MG,
The American Thinker article makes several claims about critical race theory but without a single citation. It fails to provide an actual, specific, real-world example of what is allegedly being taught in a real school.
Marcus beat me to it, but the AT article makes broad and absurd claims like this:
Even at prestigious private schools, the principles of physics, such as Newton's Laws, are being canceled or renamed
Doesn't that strike you as an extraordinary claim that needs some backing up? Are you really this gullible? Please show me where a real school "cancelled" the laws of physics for not being PC, and as part of executing critical race theory. You can't because it never happened, and it's not going to happen -- the claim is absurd on its face.
I'm sorry, but you're a fool. An utter fool. A completely gullible rube for believing this trash without a shred of skepticism. It's quite insulting to me personally that you think such a garbage dump of hyperventilating might influence me.
I'm not saying that I like critical race theory, I actually don't know much about it. I know a little about critical theory and it's not my cup of tea, but I do see the appeal of critical theory and postmodernism in the context of sociology and social commentary.
I clicked on the middle link from the Federalist, and it's from 2016. Another right-wing rag lifting its material from yet another right-wing rag, which in turn has zero source documentation. It would take other sources not provided by you to see that Valeria Silva (allegedly) hired Pacific Education to come up with a new discipline program, which (allegedly) draws upon critical race theory. Even if this is true, we need to distinguish between critical race theory influencing the administration of schools, and critical race theory being taught in the classroom. The original outrage was over critical race theory being taught in Utah schools, which obviously isn't happening -- or at least, MG has failed to cite any evidence that it is happening. From the failed Utah claim, we've gone to critical race theory being taught outside of Utah, to it being taught in California -- several years from now.
And now we're ditching critical race theory being taught anywhere, and looking at how critical race theory is affecting school administrators, or at least we're setting up a scene where critical race theory is being associated with other failed policies constructed to help minorities. If there is a diabolical connection between critical race theory and failing equity programs, it's a slog to figure that out because most of the material is provided by right-wing outrage mags that are low on source material and high on invective. The silva incident would warrant some investigation, but there appears to be at least as much of a case that the failures in St. Paul are linked to Silva running her own game without enough support from the teachers themselves; not that the battle plan was inherently faulty. Perhaps the battle plan was faulty, but quick Google searches aren't turning much up to help.
I'm not ambitious enough to drop 36$ on this, but I'm thinking the best chance of connecting critical race theory to public education policy will be found in this book:
https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/courage ... book276278
I think with MG's level of outrage and intense interest, and being "woken up" as a "sleeping giant" -- the right-wing version of woke, that he should drop 36$ on this book and read it. Read about the battle plan from the horses mouth, rather than taking the word of right-wing panic rags that don't source anything.
We can't take farmers and take all their people and send them back because they don't have maybe what they're supposed to have. They get rid of some of the people who have been there for 25 years and they work great and then you throw them out and they're replaced by criminals.
