04-28-2022, 04:53 PM
(04-28-2022, 04:47 PM)basballguy Wrote: But now you're using your own definition of extremism. If you want to do that, fine. I'll just make a mental note and move on.
I'm actually not using my own definition of extremism. I'm using a generally accepted definition of the term in political science. Political extremism is movement based on moving a policy/program/society/whatever to an imagined (not the same as imaginary) past or "golden age," per se.
The current anti-CRT movement is a backlash to the idea that we should be cognizant of the role race played in our history to better understand it, which is all that CRT is. Same for many of the social movements there is a trend against. The movements against CRT and other efforts for social progress are aimed at returning society to a time when those things weren't acknowledged.
Abstinence-only education is based on returning society to an imagined time of morality and chastity when it comes to sex.
Those are politically extremist positions based on the way the term is defined in the social sciences.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
