Here's one theory people talk about more and more lately: https://www.axios.com/white-replacement-theory-gains-ground-among-gop-b171e37d-3f27-43f2-bc25-a084c9fe7aad.html As we know from the 2020 Big Election Lie, what gets promoted on Fox is what millions of GOP voters believe (direction of causality debated). Believe, and teach their children. Question: is it right to worry about teachers in Tennessee "promoting" "CRT" and completely ignore WRT?
The Right believes replacement is going on. They don't really believe CRT is even a thing, beyond being a bogeyman to scare ignorant voters. But replacement? They talk about that all the time because they truly believe it is happening. Funny. They don't believe global climate change is being caused by humans. But they DO believe replacement is a purposeful plot being carried out.
To my mind, it seems to indicate that blatant racism within the Republican party is growing and being more accepted. Which goes along with the views of the Republican leader. This was boosted in part by Obama. Not that Obama did anything wrong, he was just "black while being President". Some Republicans transferred their hate of Obama into a hate of blacks. I'm afraid that it is still going to get worse before it gets better. Then the belief in conspiracy theories on the right is a whole other mess.
Yes. The racism has always been there, but now it is a centerpiece. It has to be. They can't win without it.
The republican voters/supporters that I talk to never mention this or worry about this thing. Its possible that some news station personality makes it look like this is a major concern for republicans, but in my opinion and I didn't check the subject there are more important issues that trouble the republican voters. The reason I didn't check in to this because it never been mentioned as a major issue and not on the radar of people I'm in touch with. I can see how it can be used as propaganda by both sides, it has the potential to be abused by racists. What I hear as one of the major concerns is the exponential rise in crime in all big and not so big cities. Rise in homicide, robbery and violence. This is scary state of affairs.
Anecdotes, even from anonymous posters, are a kind of evidence. But with no means to verify them, they are almost useless. Replacement Theory is real and its adherents are often very vocal about it. Whether it is a "major" issue or not depends on one's definition of that concept, I suppose. Crime rates, by the way, are extremely available and verifiable data. The impact of the pandemic on them, however, is still largely unknown. But what is know is that crime rates remain well below all-time highs.
Trump preaches it, Tucker Carlson preaches it, many mainstream Republicans push it. They just have endorsed tenets of WRT without explicitly using the term. Texas Republican legislators are concerned about it since they are losing the majority as the Hispanic population grows in that state. This kind of things blurs the line between the theory and reality of the thing.
I started looking in to this subject as this tread and a few remarks in earlier treads mentioned this theory. My take is that some on the GOP side and some on Dem's confuse it with the long decline in the U.S. birthrate that continues to go down. Some politicize it. Affected by the economy and the high cost of leaving and the pandemic 2020 saw the lowest birth rate relative to the population of women between 15 and 44 of any year in American history. A recent poll found the fraction of non-parents between 18 and 49 saying they were "very likely" to have kids fell from 32 percent in 2018 to 26 percent in 2020, while the fraction saying they were "not too likely" or "not at all likely" increased from 37 percent to 44 percent. I did read about some politicians who think that the replacement is taking place with more obedient populations but no prove was presented. I can see the birth rate being higher among non Caucasian minorities as a demographic reality and not because of any racial or political activism. Here is the pole related to birth rate: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/11/19/growing-share-of-childless-adults-in-u-s-dont-expect-to-ever-have-children/
I doubt that high cost of living is the reason. There's a correlation all over the world that when people become wealthier, they have fewer kids. I expect that's because one cannot prove something that's made up BS meant to appeal to racist conspiracy theorists.
Really wish though that The Left, at least learned from the Virginia mishap, to leave CRT discussions away from public schools. Regardless of anyone’s views or the validity of CRT, integrating it into public schools is simply divisive in America and alienating key voters. Perhaps most worrying, is how effective it has become to galvanize The Right and many Independents. Sigh… https://www.yahoo.com/news/superintendent-says-detroit-schools-apos-020641029.html
Certainly doubt that higher costs throughout the pandemic are the primary reason for the drastic decline in birth rates, but the larger trends related to a struggling middle class are certainly playing a part. Greater wealth has a propensity of leading towards lifestyle creep. Which in turn greatly magnifies the costs incurred with raising more children and is likely a large if not dominate factor of why affluence lowers birthrates. Although the related factors of dual incomes convolute the causation.
Yup. The wealthier a country is, the less likely the average child is to die of starvation and preventable illness. You don't need to have a dozen kids just to hope that one or two survive to adulthood.
While I’m not sure this actually is CRT being pushed at the K-5 level, I’m also not sure I’m comfortable with 2nd graders seeing these kinds of pictures… https://www.yahoo.com/news/tennessee-group-tries-save-elementary-160300057.html
That does seem a bit young. I think I was in 4th or 5th grade before we learned anything at all about the Holocaust. This didn't include any photos of Holocaust survivors, only some basic reading in the history book and Number the Stars during reading class. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_the_Stars
