{"id":599276,"date":"2021-07-21T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T19:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=599276"},"modified":"2021-07-21T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T19:51:16","slug":"thats-not-right-cnn-guest-corrects-don-lemon-live-on-air-when-he-says-crt-isnt-taught-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thats-not-right-cnn-guest-corrects-don-lemon-live-on-air-when-he-says-crt-isnt-taught-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2019That\u2019s Not Right\u2019: CNN Guest Corrects Don Lemon Live On Air When He Says CRT Isn\u2019t Taught In Schools"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fthats-not-right-cnn-guest-corrects-don-lemon-live-on-air-when-he-says-crt-isnt-taught-in-schools%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=599276&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-1275325153.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A New York Times columnist publicly rebuffed Don Lemon \u2014 and the broader legacy media \u2014 when the CNN host denied that public schools teach the controversial, collectivist dogma known as Critical Race Theory.<\/p>\n<p>Ross Douthat, the rare Times columnist whose political views fall on the center-Right, pushed back against the common argument that concerned parents have needlessly harassed public school officials, because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/7-lying-media-outlets-claiming-crt-isnt-being-taught-in-public-schools\">CRT is not being taught in public schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Douthat began by rebutting the increasingly common assertion that those against CRT oppose teaching negative aspects of U.S. history, such as slavery and Jim Crow. What\u2019s \u201cdriving controversy in schools right now is not teaching that racism exists and has consequences today,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a much more specific sort of theory\u201d that categorizes social norms like meritocracy as \u201ctoxic whiteness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The American people oppose \u201cconstructing a stronger sense of racial identity in order to make people feel a sense of their own privilege and guilt,\u201d Douthat said.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon responded that CRT is an academic theory pioneered by legal scholar Derrick Bell and is restricted to seminars at law schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should say that Critical Race Theory is not being taught. It\u2019s not part of the curriculum for elementary or grade school students,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s something that is taught in law schools. Just so we know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo \u2026 that\u2019s not exactly right,\u201d Douthat corrected his host. \u201cCritical Race Theory is an incredibly influential set of ideas that has solid influence in education, schools, and elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He clarified on Thursday that \u201cit\u2019s not the foundational texts of Critical Race Theory that are being taught in primary schools, but curricula are being developed that do reflect ideas that come out of Critical Race Theory in some attenuated sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critical Race Theory grew out of Critical Legal Theory in the 1980s. It teaches that disparate outcomes between groups \u2014 such as lower incomes or higher incarceration rates \u2014 are caused by \u201cstructural racism\u201d embedded in laws, including the U.S. Constitution. To remedy this, U.S. laws must be revised to redistribute wealth between racial cohorts and create \u201cequity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/crt-teacher-crt-isnt-taught-in-schools\">some public school teachers<\/a> specifically use the work of CRT legal scholars in the classroom, Douthat said that best-selling authors have taken CRT\u2019s doctrines far beyond the Ivory Tower.<\/p>\n<p>The core ideology of Critical Race Theory has spread beyond the late Derrick Bell or Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw and is \u201cpassing through figures like Robin DiAngelo and Ibram [X.] Kendi, these prominent public intellectuals, activist-authors,\u201d he said. CRT\u2019s worldview is \u201cbeing popularized. It\u2019s moving out of the academy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/msnbc-host-accuses-josh-hawley-of-misquoting-ibram-x-kendi-it-was-a-real-quote\">DiAngelo\u2019s book White Fragility<\/a> has remained on the New York Times\u2019 bestseller list for three years, although her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/white-fragility-author-robin-diangelos-new-book-flops-still-makes-new-york-times-best-seller-list\">poor-selling follow-up, Nice Racism<\/a>, has already fallen off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/books\/best-sellers\/combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction\/\">the list<\/a>. Kendi\u2019s How to be an Antiracist also saw brisk sales in 2020, while the New York Times\u2019 1619 Project influenced curriculum standards in thousands of public school districts.<\/p>\n<p>Douthat\u2019s clarification is vital for those seeking to engage in the contentious discussion of CRT\u2019s use in public schools. As parents have become increasingly concerned, and assertive, about lessons that divide students based on race or other immutable categories, or impute \u201cprivilege\u201d or \u201coppressor\u201d status to some students based on ethnicity, one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/here-are-5-ways-the-media-is-trying-to-mislead-you-on-critical-race-theory\">CRT defenders most common tactics<\/a> is to deny that the theory is being taught in schools. The notion that CRT influences lesson plans in K-12 schools is a right-wing talking point, they argue.<\/p>\n<p>But the nation\u2019s two largest teachers unions, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nations-largest-teachers-union-says-it-will-teach-critical-race-theory-in-all-50-states-1400-school-districts\">National Education Association (NEA)<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/teachers-union-president-falsely-claims-crt-critics-want-to-ban-schools-from-teaching-history-discussing-racism\">American Federation of Teachers (AFT)<\/a>, have both promised to defend teachers from parental outrage over the inclusion of CRT-themed ideology in the public school system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn language, terms evolve, and quickly,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/johnmcwhorter.substack.com\/p\/you-are-not-a-racist-to-criticize?r=3vwvr&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=twitter\">wrote<\/a> English professor John McWhorter, who has said that as a black man he finds CRT patronizing. \u201cTo insist that \u2018CRT\u2019 must properly refer only to the contents of obscure law review articles from decades ago is a debate team stunt, not serious engagement with a dynamic and distressing reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fact that teachers unions and the legacy media have quibbled over definitions rather than listening to parents\u2019 and viewers\u2019 objections to a polarizing ideology continues to engender widespread doubt in both institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see where the backlash would come from, I think,\u201d Douthat told Lemon.<\/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&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Times columnist publicly rebuffed Don Lemon \u2014 and the broader legacy media \u2014 when the CNN host denied that public schools teach the controversial, collectivist dogma known &#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-599276","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\/599276","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=599276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599276\/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=599276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}