How Anti-Critical Race Theory Bills Are Taking Aim At Teachers
This spring, a high school English teacher in Missouri lost her job following parents’ complaints that one of her assignments taught critical race theory.
The teacher had assigned a worksheet titled “How Racially Privileged Are You?” as prep material for reading the school-approved book “Dear Martin,” a novel about a Black high school student who is physically assaulted by a white police officer. But despite the teacher’s insistence that she wasn’t teaching her students critical race theory, an academic legal framework that asserts that racism is systemic and embedded in many American institutions, the local school board disagreed and determined that the material was objectionable.
The Missouri incident wasn’t an anomaly. In Tennessee, a teacher was reprimanded — and later fired — after telling his class that white privilege is a “fact” and assigning a Ta-Nehisi Coates essay that argued that white racial resentment was responsible for the rise of former President Donald Trump. Meanwhile in Texas, a principal was suspended after parents accused him of promoting critical race theory based on a letter he had written more than a year earlier, calling for the community to come together and defeat systemic racism in the days following the murder of George Floyd. His contract was subsequently not renewed.
In none of these schools was critical race theory actually being taught, but that is largely beside the point. Rather, these fights make up the latest chapter in the GOP-initiated culture war and are more broadly about how teachers should — and shouldn’t — talk about race and racism in America.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-anti-critical-race-theory-bills-are-taking-aim-at-teachers/
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I am glad people are looking into and reporting the effects of this strategy and contrary to my esteemed collegues responses, it is not just about women teachers, or teachers unions, or discomfort with the truth. It is part of a plan to move the country further and further to the right, to the point where a minority of people (Rich White Men) can exert complete dominance over the rest of us. Right wingers focus all of their energy LYING about sensitive and devisive topics in order to keep a small but active base mobilized, and to frighten other people away from political discourse and action.
They use liberal terminology to get their foot in the door, then grind away until they are stifling dissent. They scare liberals away by citing "intolerance" and "indoctrination" while they are actively trying to stifle dissent and debate about the ridiculousness of their ideas.
The problem is that the media doesn't hit back hard. Politicians do not hit back hard. Those of us who are sensitive to right wing tactics get frustrated, and infighting among liberal ensues.
We know and more importantly right wing leaders know, that Critical Race Theory is not being taught anywhere except certain law schools. They simply want anything that makes people feel uncomfortable and raises negative emotions, to be identified with Critical Race Theory. It is a slogan, like PC or "Liberal Media".