Posted on 06/21/2021 5:56:26 AM PDT by blam
Stories across Illinois and most of America now report furious parents standing up against what’s bundled under the term “Critical Race Theory,” or CRT, widely taught in K-12 schools.
Those who know what CRT is don’t like it. A new Economist/YouGov poll found opposition beating support by 58% to 38%. And opponents feel strongly. Those with “very unfavorable” views of CRT outnumber those with “very favorable” views” by 53% to 25%. Opposition is even more intense when specific tenets of CRT are polled.
What is CRT? Why the intense opposition? Does only the “right wing” oppose its teachings, as Gov. JB Pritzker claimed on Wednesday?
Call it “antiracism,” “culturally responsive teaching,” “equity” or “wokeness” if you want; dissecting the differences would be quibbling. Here are the specific teachings they have mostly in common that are generating the rage:
• Individuals are forever defined by race, not character. CRT expressly rejects notions of color blindness and the melting pot.
• America is systemically racist and all whites are racists or at least implicitly biased.
• The Constitution and the American system of government were designed to perpetuate slavery and oppression.
• Equality of opportunity means nothing; only equality of results matters.
• Individuals are either oppressors or victims; there’s nothing in between.
• America’s true history is told by “The 1619 Project,” which holds that America’s real birth date was 1619 when the first slaves arrived, and that it is “out of slavery – and the anti‐black racism it required” – that “nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional” grew.
• Capitalism is evil. “In order to truly be antiracist, you also have to truly be anticapitalist,” says Ibram X. Kendi, a leading CRT proponent.
That’s probably enough to insult the core values and common sense of most Americans, but three overarching themes in CRT add to the fury.
First it’s taught as incontrovertible truth. “This is not teaching about critical race theory; it is teaching in critical race theory,” an important distinction Andrew Sullivan describes in a superb, new article.
“And this is why — crucially — it will suppress any other way of seeing the world — because any other way, by definition, is merely perpetuating oppression,” Sullivan wrote. “As Kendi constantly reminds us, it is either/or. An antiracist cannot exist with a liberalism that perpetuates racism. And it’s always the liberalism that has to go.”
Second, it is Marxist in its roots and a broad assault on most everything about classical liberalism. “Critical race theorists attack the very foundations of the liberal legal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law,” says a detailed look at CRT’s origins.
Third, there’s little hope for rational debate with CRT supporters. Their standard claim is that opposition means refusal to recognize racism and the history of slavery. There would be no controversy if that were true, and the polls demolish claims like Pritzker’s that only the “right wing” is opposed, or “ultra-conservatives” as NBC and many others have claimed.
The Illinois State Board of Education was particularly deceitful in defending its “culturally responsive” teaching standards. “The standards do not impact teachers licensure or evaluation,” it wrote, yet that’s precisely the object of its new rule. And its standards aren’t about curriculum, ISBE falsely claimed.
The national press, as you’d expect, suppresses opinion opposed to CRT. Take a look at the ever-growing compendium of black scholars and activists who hold different views, compiled at FreeBlackThought.com. They are dead to the world as most of the MSM sees things.
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Illinois is where the first skirmish occurred in a school in what is now a national battle. Four years ago, a rather small group of parents objected to the narrow, radical curriculum of New Trier High School’s “Seminar Day” on race – “Racial Indoctrination Day,” as the Wall Street Journal called it. That was before terms like “woke” became a thing and before Critical Race Theory became the commonly used label, but the issues were largely the same as today: Dissenting parents objected to what they saw as authoritarianism in the school’s exclusion of alternate viewpoints.
The parents lost. New Trier refused to include those alternate viewpoints.
They lost, in part, because many angry parents were afraid to speak up. They feared retribution from those who labeled all critics as racists.
But national coverage of that story and more alarming ones ensued. Having seen the reality of what CRT means to classrooms, its critics are now the majority.
Gone is any excuse for silence. CRT is in our schools due only to a loud and aggressive minority concentrated in today’s political, educational and media establishments. It will be driven into the obscurity it deserves if the majority continues to speak up.
Abolish teachers unions.
Because it’s wrong, and the purpose of teaching it is to beat Whitey down into submission so he willingly accepts whatever a corrupt government forces him to do.
<< Opposition is even more intense when specific tenets of CRT are polled. >>
Yes, because most people still don’t know what it is because the MSM doesn’t report the truth.
Because CRT is inherently racist, and most Americans aren’t.
This new group of Marxists are far smarter - using "race" to build worldwide support for the Marxist movement that has absolutely nothing to do with race. And right now, with the democrat party, media, Hollywood, academia and especially local activist groups, they're winning -
“with the democrat party, media, Hollywood, academia and especially local activist groups, they’re winning -”
Yes, but... Consider the amount of resources they needed to leverage in order to achieve that ‘win’. They wont long be able to maintain that alliance as people awaken from their wokeness. Their opposition has already learned how to defeat their strategy. This is what brought us Donald J Trump. In order to effect his political assassination they had to break their system. Literally it burst at the seams. They’re not going to be able to hide their mendacity again. They won the battle, but the can’t ultimately win the war. The new national socialists workers party is much more fragile than it appears.
Americans overwhelmingly rejected fag “marriage” and now we have rainbow flags flying over our embassies. Americans can reject whatever they want but when oligarchs demand it they will end up accepting and eventually say they always wanted it.
CRT is important to oligarchs because they need to destroy western civilization (and by extension White people) to make it easy to force the population to live a lifestyle that no American would have accepted a few decades ago (Ex: eating bugs, living in pods etc)
How does any of this nonsense explain the overwhelming crime rate by young black males? It doesn’t.
Actually, if you drill down, we can find that public school education can be held largely responsible for failing Black youths which influences Black crime. Blacks should ditch the Dem party and support any and all candidates who push public school reform, choice, competition, vouchers etc. So from that respect, Black voters can blame themselves.
They reject it because they’re racists! Burn ‘em!
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Because is is racist.
“America’s real birth date was 1619 when the first slaves arrived”
The United States of America, was born on July 4, 1776 by the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and the subsequent war to achieve independence.
Some can conceive that something was born in 1619 but it wasn’t the United States of America.
Someday, you would think, someone in the media is going step up to the mic and start telling the truth.. That's when we'll see a sudden rash of suicides and massive family disasters in what they like call the "major" news media..
Then we will realize why these seemingly red blooded Americans stood on the stage and lied like dogs all those years...
Blackmail, bribes and threats of physical violence is how the left (commies) does it's business. How else can such a small group of extremest cause so much chaos.??
Because it is punitive and the furthest you can get from being ‘unifying’.
Not to mention built largely on half truths and incredibly myopic
It is racist. It is as simple as that.
>> Abolish teachers unions.
And woke CEOs
Yup — definitively anti-American
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