What Is That Makes Americans Such Idiots?

Critical race theory has too many of my fellow Americans slavering like Pavlov's favorite pooches. They show up at school board meetings protesting its teaching in high school. NO high school teaches critical race theory but reality means nothing to people whose brains are switched off and with politicians keep ringing the bell of children being misled about American racism. Critical race theory has to do with the law, with advanced scholarship far removed from the confines of your local high school.

“CRITICAL RACE THEORY” IS THE NEW SATANIC PANIC IN RIGHT-WING POLITICS by Kelly Jensen has a slightly different point of view but I think she is overall correct in her argument.

In many ways, both campaigns follow the same trails that the Satanic Panic of the 80s and 90s did. The morality of teaching white kids about race rides alongside the idea that a global satanic cult worked to abduct and ritually abuse children. But today, the leaders of the satanic-like cults are educators and library personnel who are indoctrinating children with books about Black lives, about racism, and about queer people.

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The claims are patently false, both by Murphy in her ad, as well as by Fox News in their polls. But those who are on board with censorship are the same people who claimed censorship when Dr. Seuss’s estate elected not to continue publishing a small number of the author’s most controversial works. The “pro-information” political party indeed cherry picks the items worthy of their agenda and leaves out vital context in favor of leaning into the moral panic of CRT and historically accurate education. Where it’s “too hard” for white children to learn the truth of the past, though, the same moral panic doesn’t apply to children of color who’ve been systemically shut out, mocked, and harmed throughout historical and contemporary times.

Blake Murphy’s nightmares eventually led him to a powerful position within the Republican party, with his mother allowed to be the face of parental concern and outrage in Virginia gubernatorial politics. These “heroes” become a face to the cause, even if the cause itself is nothing but a boogeyman.

Racism exists in America Racism has always existed in America. America can outgrow its racism if the people of this country take seriously their history. That history also shows plenty enough of Americans fighting against racism. First we need stop acting like selfish, psychotic brats.

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