Lies about Critical Race Theory
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From The Federalist. Prominent voices continue to frame the debate over whether critical race theory (CRT) should be taught in schools as a debate over whether we should teach accurate racial history.
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A few days ago, in an interview with Time magazine, Harvard University researcher Donald Yacovone (author of “Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity”) said of the controversy: “…one of the major reactions is this resistance to the teaching of the past. … Slavery is real. Racial domination is real. But they’re doing their best to deny it, to affirm the innocence of whiteness.”
This is a strawman attack. Few Americans of any stripe or generation object to teaching about slavery and Jim Crow. The problem with CRT in schools is there’s a lot more to it than just teaching America’s checkered history of race relations, and it’s this “more” that many parents are objecting to.
For starters, CRT is essentially postmodernism. Stephen Sawchuk, associate editor of Education Week, notes in a piece praising CRT that, “Critical race theory emerged out of postmodernist thought.”
Postmodernism is the idea that there is no truth, no universal morality, and no reality except what we create. There are no facts because everything is socially constructed. According to the Encyclopedia Brittanica’s entry on postmodernism, it dismisses as “naive realism” the idea that “there is an objective natural reality.”
Postmodernism is the philosophical equivalent of a funhouse mirror. Anything can be changed, created, and thrown away; and any new narrative is no more or less true than other narratives; because there is no such thing as objective fact or objective reality. . . .
Maybe some parents are upset that critical race theory doesn’t put white people on top. We suspect far more are angry at an ideology that puts any skin color on top, rather than treating them all as equals. That’s a denial of the core American tenant espoused in the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal — and one that Americans of many generations fought to ultimately realize.
Besides jettisoning a foundational American tenet, it’s also important to note CRT isn’t “educational” in the traditional sense.
While CRT teaches students what to think, it’s openly hostile toward approaches that teach students how to think. In fact, many CRT advocates explicitly reject the concept of critical thinking altogether. . . .
[The] argument boils down to this: Some people can outthink us, and those people might have power; so if we’re going to dismantle power structures (a key goal of CRT and postmodernism), then we need to reject critical thinking completely.. . .
If you reject the basic concepts of scientific inquiry and critical thinking, what are you left with? . . .
Finally, it’s unlikely that the opposition to teaching CRT in schools actually comes from racism. Support for interracial marriage, often used as a proxy for race relations, is at an all-time high. Ninety-four percent of Americans approve of interracial marriage, including 93 percent of white Americans and 93 percent of Southerners (for context, when that question was first asked in 1958 the answer was 4 percent support across the board).
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Slavery was never legal in Egypt or the US. That’s why God had to deliver both nations from this heinous activity.