Posted on 08/19/2022 4:48:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law announced the launch of a project that will be dedicated to tracking so-called “attacks” on the far-left concept of Critical Race Theory, allowing users to view a database of any time the concept is criticized at the “local, state and federal levels.”
As reported by Fox News, the university issued a press release celebrating the new initiative, declaring that the “UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies Program has created an innovative project to track and analyze legislative, regulatory, and administrative efforts to block or undermine the teaching of a more complete history of the United States in schools across the country.”
“The project was created to help people understand the breadth of the attacks on the ability to speak truthfully about race and racism through the campaigns against CRT,” said Taifha Natalee Alexander, project director of CRT Forward. The college further justified its efforts by claiming that critics of CRT have used the phrase “incorrectly,” and subsequently tied CRT to the broader teaching of ethnic studies in schools around the country.
CRT Forward said that its researchers compiled the database by scanning over 24,000 media articles dating as far back as August of 2021, and rounding up 479 particular examples of anti-CRT activity and rhetoric. The project concluded that the majority of anti-CRT activity has taken place in three states: Florida, Virginia, and Missouri.
“CRT Forward brings to bear the research capacity and expertise of UCLA’s unique Critical Race Studies Program,” said Noah Zatz, faculty director of UCLA Law’s Critical Race Studies Program. “We need critical race theory to understand this assault on racial justice, where even naming structural racism gets portrayed as unfair to white people. And we need CRT to develop legal theories of education and free speech that not only blunt these attacks but place anti-racism at the center of a democratic society.”
Critical Race Theory is the far-left claim that all White people are automatically racist, and that the United States is an inherently racist nation from its very founding. As such, the theory has attempted to rewrite history by tearing down the accomplishments of the Founding Fathers and other White historical figures, while artificially boosting the role played by African-Americans in the birth of America. Schools that promote the theory have actively encouraged anti-American sentiment, and have also gone out of their way to make White children feel ashamed of their heritage, as well as guilty over past racial injustices for which they were not responsible.
The rise of CRT has subsequently led to massive social, cultural, and political backlash. Republicans have seized on the issue as a major talking point in recent campaigns, which culminated in a massive upset in Virginia’s elections last year, when Republicans swept all three major statewide offices and retook the state legislature, after Governor Glenn Youngkin ran a campaign primarily focused on removing such politicized topics from education.
If peruse job search engines there are lots of postings from different sources for ’fact checkers’
If UCLA spent a tenth of the time actually justifying their actions regarding their administration and curricula vs the time and energy they expend tracking down people and trying to duct-tape their mouths shut, we might have a better understanding of the issues facing us.
Thing is, they know what they are doing, and they know it is wrong, and they know the majority of people whose children attend those institutions would disagree with it.
At least one-half of all college courses and professors are a waste of time and money.
Affirmative Action is a failure and unfair to all.
“legislative, regulatory, and administrative efforts to block or undermine the teaching of a more complete history of the United States in schools across the country.”
Bovine excrement. It is to promote hatred of white people. Nothing more.
States could impact CRT and other critical curricula by stating that critical classes are not a necessary part of credits for a degree. Making them electives would enable the bulk of students to ignore them.
Marxism begat Critical Theory, AKA Cultural Marxism.
Cultural Marxism begat Critical Legal Theory, or Marxist lawfare.
CLT begat Critical Race Theory, or Marxist racism.
CRT is warmed over Marxist dreck, distilled evil that is peddled by wicked douchebags and evil dimwits.
The Communists are creating a centrallized enemies database so they know who to come for. I hope Patriots are compiling their own enemies database.
Critical Race Theory:
The Afro Heritage minority-minority will grow and the Democrat Party will then fail
CRT.
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Now the argument has become:
1. There is no such thing as critical race theory
2. If there is such a thing, we don’t teach it in schools
3. If we did teach it in schools, its because we know best. Moms and dads need to butt out and let the professionals do their jobs.
4. If moms and dads don’t butt out, we will track you in a national database and sic Merrick Garland and his buds in the FBI on you.
Does that sum it up?
Now the argument has become:
1. There is no such thing as critical race theory
2. If there is such a thing, we don’t teach it in schools
3. If we did teach it in schools, its because we know best. Moms and dads need to butt out and let the professionals do their jobs.
4. If moms and dads don’t butt out, we will track you in a national database and sic Merrick Garland and his buds in the FBI on you.
Does that sum it up?
Intimidation and bullying are hallmarks of commie thugs.
It’s time for a voucher system to assist parents with getting out of the commie/union public school system.
UCLA another void obsessed with race the dot always lead to money pot.
“Schools doing this should not receive taxpayer funding.”
Sadly, it’s a First Amendment issue at the Federal level.
But the state could end this easily.
They won’t.
Critical Race Theory is just dressed up racism.
Put me on the list.
They are using AI software developed in Silicon Valley.
Its the same software Obama and Holder are using to attack Conservatives.
Right now it just kicks out a list of possible “events” for review but soon it will scan everything.
This has been in the planning for over 10 years.
It was originally called “Network Neutrality”.
All of the philosophical underpinnings of CRT were developed by white people.
Stick that in their faces; tell them “if white people are intrinsically evil then why is your doctrine based on ideas developed by white people?”
The entertainment value of watching their heads explode would be fun to watch; figure out a way to put it on PPV at $49.95 a pop.
Well, THOSE white people were evil....
Actually, it’s a 10th Amendment issue as there is no enumerated power for the federal to fund education among the States.
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