Thread by @christopherrufo

The media is doubling-down on the narrative that "critical race theory isn't in K-12 schools." So I'm going to put together a thread debunking this claim and showing you exactly what's happening in classrooms across the country.

Buckle up. 🧵

First, the founder of critical race theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw, recently admitted that critical race theory "originated in law schools," but then migrated to the K-12 education system—which, she says, is "a good thing."

Here's another critical race theory co-founder, Richard Delgado, boasting that CRT has colonized education. He said the theory is "livelier in education right now than it is in law"—and this was ten years ago.
digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewconten…

This doesn't emerge from nothing: the critical race theorists have spent decades writing books about applying the principles of CRT to K-12 education.

Here is a small sampling of the academic literature:

What does critical race theory actually look like in the classroom? I spent the first part of this year doing a twelve-part series on CRT in America's K-12 schools.

Let's go through these stories one-by-one.👇

Seattle Public Schools tells teachers that the education system is guilty of "spirit murder" against black children and that white teachers must "bankrupt [their] privilege in acknowledgement of [their] thieved inheritance." christopherrufo.com/seattle-teachi…

San Diego Public Schools accuses white teachers of being colonizers on stolen Native American land and tells them “you are racist” and “you are upholding racist ideas, structures, and policies.” They recommend that the teachers undergo “antiracist therapy.”christopherrufo.com/the-whitest-pr…

A Cupertino, California, elementary school forces third-graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.” They separate the eight-year-old children into oppressors and oppressed. christopherrufo.com/woke-elementar…

A middle school in Springfield, Missouri, forces teachers to locate themselves on an “oppression matrix,” claiming that white heterosexual Protestant males are inherently oppressors and must atone for their “covert white supremacy.” christopherrufo.com/antiracism-com…

A Philadelphia elementary school forces fifth-graders to celebrate “Black communism” and simulate a Black Power rally to “free Angela Davis” from prison. At this school, 87 percent of students will fail to achieve basic literacy by graduation. christopherrufo.com/bad-education/

Buffalo Public Schools teaches students that “all white people” perpetuate systemic racism and forces kindergarteners to watch a video of dead black children warning them about “racist police and state-sanctioned violence” who might kill them at any time. christopherrufo.com/failure-factor…

The Arizona Department of Education created an “equity” toolkit claiming that babies show the first signs of racism at three months old and that white children become full racists—“strongly biased in favor of whiteness”—by age five. christopherrufo.com/racism-in-the-…

The California Department of Education passed an “ethnic studies” curriculum that calls for the “decolonization” of American society and has students chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice. The solution, according to one author, is “countergenocide.” christopherrufo.com/revenge-of-the…

North Carolina’s largest school district launches a campaign against “whiteness in educational spaces”—and encourages teachers to subvert families and push the ideology of “antiracism” directly onto students without parental consent. christopherrufo.com/subversive-edu…

Santa Clara County Office of Education denounces the United States as a “parasitic system” based on the “invasion” of “white male settlers” and encourages teachers to “cash in on kids’ inherent empathy” in order to recruit them into political activism. christopherrufo.com/merchants-of-r…

And this is only the beginning. The nation's largest teachers union has approved a plan to promote critical race theory in all 50 states and 14,000 local school districts. The argument that "critical race theory isn't in K-12 schools" is officially dead.