Anti-CRT Movement Gaining Steam as 2022 Arrives

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At first, we laughed off the idea. We were certain it was just another in a long line of twisted progressive fantasies designed to defame America’s founders, divide people up by race as victims and oppressors, and set them against each other. But when critical race theory (now with its own familiar acronym, CRT) was weaponized in the New York Times-inspired 1619 Project, the progressive balkanization of America was kicked into overdrive in the public and private education establishment. And then came the George Floyd affair.

Progressives seized their moment in the sun by brandishing the tragedy as they would a weapon, shaming Americans into supporting an avowed Marxist organization, employing their legion of useful idiots in the media to falsely position BLM as a racial justice movement – and making suckers of the millions of innocents drawn to what should be the noble cause of genuine racial justice.

Repudiating Collectivism

But now, fueled by the permission concept, in this case the voters’ thorough repudiation of all things Democrat and progressive in the 2021 elections, freshly emboldened legislatures are shedding the shackles of white guilt and wokeness and attempting to stop CRT dead in its tracks – state by state. Indiana Republicans celebrated the advent of 2022 by filing bills in the state house and senate not just banning the teaching of principles such as white privilege and America as a systemically racist nation, but going one significant step further in specifically repudiating collectivism. The proposed

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