{"id":548681,"date":"2021-06-01T17:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T21:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=548681"},"modified":"2021-06-01T17:36:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T21:36:21","slug":"exposing-the-lefts-dishonesty-about-critical-race-theory-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exposing-the-lefts-dishonesty-about-critical-race-theory-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposing The Left\u2019s Dishonesty About Critical Race Theory Criticism"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fexposing-the-lefts-dishonesty-about-critical-race-theory-criticism%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=548681&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/0613987F-4EE9-4F05-A960-8AE79436F278_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Critical race theory (CRT) has become a highly contentious subject in American discussion as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/texas-legislature-set-to-ban-mandatory-critical-race-theory-in-schools\"><span class=\"s1\">conservatives push back<\/span><\/a> on the expansion of its doctrine in curriculum for children. In response, the proponents of CRT, which encourages people to view history, society and one another through an obsessively racial lens, are resorting to deeply dishonest tactics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It is, of course, not inconsequential to change the way children are taught. The teachings of the next generation are the foundation of the future and how young people are told to view themselves is ultimately the most\u00a0impactful lesson. When Americans express concern for the incorporation of racial teachings in schools, they should be heard and not dismissed by liberal elites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a fundamentally dishonest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/05\/26\/why-conservatives-really-fear-critical-race-theory\/\"><span class=\"s1\">opinion<\/span><\/a> piece for The Washington Post titled \u201cWhy conservatives really fear critical race theory,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/christine-emba\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Christine Emba<\/span><\/a> discussed her theories about why some have pushed back against CRT and Black Lives Matter (BLM) movements.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She claimed that Republicans \u2014 and white people \u201cin particular\u201d \u2014 have grown less supportive of the BLM movement than they were before the death of George Floyd last year because \u201ctheoretical discussions of racial injustice turned into a more direct personal challenge to the race in power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cCalls for racial accountability can feel like an attack when you aren\u2019t ready to acknowledge how your behavior, or that of your ancestors, has harmed others.\u00a0When your priority is to preserve a particular mythology \u2014 the United States as a land of equal opportunity \u2014 the push to take a\u00a0<i>critical\u00a0<\/i>view of the United States\u2019 racial history becomes a threat,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In today\u2019s culture where discussions about race are everywhere \u2014 in our corporate media, schools, and even businesses, Emba wrote that \u201c[s]uggesting you\u2019d rather not change the racial status quo is seen, justifiably, as immoral. But disguising one\u2019s discomfort with racial reconsideration as an <i>intellectual\u00a0<\/i>critique is still allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In other words, in Emba\u2019s imagination, any critique of critical race theory is motivated by racism and an attempt to create and sustain a system that inherently oppresses minorities. Advancing the idea that those who oppose CRT are simply resisting giving up power is dismissive, promotes stereotypes, and shuts down any possibility of debate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Questioning critical race theory is not racist. CRT demands that people view the issues in the country today within an inexorable racial framework. Immediately assigning motive to criticism offers no chance for debate, especially if that motive is given to an entire collective of people without trying to see them as individuals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Emba noted that while arguments against CRT from the Right might seem \u201cconcerned\u201d and \u201cacademic\u201d on their face, \u201cthese are straw man arguments, the use of which highlights the discomfort underlying critics\u2019 obsession with CRT in the first place: their fear of criticism itself, and an anxiety about what actually addressing racial inequality might look like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There is nothing wrong with looking critically at American history with regard to racial inequality. It would be dishonest to study America without learning about the brutality and evil of the Jim Crow era, slavery, treatment of Native Americans, and more, just as it would be wrong to learn about U.S. history without praising the civil rights movement and all of the good that has come from it. But \u201caddressing racial inequality\u201d (as Emba put it) is a broad goal and has no definitive outcome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/27\/us\/critical-race-theory-lens-history-crt\/index.html\"><span class=\"s1\">CNN article<\/span><\/a> titled \u201cCritical race theory is a lens. Here are 11 ways looking through it might refine your understanding of history,\u201d Elliott C. McLaughlin also discussed the pushback against the indoctrination of CRT, writing, \u201cYes, race relations are better than they were in 1776, or in 1976, but that\u2019s not the point. No one who overlooks the role racism has played in the laws and policies of the United States can have a true and full understanding of its history. It\u2019s just dishonest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This is true, but critical race theorists themselves acknowledge that this isn\u2019t the working definition of their specific academic method. CRT is supposed to go further than acknowledging the past. It is meant to bring the past into the present.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/09\/25\/us\/breonna-taylor-say-her-name-founder\/index.html\">Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw<\/a><\/span>, a leading CRT scholar, acknowledges and even promotes the idea that the theory should not be seen as a noun, but rather as a verb, <a href=\"https:\/\/thrive.arizona.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Critcal%20What%20What.pdf\"><span class=\"s1\">writing<\/span><\/a> that \u201cCRT is not so much an intellectual unit filled with stuff \u2014 theories, themes, practices and the like \u2014 but one that is dynamically constituted by a series of contestations and convergences pertaining to the ways that racial power is understood and articulated in the post-civil rights era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She continued, \u201cIn the same way that Kendall Thomas reasoned that race was better thought of as a verb rather than a noun, I want to suggest that shifting the frame of CRT toward a dynamic rather than static reference would be a productive means by which we can link CRT\u2019s past to the contemporary moment.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">With the application of CRT in education, there is no intention of moving forward out of a negative reflection of the past, and apparently, that is the point. As Republican Senator from South Carolina Tim Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tim-scott-shreds-joe-biden-in-rebuttal-speech-biden-is-tearing-us-apart-after-promising-to-unite-nation\">acknowledged<\/a> in his rebuttal after Biden\u2019s address, the only realistic end goal is that adults (children when they are being taught this) will ultimately see themselves as victims or oppressors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CNN went on to put the CRT term aside \u201cand look instead at its underpinnings,\u201d including \u201cestablished facts of American history, many of them included in \u2018Race, Whiteness, and Education\u2019 by scholar Zeus Leonardo, who presented these and other wayposts in an effort to \u2018capture a reliable portrait of White supremacy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Note that CNN cites a text that includes the notoriously vague (and\u00a0ubiquitously racist in its usage) term \u201cwhiteness\u201d in its discussion of supposed \u201cfacts\u201d of history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It listed several events and realities that bring \u201ckey and oft-overlooked elements of America\u2019s story to the fore,\u201d including how land was taken from the Native Americans, slavery was law, interracial marriage was not permitted, healthcare was worse for minorities, housing areas excluded certain groups, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">There is no problem with teaching that these horrific things happened. They did. Americans need to remember and learn from them, but the problem with the argument behind CNN\u2019s article is that critical race theory doesn\u2019t stop at learning about historical racism. When members of the mainstream media and the elite Left pretend that pushing back against CRT is the same as \u201cwhitewashing\u201d history, they are not providing the full picture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In the same article, CNN\u2019s McLaughlin quoted\u00a0<span class=\"s2\">Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw<\/span>, who said that CRT is an approach to \u201cgrappling with a history of White supremacy that rejects the belief that what\u2019s in the past is in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CRT advocates aren\u2019t only trying to change how we study history. They are open about this. The culmination of CRT study is unknown, but one undeniable outcome is that individuals will be taught to question all of their actions \u2014 and the actions of their fellow citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Decrying conservative criticism as racist and illogical is not a new strategy of the Left, but when it comes to critical race theory, it will inflict deeper harm on the future than it will ever fix the past.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical race theory (CRT) has become a highly contentious subject in American discussion as conservatives push back on the expansion of its doctrine in curriculum for children. 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