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Feb 1 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Whoopi Goldberg said on television what critical race theorists have been saying in print for years.
philpapers.org/archive/BERCWS…
It's the same logic with Asian-Americans: they are categorized as part of "multiracial whiteness" in order to maintain the critical race theorists' pre-conceived hierarchy of oppression, which, by definition, puts "whiteness" at the top.
The ultimate problem with critical race theory is that it's essentialist and reductive: it seeks to subordinate individuals into crude racial categories, which are used to justify its political program of race-based neo-Marxism.
The United States, however, is more complex than CRT's black and white binary. Asian-Americans, Latinos, Jews, and European ethnics cannot be reduced to a Procrustean morality tale. That's why, I believe, it will ultimately fail as a relevant ideology.

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Jan 27
This story is fake news: the book was swapped out from the 8th grade curriculum, not "banned." The board voted to find a better book for the Holocaust and said they'd even use Maus again if they don't find a good replacement.

Judd Legum is the Jussie Smollett of journalism.
The Left is always using the ratchet method of argumentation, which ends up as: "If this thing we like isn't mandatory and subsidized by the taxpayer, that's censorship/banning/fascism." It's bunk. Don't fall for it.
I personally wouldn't have a problem with my child reading Maus in 8th grade, but I respect that other communities have different preferences. The journalistic culture of the NYT shouldn't colonize the curriculum of a small school in Tennessee. Pluralism means difference.
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Jan 25
The brilliance of Glenn Youngkin's executive order on critical race theory is that it merely clarifies and strengthens existing civil rights law.

Now the Left has to take the unenviable position of opposing the principles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The "centrist" argument that anti-critical race theory legislation is "censorship" is bunk for the same reason. The Civil Rights Act already restricts speech in schools and workplaces. Do the centrists support abolishing it? And if not, are they, too, enemies of "free speech"?
The real innovation for the New Right is to strengthen civil rights laws to protect *all groups* and stop ceding administrative authority to the left-wing bureaucrats who dominate the existing civil rights apparatus. Youngkin is executing on this beautifully.
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Jan 24
In 1968, UC Berkeley hired Eldridge Cleaver, a convicted felon and Black Panther leader who called raping white women "an insurrectionary act," to teach a course as part of its inaugural Black Studies program.

The left-wing revolution has always been subsidized by taxpayers.
The "coddling of the American mind" thesis is dead-wrong. The precursors to "wokeness" were already in place during the 1960s. They simply adapted the language of "white privilege," etc., as a method of social manipulation. It's feigned weakness as a strategy to accumulate power.
In a sense, Cleaver and the other antecedents of "wokeness" were at least honest about their intentions and their methods. They advocated pure revolution, which has now been passed through the language of HR and psychotherapy.
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Jan 18
The ethnic studies director for Seattle Public Schools created a fake identity as an oppressed Latinx, married a convicted child molester, and pressured her child to become transgender.

She helped design identity-based curricula for 54,000 kids.
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It's not an exaggeration to say that woke politics is driven in significant part by mental instability, personal pathology, and sexual deviancy. Activists such as Tracy Castro-Gill project their own neuroses onto society and hijack public institutions to "cure" everyone else.
Washington State designated this woman Teacher of the Year. And, under the current moral framework that dominates big-city public education, they made the logical choice: fake identity, personal pathology, and identity-based grooming are rewarded.
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Jan 17
BREAKING: Following a lawsuit from parents, the State of California has permanently removed the "In Lak Ech Affirmation" from the state curriculum, which would have forced students to chant to the Aztec god of human sacrifice in order to become "warriors" for "social justice."
I broke the story about this curriculum for City Journal last year. Parents took immediate action—and now they have won.
city-journal.org/calif-ethnic-s…
Congratulations to attorney @PaulJonna, who represented parents and forced the State of California to abandon the controversial curriculum, which violated students' right to conscience. When parents stand up for their kids, they win.
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Jan 12
The AP, WaPo, and PolitiFact all said it was "false" that the DOJ was investigating school board protests as "domestic terrorism."

They lied: we now have documents that prove the Biden Admin solicited the initial letter and mobilized the counterterrorism division of the FBI.
The original fact checks were easily debunked in real time.
And the House uncovered the specifics of the counterterrorism operation in November.
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