Let's see if I can finally crack some minds open and get the critical race theory bullshit to spill out.
I've known about Emmett Till at least since I was sixteen - almost twenty years. His murder has never been sugar coated, tacitly defended, or even remotely nuanced - that's because there is no nuance. He was murdered because a white woman decided to lie about Till flirting with her which resulted in Till's brutal murder and response of sheer apathy from the Jim Crow South. There's no other side to this pancake.
I've only familiarized myself with CRT recently. Do I know about Emmett Till because of CRT or is CRT irrelevant?
Well, the meme refers to Republican Race Theory and I grew up in Arizona. Arizona has voted Republican in more consecutive presidential elections than Texas.
In the mean time, most of the defenders of CRT engaging in the Motte and Bailey fallacy insist that CRT, to this day, is being taught nowhere outside of graduate law programs.
So, which is it? You're either wrong that CRT is about honest teaching of racist history or that it's in any way necessary; or, you're wrong that CRT isn't present in K-12 education. Pick one. It can't be both.
What are you gonna do to wiggle out of this?
Are you going to say that my knowledge of Emmett Till is anecdotal and that we can't expect average Americans to know that story? Well, if that's where you're gonna go, thank you for assuming that I possess uncommon knowledge. But, that's gonna fall apart like a house of cards. Most Americans know jack shit about history. A girl at Montana State didn't know who Joseph Stalin was. Is it a lack of CRT that lead to that ignorance or would CRT have created an education of history that would have introduced that knowledge to her?
Say I'm still wrong. Okay, tell me the precise process by which CRT and only CRT would improve how we teach about Emmett Till. Articulate precisely what CRT can uniquely do that nothing else can. I'm guessing that if you see any validity to this meme, you can't without lying about CRT.
Finally, I find it to be gross and sad that the brutal murder of an innocent young man is so flippantly being used to bolster a straw man.
