{"id":571437,"date":"2021-06-23T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=571437"},"modified":"2021-06-23T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T14:36:43","slug":"shapiro-the-movement-against-critical-race-theory-is-deeply-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shapiro-the-movement-against-critical-race-theory-is-deeply-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAPIRO: The Movement Against Critical Race Theory Is Deeply Necessary"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fshapiro-the-movement-against-critical-race-theory-is-deeply-necessary%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=571437&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\/GettyImages-1233449821.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>According to the establishment media, critical race theory, or CRT, is a distraction. It is a right-wing smear. It is a conservative attempt to quash the dark side of American history. Most of all, according to the establishment media, you must never \u2014 ever \u2014 pay attention to the infusion of CRT into the nation\u2019s institutions of power. According to MSNBC\u2019s Chuck Todd, controversy over CRT is a \u201ccreation \u2026 It keeps people watching or it keeps people clicking.\u201d According to CNN\u2019s Bakari Sellers, CRT is just \u201cAmerica\u2019s history.\u201d According to The Washington Post\u2019s Jonathan Capehart, those who criticize CRT are merely attempting to prevent \u201cus from learning our history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critical race theory, of course, is not America\u2019s actual history. It is a perverse worldview, unsupportable by the evidence, in which all of America\u2019s key institutions are inextricably rooted in white supremacy; it is an activist campaign demanding the destruction of those institutions. The founders of CRT have written as much. According to CRT founders Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, CRT is founded on two key premises: that \u201cracism is ordinary, not aberrational \u2014 \u2018normal science,\u2019 the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country\u201d; second, that \u201cour system of white-over-color ascendancy serves important purposes, both psychic and material.\u201d This means, according to Delgado and Stefancic, that \u201cracism is difficult to cure or address\u201d and that a formal commitment to legal equality on the basis of color-blindness is merely a guise for further discrimination. Furthermore, CRT founders say that whites are unable to understand racism, and that \u201cminority status \u2026 brings with it a presumed competence to speak about race and racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">CRT therefore holds that racism is embedded deeply in American life, unconsciously into white American psyches, and that it is impossible for white Americans to understand their own racism or that of the system, let alone to remove it. The only solution: tearing away the only systems that have ever provided widespread liberty and prosperity. As fellow CRT founder Derrick Bell wrote, \u201cThe whole liberal worldview of private rights and public sovereignty mediated by the rule of law needed to be exploded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CRT isn\u2019t merely a tool of legal analysis, either, as many of its dishonest defenders claim. Delgado and Stefancic are clear: \u201cAlthough CRT began as a movement in the law, it has rapidly spread beyond that discipline. Today, many in the field of education consider themselves critical race theorists \u2026 Political scientists ponder voting strategies coined by critical race theorists \u2026 Unlike some academic disciplines, critical race theory contains an activist dimension.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, what has CRT accomplished? The near-complete subjugation of our higher educational system, which now traffics regularly in CRT-related theories; the corruption of our establishment media, who parrot the anti-Americanism of CRT as \u201cjust history\u201d; the infusion of CRT into nearly every area of the government, under the Biden-esque Newspeak of \u201cequity.\u201d And yet, if Americans notice this \u2014 if Americans lobby school boards to bar indoctrination in the cultish nonsense of CRT \u2014 these institutional actors tell those Americans that there is nothing to see.<\/p>\n<p data-slot-rendered-dynamic=\"true\">The grassroots pushback against CRT is rooted in the best of the American tradition: a rejection of racial essentialism in favor of individualism, an enthusiastic endorsement of agency rather than determinism, a willingness to stand united against tribalism. We all ought to fight those who have hijacked and weaponized our institutions against all of these traditionally American ideals. Anything less would be an abdication of the trust we have been given \u2014 a trust that has resulted in liberty, equality and prosperity beyond imagining for nearly all of human history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>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\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the establishment media, critical race theory, or CRT, is a distraction. It is a right-wing smear. 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