panic.

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I really hate Twitter. It has absolutely made liberals its bitch. It's basically an Evangelical church for the Left. The toxic social incentives are strikingly similar.

So Dems, get the fuck outta there and start talking to average people (of all races and genders) if you want to start winning again.

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