Tucker Carlson called for cameras in classrooms to make sure teachers don't tell kids about CRT

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday called for cameras to be installed in classrooms to monitor for teaching of critical race theory.

The suggestion was a new step in a sustained campaign by Carlson and other conservative figures against critical race theory.

The way the academic discipline, which seeks to analyse systemic racism, is taught is classrooms has become a new front in the culture wars raging between conservatives and progressives.

Link to tweet

On his show, Carlson said: "The overwhelming majority of Americans - and pollsters have found this pretty clearly - think this is insane," Carlson said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tucker-carlson-called-cameras-classrooms-110823182.html

[sinkingfeeling]

1. The GQP really cares about your 'FREEDOM', don't they?

[CurtEastPoint]

2. No, Fucker. The crawl should read 'THE LUNATICS ARE RUNNING THE REPUBE PARTY."

[tblue37]

3. Big Brother is watching.

[Xavier Breath]

8. I hear we've always been at war with Eastasia.

[Hekate]

4. Big Brother is watching you

[Fullduplexxx]

5. To make sure they're not teaching their version if CRT

[tymorial]

6. The Republicans are going to use crt as fear mongering right through the midterms

And beyond if they have to. We can't assume it's just Republicans that are obsessed or even worried about this subject. I was just commenting in another thread, democrats need to do better at responding to questions about crt. Assuming everyone is crazy won't win votes. It's dominating the news and social media all the time. There have been incidents where the optics are unfortunate even if the subject matter taught or discussed isn't anything any reasonable person would view as alarming. Schools threatening lawsuits to parents for information requests (happened here.) Wellesley high-school told students there would be no tolerance for sharing information with outsiders during am assembly that was about ethnicity and race in America. This can't happen. Schools can't hide their curriculum. They can't threaten. The incidents are magnified and enhance the fear mongering to make it look like something is being hid.

Quite frankly, this is being handled horribly. People against view this as attacking their children, for right or wrong. Laugh if you want.

[spanone]

7. How about getting cameras out of fox.

[TheBlackAdder]

9. They already have the Fox & Friends upskirt cam, that Ainsley is trying to block with flowers.

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Now they want pedo cams to skeeze on the younglings.

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[Caliman73]

10. CRT is NOT taught in classrooms

The way the academic discipline, which seeks to analyse systemic racism, is taught is classrooms has become a new front in the culture wars raging between conservatives and progressives.

The quote above is plain and simply false. CRT is a graduate level legal theory. Right wingers have successfully used language once again, to create a false narrative in their "culture war".

When the ACTUAL history of America is taught, it SHOULD include the good things AND the bad things. The bad things are REALLY REALLY bad, like holding an entire group of people as chattel slaves for hundreds of years, then legally preventing them from obtaining the generational wealth that helped other groups to succeed. We also attempted to, and were largely successful, in exterminating Indigenous People for the purpose of taking their lands. That is just what happened. Facts. Yes, people migrated from East to West, they set up towns that grew into the cities we know today. We did a lot of amazing things with technology and have an entire history, but that slavery and taking of Indigenous lands, is a big part of that history and has significant consequences for the descendants of those people, even today.

The above is NOT Critical Race Theory. It is just history, without all of the Whitewashing and Mythology thrown in.

[lame54]

11. But no money for pencils and books

[Initech]

12. Holy crap this is going full 1984 isn't it?

I mean seriously teachers should sue everyone and anyone who's involved if schools start pulling this crap.

[TheRealNorth]

13. CRT is a stand-in...

For anything taught that takes a critical look at what America has done in the past.

Because in the twisted evangelical-GOP mind, Americans are God's chosen people and can do no wrong (unless you are a godless commie-liberal).

[IcyPeas]

14. just last week he was complaining that HIS emails were being monitored by the NSA

now this week he wants cameras in classrooms. I can't keep up with his stupidity.

[TheRealNorth]

16. Good point

When all elected officials consent to having all of their communications recorded/documented (with strict penalties for failure to disclose), then we can talk.

[Midnight Writer]

15. Man pissed government is surveilling him calls for government to surveil other people.

[IcyPeas]

17. exactly. well put.