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Trump pens op-ed ripping into critical race theory: 'Teaching even one child these divisive messages would verge on psychological abuse'

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Former President Donald Trump said this week that critical race theory is not far from inflicting psychological abuse on children.

He made the remarks in a lengthy editorial, which ran Friday on the RealClearPolitics website.

What are the details?

In the missive, Trump blasted President Joe Biden for embracing critical race theory and said that anyone who would subject a child or young person to the teaching borders on inflicting “psychological abuse.”

The piece titled, “A Plan to Get Divisive & Radical Theories Out of Our Schools,” noted that Biden has done nothing in his presidency thus far beyond “divide our country by race and gender.”

“There is no clearer example than the Biden administration’s new effort aimed at indoctrinating America’s schoolchildren with some of the most toxic and anti-American theories ever conceived,” the former president wrote. “It is vital for Americans to understand what this initiative would do, what drives it and, most importantly, how we can stop it.”

Trump pointed out that he believes the left is insistent on casting America’s history in a negative light — even if they have to brainwash innocent children in order to do so.

“In classrooms across the nation, students are being subjected to a new curriculum designed to brainwash them with the ridiculous left-wing dogma known as ‘critical race theory,'” he wrote. “The key fact about this twisted doctrine is that it is completely antithetical to everything that normal Americans of any color would wish to teach their children.”

Trump said that instead of children learning about America as “the greatest, most tolerant, and most generous nation in history,” they are learning that America is “systemically evil and that the hearts of our people are full of hatred and malice.”

“Far from advancing the beautiful dream of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — that our children should ‘not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character’ — the left’s vile new theory preaches that judging people by the color of their skin is actually a good idea,” Trump added. “Teaching even one child these divisive messages would verge on psychological abuse. Indoctrinating generations of children with these extreme ideas is not just immoral — it is a program for national suicide.”

Biden, Trump said, couldn’t care less, and endorsed this very notion in a rule published in the Federal Register “aimed at inflicting a critical race theory-inspired curriculum on American schoolchildren.”

“The rule,” the former president wrote, “explicitly cites the New York Times’ discredited ‘1619 Project’ as a motivation. The Times has described the goal of its endeavor as the ‘re-education’ of the American people, and the project even includes a lesson plan that encourages students to practice ‘erasing’ parts of the Declaration of Independence.”

Trump said that the only way to avoid losing America as a both a beacon of hope and a country itself is to push back and loudly make demands for change.

“[M]ost Americans oppose this insanity,” he noted. “The left has only gotten away with it until this point because not enough parents have been paying attention and speaking up.

“But that is quickly changing,” Trump added.

What does he suggest?

The former president said that all parents and concerned citizens should step up and demand every state legislature to pass a ban on taxpayer dollars going to school district or workplaces that teach critical race theory.

“It needs to happen everywhere,” he insisted, “and Congress should seek to institute a federal ban through legislation as well.”

Trump also said that each state should be responsible to create its own 1776 Commission to hold public schools and boards to standards that ensure American children are receiving a “patriotic, pro-American education” — and “not being taught that the United States is an evil nation.”

The former president also said that parents need to push for transparency within their children’s curricula and refuse to stand down, even if they have to file public records request to obtain the information.

Trump also said that concerned Americans need to mobilize to keep civics lessons truthful and avoid contorting lessons “into a vehicle for political indoctrination” — and if parents are unable to effect change, they should be permitted to get an automatic school choice voucher to take their children’s education elsewhere.

“The government has no right to brainwash students with controversial ideologies against their parents’ will,” he added.

“Make no mistake: The motive behind all of this left-wing lunacy is to discredit and eliminate the greatest obstacles to the fundamental transformation of America. To succeed with their extreme agenda, radicals know they must abolish our attachment to the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and most of all, Americans’ very identity as a free, proud, and self-governing people. The left knows that if they can dissolve our national memory and identity, they can gain the total political control they crave,” he continued.

“A nation is only as strong as its spirit,” he concluded. “For our children, we must act before it is too late.”

MSNBC's Joy Reid claims students are being taught 'Confederate Race Theory' — and people have questions

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MSNBC host Joy Reid defended critical race theory on Friday by claiming that American students, from kindergarten through high school, are being taught “Confederate Race Theory” — and CRT is a necessary response to such anti-black narratives.

In response, Reid was promptly asked to corroborate her claims.

What did Reid say?

Reid’s assertion about “Confederate Race Theory” came after she posed a question on social media to opponents of CRT, asking what version of history they want taught if not CRT.

That’s when Reid claimed American students are being taught that slavery “was not so bad” and racial violence against black Americans never happened.

“Currently, most k-12 students already learn a kind of Confederate Race Theory, whereby the Daughters of the Confederacy long ago imposed a version of history wherein slavery was not so bad and had nothing to do with the civil war, and lynchings and violence never happened,” Reid claimed.

Reid then suggested that opponents of CRT favor “continuing to omit” unsavory and tragic truths about America’s past — such as the treatment of Native Americans or the fact that many of America’s founding fathers owned slaves — and postulated that CRT opponents support sanitizing history.

“Is this about continuing to teach Confederate Race Theory? And continuing to omit things like the founders owning slaves, or the facts about the mass extermination of the indigenous? Are you insisting that those things continue to be omitted? If so, why?” Reid said.

“Or is it about adding more empty praise to the teaching of history and completing the sanitization of history that already is the case? If so, why? How does that make children smarter? And don’t you think kids will eventually find out the facts anyway?” she continued.

What was the response?

While it proves difficult to assess all curriculum standards for history in America — owing to the fact that curriculum standards are determined by state and local education boards — people were quick to challenge Reid’s claim.

“Joy, this is one of the silliest, most outlandish, things I’ve read in a while. You think ‘most’ K-12 kids have been getting taught that slavery was not so bad until this year? Seriously? That’s propaganda. Show me the textbooks to back this up please,” conservative writer Jonah Goldberg said.

“‘Most’? This is nonsense. Nobody in my family, of any generation, has ever been taught anything vaguely resembling this. In how many of the 50 states, in 2021 A.D., do you believe that the Daughters of the Confederacy presently control the public, private, & parochial schools?” National Review writer Dan McLaughlin responded.

Washington Examiner editor Jay Caruso even cited a school district that assigns readings from Nikole Hannah Jones — the creator of the 1619 Project — to elementary students.

Those who grew up and were educated in the South especially challenged Reid’s claims.

“I grew up in the south. At no point did any teacher teach slavery, the civil war, or reconstruction in this manner. This is crazy,” one person told Reid.

“I attended a k-12 school south of the Mason Dixon line in the 1970’s and we were never taught anything like that. You are setting up a straw man argument,” another person said.

It should be noted, of course, that the loudest voices speaking out about alleged systemic racism and discrimination, emphasizing the racial sins of America’s past, are the younger generations of Americans.

Certainly, those yanking down statues of founding fathers were not given a whitewashed American history education.

Black mom confronts Florida Board of Ed. over 'racist' critical race theory: 'Not teaching the truth, unless you believe that whites are better than blacks'

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Keisha King, a mom in Florida, has gone viral for her heated remarks against teaching critical race theory in Florida schools.

King spoke to the Florida Board of Education recently, insisting that the only people who are proponents of CRT are racists themselves.

What are the details?

King, a parent in Duval County and speaking on behalf of the grassroots activist group Moms for Liberty, warned the board that if unchecked, critical race theory would ruin America.

“Just coming off of May 31st, marking the 100 years of the Tulsa riots, it is sad that we are even contemplating something like critical race theory, where children will be separated by their skin color and deemed permanently oppressors or oppressed in 2021,” she said.

King continued, “That is not teaching the truth, unless you believe that whites are better than blacks. I have personally heard teachers teaching CRT and we have had an assembly shut down because a Duval County Public School System consultant thought it would be a great idea to separate students by race. This is unacceptable.”

King pointed out that CRT is not “racial sensitivity” or “teaching unfavorable American history,” but something far more insidious and damaging to Americans and their country.

“CRT … is a teaching that there is a hierarchy in society where white male heterosexual able-bodied people are deemed the oppressor and anyone else outside of that status is oppressed,” she said. “That’s why we see corporations like Coca-Cola asking their employees to be less white, which is ridiculous. I don’t know about you, but telling my child or any child that they are in a permanent oppressed status in America because they are black is racist, and saying that white people are automatically above me, my children or any child is racist as well.”

King warned her fellow parents and Americans that CRT is nothing short of dangerous for the country.

“Don’t take it from me,” she added, “look at the writers of these types of publications, our ancestors, white, black, and others hung, bled, and died right alongside each other to push America towards that more perfect union.”

“If this continues, we will look back and be responsible for the dismantling of the greatest country in the world by reverting to teaching hate and that race is a determining factor on where your destiny lies,” King insisted.

You can listen to King’s full remarks in the video below.

Woman who survived Mao's purge compares critical race theory in US schools to China's Cultural Revolution in scathing speech

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Woke leftists have been pushing critical race theory in public education, which has prompted many to compare CRT to cultural Marxism reminiscent of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. One woman who actually survived the decade-long Chinese sociopolitical movement sees frightening similarities between critical race theory and Mao’s violent purge. The Chinese-American immigrant skewered a Virginia school board this week for pushing critical race theory on children.

Xi Van Fleet was 6-years-old when the Cultural Revolution began in 1966, and she distinctly remembers how toxic the environment of Mao’s Communist China was at the time. She recalls that students and teachers were pitted against each other by hanging posters in “hallways and the cafeteria where students could write criticisms against anyone deemed ideological impure,” according to Fox News.

During Tuesday’s public meeting for the Loundon County School Board, Van Fleet voiced her concerns over the current “progressive” ideology and parallels to Chairman Mao’s genocidal rule that left between 500,000 and 20 million people dead between 1966 and 1976.

“I’ve been very alarmed by what’s going on in our schools,” Van Fleet told the school board members. “You are now teaching, training our children to be social justice warriors and to loathe our country and our history.”

“Growing up in Mao’s China, all of this seems very familiar,” Van Fleet, who fled from China at the age of 26, said. “The Communist regime used the same critical theory to divide people. The only difference is they used class instead of race.”

“During the Cultural Revolution, I witnessed students and teachers turn against each other,” Van Fleet, whose son graduated from Loudoun High School in 2015, added. “We changed school names to be politically correct.”

She recalls that one of the teachers was considered “bourgeoisie” because she “liked to wear pretty clothes.” The class warfare caused students to spit on the teacher, “She was covered with spit… and pretty soon it became violence.”

“We were taught to denounce our heritage. The Red Guards destroyed anything that is not communist…statues, books and anything else,” she continued. “We were also encouraged to report on each other, just like the Student Equity Ambassador program and the bias reporting system.”

“This is indeed the American version of the Chinese Communist Cultural Revolution,” she said. “The critical race theory has its roots in cultural Marxism. It should have no place in our school.”

Following her scathing speech regarding critical race theory, Van Fleet walked off the stage to applause and cheers from fellow parents.

“I just want Americans to know that their privilege is to be here living in America, that is just the biggest privilege,” Van Fleet told Fox News on Wednesday. “I do not think a lot of people understand. They are thinking they are doing the right thing, ‘be against racism’ sounds really good. But they are basically breaking the system that is against racism.”

“We were asked to report if we hear anything about someone saying anything showing that there’s a lack of complete loyalty to Mao,” she recalled. “There were people reporting their parents, and their parents ended up in jail.”

The immigrant from China’s Sichuan province said that critical race theory is an effort to transform classrooms into “indoctrination camps.”

“To me, and to a lot of Chinese, it is heartbreaking that we escaped communism and now we experience communism here,” Van Fleet said.

The Loudon County has been attacked by other parents in recent months.

Last month, parents launched an ad campaign to tackle the school system teaching the critical race theory and oust members who promoted the controversial ideology.

Also in May, a woman slammed the Loudoun County School Board for pushing CRT, and she compared it to a “tactic used by Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan on slavery very many years ago to dumb down my ancestors so we could not think for ourselves.”

In January, an irate parent lambasted school officials for not reopening schools because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Christian physical education teacher, Byron “Tanner” Cross, was placed on administrative leave last month after he delivered a speech that declared “a biological boy can be a girl and vice versa because it’s against my religion. It’s lying to a child, it’s abuse to a child, and it’s sinning against our God.” Cross was speaking at the Loudoun County school board meeting regarding new transgender policies.

Black Ivy league professor says if you truly want to be ‘anti-racist,’ yank kids out of schools that teach critical race theory

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John McWhorter, a black linguistics professor at Columbia University, says that parents who truly believe themselves to be anti-racist need to yank their kids out of schools that implement critical race theory into their curriculums.

What are the details?

McWhorter targeted Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Jersey, in particular after former English teacher Dana Stangel-Plowe announced her decision to resign from her position at the school following allegations that it was indoctrinating children through CRT teachings.

McWhorter, in addition to being a noted academic, is an author and journalist who has written for CNN, Forbes, National Geographic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Time, among other prolific outlets.

On Tuesday, McWhorter tweeted a link of Stangel-Plowe’s remarks on her resignation and captioned it, “All hail Dana Stangel-Plowe, who has resigned from the Dwight-Englewood school, which teaches students ‘antiracism’ that sees life as nothing but abuse of power, and teaches that cringing, hostile group identity against oppression is the essence of a self. Truly antiracist parents, in the name of love of their kids, should pull them from the Dwight-Englewood school as of next fall. Only thing will arrest these misguided Elect parishioners from their quest to forge a new reality for us all.”

What else?

In a lengthy letter, the former English teacher revealed her fears over the “hostile culture” that she said has overtaken the school.

“I reject the hostile culture of conformity and fear that has taken hold of our school,” a portion of her letter stated, and added that the school demands “students to see themselves not as individuals, but as representatives of a group, forcing them to adopt the status of privilege or victimhood.”

A portion of the letter also added, “[S]tudents arrive in my classroom accepting this theory as fact: People born with less melanin in their skin are oppressors, and people born with more melanin in their skin are oppressed. Men are oppressors, women are oppressed, and so on. This is the dominant and divisive ideology that is guiding our adolescent students.”

“One student did not want to develop her personal essay — about an experience she had in another country — for fear that it might mean that she was, without even realizing it, racist,” Stengel-Plowe added. “In her fear, she actually stopped herself from thinking. This is the very definition of self-censorship.”

You can read her full remarks below:

Dear Joe (copies to Head of School, Board Trustees, & English Department Colleagues),
I became a teacher at Dwight-Englewood because, as a parent, I loved how the school both nurtured and challenged my own children. Today, I am resigning from a job I love because D-E has changed in ways that undermine its mission and prevent me from holding true to my conscience as an educator.

I believe that D-E is failing our students. Over the past few years, the school has embraced an ideology that is damaging to our students’ intellectual and emotional growth and destroying any chance at creating a true community among our diverse population. I reject the hostile culture of conformity and fear that has taken hold of our school.

The school’s ideology requires students to see themselves not as individuals, but as representatives of a group, forcing them to adopt the status of privilege or victimhood. They must locate themselves within the oppressor or oppressed group, or some intersectional middle where they must reckon with being part-oppressor and part-victim. This theory of power hierarchies is only one way of seeing the world, and yet it pervades D-E as the singular way of seeing the world.

As a result, students arrive in my classroom accepting this theory as fact: People born with less melanin in their skin are oppressors, and people born with more melanin in their skin are oppressed. Men are oppressors, women are oppressed, and so on. This is the dominant and divisive ideology that is guiding our adolescent students.

In my classroom, I see up close how this orthodoxy hinders students’ ability to read, write, and think. I teach students who recoil from a poem because it was written by a man. I teach students who approach texts in search of the oppressor. I teach students who see inequities in texts that have nothing to do with power. Students have internalized the message that this is the way we read and think about the world, and as a result, they fixate on power and group identity. This fixation has stunted their ability to observe and engage with the full fabric of human experience in our literature.

In my professional opinion, the school is failing to encourage healthy habits of mind, essential for growth, such as intellectual curiosity, humility, honesty, reason, and the capacity to question ideas and consider multiple perspectives. In our school, the opportunity to hear competing ideas is practically non-existent. How can students, who accept a single ideology as fact, learn to practice intellectual curiosity or humility or consider a competing idea they’ve never encountered? How can students develop higher order thinking if they are limited to seeing the world only through the lens of group identity and power?

Sadly, the school is leading many to become true believers and outspoken purveyors of a regressive and illiberal orthodoxy. Understandably, these students have found comfort in their moral certainty, and so they have become rigid and closed-minded, unable or unwilling to consider alternative perspectives. These young students have no idea that the school has placed ideological blinders on them.

Of course, not all students are true believers. Many pretend to agree because of pressure to conform. I’ve heard from students who want to ask a question but stop for fear of offending someone. I have heard from students who don’t participate in discussions for fear of being ostracized. One student did not want to develop her personal essay — about an experience she had in another country — for fear that it might mean that she was, without even realizing it, racist. In her fear, she actually stopped herself from thinking. This is the very definition of self-censorship.

I care deeply about our students and our school, and so over the years, I have tried to introduce positive and constructive alternative views. My efforts have fallen on deaf ears. In 2019, I shared with you my negative experiences among hostile and doctrinaire colleagues. You expressed dismay, but I did not hear any follow up from you or other administrators. Since then, the stifling conformity has only intensified. Last fall, two administrators informed faculty that certain viewpoints simply would not be tolerated during our new “race explicit” conversations with our new “anti-racist” work. They said that no one would be allowed to question the orthodoxy regarding “systemic racism.” The message was clear, and the faculty went silent in response.
The reality is that fear pervades the faculty. On at least two separate occasions in 2017 and 2018, our Head of School, standing at the front of Hajjar Auditorium, told the entire faculty that he would fire us all if he could so that he could replace us all with people of color. This year, administrators continue to assert D-E’s policy that we are hiring “for diversity.” D-E has become a workplace that is hostile toward educators based solely on their immutable traits.

During a recent faculty meeting, teachers were segregated by skin color. Teachers who had light skin were placed into a “white caucus” group and asked to “remember” that we are “White” and “to take responsibility for [our] power and privilege.” D-E’s racial segregation of educators, aimed at leading us to rethink of ourselves as oppressors, was regressive and demeaning to us as individuals with our own moral compass and human agency. Will the school force racial segregation on our students next?

I reject D-E’s essentialist, racialist thinking about myself, my colleagues, and my students. As a humanist educator, I strive to create an inclusive classroom by embracing the dignity and unique personality of each and every student; I want to empower all students with the skills and habits of mind that they need to fulfill their potential as learners and human beings. Neither the color of my skin nor the “group identity” assigned to me by D-E dictates my humanist beliefs or my work as an educator. Being told that it does is offensive and wrong, and it violates my dignity as a human being. My conscience does not have a color.
D-E claims that we teach students how to think, not what to think. But sadly, that is just no longer true. I hope administrators and board members awaken in time to prevent this misguided and absolutist ideology from hollowing out D-E, as it has already hollowed out so many other institutions.




Teacher Dana Stangel-Plowe Speaks Out About Dwight-Englewood School

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(H/T: The Daily Wire)