Fighting the Evil of Critical Race Theory

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Power Line

John Hinderaker

July 3, 2021

The Left and the Democratic Party (pardon the redundancy) are all-in on Critical Race Theory. They see the pernicious doctrines of CRT as their path to permanent power, and the academic, political, press and corporate establishments are all trying to force CRT down our throats. There is just one problem: people don’t like it. And when people learn more about CRT, they like it even less.

Hence the campaign that Center of the American Experiment has undertaken to educate Minnesotans as to what Critical Race Theory is all about. Following Saul Alinsky’s rules, we used the Minnesota Department of Education’s proposed revisions to the Standards and Benchmarks governing the teaching of Social Studies in Minnesota’s public schools to illustrate and embody the evils of CRT.

We set up a web page called RaiseOurStandardsMN.com that contains information about the proposed new standards–things like the fact that they omit the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Holocaust–an omission later described by the Department of Education as an oversight–and any mention of notable Americans like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Instead, the proposed standards portray America as evil and decry the new triumvirate of “whiteness,” Christianity and the free enterprise system.

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proposed new standards–things like the fact that they omit the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Holocaust–an omission later described by the Department of Education as an oversight

 

That Is One Hell Of An Oversight!

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Whats Out

• The Pledge of Allegiance and American flag
• Key events and figures of the American Revolution, the Civil War, and World Wars I and II
• The Holocaust - including references to Nazis and Jews
• Communism and socialism
• The brave Minnesotans of the First Regiment who were first to answer Lincoln’s call
• Minnesota/Iron Range role during WWI and WWII
• Minnesota's response to global conflicts and displaced people since 1945

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Whats In

• Systemic racism in the United States rooted in our founding
• Persistent discrimination and inequity in the present
• How freedom and democracy have included or excluded certain groups throughout our history
• Gender equality/equity
• The Reconstruction period, specifically successful efforts to disenfranchise newly freed black Americans
• Labeling Westward Expansion as the shameful product of "whiteness, Christianity, and capitalism"

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