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My first reaction was it can't be real, but then I remembered going to school for teaching, student teaching, teaching for a year, running away from teaching (largely because of things like this) and never looking back, going to an ivy for a graduate degree as a result to help get another job, and then seeing how even more insane things could get (where they were openly teaching critical theory and CRT, by name, proudly, before it became so controversial.
This is how I know they're gaslighting when they say it's not taught in schools. It is. Openly. And before it got called out and popular, they were not even hiding it and openly spoke of it, And went into all the history. Barraged us with every possible reading from the likes of Foucault, Marcuse, Gramsci, Horkeimer, etc etc., all the way to those like Kimberlé Crenshaw, Judith Butler, etc etc. It was nuts. Genuine, grade A propaganda and brainwashing. And then THEY go on to teach the same, or apply it to other subjects they teach, and will argue to their death and laugh in your face that they DEFINITELY AREN"T brainwashing and indoctrinating their students. They'd know, it's their classroom. And saddest part is... they believe it, because that's how brainwashing and propaganda works. They aren't self-aware and don't realize they themselves have been indoctrinated, so they go on to teach what they think is simply normal, factual information, when it is, in fact, critical theory [which by definition is meant to critique Western institutions, culture, and norms, and essentially destroy them through infiltration. "Long march through the institutions," the "new left" etc etc] and intersectional woke b s).
Ugh, apologies for this much text, but I went through too much, learned to speak their "language" and this stuff* just frustrates me so bad, especially the gaslighting and claiming it's not even real, "just a legal theory," (bad faith argument that they know is a b s* false-premise), and not taught to our children. It is and blip* them for all their b s*, whether they believe it themselves {ignorance}, or know what they're doing {evil, with intent}
edit - but a lot is kept veiled even to grad students. For instance, I took a class on international law. The professor assigned us a book called "Empire" by Hardt and Negri, but didn't give us much context other than "it covers the main topic/used as the textbook" (but we were never told that both authors were open Marxists, criminals arrested for violence, and genuine, Grade-A commie revolutionaries. I had to find that info by doing my own due diligence), but we WERE told that the professor "wanted to assign a book with the same title instead, by Nial Ferguson, but the dept head told [her] she couldn't because it 'was too controversial, as the author is a British conservative historian], even though [the professor] found it to be a more neutral, consensus view of the subject matter." In other words, we were assigned a book by commie criminals, because the department head found THAT to be perfectly fine, but a book written by one of the most esteemed [and non-controversial] historians to be too "controversial" even though it wasn't at all and offered a far more accurate and neutral perspective, as even admitted by the prof.
