“But Where is Critical Race Theory Actually Being Taught?”

Modern versions of CRT conflict with the Civil Rights Movement for these reasons:

A) CRT and antiracism are obsessed with dividing people into “colors” and treating them differently on the basis of “color.”

B) The Platform of CRT and antiracism have no meaningful mechanism for improving the lives of the poor minority populations they pretend to serve.

C) CRT and antiracism excel at denying data relating to their mission (including police statistics and economic facts, such as the fact that 60% of Americans who identify as “black” are middle class or above).

D) CRT and antiracism advocates do not extol the teachings of Martin Luther King.  In fact, King’s teachings are barely mentioned in training materials.

There are other difference too, but this is a sampling based upon some of the articles I’ve written recently.

Increasing numbers of people are starting to understand that CRT and “antiracism” conflict with the traditional Civil Rights Movement. In reaction, apologists for CRT and “anti-racism” are taking the position that CRT and “antiracism” are not being taught in schools. I see this as motivated reasoning based on the fact that most of these people (the ones I know) are only exposed to left-leaning legacy media that refuses to cover the fact that obsessions with skin “color” and other divisive poisons are increasingly being taught in K-12 and colleges. Left-leaning media admits of only a few outliers and deny that CRT or antiracism is a significant problem in the U.S. I disagree, based on these news reports:

The recent case of Dana stangel-Plowe, former teacher at a school in Englewood.

The recent case of Paul Rossi.

The observations of Andrew Gutmann, a former parent at Brearly School.

Christopher Rufo’s reports based upon leaked training materials at numerous schools.

Chloe Valdary teaches a good-hearted program to diminish bigotry she compares to the CRT programs of which she is knowledgable.

Numerous reports by Parents Defending Education.

Numerous reports of attempted cancellation based on CRT here.

Reports at businesses by Counterweight.

Many more reports here, by Princetonians for Free Speech.

I have also been personally contacted by approximately a dozen people who work in academia who are afraid to speech honestly on issues because CRT permeates the campus

More reports here (Stanford) and here (Rutgers).

John McWhorter’s receipt of numerous complaints (see the comments) here.

Another recent resource is Christopher Rufo’s “Critical Race Theory Briefing Book.” 

There are numerous other reports, more of them surfacing every week. I will update this list periodically in the comments.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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    Erich Vieth June 23, 2021 Reply

    Oklahoma University teachers are being trained to violate their students’ constitutional rights. This link includes an audio recording on which you can repeatedly hear unconstitutional indoctrination techniques being taught to the teachers. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has contacted OU to put the university on notice. Here’s the problem:

    The workshop in question trains instructors on how to eliminate disfavored but constitutionally protected expression from the classroom and guide assignments and discussion into preferred areas — all for unambiguously ideological and viewpoint-based reasons. . . . By limiting classroom discussion and silencing dissent, professors violate the rights of conscience of their students. The clear aim is not merely to advocate a point of view but to coerce, if necessary, their students into believing the professor’s or school’s version of truth. Such oppressive actions clearly cross the line between education and indoctrination.

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    Erich Vieth June 28, 2021 Reply

    Many examples here:

    Dr. Debra Soh is joined by Helen Pluckrose (co-author of “Cynical Theories”) to talk about protecting yourself from Critical Social Justice in the workplace; protecting children from these ideas in education; and how social justice discriminates against those on the autism spectrum.

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/7h4CIr907IUY3m3Q8CC4Sr

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/opinion/article-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-initiatives-do-not-belong-in-academia/

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    Bill Heath June 29, 2021 Reply

    I read the Julliard article and was nauseated. My first career was as an opera singer/session musician/backup-whatever on tours. It doesn’t matter what you look like. If you can perform as part of a group, that’s important. Skin color isn’t.

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    Erich Vieth July 6, 2021 Reply

    Raytheon.

    Christopher Rufo:

    SCOOP: Raytheon, the nation’s second-largest defense contractor, has launched a critical race theory program that encourages white employees to confront their “privilege,” reject the principle of “equality,” and “defund the police.”

    Let’s review the internal documents.Thread

    https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1412460830000508928

    Here is Rufo’s full post with leaked documents. Apparently, Raytheon is expected to stand up against the military opponents of the United States, but doesn’t have the spine to stand up for its employees against a bunch of Neo-racists.

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    Erich Vieth July 13, 2021 Reply

    Bari Weiss Reports on the firing of Maud Maron, a public defender in New York:

    In short, Maron is exactly the kind of lawyer you’d imagine Legal Aid would put on the cover of its brochures. But today the public defender is filing suit in the Southern District of New York against the organization to which she has dedicated her career.

    The suit, which you can read here, claims that Maron was “discriminated against on the basis of race” by her employer, Legal Aid Society, and her union, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys. It claims that both defendants “published knowingly false statements in furtherance of ideological and political motives divorced from the core functions of Ms. Maron’s employment.” In other words: it says she was forced out of her job because of her political views and her race, a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

    “None of this would have happened if I just said I loved books like White Fragility, and I’m a fan of Bill de Blasio’s proposals for changing New York City public schools, and I planned to vote for Maya Wiley for mayor. The reason they went after me is because I have a different point of view,” she said.

    That difference came out most starkly in education, and in Maron’s role on the school board and as a candidate for city council she was outspoken in her views.

    “I am very open about what I stand for. I am pro-integration. I am pro-diversity. And also I reject the narrative that white parents are to blame for the failures of our school system. I object to the mayor’s proposal to get rid of specialized admissions tests to schools like Stuyvesant. And I believe that racial essentialism is racist and should not be taught in school,” she told me.

    This apparently didn’t sit well with some of her colleagues.

    Here is a copy of Maron’s lawsuit.

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