Local School Board Clown

[*michaelsean*]

(04-28-2022, 04:53 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: 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.

So people wanting to go back to the golden age of say unions would be extremists?  That doesn't seem right.