{"id":980017,"date":"2021-11-07T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T14:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=980017"},"modified":"2021-11-07T09:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T14:14:27","slug":"disingenuous-bill-maher-slams-leftist-prof-sneering-parents-spooked-by-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disingenuous-bill-maher-slams-leftist-prof-sneering-parents-spooked-by-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Disingenuous\u2019: Bill Maher Slams Leftist Prof Sneering Parents \u2018Spooked By Critical Race Theory\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\">26<\/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%2Fdisingenuous-bill-maher-slams-leftist-prof-sneering-parents-spooked-by-critical-race-theory%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=980017&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--><p>On Friday, HBO\u2019s Bill Maher fired back at leftist Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson after Dyson claimed parents were \u201cspooked by Critical Race Theory.\u201d Maher retorted, \u201cI find that a disingenuous argument because I don\u2019t think that is what people are objecting to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dyson stated, \u201cThe point is parents who were spooked by Critical Race Theory, none of whom can define it, when you ask them what it is, they don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find that a disingenuous argument because I don\u2019t think that is what people are objecting to, Maher responded. \u201cThey are not objecting to black history being taught. There are other things going on in the schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike what?\u201d Dyson sneered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike separating children by race and describing them as either oppressed or oppressor. I mean, there are children coming home who feel traumatized by this. That\u2018s what parents are objecting to,\u201d Maher answered.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2017, after black comedian Steve Harvey and football great Jim Brown met with former President Donald Trump, activist Marc Lamont Hill &nbsp;said, \u201cIt was a bunch of mediocre Negroes being dragged in front of TV as a photo op for Donald Trump\u2019s exploitative campaign against black people.\u201d Asked about Hill\u2019s comments by Martha MacCallum of Fox News, Dyson began by claiming that whites had not been taught to think about race properly, intoning that in his new book what he wanted to do was to \u201cinvite white Americans into a conversation about race to think about how it\u2019s constructed, about how white innocence, about white fragility, about white vulnerability are all thrown in there together, and how sometimes white people get resentful, understandably, being asked to talk about a subject they have no skills to talk about because they\u2019ve not been practiced in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dyson added that former President Barack Obama\u2019s presence \u201cprovoked a kind of nastiness, a viciousness. For instance, you can have legitimate disagreements with Barack Obama and not be accused of racism, but there\u2019s no denying that a lot of the sentiment against Obama was racially driven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCallum asked, \u201cAre you saying Harvey is not the person for that conversation with Donald Trump?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dyson replied:<\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m saying that if you\u2019re talking about serious issues of weight, values and gravitas with black America . . . Steve Harvey is not the point man for discussing policy in black America. I\u2019m saying that there are many people who are practicing that, who are dealing with that every day, who<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, HBO\u2019s Bill Maher fired back at leftist Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson after Dyson claimed parents were \u201cspooked by Critical Race Theory.\u201d Maher retorted, \u201cI find that a disingenuous argument because I don\u2019t think that is what people are objecting to.\u201dDyson stated, \u201cThe point is parents who were spooked by Critical Race Theory, none of whom can define it, when you ask them what it is, they don\u2019t know.\u201d\u201cI find that a disingenuous argument because I don\u2019t think that is what people are objecting to, Maher responded. \u201cThey are not objecting to black history being taught. There are other things going on in the schools.\u201d\u201cLike what?\u201d Dyson sneered.\u201cLike separating children by race and describing them as either oppressed or oppressor. I mean, there are children coming home who feel traumatized by this. That\u2018s what parents are objecting to,\u201d Maher answered.In January 2017, after black comedian Steve Harvey and football great Jim Brown met with former President Donald Trump, activist Marc Lamont Hill \u00a0said, \u201cIt was a bunch of mediocre Negroes being dragged in front of TV as a photo op for Donald Trump\u2019s exploitative campaign against black people.\u201d Asked about Hill\u2019s comments by Martha MacCallum of Fox News, Dyson began by claiming that whites had not been taught to think about race properly, intoning that in his new book what he wanted to do was to \u201cinvite white Americans into a conversation about race to think about how it\u2019s constructed, about how white innocence, about white fragility, about white vulnerability are all thrown in there together, and how sometimes white people get resentful, understandably, being asked to talk about a subject they have no skills to talk about because they\u2019ve not been practiced in it.\u201dDyson added that former President Barack Obama\u2019s presence \u201cprovoked a kind of nastiness, a viciousness. For instance, you can have legitimate disagreements with Barack Obama and not be accused of racism, but there\u2019s no denying that a lot of the sentiment against Obama was racially driven.\u201dMcCallum asked, \u201cAre you saying Harvey is not the person for that conversation with Donald Trump?\u201dDyson replied:I\u2019m saying that if you\u2019re talking about serious issues of weight, values and gravitas with black America . . . Steve Harvey is not the point man for discussing policy in black America. I\u2019m saying that there are many people who are practicing that, who are dealing with that every day, who have strategic advantages because they\u2019ve been thinking about this: Steve Harvey is the attempt by Donald Trump to avoid with some serious weight and theological and theoretical and sociological analysis about what\u2019s going on in the community.The same month Dyson told CNN, \u201cMany African-American people say look we were introduced to terror long before 9\/11 \u2014the vicious police forces of America that have victimized us, and the way in which white supremacy operated.\u201dIn May 2018, debating famed psychologist Jordan Peterson, Dyson snapped, \u201cThis is what I\u2019m saying to you: Why the rage, brah? \u2026 You\u2019re doing well but you\u2019re a mean, mad, white man.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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