Posted on 07/08/2022 10:02:17 AM PDT by karpov
In the fall of 2021, it appeared that Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Terry McAuliffe, would rather easily defeat his Republican challenger, Glenn Youngkin. But the election turned dramatically once a number of parents voiced their opposition to the racially-themed material that was being taught in schools. They didn’t think it appropriate to tell students that America is an irredeemably racist country and that white people hold power and use it to oppress minorities.
These parents, of all races, had found out that, despite official denials, concepts embedded in Critical Race Theory (CRT) had been smuggled into school curricula. At this point, McAuliffe made the fatal mistake of saying that what goes on in schools isn’t really a matter of parental concern, since government experts are properly in control. The polls swung rapidly toward Youngkin, who had voiced support for the parents. He won.
The parents in question probably had no idea about the origins of the material they found so objectionable. Those who are curious will find the answers in a new book by Jonathan Butcher, Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth. Butcher, who works for both the Heritage Foundation and the Goldwater Institute, has penned a penetrating analysis of CRT that may cause even more of an uproar over the doctrine’s spread throughout our educational system.
Butcher traces the roots of CRT back to a number of German academics in the late-19th century: the so-called Frankfurt School, who were badly disaffected by the social conditions they observed. In their view, society was just a constant struggle for power, as groups sought to dominate others. Moreover, they claimed, there was no such thing as truth; each group saw its own “truth” and fought for power.
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The Frankfurt School.
Hitler could have done just one. good. thing.
To cause a race war. That’s it.
Let’s see if NationalSocialist Book allows a link to this book from Amazon to stay without a disclaimer?
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