Ibram X. Kendi: Critical race theory is not anti-white.

Critical race theorists: Yes, it is.
The critical race theorists like to play language games—"we are against whiteness, not white people"; "we want to 'abolish the white race' as a social construct, not as a physical population"—but their animus is clear to anyone with basic reading comprehension.
In the past year, we have exposed critical race theory to the public using their own words and original source documents. The polling data now indicates 2:1 opposition against CRT, including majorities of Latino and Asian parents.

Now clowns like Kendi want to do damage control.
The problem is that Kendi is a one-trick magician: he calls everything "racist" and "white supremacist." This might have had some shock factor five years ago, but now it's stale, boring, and obviously false in most cases. The linguistic value has been cannibalized.
They'll try to supercharge this rhetoric with new variations, but it won't work. The public doesn't want nonstop racialist ideology, race essentialism, and collective guilt. Even the NY Times is starting to soften its line and put a little distance between itself and CRT.
I'm optimistic about the fight against critical race theory. We can win by exposing the ideology and crafting policy to restrict it in public institutions, eliminate taxpayer funding for activists, and provide maximum school choice for parents. Not easy, but eminently possible.

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24 Nov
How left-wing postmodernism works: the word "looting" is criticized more than the act of looting itself. Symbolic interpretation is prioritized over physical reality—all in service of elite political ideology.
San Francisco 2021: Working-class citizens and shopkeepers get robbed, looted, and beaten in the streets. Elite media engages in elaborate racial accounting and linguistic taboos, all to deny a physical reality that is plain to see.
All summer, we saw videos of mentally ill, drug-addicted black men beating elderly Asian-Americans in the streets; now we see mobs of teenagers looting luxury stores.

The Left retreats to language—"white supremacy," "poverty," "root causes"—rather than confront the problem.
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23 Nov
LEAKED: CRT cofounder Kimberlé Crenshaw tells NEA president Becky Pringle that "critical race theory traditionally is a law school class," but is "now the huge container for anti-racist work [and] anti-racist education" in K-12 schools—vindicating my reporting over the past year.
This isn't new for Crenshaw. She said the same thing nearly 20 years ago at a critical race theory conference:
www2.law.columbia.edu/fagan/courses/…
"Critical race theory" has been a master-signifier for left-wing racialist ideology for the past two decades. Our innovation was to promote the signifier to the public and load it with negative connotations. That's how politics works in a postmodern society. Deal with it.
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22 Nov
Seattle Public Schools employs a full-time critical race theorist.
Seattle Public Schools officially endorses "Critical Race Theory" as part of its Black Studies curriculum and is "working to develop a liberatory curriculum for grades K-5 that embeds Black Studies across all subjects."
The Seattle school board does "racial equity training" that explicitly teaches "critical race theory."
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16 Nov
BREAKING: House Republicans have obtained whistleblower documents showing that the FBI is using its counterterrorism division to investigate and add "threat tags" to parents—contradicting Attorney General Garland's sworn testimony.

Merrick Garland must resign.
This is the smoking gun. Attorney General Garland provided zero evidence that parents are engaging in credible threats or acts of violence. And yet, he mobilized the FBI Counterterrorism Division to use counterterrorism tools for investigating, tracking, and tagging parents.
This man is a menace to truth, justice, and law. He used the FBI to run interference for the teachers unions and to suppress middle-class American families. The parent movement must not stop until he resigns in disgrace.
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11 Nov
YIKES: Here's the father of Scottsdale Unified school board president Jann-Michael Greenburg, secretly taking bodycam footage of parents on school property and saying he hired a "private investigator who is writing down all their [license] plates."
According to press reports, school board president Jann-Michael Greenburg, a 27-year-old man with no children, lives with and shares a computer with his father, Mark Greenburg. Parents have accused the father-son duo of harassing them and photographing their children.
In the video, Mark Greenburg admits that he rides around on his motorcycle with a full helmet and visor in order to covertly take pictures of conservative parents and their children, who had organized a protest against mask mandates and critical race theory.
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11 Nov
BREAKING: Scottsdale Unified school board president Jann-Michael Greenburg has been caught assembling a dossier with confidential information on parents who oppose critical race theory—including photographs of their children.

He must resign.
azfreenews.com/2021/11/scotts… ImageImage
I've reviewed the dossier and Greenburg has assembled a disturbing range of information on parents: commercial background checks, criminal records, address histories, divorce records, business filings, personal photographs, and other sensitive data. Abusive.
LMAO: The dossier also includes screenshots and links to a lot of my work, which conservative parents had shared on social media. God bless the Scottsdale moms who poasted my content and exposed their creepy and abusive school board president. ImageImage
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