{"id":598077,"date":"2021-07-20T14:36:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T18:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=598077"},"modified":"2021-07-20T14:36:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T18:36:31","slug":"aoc-blasts-critical-race-theory-critics-why-dont-republicans-want-us-to-learn-how-to-not-be-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-blasts-critical-race-theory-critics-why-dont-republicans-want-us-to-learn-how-to-not-be-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Blasts Critical Race Theory Critics: \u2018Why Don\u2019t Republicans Want Us To Learn How To Not Be Racist?\u2019"},"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\">36<\/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%2Faoc-blasts-critical-race-theory-critics-why-dont-republicans-want-us-to-learn-how-to-not-be-racist%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=598077&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\/AOC-2-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) lashed out at critics of teaching Critical Race Theory, claiming that \u201cRepublicans\u201d don\u2019t want children to learn how \u201cnot to be racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez also echoed a leftist talking point, claiming that Critical Race Theory is taught only in a select number of law schools and that CRT would not be taught to public school children \u2014 a claim that runs afoul of one made by the nation\u2019s second-largest teachers union, the National Educators Association, which called CRT \u201creasonable and appropriate\u201d for school-aged kids, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/largest-teachers-union-critical-race-theory-reasonable-and-appropriate\">per Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers, however, Ocasio-Cortez contends, should be \u201cfluent in anti-racism\u201d in order to train children away from internalized biases that begin forming while they\u2019re infants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritical Race Theory is not taught in elementary school. It is barely taught in law schools, frankly, in the level that it should be taught,\u201d the Congresswoman said in an interview with CNN\u2019s Don Lemon Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez agreed with Lemon that the CRT narrative is \u201cbeing pushed by Republicans to \u2018win back\u2019 White suburban voters by scaring them,\u201d according to a write-up on the interview at Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that Republicans have started to now use these laws curtailing critical race \u2018curriculum,\u2019 that\u2019s not even being taught in the first place, as a proxy to saying we can\u2019t teach anything about race in our schools beyond just some of the most minimal, minimal, minimal facts,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said without citing evidence.<\/p>\n<p>She then appeared to accuse \u201cRepublicans\u201d of trying to foment racism in children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should say why don\u2019t you want our schools to teach anti-racism? Why don\u2019t Republicans want their kids to know the tradition of anti-racism in the United States?\u201d she railed. \u201cWhy are they attacking the core roots of history in this country that strays anything beyond what we already know? Why don\u2019t Republicans want us to learn how to not be racist? Why don\u2019t Republicans want kids to know how to not be racist?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez then launched into a tirade about children\u2019s implicit biases, which she claims are instilled by parents, possibly from birth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s something that we know neuro-cognitively. [Babies] already start to gravitate towards members of their own race when they\u2019re disproportionately exposed to just one race in their life,\u201d she said, adding that she does not believe that \u201cbabies are racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat it means is that we already start to gravitate towards communities and people that we already know we\u2019re acclimated to,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers, Ocasio-Cortez went on, should be armed with the tools to disabuse children of racial animus that their Republican parents are ill-equipped (or unwilling) to address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChildren do not feel guilt about racism when they learn early on what racism is. In fact, children learn to recognize it and can engage in corrective behavior early,\u201d she said. \u201cRepublicans are using these words like critical race theory, which again is a law school curriculum that is not even taught in schools, and their argument is well, some teachers may be exposed to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, wow, so your child\u2019s teacher is anti-racist and is actually fluent in how to dismantle racism and the dynamics of racism in a classroom. That is something that teachers should know how to do and Republicans are trying to ban this, are trying to ban us from knowing our own history,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p><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 <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) lashed out at critics of teaching Critical Race Theory, claiming that \u201cRepublicans\u201d don\u2019t want children to learn how \u201cnot to be racist.\u201dOcasio-Cortez also echoed a leftist &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598077","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=598077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}