Thread by @ChristinaPushaw

No. Opposition to CRT indoctrination in public schools is opposition to state-sanctioned race essentialism. Children should never be classified as “oppressor” or “oppressed” or anything else based on skin color. That is abhorrent.

https://twitter.com/BrandyZadrozny/status/1404802032444264457

Here are some examples of what real people are concerned about, when they oppose Critical Race Theory in schools. Because @BrandyZadrozny won't report on this. A THREAD:

Seattle Public Schools told 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.”

San Diego Public Schools accused white teachers of being colonizers on stolen Native American land and told them “you are racist” and “you are upholding racist ideas, structures, and policies.” They recommended that the teachers undergo “antiracist therapy.”

A Cupertino, California, elementary school forced third-graders to deconstruct their racial and sexual identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.” They separated the eight-year-old children into oppressors and oppressed.

A middle school in Springfield, Missouri, forced 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.”

A Philadelphia elementary school forced fifth-graders to celebrate “Black communism” and simulated 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. The system is failing kids.

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.”

Santa Clara County Office of Education denounced the United States as a “parasitic system” based on the “invasion” of “white male settlers” and encouraged teachers to “cash in on kids’ inherent empathy” in order to recruit them into political activism.

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.

Babies cannot be racist. This is deranged.

As @realchrisrufo said: The Left doesn't get to deconstruct and reconstruct language at will, then force everyone to live within those terms.

We, too, have the power to define words and shape discourse.

And unlike @BrandyZadrozny & other ideologues, we start with the facts.

A helpful flow chart for interpreting socjus language.