• Elle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    the better choice is full scale education reform, addressing systemic racism, an understanding of how privilege affects educational outcomes,

    This would likely help, which is why if I’m not mistaken conservatives in the U.S. are opposed to it by lambasting it as “woke Critical Race Theory”. A significant part of the wealthy, and career political class views systemic racism and privilege as foundational, protected rights for which the nation was established to maintain.

    That is, of course, contrary to the fact that those elements were only preserved as a result of compromise so that the nation could exist at all, and not because they necessarily wanted to preserve them, give or take those founding politicians involved.