Critical Race Theory
Each of those words, in and of themselves, is a trigger:
Critical - ‘how dare you criticize us/me!’
Race - ‘I don’t see color’
Theory - ‘liberal" colleges pushing elitism with "their" theories.
Fox News concocted a totally bullshit definition of CRT, lied that it’s being taught in elementary schools. That is the reason for the current moral panic. There’s no underlying substance whatsoever.
Imagine that a bunch of people decided that they don’t like the theory of relativity because they believe it legalizes kicking and mutilate puppies. Then those people go to their congress people and demand action.
The legislators could say “Great news, we don’t actually have to do anything because this theory doesn’t say anything about puppies.”
But what a wasted opportunity to claim credit for doing nothing! Instead they draft a bill that says “henceforth it shall be illegal to kick, mutilate, or machine-gun puppies to death in the state schools of, lets say - Idaho.”
The press release goes out, and uninformed folks who have no fucking clue about the theory of relativity raise their eyebrows and say “by god I’m glad they did something about this menace. Mildred, get in here, you’ll never guess what the "liberuls" are doing now.”
It is entirely, 100% a crisis manufactured by American conservatives to stay pissed off and angry and more importantly - to keep the base pissed off and angry
Each of those words, in and of themselves, is a trigger:
Critical - ‘how dare you criticize us/me!’
Race - ‘I don’t see color’
Theory - ‘liberal" colleges pushing elitism with "their" theories.
Fox News concocted a totally bullshit definition of CRT, lied that it’s being taught in elementary schools. That is the reason for the current moral panic. There’s no underlying substance whatsoever.
Imagine that a bunch of people decided that they don’t like the theory of relativity because they believe it legalizes kicking and mutilate puppies. Then those people go to their congress people and demand action.
The legislators could say “Great news, we don’t actually have to do anything because this theory doesn’t say anything about puppies.”
But what a wasted opportunity to claim credit for doing nothing! Instead they draft a bill that says “henceforth it shall be illegal to kick, mutilate, or machine-gun puppies to death in the state schools of, lets say - Idaho.”
The press release goes out, and uninformed folks who have no fucking clue about the theory of relativity raise their eyebrows and say “by god I’m glad they did something about this menace. Mildred, get in here, you’ll never guess what the "liberuls" are doing now.”
It is entirely, 100% a crisis manufactured by American conservatives to stay pissed off and angry and more importantly - to keep the base pissed off and angry