SCOOP: A Cupertino elementary school forces third-graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.”
I've obtained exclusive whistleblower documents from inside the classroom. They will shock you. 🧵
First, the teacher told the eight- and nine-year-old students that they live in a “dominant culture” of “white, middle class, cisgender, educated, able-bodied, Christian[s]” who “created and maintained” this culture in order “to hold power and stay in power.”
Reading from This Book Is Antiracist, the teacher taught the children the theory of "intersectionality" and claimed that “those with privilege have power over others" and that “folx who do not benefit from their social identities ... have little to no privilege and power.”
The teacher asked students to create an “identity map,” listing their race, class, gender, religion, family structure, and other characteristics. They were told to “circle the identities that hold power and privilege."
In a related assignment assignment, the children were asked to write short essays describing which aspects of their identities "hold power and privilege" and which are "oppressed"—in effect, ranking themselves according to the intersectional hierarchy.
Parents at the school were scandalized. "They were basically teaching racism to my eight-year-old," said one parent, who rallied a half dozen families to protest the curriculum and demanded a meeting with the principal.
One Chinese-American parent compared the training to the Cultural Revolution: "Growing up in China, I had learned it many times. The outcome is the family will be ripped apart; husband hates wife, children hate parents. I think it is already happening here.”
Luckily, the group of Asian-American parents was able to shut down the training from the school. But they are worried that the cultural revolution is spreading: “We think some of our school board members are [critical race theory] activists and they must go."
Read the full story here. Will be posting to City Journal later tonight.
P.S. I'm conducting a ten-part investigative series on "critical race theory in education." To support this reporting, please consider making a $5 or $10 monthly contribution here.
EXCLUSIVE: All of the Florida public university presidents have released this letter pledging to reign in their D.E.I. departments and ensure that they are not promoting left-wing racialist ideology and political activism.
The momentum is starting to shift. Keep pressing.
I have challenged legislators to go further. My Manhattan Institute colleagues and I have designed a roadmap for abolishing D.E.I. departments, ending mandatory diversity training, prohibiting political coercion, and restoring colorblind equality: manhattan-institute.org/model-dei-legi…
For those of you who prefer audio-visual content, I've made a YouTube video outlining the theory behind this model policy:
Unpopular opinion: the obsession with Klaus Schwab, Davos, and the WEF is misguided, as they have little real power over life in America. It's also enervating, as it shifts the locus of control to far-away figures, while constructive action can be taken at home. Stay focused.
In response to some counterpoints:
Ultimately, Trump endorsed mass lockdowns and most governors went along with him, with DeSantis providing a notable exception. We didn't have to follow the China playbook. The fault is our own.
Sure, but the inventors and key promoters of ESG are American activists and asset management firms. And again: Congress could outlaw ESG tomorrow if it had the desire to do so. The WEF can't force any US policy.
EXCLUSIVE: Columbia-affiliated queer theorist C.A. Conrad conducted a street experiment in which he lured children with colorful bubbles, then told their parents: "These are queer bubbles and they're gunna make your children queer."
Shocking details here:
Queer Theory activism is predicated on two manipulative strategies: overriding the public's intuition with ideological coercion and using identity, rather than behavior, as the grounds for moral judgement. The first step to countering these strategies is to understand them.
This person, C.A. Conrad (they/them), has been lauded by prestigious universities, with teaching positions, fellowships, and lectureships at Columbia, Brown, UMass, Wheaton, Bates, Evergreen State, and other prestigious institutions. Intellectual corruption all the way down.
Last year, I caught @jonathanchait fabricating a quotation, which his editors had to retract. Now he's done it again, fabricating a quote that I have "attacked [my] critics as 'groomers.'"
I have never attacked anyone as a "groomer." In fact, I have warned against its misuse.
I have reached out to New York Magazine requesting a correction. Mr. Chait can call me any bad name in the book. But he cannot fabricate quotations and attribute them to me as part of a smear campaign. Even for a man of notably low standards, that should be a red line.
This is starting to get ridiculous. The Washington Post has now admitted to publishing false statements about me twice, including this weekend. And now I've caught New York Magazine fabricating quotations for a second time.
WINNING: The Washington Post's latest hit piece against me has collapsed. Education editor Adam Kushner admits to publishing four false statements about my work and has officially retracted them. This is a supreme embarrassment for the newspaper and reporter @valeriestrauss.
In the face of this rebuke from her editors, Strauss remained defiant. She denied bias and insisted that "the allegation that The Washington Post is trying to destroy your reputation is false" —which, if we take her at her word, suggests, at minimum, gross incompetence.
I have now forced the Washington Post to retract multiple major claims made against me by the paper's two veteran education reporters, @laurameckler and @valeriestrauss. This is a pattern that suggests a deeper rot at the newspaper.
Last year, I forced the Washington Post to retract a blizzard of lies about my work. Now, the paper has dispatched another hack, @valeriestrauss, to push a fresh round of distortions, inaccuracies, and flat-out lies.
Let's debunk them one by one. 🧵
Lie #1. The WaPo tries to revive the long-debunked claim that "critical race theory isn't taught in schools." I've provided them with reams of evidence and *the WaPo itself* has published multiple articles admitting that critical race theory is being taught in K-12 schools.
Lie #2. The WaPo invents ideas and then attributes them to me with no evidence or citations. Strauss puts words in my mouth and then reports them as if they were facts. Very dishonest.