Posted on 07/05/2021 4:51:48 AM PDT by Kaslin
Virginia’s current battle over critical race theory in schools exemplifies the cultural war now raging. Critical race theory is a subset of “wokeism,” or woke culture. This movement seeks to permanently divide our country.
The eyes of the nation are focused on these school board proceedings. Parents in Virginia’s Loudoun County school district are at the forefront of this battle for America’s soul. If the woke movement prevails, the future of the American republic is questionable.
Upon exiting the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of government had been created. His answer: "A republic, if we can keep it." Historically, the life span of most republics is short – usually less than two centuries.
We commonly refer to America as a democracy, but it is not. A pure democracy means that the majority rule controls and the rights of minorities are disregarded. Equality in a democracy is defined by the majority. If a majority says that red-headed, blue-eyed males are subhuman, then they are so regarded under the law. America is a constitutional republic – not a democracy – with checks and balances that protect individuals and minorities against a tyranny of the majority.
The American Constitution brilliantly balances the rights of individuals with the need for an effective government. The Bill of Rights codifies our inalienable rights. The First Amendment’s specified rights of freedom of religion, speech, press, peaceful assembly and freedom to petition one’s representatives for a redress of grievances define American-ordered liberty.
The Declaration of Independence, the foundation of our Constitution, declares all human beings are created with unalienable rights. At the heart of our republic is the value of each individual created with unalienable rights coming from God – not government.
Yes, our republic has experienced serious flaws, slavery being the most grievous. The Preamble to our Constitution proclaims America was established to achieve “a more perfect union.” Our nation is not perfect (and never will be), but we continually strive for perfection. Our Constitution contains the means to correct injustices. The abolition of slavery and the establishment of the right for women to vote are only two examples of ongoing pursuits for perfection.
We are on the verge of losing our republic to a mob that wants to obliterate the rights of those who disagree with its politically correct ethos. “Wokeism” is the worldview of this mob. This “enlightened” view sees America as racist, dividing us into two classes – the oppressors and the oppressed.
These classes are determined by race. If one is white, then no matter what that person thinks about others, he is an oppressor and a racist. Likewise, if one is black, no matter how successful he has become, he is a victim of systematic racism. This is the foundation of critical race theory and what is being protested by parents in Loudoun County.
Woke culture requires the abolition of traditional gender, proclaiming that gender is a subjective, self-determined aspect of one’s individuality. All who disagree are ridiculed and denounced as bigots. Some are punished with the loss of their careers. Others are shamed into silence.
“Wokeism” and critical race theory promotes class warfare. It does not build and improve but divides and destroys. It seeks to eliminate individual thinking, replacing it with collectivist thought and group thinking.
The woke movement sees freedom of individual thought and speech as unimportant. The thoughts of individuals are to be controlled by the woke elite, which believes it is morally superior and must impose such thinking on others.
Woke culture claims that traditions must be canceled and replaced with a new “enlightened” view of humanity. If one disagrees, then they must be reeducated in actions such as those taken by the Loudoun County School Board. If such efforts fail, dissenters must be humiliated and ostracized.
In the new woke world order, reeducation programs will eventually be mandated to reform the perceived bigoted way of traditional thinking. Those who cannot be reformed will be removed. History has gone down this road before in Hitler’s death camps, the Gulags of Stalinist Russia and the extermination camps of Mao. At this point, the death of the American Republic will have become complete.
Which of these powerful forces will win? The battle in Loudon County is the opening salvo in a conflict that will determine the future of our great constitutional republic. We all must now comprehend the wise statement of Benjamin Franklin because our future depends upon it. Will we keep our republic?
CRT is getting crushed in red states. The deep blue states are fast going to hell anyway. CRT is merely one in a very long list of calamities (like high murder rates, high crime rates, lawlessness etc etc) that the blue states like California, New York, Oregon etc are facing. The blue states are doomed.
It’s a culture war because we’re being attacked.
CRT is just one attempt to destroy Western civilization because oligarchs want to create a world that normal Americans would never accept.
Battle Over Critical Race Theory Will Determine the Future of the American Republic...
Disagree. The problem isn’t CRT, the problem is the idiots that dream this shxt up. You defeat CRT and they’ll just dream up another lie to force feed the brain dead.
We need to eliminate the source.
Amen..... name names.
Eliminate the names
Eliminate the problem
>>CRT is getting crushed in red states. The deep blue states are fast going to hell anyway.<<
Problem is, folks can travel whenever and where ever they like. CRT being taught to youngins in blue states, they grow up and leave blue states for red states seeking better economic conditions...then vote in red state elections as if they’re in blue states, thus turning red states purple, then blue.
Isn’t it time to come to the realization that the country is too divided to come back together? I want a divorce.
Let the leftist, socialists, communists, globalists have the left coast and Northeast. I vote Texas secession.
Agreed. CRT is only a symptom (and a pretty minor one) of what is wrong.
The future of the American Republic was determined when we stopped being a Christian nation. Every other ill flows from that.
The future of the American Republic was already determined on Jan 6, 2021.
The idea of slavery being a black mark on American history was long ago resolved with the deaths of 600,000 Americans during the Civil War.
Those who want to ignore reality and claim America is irredeemably racist forever should immediately leave the country and leave room for the millions of black and brown people risking their lives RIGHT NOW to arrive in the USA.
White people cannot revoke their “whiteness” so blacks angry about it must leave the country to escape what they see as intolerable.
“White people cannot revoke their “whiteness” so blacks angry about it must leave the country to escape what they see as intolerable.”
Very few blacks leave the US, particularly to settle in Africa.
Many blacks in Africa and the Caribbean region are moving to the United States. As of 2019 10% of the black population in the United States was foreign born.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/facts-about-the-us-black-population/
Communist Race Theory, let’s use the correct name.
It is deeper than simply CRT.
CRT replaces class warfare with division by race into oppresses vs privilege.
It is the same Marxist tool.
Climate change was intended to accomplish this purpose, but the world resisted. It hasn’t gone away.
The use of the common enemy - covid - was released, hyped, and used to destroy capitalism via lockdowns.
To welcome Marxism, you must make capitalism fail.
It also allowed the compromised governments to claim and exert unprecedented control over populations, compromising and eliminating freedom and natural rights.
It was quickly followed by calls for world government and world taxation and wealth taxes to fight the common enemy.
If the US falls, it’s over. Every other English speaking nation is now controlled by the marxists.
War drums are beating against China and Russia to distract us from the plan.
Pray for defeat of our enemies and a rebirth and renewal of our founding.
I believe the Marxist movement will fail within 2 years… but the damage will be immense around the world.
And there is a large possibility the US will split.
We left the Constitution behind when ALL of our elected AND appointed abrogated the Constitution by swearing in the ineligible, non-natural born citizen, Kenyan from Indonesia.
Agreed, he set about from day one to change and remake America as a slave state fit for destruction. He hated the police and the military and destroyed both. Why, America?
I agree with you. The same people will put the same stuff into the curriculum under different names.
“Personnel is policy”.
The problem is not CRT. The true problem is all those teacher who hate “whiteness”.
>>CRT replaces class warfare with division by race into oppresses vs privilege.<<
In classic Marxism, your class is something you are stuck in. Marxism does not contemplate people moving from working class to capitalist by starting their own businesses.
Classic Marxism doesn’t appeal to people in the US because people can see themselves, or their kids, moving up the class hierarchy if the work hard enough and smart enough.
Consequently, the takeover of education to promote critical race theory.
The world is now divided into oppressors and oppressed.
BLM, CRT, White Privilege. All believed by the younger generation.
The problem is not CRT. The true problem is all those teacher who hate “whiteness”....
And the majority of them are white.
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