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When debating someone who favors CRT I also think it's a good idea to be armed with immediate facts to support your position. I'll bring up on my phone facts and articles that support my arguments and if the veracity of what I show them is questioned I then ask them that if they concluded that what I showed them was true, would they be ok with that. If they say yes then I ask them if they believe that ascribing a negative trait to someone based solely on the color of their skin is racist, and then proceed from how they answer that. If we're in disagreement I like to use the line "well reasonable minds can differ" even though I think their position is unreasonable. I also love to show the clip of Bill Maher who while mediating a debate on CRT, stated the following: "If CRT means teaching history unvarnished, I'm for that, if it acknowledges current racism, I'm for that; but if it means making school children fixate on race, I'm not for that, and if it's about "collective guilt" I didn't do anything to your Great Great Great Grandfather, I don't want to be held responsible for that; or if it's about a "toxicity" for being born white or about dividing everybody into oppressor and oppressed groups, I'm not for that." And I then like to ask them what parts of that they agree or disagree with.

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Interesting! Do your conversation partners often stick around for that many questions and that structured of a conversation? (If so, cool!) My political conversations never seem to stick to a particular script; which I enjoy more because it makes the conversation more spontaneous, but it does prevent me from planning out paths the way you seem to.

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