A high school teacher and two students are suing Arkansas over the state's ban on critical race theory in public schools.

A high school teacher and two students sued Arkansas on Monday over the state’s ban on critical race theory and “indoctrination” in public schools, asking a federal judge to strike down the restrictions as unconstitutional.

The lawsuit by the teacher and students from Little Rock Central High School, site of the historic 1957 racial desegregation crisis, stems from the state’s decision last year that an Advanced Placement course on African American Studies would not count toward state credit.

  • @Viking_Hippie
    0•9 months ago

    That’s a fun idea you have

    Could you possibly be any more condescending?

    but you’re wrong

    I objectively am not, according to the best way of arriving at truth without opinion or faith.

    Who decides what the scientific consensus is?

    Who do you fucking think? You can’t possibly be this ignorant of how science works and what a consensus is and expect to be taken seriously when discussing science.

    Is there some governing body that is accepted as the source of truth on what constitutes “abundantly” peer reviewed proof?

    No, that’s nowhere near what a scientific consensus is. Since you apparently ARE that clueless, allow me to inform you:

    Scientific consensus is the generally held judgment, position, and opinion of the majority or the supermajority of scientists in a particular field of study at any particular time

    In this case, “evolution is how life works” being the almost universally held position of anyone with expert knowledge about biology that isn’t paid by pseudoscientific and usually religious organizations to pretend otherwise.

    Then it’s still subjective.

    Nope. That’s not what that word means. A scientific consensus is the most objective thing there is in human knowledge.

    Since you seem to have trouble with the meaning of key words, let me clarify: objective and subjective are antonyms. Antonyms are words with opposite meaning.

    • @[email protected]
      -1•9 months ago

      Hard not to be condescending in the face of such a childlike understanding of the world. Everything you’re arguing would be true in an ideal world, but that’s not what we have. I mean, have you been living under a rock while the science around climate change has been politicized and manipulated by monied interests?

      I’ll remind you we are talking about the courts, and the autonomy of the States to make their own laws, and not about what makes good science.

      And don’t police my tone while acting like an ass all over this thread, as you lack any moral high ground.

      • @Viking_Hippie
        1•9 months ago

        I’ll remind you we are talking about the courts

        Ah, now I see the problem. I’m talking about what makes sense while you’re talking about what a broken legal system wrongly thinks make sense.

        the science around climate change has been politicized and manipulated by monied interests?

        Corrupt people trying to deny the science doesn’t change the science. That’s why I alluded to the very few scientists not being part of the overwhelming consensus being paid for lying.

        autonomy of the States to make their own laws

        Yeah, because “state’s rights” have always been an argument used for good laws… 🙄

        and not about what makes good science.

        Call me old-fashioned, but I am of the opinion that science education should be about good science, not the ideological opinions of demagogues without so much as a relevant degree.

        Hard not to be condescending in the face of such

        Right back at you. You’d give Dunning and Kruger daily aneurysms if you had been a part of their famous study.