Gaslighting

When it comes to her Critical Race Theory high school curriculum, this South Carolina educator plays by street rules.

Rule #2 No Snitching “what’s said in this class, stays in this class”

This Critical Race Theory k-12 curriculum is sponsored by Pizza Hut and Disney. pic.twitter.com/AN0RDZoGsZ

— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) July 6, 2021

You can always tell when the Left has made a strategic error.  They begin telling you to believe them and not your lying eyes.  Dave Griffey gives us an example at Daffey Thoughts in regard to Critical Race Theory:

Beyond its endorsing of racial profiling that has – surprise – been so long condemned by the Left, is the growing number of defenders resorting to stupid lies and contradictory denials of the obvious needed to defend it.  So this:

Based on his twitter feed, he means the propaganda is the alarms being raised about Critical Race Theory.  In other words, there is no such thing as CRT, so those sounding the alarms about something – Critical Race Theory – that doesn’t exist are clearly lying. 

I’ve seen a growing number of supporters of Critical Race Theory declaring variations on ‘there is no CRT’, though not as flagrantly as this.  It took me all of 5 seconds to find this, an article in Education Week explaining what Critical Race Theory is, its origins, when it gained legal grounding, and on and on. In short, it exists, and exists by name.  We just had the first school board in our neck of the woods try to implement CRT by name in their schools, meeting with the same pushback from parents of all ethnic identities. 

As if that isn’t enough, and by golly it ought to be, we have this gem from the always unbiased and reliable Washington Post: 

Apparently there is Critical Race Theory but conservatives don’t know why they oppose it?  Again, most conservatives I’ve heard know exactly why they oppose it.  That includes blacks and other minorities who oppose it, not all being conservative by nature.  There may be a host of reasons, and different opponents cite different ones based upon their chief concerns, but the presence of many problems doesn’t equate to what the headline suggests.

The basic problem for most, however, is simple: CRT (existing for the WP, not existing for the good Mr. Blakely) lumps everyone into monolithic ethnic groups and sizes them up for differing treatment accordingly.  All blacks are hopelessly oppressed with no recourse but to be hopelessly oppressed, while all whiteskins are ispo facto racist (you can tell by their skin color), and blood guilty of all white sin ever committed  That’s why sane people oppose it.  Ask anyone out there, and they’ll give variations of those reasons in so many words. 

To resort to ‘there’s no such thing as a naked emperor’, as those on the Left have done about leftwing extremism, black on white violence, Antifa, pro-abortion celebrations, and other inconvenient realities, suggests strongly that their designs are evil because they can’t defend their designs.  Instead, they must deny them against all evidence to the contrary, and hope for the lie to be enough to support the cause they’re lying to support, all while attacking those who see the lie for what it is. 

You can tell a tree by the fruit it bears, or so we’re told.  Sometimes, you can tell the fruit by the tree that bore it as well.  When the tree is a growth of lies and falsehoods and slander easily debunked, there’s a good chance the fruit it is attempting to bear is no better.  

Go here to read the comments.  The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers didn’t get the memo soon enough:

The nation’s largest teachers’ union erased its pledge to commit to teaching critical race theory (CRT) in public schools from its website.

Jessica Anderson, the executive director of Heritage Action, the Heritage Foundation’s lobbying arm, first made the discovery and published the news on Twitter Tuesday afternoon.

The National Education Association (NEA) recently convened for its annual representative assembly, where it debated and advanced a number of resolutions, including one that would launch a campaign to promote CRT in the 14,000 school districts it collaborates with.

New Business Item 39 aims to arm union members with the knowledge and resources to combat “anti-CRT rhetoric” and promote curricula infused with the ideology in their school districts.

Critical race theory teaches that systemic racism is intrinsic to America’s history and national fabric and that the country’s white descendants bear a burden for their ancestors’ past injustices, particularly slavery and the discriminatory Jim Crow laws.

The deletion from the NEA website comes after the organization voted last week to conduct opposition research on groups that oppose integrating CRT into academic frameworks. The amendment allocated $56,500 to investigating groups in the anti-CRT movement.

“NEA will research the organizations attacking educators doing anti-racist work and/or use the research already done and put together a list of resources and recommendations for state affiliates, locals, and individual educators to utilize when they are attacked,” the item read.

The item acknowledged the powerful influence privately funded think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation and parents in the resistance are exerting in the fight to curtail CRT.

Go here to read the rest.  The Left, where mendacity is always in season.

Watch AFT Secretary-Treasurer @fedingram on ABC's @GMA about how teaching critical race theory allows educators to "give our students the opportunity to understand the full breadth and depth of the American society." Watch the full clip now pic.twitter.com/7LSwPLJbGA

— AFT (@AFTunion) June 14, 2021