The Victims of Critical Race Theory 'Newspeak'

   The subject of this article was suggested by a local news item in which an area school superintendent announced that his district was granted $1.5 million in federal school emergency relief funding.   The grant will be part of a proposed school budget that will be voted on at an upcoming public budget meeting.   If the money is really for emergency relief related to the pandemic, there may be no strings attached.   But government money typically has contingencies in the fine print – contingencies like having to include programs like Critical Race Theory in the school curriculum. 

   “Critical Theory” is a Marxist-based concept that first surfaced in the 1920s and is critical of virtually every element of Western thought.   Now repackaged as “Critical Race Theory” (CRT), it has become, as one conservative pundit put it, a “culturally acceptable Trojan Horse for Marxism that redefines the social construct of ‘racism.’”  In CRT’s application, the left’s ultimate goal is that reality and justice will be determined by the POLITICAL POWER OF THE OPPRESSED.   Following is a clear and illustrative definition of CRT by Marc Little, Director of CURE America Action (Townhall, 5/14/21):

   “…CRT divides America into two categories: Oppressor and the Oppressed.   This is known as ‘Intersectionality&rsquo ...