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7 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
To ban CRT IS to ban telling minority kids that their society views them as trash.
To Noah’s more serious point, yes, you do need an alternative narrative. But narrative is the key word. The alternative to CRT is not going to tell “the whole story”, any more than CRT will. What we’re really debating is which set of omissions/distortions is the least bad.
Is colorblind 90s liberalism optimal? Maybe not!

But to say “it has blind spots and limits” isn’t a counterargument. The same could be said, just as convincingly, of CRT.
(The FDA bans countless medicines that meet this criterion.)

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7 Sep
Remember that "inclusive communication" guide the CDC put out the other week? The agency didn't have to do very much work on it. Instead, it drew on a network of nonprofits that are institutionalizing progressivism as public health’s lingua franca.

freebeacon.com/biden-administ…
The guide included statements like "health equity is intersectional" and described "diabetics" and "the homeless" as "dehumanizing language." Public health communications, it said, "should reflect and speak to the needs of" a wide range of identities.
For example, "assigned male/female at birth" is preferable to "biologically male/female," according to the guide—which also stresses that public health officials should "avoid jargon and use straightforward, easy to understand language." cdc.gov/healthcommunic…
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19 Aug
SCOOP: The American Bar Association is poised to mandate diversity training and affirmative action at all of its accredited law schools, a move top legal scholars say could jeopardize academic freedom and force schools to violate federal law.

Yes, really. freebeacon.com/campus/america…
The ABA accredits nearly every law school in the US. It is is mulling a plan that would require schools to "provide education" on "cross-cultural competency," including a mandatory ethics course instructing students that they have an obligation to fight "racism in the law."
Schools would also be required to "take effective actions" to "diversify" their student bodies—even when doing so risks violating a law that "purports to prohibit consideration of" race or ethnicity.

In order to remain accredited, law schools might have to break the law.
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16 Aug
Remember Rodney Glasgow, the private school administrator who compared critics of CRT to the Capitol rioters?

His diversity consulting group has penetrated every level of the accreditation bureaucracy, creating a patronage network for woke administrators. freebeacon.com/culture/the-lu…
Every one of the Glasgow Group's consultants has ties to the National Association of Independent Schools, and a few have ties to the association's approved accreditors. That gives the 12-person firm an outsized say in what hundreds of thousands of private school students learn.
As those students' education has been shaped by the Glasgow Group's consultants, diversity professionals have procured more and more power—and more and more money.

Much of that money comes from the "equity audits" schools purchase to comply with woke accreditation standards.
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28 Jul
Many conservatives have framed school choice as the solution to wokeism in public schools. There's just one problem: all the private school are woke too.

Is that the result of the free market? No. It's the result of a woke accreditation cartel.

freebeacon.com/culture/why-pr…
One of the people involved in the accreditation cartel is Rodney Glasgow. In May, Glasgow likened parents upset about wokeness to the "white supremacists" who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6—and the schools that had admitted their kids to the police officers who "opened the gate."
Glasgow is no stranger to gatekeeping: He has held multiple positions with the National Association of Independent Schools, which sets accreditation standards for a group of more than 1,600 American private schools, several of which you've probably heard of.
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24 Jul
A proposed bill in Nebraska would mandate that schools teach 9th graders that abortion is “reproductive justice.” Surely those opposed to banning CRT will speak out against this outrageous act of compelled speech.

freebeacon.com/culture/meet-t…
Even if these bills are legal in a narrow sense, they contradict the spirit of free speech and open inquiry we should cultivate in K-12 schools. Right?
Frankly teaching kids that abortion is “reproductive justice”—as if any pro-lifer is inherently unjust—may be even more outrageous and Orwellian than the spirit murder crap.
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14 Jul
We keep hearing that Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo aren't REAL critical race theory, that the excesses of anti-racist education are separate from CRT.

Wrong.

You can trace all of Kendi and DiAngelo's ideas straight back to the seminal texts of CRT. freebeacon.com/culture/how-cr…
There are indeed some differences between critical race theory and the new racial orthodoxy. But the main premises of that orthodoxy—all racial disparities are illegitimate, unconscious bias is everywhere, racist speech is violence—all stem from critical race theory.
CRT is essentially a synthesis of Kendi and DiAngelo. Though neither figure is a critical race theorist, each has helped to popularize CRT's underlying worldview, one in which structural and subconscious racism are intimately intertwined.
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