{"id":477542,"date":"2021-05-06T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T13:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=477542"},"modified":"2021-05-06T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T13:56:02","slug":"parents-should-oppose-critical-race-theory-to-save-our-kids-from-left-wing-indoctrination-ag-paxton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-should-oppose-critical-race-theory-to-save-our-kids-from-left-wing-indoctrination-ag-paxton\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents Should Oppose Critical Race Theory to \u2018Save Our Kids\u2019 from Left-Wing Indoctrination: AG Paxton"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparents-should-oppose-critical-race-theory-to-save-our-kids-from-left-wing-indoctrination-ag-paxton%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=477542&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Texas Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ken-paxton\">Ken Paxton<\/a> on Tuesday praised parents for pushing back against the teaching of the quasi-Marxist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-critical-race-theory\">critical race theory<\/a> in the nation\u2019s schools, urging more people to speak out and arguing it\u2019s the \u201conly way we save our kids\u201d from leftist indoctrination.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton made the remarks in an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newsmax\/status\/1389799515432136706?s=20\">appearance on Newsmax<\/a> on Tuesday, after being asked by host\u00a0Chris Salcedo to comment on\u00a0the \u201cgrowing rebellion of parents against left-wing indoctrination\u201d in public schools.<\/p>\n<p>Salcedo prefaced his question by noting that voters in the Dallas suburb of Southlake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/texas-critical-race-theory-opponents-win-school-board-election_3801334.html\">recently delivered<\/a> a resounding victory to a slate of school board and City Council candidates who opposed the school district\u2019s plan to teach critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging that parents are getting involved in this, that they care about issues just like this, that they want race to be treated with respect as opposed to with disdain like the Democratic party has pushed us to,\u201d Paxton said.<\/p>\n<p>Critical race theory\u2014which espouses the idea that race is not natural, but socially constructed to oppress and exploit people of color\u2014is an offshoot of the Marx-influenced critical theory social philosophy that was promoted by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/frankfurt-school-weaponized-u-s-education-against-civilization_3137064.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frankfurt School<\/a>\u00a0of thought.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning critical race theory training in federal agencies in September 2020 with the White House describing it as \u201canti-American propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3803354\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3803354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20180322-Trump-SamiraBouaou-8037-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/noscript>Then-President Donald Trump speaks at an event in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on March 22, 2018. (Samira Bouaou\/The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But this ideology has been embraced by the current administration, with President Joe Biden reversing Trump\u2019s September 2020 executive order right after he came into the White House and pushing critical race theory training on a number of fronts.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s efforts triggered widespread pushback from federal and state Republican lawmakers, conservatives, and related organizations, as well as parents.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton said discussions around race should be about celebrating diversity, rather than vilifying any particular group.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of dividing us, it should be something that makes us realize that, while we all have different backgrounds, there\u2019s a reason that we\u2019re all here, that God created all of us and that that matters,\u201d Paxton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so I\u2019m really grateful for these parents. I hope more people will speak out. That\u2019s the only way we save our country, that\u2019s the only way we save our kids,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3796349\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-475712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/92B9890F-3373-4673-9A0E-76CCDFE1CF3A_1_201_a.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"791\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/92B9890F-3373-4673-9A0E-76CCDFE1CF3A_1_201_a.jpeg 791w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/92B9890F-3373-4673-9A0E-76CCDFE1CF3A_1_201_a-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/92B9890F-3373-4673-9A0E-76CCDFE1CF3A_1_201_a-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/92B9890F-3373-4673-9A0E-76CCDFE1CF3A_1_201_a-675x380.jpeg 675w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/92B9890F-3373-4673-9A0E-76CCDFE1CF3A_1_201_a-480x270.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3796349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Border-Paxton-Epoch-Times-510A5443-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton at a press conference in Anzalduas Park near McAllen, Texas, on April 28, 2021. (Charlotte Cuthbertson\/The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Critical race theory has gradually proliferated in recent decades through academia, government structures, school systems, and the corporate world. It\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/school-programs-mixed-with-social-marxism-spread-through-america_3152761.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">redefines human history<\/a>\u00a0as a struggle between the \u201coppressors\u201d and the \u201coppressed,\u201d similarly to Marxism\u2019s reduction of history to a struggle between the \u201cbourgeois\u201d and the \u201cproletariat.\u201d It\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newdiscourses.com\/tftw-critical-race-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">labels institutions<\/a>\u00a0that emerged in majority-white societies as racist and \u201cwhite supremacist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several professional organizations also support the study of critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best historical inquiry acknowledges and interrogates systems of oppression\u2014racial, ethnic, gender, class\u2014and openly addresses the myriad injustices that these systems have perpetuated through the past and into the present,\u201d said a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oah.org\/insights\/posts\/2020\/september\/oah-statement-on-white-house-conference-on-american-history\/\">statement last year<\/a> from the Organization of American Historians, the nation\u2019s largest professional organization of scholars of U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Roger L. Simon, an award-winning novelist and Epoch Times contributor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/stop-critical-race-theory-before-it-destroys-america_3751003.html\">argued in a recent op-ed<\/a>, that critical race theory is, itself, fundamentally racist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany definitions and explanations of CRT [critical race theory] exist, a literal phantasmagoria of intellectual obfuscation, the stuff of theses and \u2018studies,\u2019 some of it quite brilliantly, if sophistically, executed, but CRT boils down to something quite simple,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMartin Luther King Jr.\u2019s justifiably famous dream that the day will come when we judge each other by our characters and not by the color of our skins has been turned on its head,\u201d Simon wrote, adding, \u201cThe color of our skins is to be the be-all and end-all of our existences, no matter what, no escape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRace is everything. In order to be considered good, you must acknowledge it, literally bow to it, and behave accordingly,\u201d Simon wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, it goes without saying, the Caucasian race (variously defined according to the situation\u2014there is now something called a \u201cWhite Hispanic\u201d) has, in this construct, done virtually everything that is bad and is inherently the root of all evil,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday praised parents for pushing back against the teaching of the quasi-Marxist critical race theory in the nation\u2019s schools, urging more people to speak &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20180322-Trump-SamiraBouaou-8037-600x400-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Parents Should Oppose Critical Race Theory to \u2018Save Our Kids\u2019 from Left-Wing Indoctrination: AG Paxton","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20180322-Trump-SamiraBouaou-8037-600x400-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Parents Should Oppose Critical Race Theory to \u2018Save Our Kids\u2019 from Left-Wing Indoctrination: AG Paxton","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}