Posted on 01/15/2022 7:16:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Since before the Virginia election, I’ve been skeptical of Republican Glenn Youngkin. I supported him against Democrat Terry McAwful, of course, but I never considered him to be a constitutional conservative which we desperately need in America right now.
It’s for this reason that I was skeptical about posting an article regarding his flurry of executive orders after officially taking office today. While the vast majority in conservative media claimed that he had “banned” Critical Race Theory, I wasn’t going to write my own article about it until I read the actual executive orders. Thankfully, I didn’t have to do that yet. Anti-CRT activist Dr. Karlyn Borysenko did it for me and revealed what I feared. According to her Substack article:
Here’s the problem: Youngkin banned the teaching of “divisive concepts,” defining “divisive” as anything that violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Except that the vast majority of the time that critical race theory is taught in the classroom, they are not teaching it in a way that violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They are teaching it based on the concept that America is a country founded on racism – they focus on the racism of the system, not of individuals.
It’s easy to understand why conservatives might believe this is enough to be effective. After all, Fox News constantly runs stories on the “anti-white” nature of critical race theory and there are absolutely instances of overtly discriminatory practices taking place in public schools that make for great clickbait fodder. But the fact is that what you hear on Fox News is only one small part of what the truth is.
I know this because I’ve spent thousands of hours watching how critical race theory is taught in the real world. I’ve seen the curriculum. I’ve seen the teacher trainings. Every week on Fridays on my second YouTube channel, we watch how CRT is actually taught and it’s rarely taught in the way that shows up in conservative media. It’s much worse than you think.
The problem between perception and reality that we are dealing with is that most teachers who are teaching critical race theory are much more subtle in their approach. They aren’t teaching that white people are bad – they’re teaching that America is a fundamentally racist country and therefore the entire system needs to be overhauled.
This is not something that is banned by Youngkin’s executive order.
I will read the executive orders myself over the weekend, but I trust Dr. Borysenko’s assessment. The last time we spoke was after she exposed the wokeness at Coca-Cola, and while we do not always agree politically or culturally, I have the utmost respect for her perspectives and I defer to her judgment on Critical Race Theory legislation.
I’ll be watching Youngkin very closely. RINOs tend to seem conservative until actual conservatives dig a bit deeper. If he’s legitimate, I’ll happily say I am wrong about him. But this first “CRT ban” isn’t as impressive as some are saying.
Time will tell. So far, he’s totally pissed off the Left, so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt...for now.
“Time will tell. So far, he’s totally pissed off the Left, so I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt...for now.”
To quote President Reagan, Trust but VERIFY!!! Never, ever give the benefit of the doubt. It is completely upon ALL politicians to PROVE their commitment to OUR Constitution and the VALUES of our Founding Fathers. Period.
To date, the only current man to come close to this ideal is President Donald J. Trump. It is this fact that has nearly ALL of the political establishment hellbound of destroying him.
They could care less about YOU and ME. They only care about themselves and what they can gain from the corrupt political system. Period.
Now you’ve done it - the RINO trolls are gonna be pissed.
Ban “critical race theory” and it will be back with a new name.
Ban anti-white race hatred of any kind.
How would you write an executive order that would ban it?
That is the problem. If we call it CRT the lefties just say they aren’t teaching CRT and give it another name.
"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin."
The essential feature of CRT is that it rejects the idea of "colorblindness". I think it is strategically brilliant for Youngkin to highlight that CRT and the Civil Rights Act are in direct conflict.
For proof of my description of CRT read Kimberly Crenshaw's "Twenty Years of Critical Race Theory: Looking Back To Move Forward".
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3869&context=faculty_scholarship
Here are some of her citations and her descriptions of those citations. See which of these points of view is consistent with colorblind application of the law under the Civil Rights ACt:
Ian F. Haney Lopez, Is the "Post" in Post-Racial the "Blind" in Colorblind?, 32 CARDOZO L. REv. 807 (2011) (examining the rhetorical appeal of "colorblindness" to liberals and the shift from a progressive demand for colorblindness to a reactionary one).
Stephanie Condon, Are Liberals Too Concerned With Being "Colorblind"?, CBS NEWS, July 22, 2010 (noting that liberals' concern with colorblindness has resulted in them "ceding the debate to the right").
Christopher Edley, Jr., The Boycott at Harvard: Should Teaching Be Colorblind?, WASH. POST, Aug. 18, 1982, at A23 ("Race remains a useful proxy for a whole collection of experiences, aspirations and sensitivities" and thus "for some subjects, the courses will probably be different, and certainly be perceived as being different, when taught by a white rather than a black.")
Morris Freedman, Black Students and Black Teachers at Harvard Law, WALL ST. J. (Midwest Ed.), Aug. 31, 1982, at 22 (arguing that "it might precisely be argued that only certain persons can properly teach certain subjects at certain times and places" and concluding that "[a]s all of us may allow ourselves to be taught about the nature of minority or obscured cultures from the inside of these cultures . . . I think we must yield to the Harvard black students their point to be taught certain things, at least at this time, by someone who has lived his way into that knowledge.").
"All together, these themes established the parameters of the conflict between liberal notions of discrimination, framed around bias and colorblindness, and an emerging sensibility that comprehended such problems in terms of institutionalized racial power."
Here she mocks the "reactionary" view of quotas at Harvard: Colorblind merit was thus presumptively race neutral, and it was the students' demand for a specific share of the teaching positions at Harvard that was framed as discriminatory.
Specifically, the Dean's decision and the narrowed parameters in which the ensuing controversy was framed helped to sharpen awareness of how conceptions such as colorblind merit operated to obscure the continuing patterns of racial power in presumptively race neutral institutions.
In total there are 98 instances of the words "colorblind" or "colorblindness" in Crenshaw's history of Critical Race Theory and every one of the 98 instances it is a negative reference.
I've got reservations of Youngkin too. Being a member of the Carlyle Group isn't impressive to me. But he's still 1000x better than McAwful.
This is the same clown blog that was lying about Youngkin earlier. It’s the same kind of stuff that appeals to the meth heads in the trailer parks who don’t understand why their version of “conservative” can’t ever win at the polls.
This is the same clown blog that was lying about Youngkin earlier. It’s the same kind of stuff that appeals to the meth heads in the trailer parks who don’t understand why their version of “conservative” can’t ever win at the polls.
I totally disagree with you...
The left's response is just propaganda rope-a-dope...
So far, Youngkin is looking like a Bushite and bears careful watching...
It's less than 50-50 that he will turn out otherwise, IMHO...
VA will not be getting the enema it needs to squelch the effects of prior communist rule...
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Sod Off. The people that wrote this crap wanted Warner and said nil about blackface G instead of Youngkin. He is off to a good start in my book.
Thank you Gov.
Good first day. Let’s roll.
“Ban “critical race theory” and it will be back with a new name.
Ban anti-white race hatred of any kind.”
Like Acorn theory.
I am against banning ideas. The way to combat bad ideas is with better ideas.
Label CRT : The Big Get Even for Race Hustlers
Cut off Funding for instruction. Have you seen the contracts for the Race Hustlers? That’s the key
Maybe.
Time will tell. I will give the dude a chance. Happy to have him as a governer instead of the other shill.
I thought bushits would dance around and promise stuff instead of delivering.
A d p÷pe
You have no idea how happy I am to tell my daughter she don’t have to wear a mask in school.
Executive Order Number One delivers on his Day One promise to restore excellence in education by ending the use of divisive concepts, including Critical Race Theory, in public education.
The problem is viewing any history through the lens of critical theory. Communists use it to teach oppressor vs oppressed revolution. That is the fundamental problem
Teach our history all of it warts and all. Teach it so we look like the unique God blessed country we are
FFS give the man some time!
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