13 Questions for Those Who Want to Ban “Critical Race Theory”
They won’t answer them though. Because if they did, they would sound ridiculous.
For the past year, conservatives have been waging war on what they call “critical race theory” in schools, but which often amounts to nothing more than an honest accounting of racism in American history.
From attempts at book banning to shutting down teacher trainings on the Civil Rights Movement to complaining about Black History Month, white conservatives are insisting that schools stop making their kids feel bad by talking about racial injustice.
The goal, it appears, is to prohibit any analysis of our country’s history that might detract from an entirely uncritical nationalism.
Dozens of states have introduced or passed legislation restricting how racial subjects can be addressed in classrooms. Already, books are being yanked from school libraries to be reviewed by lawmakers and parents’ groups for any “inappropriate” content.
These efforts raise several questions. And in the interest of transparency — the buzzword conservatives use to justify opening curriculum to parental scrutiny — it seems only fair that they should be expected to respond to them.
- The legislation proposed…
