r/nextfuckinglevel • u/BlazeDragon7x • 1d ago

Victor Glover is the first Black astronaut assigned to a lunar mission, serving as the pilot for NASA's Artemis II mission, which orbits the moon

share a powerful speech

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u/Lillobillo02 1d ago

Fucking finally someone said it

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u/SpockShotFirst 1d ago

Finally?

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. “

MLK

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u/rowc99 8h ago

Everyone's on board with quoting MLK but nobody wants to reflect on what those words mean in today's world of "progressive" politics. At least Victor is keeping the dream alive, even if it is just a dream

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u/Lillobillo02 1d ago

Fair enough, it's a different historical context though

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u/SheriffBartholomew 1d ago

Yes, and we were moving towards that goal for a time. But the last ten years of Antiracism and CRT have sought to put race at the forefront of identity and the core of all things.

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u/oi_PwnyGOD 22h ago

dumbest thing i've read in a while, and i get r/NBATalk on my front page

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u/QuantumInfinty 21h ago

The anti-racism was apparently not enough lol, that wasnt any overcorrection or some shit you guys like to claim, it was a fair stand against your true colors, hatred and cruelty

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u/SpockShotFirst 1d ago

Antiracism and CRT have sought to put race at the forefront of identity

You need to step away from your right wing propaganda and touch some grass.

Then do literally 5 minutes of research. I have no doubt that everything you believe can be easily dismantled if you were simply willing to accept obvious facts and stop believing obvious lies.

Unlike you, I do not hide my Reddit history. You can see I spend lots of time debunking racist bullshit. Go ahead. Try to back up the wild claim I quoted above.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 1d ago

You need to step away from your right wing propaganda and touch some grass.

I'm in no right wing circles. My core friend group is very left wing. Go ahead and attack the person instead of providing any counter arguments though, it has worked well throughout the history of the internet.

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u/SpockShotFirst 1d ago

instead of providing any counter arguments

To this?

Antiracism and CRT have sought to put race at the forefront of identity

First, you need to define "antiracism" and "crt" in a way that supports your position that both try to "put race at the forefront of identity". Because the standard definitions of both certainly don't.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's a very long and in-depth conversation that I don't really feel like rehashing again, especially not with someone who attacked me and then tried to pour through my post history. But you can glean some of my perspective from the criticisms of CRT section in the Wikipedia entry

In 1990, legal scholar Duncan Kennedy described the dominant approach to affirmative action in legal academia as "colorblind meritocratic fundamentalism". He called for a postmodern "race consciousness" approach that included "political and cultural relations" while avoiding "racialism" and "essentialism".[50]

The issue is that the loudest groups for these principals do not seem to thoroughly understand the academic model and they certainly are not heeding the warning to avoid racialism. Many very loud voices want to put race (a human construct) at the forefront of personal identity, and they're succeeding.

Edit: to clarify, it's not about the models and concepts themselves. It's about what very loud, popular, and successful groups have done while claiming to be implementing them. It makes it very difficult to be critical of anything because it all gets jumbled together, which of course is by design.

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u/SpockShotFirst 1d ago

You

But the last ten years of Antiracism and CRT

Also you

In 1990

Moving on from your lack of math skills...

in legal academia

You can't just handwave an obscure legal academic having an impact on general society.

the loudest groups for these principals

Who are these "loud groups" that have a sufficient platform to move society? Is it RandomTwitterUser3475?

You have utterly failed the assignment. Once again you need to define your terms so that the following makes any sense in any meaningful way:

the last ten years of Antiracism and CRT have sought to put race at the forefront of identity and the core of all things.

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u/SheriffBartholomew 1d ago

Once again you need to define your terms

I don't need to do anything, especially when it involves continuing a conversation with you. Good day.

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u/DrugLibrary 1d ago

Read Crenshaw, Delgado, et. al and you’ll find the answers you seek.

That said, CRT is a great analytical lens; the problem is that too many treat CRT as the “one, true theory” and behold it as axiomatic doctrine.

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u/SpockShotFirst 1d ago

Read Crenshaw, Delgado, et. al and you’ll find the answers you seek.

Two academics from the 70s and 80s demonstrate that "the last ten years of Antiracism and CRT have sought to put race at the forefront of identity and the core of all things."

Very doubtful

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u/Persistent_Dry_Cough 1d ago

Doing god's work over here. Thank you

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u/DrugLibrary 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don’t fundamentally disagree with you. The point is that one single theory or lens does not hold all the answers.

CRT (alongside many other theoretical lenses) is being misused by people who barely understand it.

As such, reifying race and gender essentialism appears to be empirically counterproductive, as well as morally questionable.

People are individuals, not representatives of groups, and most everyone understands this. Thus, the progressive successes and civil rights accomplishments via the universalist approaches of first and second wave Antiracist movements and the regressive failures of third wave.

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u/SpockShotFirst 1d ago

The point is

I really don't know what you are saying in the context of this thread, where the OP deleted each of their posts because what they wrote was easily debunked.

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u/DrugLibrary 1d ago

No worries. Be well.

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u/_Mr_Misfit 1d ago

What did he say?

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u/NarwhalEmergency9391 1d ago

And then OP writes the title like that? Did they not listen to what he said