Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "" video.

  1. It's worth noting that being uncomfortable is one thing. When I visited Dachau when I was in high school, it was incredibly uncomfortable and mind-blowing. But, it's worth noting that it's not at all the same thing as what's being done in the US educational system where they'll pile onto that a bunch of racist lies in an effort to persecute white minority groups that may not have had anything to do with the particular issue that's being covered. My family arrived in the US after the civil war and settled into an area that was far away from any slavery, but somehow I'm supposed to be responsible and to contribute towards reparations even though for nearly that entire period, my family was dirt poor and barely any better off than the emancipated slaves. History is heavily sanitized to remove any mention of the ethnic cleansing of various white minority groups moving into the US up until the post-war period. There isn't even any meaningful acknowledgement when WWII covers up that internment camps were not Japanese only, in addition to the Chinese and other Asian groups that were close enough, there were Germans and Italians purposefully moved there, the reason why it was mostly Japanese had mainly do to with the fact that the Japanese were heavily centralized in the exclusion region and weren't as easily relocated to parts of the country not subject to the restrictions. I remember literally being told that black people now have high blood pressure because several centuries ago slaves pissed on each other on the ships they were brought to the US on. It was deeply uncomfortable to have to be the one to point out that it's bullshit. And it goes on fairly often where the schools are telling outright lies in order to inform the students that are just as racist as the racism that they're claiming to oppose. It's really disappointing that we accept this kind of bullshit. There's got to be a way that we can be opposed to neo-Nazis and the Klan without buying into the racist narrative that everything has been peachy-keen for various white groups that are all basically the same monsters that perpetuated race wars for centuries and delight in torturing and murdering people of color. I mean, they literally had to invent the idea of Hispanics in order to justify excluding various white ethnic groups from consideration. Even though Hispanic isn't even a real thing, it's a massive number of ethnicities that have basically nothing in common other than a common language.
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  7. That's not at all how it works in the US, and John is being pretty misleading. Imagine being taught about the Holocaust and focusing entirely on the Jewish victims of it. The roughly half of the victims that weren't Jewish don't get more than a minimal mention, if that. The ethnic cleansing that followed as the Russians invaded the country in the ending days of the war and murdered civilians that had little to do with the crimes against humanity other than being part of the country leading up to the US murdering tens of thousands during an unprovoked firebombing of Dresden. Not to mention the fact that Germans and Italians were also sent to concentration camps by the US along with the Japanese and those that were confused as being Japanse. The problem is that the CRT alarmists aren't entirely wrong, there's far more going on than people simply feeling uncomfortable. One of the reasons why I gave up on being a teacher was that I couldn't in good conscience lie to the students about the history of the US to make it seem like significant portions of the US were off the limits to Russians during the cold war or that the Irish were the original target for virtually all the negative stereotypes used to denigrate black people. Not to mention the fact that applying modern racial and ethnic identities to times before they were widely accepted leads to really weird conclusions that don't make much sense and that there were communities of free black people in the South of the US prior to the civil war, things weren't great for them, but they existed. Around here, in the Pacific Northwest, we were still integrating our schools well into the '80s, so it's kind of insulting for folks to imply that there weren't white people that are relatively young who were legitimately caught in the cross-fire of integration even as we were having our own ethnic identities subjected to propaganda efforts out of the '40s. I remember buying a camera decades ago and the company bundled literal WWII propaganda with the camera. The problem with the thing that's morphed into CRT is that it silences the voices of the people who have the most power to really get at the heart of these issues. The folks that realize that a lot of this is kind of questionable and needs more discussion to flesh out and negotiate and cedes the ground to the folks that are so set in their ways, that there's not much point in listening.
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