{"id":583007,"date":"2021-07-05T12:36:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=583007"},"modified":"2021-07-05T12:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T16:36:04","slug":"teachers-union-president-falsely-claims-crt-critics-want-to-ban-schools-from-teaching-history-discussing-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-union-president-falsely-claims-crt-critics-want-to-ban-schools-from-teaching-history-discussing-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Union President Falsely Claims CRT Critics Want To Ban Schools From \u2018Teaching History,\u2019 \u2018Discussing Racism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fteachers-union-president-falsely-claims-crt-critics-want-to-ban-schools-from-teaching-history-discussing-racism%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=583007&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\/07\/GettyImages-1233232538.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The president of one of America\u2019s largest teachers union made a false claim about those who don\u2019t want our children to be taught Critical Race Theory (CRT), claiming critics of the theory don\u2019t want children to be taught history or having any discussions about racism.<\/p>\n<p>Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), on Sunday shared an article from The Washington Post that also falsely stated what opponents of CRT want. While captioning the article, Weingarten wrote: \u201cIncredibly important piece from [Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw] about why these bans on teaching history and discussing racism in the classroom are so dangerous. Our students deserve to have the freedom to learn and discuss this in school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement is factually false, as opponents of CRT, including the states that have banned it from being taught in public schools, have not attempted to ban the teaching of history or discussing racism in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents of CRT object to students being taught that America is irredeemably racist and that racism is so systemically embedded in all aspects of American culture that people of color are still oppressed by white oppressors. They object to students being singled out based on their race and other identities \u2013 essentially taught to <em>be<\/em> racist. They object to students of color being taught they are victims in need of government assistance and all students taught to blame whites for America\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>Those fighting to make sure CRT is taught to children, despite the teachers, parents, and children of all races and ethnicities speaking out against it, resort to lies about what critics really oppose in order to get it implemented into school curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>The Post opinion article shared by Weingarten does the same thing, predictably so, since it was authored by Crenshaw, who coined the term \u201cintersectionality\u201d in 1989 to explain how race, class, gender, and other characteristics all \u201cintersect\u201d to create unique forms of victimhood. Crenshaw doesn\u2019t point to a single bill introduced by CRT opponents that bans the \u201cdiscussion of race\u201d or the \u201cteaching of history,\u201d because they can\u2019t \u2013 because that\u2019s not what\u2019s being banned. Nor is teaching about slavery banned, or historical racism, or any of the other straw men activists claim when discussing bans on teaching CRT.<\/p>\n<p>CRT is Marxist theory substituting race for class, something people can\u2019t change. Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute who has become the leading critic to CRT, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/how-to-fight-critical-race-theory\">explained<\/a> how the theory employs Marxist ideology:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"46\">\n<p><em>To explain critical race theory, it helps to begin with a brief history of Marxism. Originally, the Marxist Left built its political program on the theory of class conflict. Karl Marx believed that the primary characteristic of industrial societies was the imbalance of power between capitalists and workers. The solution to that imbalance, according to Marx, was revolution: the workers would eventually gain consciousness of their plight, seize the means of production, overthrow the capitalist class, and usher in a new socialist society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>During the twentieth century, a number of regimes underwent Marxist-style revolutions, and each ended in disaster. Socialist governments in the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Cuba, and elsewhere racked up a body count of nearly 100 million people. They are remembered for gulags, show trials, executions, and mass starvations. In practice, Marx\u2019s ideas unleashed man\u2019s darkest brutalities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By the mid-1960s, Marxist intellectuals in the West had begun to acknowledge these failures. They recoiled at revelations of Soviet atrocities and came to realize that workers\u2019 revolutions would never occur in Western Europe or the United States, which had large middle classes and rapidly improving standards of living. Americans in particular had never developed a sense of class consciousness or class division. Most Americans believed in the American dream\u2014the idea that they could transcend their origins through education, hard work, and good citizenship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But rather than abandon their political project, Marxist scholars in the West simply adapted their revolutionary theory to the social and racial unrest of the 1960s. Abandoning Marx\u2019s economic dialectic of capitalists and workers, they substituted race for class and sought to create a revolutionary coalition of the dispossessed based on racial and ethnic categories.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One must inevitably ask: Why do Weingarten and other Leftists have to lie in order to get CRT taught in schools? The reason may have something to do with the fact that CRT and similar ideologies are angering parents of all races. Also, only Democrats support CRT, while the rest of Americans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrats-overwhelmingly-support-racist-critical-race-theory-while-rest-of-u-s-soundly-rejects-it-poll\">reject<\/a> its teachings.<\/p>\n<p><em>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<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>&nbsp;member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of one of America\u2019s largest teachers union made a false claim about those who don\u2019t want our children to be taught Critical Race Theory (CRT), claiming critics of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314016,"comment_status":"close","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\/07\/GettyImages-1233232538.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Teachers Union President Falsely Claims CRT Critics Want To Ban Schools From \u2018Teaching History,\u2019 \u2018Discussing Racism\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233232538.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Teachers Union President Falsely Claims CRT Critics Want To Ban Schools From \u2018Teaching History,\u2019 \u2018Discussing Racism\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583007","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=583007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}