Posted on 07/12/2021 6:08:02 AM PDT by Starman417
The battle over critical race theory – at its core, a “different” way of looking at race relations in the U.S. – continues to heat up. As a community organizer on the ground in a very divided Orange County, I am front and center witnessing top-down efforts to implement and fund Critical Race Theory curriculum into our local schools. I am also of Asian descent – and stand leading the charge for pushback from those who see CRT for what it really is.
Critical Race Theory is, in a word, racist. While supposedly honoring the minority experience, it is condescending and hateful towards the dominant culture experience, calling anything “white” racist, ugly and guilty. Anyone who conforms is “white adjacent” and therefore also guilty. The entire premise of CRT is rooted in disdain and rejection. That doesn’t mean that many of the bigger and finer points concerning race are not worth exploring. That doesn’t mean that minorities don’t have a different and often alienated experience in every facet of American life. Validation would be obviously preferable in a perfect world. Still, I believe that approaching race as the overriding issue and a CRT curriculum fundamentally rooted in division and victim mentality ultimately offers no positive way forward.
When CRT was developing in legal circles in the 1970s, the idea was that certain groups — like Asians, in particular — were so foreign that the dominant white culture with all its assumptions would be doubly difficult for an Asian person to understand. Simple example: a math test might reference a NASCAR race, asking students to compare the speeds and arrival times of two vehicles. Now, for an Asian student who was never exposed to NASCAR, this would be completely foreign background and possibly add some extra mental stress to solving that math/word problem. Still… I myself managed to excel in math. Many others of every race and background did and continue to do so. As Lindsay Lohan said in the movie Mean Girls, “I like math because it’s the same in every country.”
Why are we removing a necessary part of the learning experience — the struggle — and shielding our students from the uncomfortable growing pains and feelings that come along with it? Ultimately, minority students will suffer more by remaining in their own box. I speak as someone who understands the feelings of being an outsider all too well. If I had wallowed in those feelings, I would be a useless human being, unproductive and bitter, and would not have achieved much in life.
CRT is particularly galling to Asians, the so-called “Model Minority.” Its tenets are doubly racist — first stripping us of “minority” status because of our success and successful integration into the American fabric of business owners, home buyers, and the scientific and academic professions (and making inroads into every other field!) More insidiously, CRT limits the major vehicle for upward mobility in our communities: academic success. These days, California Department of Education is considering removing Honors and Advanced Placement Math in high schools. Destroying meritocracy: How, exactly, will that benefit our society?
Progressives bemoan the lack of diversity in higher education. Funny, that – Asian-American students – who make up 1/11th of K-12 students in California, take up 1/3 of UC university spots. There is plenty of backlash about that – and the UC system is on track to follow in the footsteps of America’s finest private universities. Harvard has effectively capped Asian-American admissions to 20 percent – a policy ruled acceptable by a federal judge last fall.
The focus in our schools needs to go back to the individual, not subgroup solidarity.
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That is being fixed as we speak.
>>Destroying meritocracy: How, exactly, will that benefit our society?<<
It will let leftists sleep the sleep of the righteous knowing that by removing critical distinctions of performance they remove discrimination.
It is hyper virtue signaling.
In the meantime countries that do not suffer from the disease of social justice warriors will advance while the USA sinks into idiocracy.
As angry as whites have reason to be about "BLM" and affirmative action Asians have even more reason to be angry.
Recently the Boston Public School system announced that they were doing away with the entrance exam at its elite Boston Latin High School. The reason? Yes,you guessed it...Asians made up too large a percentage of the enrollees.
Math is being dumbed down incredibly b/c White Supremacists can't understand it, and therefore can't compete with Asians who do.
How do Asians feel about math being dumbed down for White Supremacists?
critical racist theory
Let’s call it what it is, Communist Race Theory
CRT is bogus. It is nonsensical drivel and should be received the same.
SPLC Funds CRT in Schools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFkTG_zaUA
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